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The leaders of Ukraine's protest movement that's all but shut-down the government for more than two months say they will seek constitutional changes to weaken the president's powers. The changes are expected to be discussed in parliament as the country wades through a stalemate. Protesters are refusing to leave their encampment in downtown Kiev or vacate buildings they occupy, but they say they will abide by a truce they agreed to.
Early pilots in DHS information sharing project appears to show that bureau-level IT systems built decades ago can share information with one another, and also protect against data privacy problems.
In years past, we would have to wait until the day after the Super Bowl to write an article about the Super Bowl commercials. Not this year!
Former federal CISO Pat Howard offers tips to waterproof your agency's information security continuous monitoring strategy.
The Defense Department wants new voice, video and collaboration services, and it's trying to see if cloud computing can get the job done. The Defense Information Systems Agency is testing out different delivery models to find the best way to bring those capabilities to the military branches. The agency says it's looking at DoD's current IT infrastructure to see if it can add the features to an existing platform. DISA's also testing the feasability of using commercial cloud services. Martin Gross is a program executive officer for DISA. He says the big question is whether or not the department will buy the unified capabilities as a service. He does say that the plan is to buy them as a portfolio instead of a single procuement deal. The Federal Times reports a request for proposals probably won't come for another year or so, but a request for information could be out in a couple of months.
A new partnership could let the Health and Human Services Department build better health information technologies. HHS is joining up with the United Kingdom through a bi-lateral agreement so both parties can share and use their Health IT tools and services. The agreement was signed at the Annual Meeting of the HHS Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology. The agreement will focus on four key areas of Health IT, sharing quality indicators to identify best practices, opening up data to help each other collaborate, increasing the use of Digital Health Record Systems, and trying to find ways to boost the Health IT marketplace. HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius says the two countries have very different health infrastructures, but both face the same health challenges.