The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has awarded 13 states nearly $220 million in Affordable Insurance Exchange grants to help them create fully operational online exchanges by 2014 that individuals and small businesses will use to select health insurance plans. The recently announced ...
via nextgov The federal transition to cloud computing is an overlooked source of savings as the government battles over trillions of dollars in spending reductions, the leader of a Senate oversight subcommittee said this week. A visibly weary Sen. Tom Carper, D-Del., was addressing a conference Wedn...
via Government Computer News Agency data center consolidation plans, slated for publication online in October, will yield the most comprehensive information to date about expected cost savings associated with the projects, Federal CIO Vivek Kundra told attendees at an event on Capitol Hill July 27. ...
via InfoSecurity.com Sen. Thomas Carper (D-Del.) introduced a bill, the Data Security Act, that would establish national standards for financial companies, retailers, and federal agencies to safeguard personal information, investigate data breaches, and notify consumers when there is a substantial r...
via The National Journal The United States needs a “gold standard” in cyber-defenses, Sens. Joe Lieberman, ID-Conn., Susan Collins, R-Maine., and Tom Carper, D-Del., said in a Washington Post op-ed Friday. The alternative to better cybersecurity measures, they wrote, “could be a di...
via Federal Times The Department of Homeland Security plans to grow its cybersecurity workforce by more than 50 percent, as lawmakers and the White House work to expand the department’s authority in securing both government and private-sector websites. By October 2012, DHS’ cyber staff w...
via eCommerce Times Retooling federal IT management won’t come easily or quickly, but agencies increasingly are including management capability criteria in their “requests for information” to vendors. With this aspect of contracting gaining more attention, vendors that can enhance ...
via SC Magazine A plan aimed at streamlining efficiencies in the federal government’s use of IT technologies is making its way toward a hearing on Capitol Hill on April 12. The “25 Point Implementation Plan to Reform Federal Information Technology Management,” introduced last Decem...