Meeting with European counterparts as part of the U.S.-European Union Justice and Home Affairs Ministerial Troika meeting, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said there needs to be a transatlantic collaborative action to increase information sharing and strengthen security measures to counter terrorists who threaten all nations. “We must take collaborative global action to [...]
Martha Johnson, the Administrator of the U.S. General Services Administration, spoke in front of over 200 senior government executives last night at opening of the IRMCO conference. The IRMCO conference is the federal government’s premier interagency conference; this year is the 49th annual conference. The IRMCO conference began yesterday and will run through Wednesday April [...]
Eugene Huang serves as the Director of Government Operations for National Broadband Task Force at the the Federal Communication Commission. He formerly served in the Treasury Department during the Bush administration, and moved to the FCC in 2009. Huang served in the Treasury Department under two Secretaries as a policy advisor and White House fellow. [...]
In a speech at the National Press Club on Tuesday, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius spoke about how scammers have found a way to try capitalizing on the new healthcare law by setting up 1-800 numbers and going door to door trying to sell fraudulent insurance policies. “This kind of [...]
April is National Financial Literary Month. This April the U.S. Small Business Administration is hosting a Webinar Series to offer assistance to get fiscally fit for small business owners. The webinar series aims to offer tips for practical money skills and overall financial wellness. They have been created in order to give small business owners [...]
According to a recent blog post on DoDLive, Admiral Mike Mullen “fully supports” the findings of the Nuclear Posture Review. He writes, “We believe it provides us and our field commanders the opportunity to better shape our nuclear weapons posture, policies, and force structure to meet an ever-changing security environment. We appreciated the opportunity to [...]
Sixteen new chemicals may be added to the Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) list. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has proposed new additions to the list for the first time in over a decade. The TRI list is available to the public and was set up as part of the Emergency Planning and Community Right to [...]
The U.S. Department of Defense will soon be taking steps to make the department more transparent and data more readily available to the public. Yesterday, April 8, 2010, the DOD released their Open Government Plan detailing the efforts. “Improved transparency can enable the public to better understand goals and activities of the department and facilitate [...]
In an OMB memo released Tuesday, Federal Chief Performance Officer Jeffrey Zients mandated several improvements to USASpending.gov in accordance with a GAO report released March 12th. The memo reads, “transparency is a cornerstone of an open government. This Administration is committed to making federal expenditures of taxpayer dollars transparent to the public by providing readily [...]
Now healthcare providers and organizations can exchange patient information more securely on the National Health Information Network. Harris Corporation recently released the newest version of CONNECT software to do just that; it’s called CONNECT 2.4. CONNECT 2.4 differs from previous software in that it is more secure, it is updated to the new NHIN specifications, [...]