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 Ottawa Citizen PEARL HARBOR — Naval Facilities Engineering Command (NAVFAC) Pacific awarded a $500 million maximum, indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity (IDIQ) multiple award contract (MAC) to Island Pacific Energy LLC, Pacific Energy Solutions LLC, and Photon Finance LLC, Aug. 19. The MAC...
A cyber-terrorism attack could cripple America’s electric grid, shutting down everything from communications to transportation to law enforcement. U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta says such an attack could be America’s “next Pearl Harbor.” Are we prepared to protect our po...
via PC World If knowledge is power, then no one is more powerful than the National Security Agency. A motto for the shadowy eyes and ears responsible for America’s national defense is “technology never sleeps.” It takes a 24/7/365 global workforce to support the NSA’s mission...
via Platts.com A draft US Senate committee bill that would give the US Federal Energy Regulatory Commission limited cybersecurity oversight of state-jurisdictional electric distribution lines was met with concerns Thursday at a Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee hearing. The head of North...