Greeting more than 3,500 service members, civilians and their families at Camp Pendleton, Calif., first lady Michelle Obama on Monday spoke about the necessity of a support system for those serving in the military and their family members. Obama told the crowd the reasons for her visit was to help the rest of the country [...]

In his first Oval Office address, President Barack Obama urged the nation to wean off the oil dependency and embrace a clean-energy future. He expressed the importance of this in light of the recent disastrous oil spill off the Gulf Coast and called it the “moment for this generation to embark on a national mission [...]

From a historical standpoint, adopting the most fundamental medical technologies have been met with significant doubt and opposition, which is no different from today’s skepticism when it comes to the nationwide implementation of health IT, said National Coordinator for Health IT Dr. David Blumenthal. “Even though [adoption of health IT] carries the promise of vastly [...]

Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano announced the final standards of the Voluntary Private Sector Preparedness Accreditation and Certification Program have been adopted after a series of regional public meetings and the incorporation of public comments. PS-Prep is a collaboration of the DHS and private sector and is a program created in the afterquakes [...]

During a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing, head of Central Command Gen. David Petraeus and Undersecretary of Defense Michele Flournoy declared a message of slow, but progressive, military success in Afghanistan, despite aggressive questioning from Senate members. Flournoy addressed the evidence of progress in the U.S. Afghan efforts. She said: “So far, we believe we [...]

In a publication issued June 4th, DoD’s Standards of Conduct Office (SOCO) reminded all DoD employees that its policy guidelines prohibit them from serving on the boards of non-federal entities (NFEs) that they deal with professionally. This announcement comes ahead of a proposed DoD plan to insource 11,000 acquisition personnel, bringing them out of the [...]

Interagency collaboration between federal agencies is key to dealing with the challenges the U.S. government faces when it comes to national security; however, success will also require leadership commitment, solid plans with clear priorities, and measurable goals, said John H. Pendleton, director of defense capabilities and management at the Government Accountability Office. In a testimony [...]

Sen. John Kerry, chairman of the Commerce Subcommittee on Communications, Technology, and the Internet, and Olympia Snowe, senior member of the Commerce Committee wrote a letter to the Federal Communication Commission requesting it opens unused TV airwaves as a platform for low-cost broadband for those who remain unable to access the Internet. “While broadband is [...]

Deputy Defense Secretary William J. Lynn III met with Canadian National Security Advisor Marie-Lucie Morin to discuss cooperation efforts for a cyber defense strategy between the two nations at a meeting in Ottowa, Canada. As threat levels of cyber attacks continue to climb, Lynn feels that a U.S. cyber defense collaboration with Canada is a necessity [...]

The military and veterans healthcare communities are on the right track with how they document patient medical records, slowly transitioning into a near-paperless environment, officials said last week. Speaking at a June 11 electronic health records open house held in Arlington, Va., Army Maj. Frank Tucker, a physician’s assistant and chief systems architect for the [...]