Here is today’s federal cybersecurity and information technology news: The United States Air Force Academy Cooperative Technologies for Unmanned Systems research program seeks ways to combine data from multiple unmanned aircraft to collaboratively track targets. More here. A New Zealand High...
Cybersecurity gets a 74% increase in the Homeland Security Department’s fiscal 2013 budget request while overall department funding stays constant. More here. The Department of Energy, Justice, and Health and Human Services CISOs agreed that they are all having trouble keeping pace with mobile ris...
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has issued an interim final rule that prescribes operating standards for electronic fund transfers (EFT) and electronic remittance advice (ERA)–the payment explanation that gives details about providers’ claims payment. Last July, HHS rel...
The federal Web is sprawling and disorganized, according to a new report by an interagency task force on federal Web reform, but spurred by the White House’s Campaign to Cut Waste, agencies are taking initial steps to transform the federal Web to better serve citizens....
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 ...
The federal Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) has announced that it will provide up to $13.2 million in new grants to support the adoption of health IT in organizations serving people with mental and substance use disorders, with the goal of improving the quality of ...
via All Things D Vivek Kundra is the Chief Information Officer of the United States of America. Not many people know that there is such a position-he is the first, appointed by President Obama in 2009-let alone what the position entails. But when you consider that the federal government collectively...