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Senate lawmakers won out over the debate about whether or not to merge the E-Government Fund with the Federal Citizen Services Fund. DHS also receives $166 million for cybersecurity programs in the fiscal 2014 spending bill.
January 21, 2014 -
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HHS and CMS cyber officials tell House lawmakers the Affordable Care Act portal is meeting or exceeding industry best practices for information assurance.
January 17, 2014 -
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GSA made the first set of awards under the continuous diagnostics and mitigation (CDM) contract.
January 17, 2014 -
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Attempts to fix the problematic Healthcare.gov are not enough to save the health IT contractor CGI from losing its contract to run the site. Reuters reports the federal government will now enlist the services of the company Accenture. Since the website rolled out at the start of October, CGI worked throughout to try and fix the problems. The problems started evening out in December. Even so, CGI's contract is scheduled to end in late February. Once that's over, a one-year contract agreement with Accenture will start. The deal is worth about 90 million dollars. So far more than one million people are enrolled in health care plans through HealthCare.gov. Another one million people chose to rely on websites run by individual exchanges in 14 states.
January 17, 2014 -
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Concurrent Technologies Corporation wins a provisional authority-to-operate through the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program, or FedRAMP. The company won the qualifaction through a third-party assessment organization, or 3PAO, called Knowledge Consulting Group. Concurrent won…
January 17, 2014 -
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The identity of a healthcare executive suing the IRS for stealing private medical records is public. Blaine Pollock is founder of the California-based Three Rivers Provider Network. He sued the IRS after it used search warrants to access financial records of his companies. He was under a criminal investigation for funneling millions of company funds into personal bank accounts to buy houses and yachts. One of the computer servers held private medical records of 10 million people. U.S. attorneys appointed a filter attorney to keep the medical records separate from the financial evidence. Healthcare IT News reports Pollocks lawsuit that the IRS violated the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act didn't hold up, he's pleading not guilty to the criminal charges.
January 17, 2014 -
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June 5th is the deadline for cloud vendors to prove they can meet federal security standards. The soft deadline for cloud vendors that want to qualify is actually right about now. The General Services Administration says it takes almost six months for a company to earn approval from the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program, or FedRAMP. That's if a company decides to earn the qualification on its own. The Federal Times reports it takes about four and a half months to pass through a review by a federal agency. FedRAMP director, Maria Roat, says companies with a smaller federal footprint are likely better off working with agencies directly to earn a certification. FedRAMP relies on about 300 different security controls based on guidelines from the National Institute of Standards and Technology.
January 17, 2014 -
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34 Air Force nuclear missile launch officers have been implicated in a cheating scandal and have been stripped of their certification in what is believed to be the largest such breach of integrity in the nuclear force. The Associated Press reports, some of the officers shared answers to a monthly test on their knowledge of how to operate the missiles via text message. Others may have known about it but did not report it. The cheating was discovered during a drug investigation that involves 11 Air Force officers at several bases in the U.S. and the U.K.
January 17, 2014 -
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Cybersecurity is becoming less of a concern for chief information officers, according to Gartner. The technology research company surveyed 2,300 CIOs from across the world. Security now ranks eighth on CIOs strategic priority lists. A drop from the number 1 spot a decade ago. Among CIOs in North America alone, security ranks slightly higher, coming in at number five on their priority lists. One of the reasons for the shifting priorities the rise of the chief information security officer role within organizations. According to Gartner, CISOs have helped relieve CIOs of their cyber duties allowing them to concentrate on other issues. Mobile, cloud computing and analytics are all higher priorities for CIOs than cybersecurity. Also on the list, according to the Wall Street Journal, infrastructure and data center investments.
January 17, 2014 -
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The Federal Marketing Insight is a weekly feature highlighting a topical federal marketing subject. It's meant to be an insightful and a quick read.
January 16, 2014 -
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The White House and the Information Sharing Environment released the Strategic Implementation Plan for the President's National Strategy for Information Sharing and Safeguarding. The plan details 16 initiatives that span federal, state, local and tribal governments as well as private sector and international partners. January 16, 2014
January 16, 2014 -
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What are the Defense Logistics Agency's strategic priorities? How is DLA working to reduce costs while improving support to the warfighter? What about DLA's role in providing humanitarian assistance & disaster relief support? Join host Michael Keegan as he explores these questions and so much more with our VADM Mark D. Harnitchek, Director of the Defense Logistics Agency. Vice Admiral Mark Harnitchek Director Defense Logistics Agency
January 16, 2014 -
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If you’re a federal marketer you’ll want to know that a new study concluded that social media’s importance in decision-making is steadily on the rise.
January 15, 2014
