Citizen inventors will now get a chance to participate in a technology-oriented competition sponsored by NASA to win $5 million. The space agency yesterday announced three new Centennial Challenges, which are prize competitions for technological achievements by independent teams who work without government funding. “NASA sponsors prize competitions because the agency believes student teams, private [...]
The Department of Health and Human Services released yesterday its final rules on meaningful use, a set guidelines established under the The Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act healthcare providers must follow to receive federal funding for their implementation of electronic health records systems. The rules were sent in for review to [...]
NASA and Microsoft Research are bringing Mars to life with new features in the WorldWide Telescope software that gives viewers a high-resolution 3-D map of the Red Planet. Microsoft’s online virtual telescope explores the universe using images NASA spacecraft return from other worlds. Teams at NASA’s Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, Calif., and Microsoft [...]
President Barack Obama is expected today to announce Jacob Lew as the new director of the Office of Management and Budget, replacing Peter Orszag who plans to join the Council on Foreign Relations. “As the budget director who left the next administration a $237 billion surplus when he worked for President Clinton, I have no [...]
President Barack Obama wants federal employees to share their ideas for eliminating government waste and saving taxpayers’ money as part of the 2010 SAVE Award program. “If you see a way that the government can do its job better or do the same job for less money, I want to know about it,” he said [...]
According to a recently released statement from the National Institute of Standards and Technology, health IT may be incorporating privacy software the agency developed 10 years prior to control access to critical information systems. The patented software was created by former member of NIST’s Software and Systems Division John Barkley to “provide dramatically improved security [...]
At last Thursday’s AFCEA Cybersecurity Symposium held in Washington, D.C., White House Cybersecurity Coordinator Howard Schmidt delivered a keynote speech emphasizing a strategy of deterrence to fight cyber criminals and the need to educate Americans on how to safely operate in cyberspace. Schmidt, who made a rare public appearance as the day-long event winded down [...]
According to results from a government-wide survey released Monday, the Office of Management and Budget has named the Federal Communications Commission the “most improved” government agency this year. The 2010 OPM Viewpoint Employee Satisfaction Survey is an annual online survey led by the OMB to gauge job satisfaction and motivation within agencies. This year, the [...]
Homeland Security for Networked Industries has recently announced their keynote speakers lineup for the 2010 conference in Washington, D.C. that will take place September 20-21. The conference, which focuses on the topic of securing our nation’s critical infrastructure industry networks, is being held to initiate dialogue between industries and government to strengthen cross industry collaboration [...]
As the Department of Health and Human Services makes strides to better the health and care of all Americans by promoting the advancement of health IT, one of the department’s guiding principles is that the benefits of health IT can only be fully realized if patients and providers are confident in electronic health information being [...]