President Barack Obama and President Dmitry Medvedev of Russia today sealed a new nuclear arms reduction treaty, which entails a considerable new reduction of the strategic missiles each side has deployed, The Washington Post reports. The agreement, which still has to be ratified in the U.S. Senate and in Russia, replaces a nearly two-decade-long pact [...]
Healthcare reform is now a reality. The Department of Education Secretary Arne Duncan said the vote was historical. “It was a big victory for Americans who need quality, affordable health care. It also provides financial aid to millions of students to help realize their dream of a college education.” Just as the passage of the [...]
Healthcare IT News has compiled a list of 10 breaches of unsecured protected health information that were reported to the Health and Human Services secretary per accordance with the HITECH Act. The secretary must post a list of breaches of unsecured protected health information affecting 500 or more individuals. Those listed include: Kaiser Permanente’s Medical [...]
The FCC has finally delivered the nation’s first broadband plan. “Broadband is the indispensable infrastructure of the digital age – the 21st Century equivalent of what canals, railroads, highways, the telephone, and electricity were for previous generations,” said Julius Genachowski, the Chairman of the FCC yesterday, March 25, 2010, when he testified in front of [...]
Since 1963, National Small Business week has recognized small businesses around the country and how they are contributing to overall economic prosperity. Small business owners and entrepreneurs are honored for their contributions to the economic well-being of the country during this 3 day event. This year National Small Business week falls on May 23rd – [...]
The General Services Administration has launched the first phase of the BetterBuy pilots. The pilots will be on data.gov, which launched today, March 25, 2010, and Clearpath, which will launch in the coming weeks. In phase one GSA is testing this wiki: https://betterbuy.fas.gsa.gov/index.php/Main_Page As well as a new Twitter account to continually update the status: http://twitter.com/BetterBuyproj In [...]
For those who want to learn more about green IT, June is the month: Australia-based ComputersOff.org is launching the International Green IT Awareness Week June 1 to 7 to spotlight green IT and pave the way for organizations to initiate, promote and support green IT discussions and encourage employees with the knowledge and innovative ideas [...]
This Saturday, the Internal Revenue Service offices will be open nationwide to help taxpayers with questions they may have about tax breaks or with setting up payment arrangements. “We are holding these special open houses to give taxpayers who are struggling in these difficult economic times more opportunity to work directly with IRS employees to [...]
In testimony Tuesday before the U.S. subcommittee on federal financial management, government information, federal services and international security, federal Chief Information Officer Vivek Kundra spoke about how the Obama administration’s Open Government Initiative is already improving the performance of the U.S. government, according to InformationWeek. “Opening our government allows us to draw upon the knowledge [...]
Supporting university and college efforts to grow nuclear science and engineering research and education departments is a priority of the Department of Energy. Yesterday, March 24, 2010, the U.S. Department of Energy announced two Funding Opportunity Announcements. The Nuclear Energy University Programs will have funding of about $14.5 million that will go towards upgrading scientific [...]