{"id":100772,"date":"2026-07-09T20:07:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T20:07:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/100772\/"},"modified":"2026-07-09T20:07:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T20:07:09","slug":"tmf-wants-to-fund-ai-faster-permitting-tech-projects-before-money-runs-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/100772\/","title":{"rendered":"TMF wants to fund AI, faster permitting tech projects before money runs out"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Technology Modernization Fund is open for proposals and prioritizing faster permitting technology and artificial intelligence adoption projects, its acting director said Thursday.<\/p>\n

Jessie Posilkin said that as of this week, the TMF<\/a> is \u201cbeing explicit\u201d about its desire for Council on Environmental Quality-supported projects to speed and scale permitting, and to advance USAi<\/a> adoption in agencies facing capability and infrastructure gaps preventing responsible use.<\/p>\n

\u201cTMF was made for moments like this, where agencies can\u2019t afford to wait on budget and procurement cycles,\u201d Posilkin said in a LinkedIn post<\/a>. \u201cI\u2019m excited we\u2019re still poised to help agencies meet a critical moment of opportunity \u2013 and a bipartisan one, at that!\u201d<\/p>\n

Last month<\/a>, Posilkin said the fund had $200 million left, pending potential reauthorization for fiscal 2027. But that might not stretch as far as it would have in the past, even with 100% of agencies repaying TMF loans, as the \u201cscale and scope of government technology challenges are only going up\u201d because of AI, Posilkin said at the time.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are only seeing that the way that AI tooling is changing how people code is actually increasing some of the governance concerns and ability to manage information,\u201d she said. \u201cWe are a country that continues to have really significant service delivery challenges, which is what the government should ultimately be providing. And when you have it set up that way, $200 million is actually quite the drop in the bucket.\u201d<\/p>\n

The current version<\/a> of the fiscal 2027 Financial Services and General Government appropriations bill authorizes $5 million for the fund, but has not yet received a floor vote in either chamber.<\/p>\n

Agencies can submit a project proposal until July 24, but Posilkin encouraged them to move quickly so the small TMF team can review proposals expeditiously.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis call is moving fast, partly out of necessity. We have a very narrow window between now and September 30, when our authorization to make new investments ends (absent congressional action, of course\u2026),\u201d she said in the post. \u201cWith more time, we could do even more \u2014 but we\u2019ll meet as much of the agency need as we can, while we can.\u201d<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\"K.<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tWritten by K. Sophie Will
\n\t\t\tK. Sophie Will is a reporter at FedScoop. Previously, she was an investigative data reporter at Bloomberg Industry Group. An award-winning journalist and Utah native, she graduated from Boston University and formerly worked with CQ Roll Call, the Utah Investigative Journalism Project, the Deseret News, USA Today, Reuters, HuffPost, WGBH, and more. Reach her on Signal at ksophiewill.66 or by phone at 617-888-0900.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Technology Modernization Fund is open for proposals and prioritizing faster permitting technology and artificial intelligence adoption projects,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":100773,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[24,25,111,39155,28203,7341,39157,52498,39158],"class_list":["post-100772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ai","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificial-intelligence-ai","tag-financial-services-and-general-government-appropriations","tag-general-services-administration-gsa","tag-government-it-news","tag-jessie-posilkin","tag-permitting","tag-technology-modernization-fund"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100772","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100772"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100772\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/100773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}