Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius last week announced $83.9 million in grants to help networks of health centers implement electronic health records and other healthcare-related IT systems. The grants are part of the $2 billion allotted to HHS’ Health Resources and Services Administration under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 to [...]

President Barack Obama’s nominee for the next director of national intelligence, James R. Clapper, is the right man for the job, according to Department of Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates. In a news conference en route to Azerbaijan from Singapore, Gates said Clapper, a retired Air Force lieutenant general who currently serves as director of [...]

The White House is planning on nominating James Clapper as new director of national intelligence, replacing Dennis C. Blair, who announced his resignation late last month, CBS News reports. Clapper, who currently serves as principal staff assistant and adviser to the secretary and deputy secretary of defense on intelligence, counterintelligence and security matters, is a [...]

Attorney General Eric Holder released a statement on the U.S.- and EU Member States Declaration on Counterterrorism, which was adopted yesterday by the Council of Ministers of Interior and Justice of the European Union, nothing how the implementation is a crucial step forward in the collaborative fight against terrorism. Holder, who attended the meeting of [...]

The Department of Homeland Security may be going under some reorganization in the future. SecurityManagement recently reported DHS may decide to merge the Office of Infrastructure Protection and the Office of Cybersecurity and Communications, two offices that already collaborate a great deal. DHS will only be merging the two offices if makes sense for the [...]

Commander of U.S Army Forces Command General Charles C. “Hondo” Campbell retired yesterday after 40 years of service. Campbell was leader of the U.S. Army Forces Command for the past 3 years, beginning Jan. 9, 2007. Campbell represents something unique as he is the last continuously serving general officer who served during the Vietnam War [...]

The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology has organized a new enrollment subcommittee that will respond to a section of the Affordable Care Act, asking the HIT Policy and HIT Standards Committees to come up with a set of standards that would help enrollment in federal and state health and human services [...]

After the new National Security Strategy was recently presented to Congress, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Defense Amanda J. Dory discussed what the strategy entails and where it plans to concentrate. “The National Security Strategy is clear: There isn’t any higher priority than the safety and security of the American people, and obviously the department of [...]

Gen. Keith B. Alexander, the current director of NSA and head of CYBERCOM, discussed the current cyber environment at an event hosted by The Center for Strategic and International Studies today in Washington, D.C. Many email users who are sending spam are not where one would think. Alexander noted that 47 percent are from Asia, [...]