HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius released yesterday The National Health Security Strategy, which addresses the protection of public health services during a large-scale emergency. In the event of health threats or incidents with negative health consequences, such as Bioterrorism or natural disasters, the strategy will reinforce actions that strengthen and sustain health emergency systems. According to [...]
Energy Secretary Steven Chu announced that the Department of Energy is awarding $47 million for 14 projects to support new technology in the IT and communication sectors. Projects are encouraged to be in the data processing, data storage and telecommunications fields. Because of the rapid growth of these industries there has been an increasingly heavy [...]
Clean-energy investments can help America in more ways that one. Moving in the direction of clean-energy also creates millions of jobs, and puts money back in the pockets of consumers. On January 6th, 2010, Secretary of Labor, Hilda Solis, announced that there would be just about $100 million in federal grants to support the training [...]
In Southern California there are about 450 veterans that have been signed up to be “guinea pigs” to test how the VA Department can improve healthcare by using electronic health records. The project was done through the VA Department and Kaiser Permanente in San Diego. Back in November 2009, letters were sent out to San [...]
Yesterday, January 6th was the last day as GSA’s Chief of Staff for Danielle Germain. She has held the Chief of Staff position at GSA since June of 2009. According to Washington Technology, Germain said, “We all know that [GSA has] been in a period of transition for the last two years and considering the [...]
Major General Michael Flynn, Deputy Chief of Staff for Intelligence in Afghanistan, recently published a report with the Center for a New American Security (CNAS) which examines the flaws in intelligence analysis in Afghanistan and what should be done to fix the problems. The report, titled “Fixing Intel: A Blueprint for Making Intelligence Relevant in [...]
Last night in an address to the Nation, President Obama admitted the government had sufficient information to uncover the plot of the attack and then eventually disrupt the attack. Placing much of the blame on the intelligence community,Obama recognized their inability ”to connect the dots.” In addition to the wrong doings of the Intel community, [...]
In a January 5th press release, the Office of Personnel Management announced its reorganization to better meet the needs of their customers. This reorganization goes hand in hand with the Obama Administration’s goals to make the government more open and transparent. The reorganization went into effect after the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding by [...]
Privacy concerns have become an issue for the Pentagon’s cybersecurity plans. Due to this, the Pentagon has delayed and may end the Cyber Command plan. With Congress questioning the privacy issues, as well as the overall mission, a launch date is not in sight. It was first supposed to be launched this past October. The [...]
The Obama Administration has tried to push the idea of health and well-being to federal employees. GovernmentExecutive is testing these efforts by sampling the cafeteria food at the different government agencies. Apparently, the Agriculture Department has passed their test. According to GovernmentExecutive, the Agriculture Department has nutritional information available at one of their cafeterias. They [...]