The on-again, off-again story of the Department of Veterans Affairs’ $642 million commercial scheduling system is not only back on track, but is likely part of a larger movement by the department to finally adopt a commercial electronic health record system. […]
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services do not have enough medical data to ensure that payments are correct or beneficiaries have access to covered services, according to a Government Accountability Office report released Feb. 6. […]
Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai got rid of a report on free-data policies in what some are calling the beginning of an effort to derail net neutrality. […]
The FBI announced the release of its Most Wanted application, which provides citizens with pictures and information about investigations into wanted fugitives, missing persons, crime suspects, deceased victims, and others. […]
Mark Jamison of the Federal Communications Commission’s transition team said that the FCC should modernize by moving away from thinking about wireless and wireline broadband individually and instead consider a “dynamic digital ecosystem.” […]
Though lessons learned from the Office of Personnel Management data breach have resulted in many improvements in cybersecurity practices, the 2015 breach and subsequent cyber incidents led members at a House Oversight Committee hearing to question the pace of Federal data protection efforts. “Right now it is an uphill fight,” said Department of Defense CIO Terry Halvorsen. […]
Less than six months into her tenure as the Department of Veterans Affairs’ chief information security officer, Roopangi Kadakia has been tasked to lead the agency’s cloud efforts. Dominic Cussatt will take over as acting CISO, according to an internal agency memo obtained by MeriTalk. […]
Defending against distributed denial of services attacks is one of the Department of Homeland Security Science and Technology Directorate’s priorities for the upcoming year. […]
The Federal Communications Commission announced the creation of the Broadband Deployment Advisory Committee, which will explore ways to deploy high-speed Internet across the country and close the digital divide. […]
A series of new acquisition rules proposed weeks ago by the Department of Homeland Security have Federal contracting experts worried about future governmentwide disruptions and a decrease in competition. […]
A draft cybersecurity executive order would mandate a review of the most critical U.S. cyber vulnerabilities, the principal cyber adversaries of the U.S., ways to incentivize cybersecurity measures in the private sector, and the capabilities of the DoD, DHS, and the NSA. […]
A Federal Communications Commission report on Cybersecurity Risk Reduction tells the agency to consider making cybersecurity a focus of its mission. […]
President Donald Trump mandated that agencies withhold privacy protections from people who aren’t U.S. citizens, which puts relationships with other countries at risk, according to a policy manager at Mozilla. […]
Rep. Bill Shuster, R-Pa., is optimistic about getting support from President Donald Trump on a plan to privatize the Federal Aviation Administration. Shuster proposed last year that air traffic controllers and FAA modernization staff should become a Federally chartered nonprofit organization run by a board of directors. The plans would sever about 14,000 air traffic […]
Patrick Carrick, director of the Homeland Security Advanced Research Projects Agency, is connecting officers within the Department of Homeland Security with the latest technology, from drones to flood sensors to first responder devices. […]
The National Institute of Standards and Technology has released a draft update, Version 1.1, to its Cybersecurity Framework–a guide to help organizations reduce cyber risks. […]
The Department of Labor and Amazon announced that they are creating an apprenticeship program to train veterans for technology careers at Amazon. […]
The Department of Homeland Security announced that Kirstjen Nielsen will serve as the agency’s new chief of staff. […]
The Department of Transportation on Thursday designated 10 new testing sites for autonomous vehicles. […]
The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services should halt plans to reinstate their Electronic Immigration System, according to a report from the Department of Homeland Security Office of Inspector General. […]
The Department of Homeland Security continues to use unsupported operating systems that may expose agency data to unnecessary risks, according to a recent evaluation issued by DHS Office of Inspector General. […]
Federal Joint Analysis Reports should include stronger language on indicators of compromise, according to Cris Thomas, a network security strategist at Tenable. DHS and the FBI released a JAR on Dec. 29 that discusses the tools Russian intelligence officers used to compromise the networks and infrastructure associated with the recent U.S. presidential election. […]
The Department of State is working to engage the technology sector in countering violent extremism online. […]
The Department of Transportation released its Five-Year Research, Development, and Technology plan, which shows that the operating administrations under the DOT umbrella have their own plans. […]
With a new story map, the U.S. Census Bureau is trying to clarify what “rural” means. […]
Leo F. Scanlon, deputy chief information security officer for Health and Human Services and the agency’s senior cybersecurity adviser for the health care sector, was named the co-chair of the (ISC)2 U.S. Government Advisory Council. […]
Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx announced the members of the agency’s Advisory Committee on Automation, which will discuss the development and deployment of automated vehicles, and determine their research, policy, and regulation needs. […]
The Department of Commerce will recommend policy to support a stable and trustworthy Internet of Things (IoT) environment, according to a green paper the agency released on Jan. 12. […]
The Environmental Protection Agency accused Fiat Chrysler on Thursday of installing software on more than 100,000 vehicles to cheat on emissions tests. […]
IBM signed a research initiative with the Food and Drug Administration to research whether blockchain technology can be used to securely record and share medical data. […]