Health information exchange will ramp up significantly in 2012 because the necessary elements of interoperability will be in place, ONC chief Farzad Mostashari, told the Health IT Policy Committee at a meeting Feb. 1....
A secure, interoperable radio network that the Department of Justice has been working on for more than a decade and that has cost the agency $356 million may be headed for failure, according to a new report by the agency’s inspector general....
The lab that oversees cybersecurity research and standards at the National Institute of Standards and Technology has a new leader. Chuck Romine took over at the Information Technology Laboratory at NIST about a month ago, after Cita Furlani announced she was retiring....
The U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) announced the release of an updated roadmap for smart grid interoperability for public comment. The NIST Framework and Roadmap for smart grid Interoperability Standards, Release 2.0 includes an expanded lis...
FederalNewsRadio.com is reporting that the U.S. Army is readying its IT network for a major overhaul. The Army is looking to upgrade its system to a single interoperable enterprise, rather than the many localized programs it currently features. A problem in the past has been that IT services, mai...
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 Bank Info Security Philip Reitinger, the top cybersecurity official in the Department of Homeland Security, is on a mission to help create a new, secure computing ecosystem on the Internet. The deputy undersecretary of DHS’s National Protection and Programs Directorate – the highest ...