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KippsDeSanto Managing Director Kevin DeSanto joins host Mark Amtower for a wide ranging discussion of the merger and acquisition market. January 30, 2012(Encore presentation March 26, 2012)
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Linda Springer, a former controller at the Office of Management and Budget, joined In Depth with Francis Rose to discuss what steps agencies should take to detect and root out insider fraud.
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Homeland security and economic wellbeing will be increasingly tied together in the coming year, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said in prepared remarks for a speech at a National Press Club luncheon Monday. In addition to the relationship between security and trade, Napolitano discussed the increasing role the agency plays in cybersecurity.
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A \"staging server\" hosted by one of the largest ISPs in the country is based in the Beijing area
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The Office of Personnel Management says all federal employees who use the Federal Employee Health Benefits Plan will soon be able to download their own personal health records. Providers in the FEHBP are adding the Blue Button technology, initially spearheaded by the Department of Veterans Affairs. OPM says it\'ll let feds access their own lab results, medication and problem lists, allergies, appointment data and wellness reminders from a secure website. The office says the recognizable Blue Button service will make it easier to share those records with health providers and family members.
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Several of the U.S. government\'s most recognizable websites are moving to the cloud. The General Services Administration has signed a deal to transition sites including USA.gov, data.gov and several others to a privately hosted and managed cloud platform. GSA made the 20 million dollar award under its new blanket purchase agreement for cloud infrastructure-as-a-service. It\'s the second such major deal under that BPA. The Homeland Security department used the vehicle to move several of its public websites to the cloud last summer.
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Congress has added a roadblock to the Army\'s move to a government-operated cloud for enterprise email service. Language in this year\'s Defense authorization bill requires the Army to put its move to the cloud on hold while it prepares reports and business case analyses for the service, operated by the Defense Information Systems Agency, and reports back to lawmakers. The Army estimates it\'ll set back its transition to enterprise email by at least 45 days.
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A new survey finds many U.S. physicians don\'t yet see the benefits of health technology, and that they\'re lagging behind their counterparts the rest of the world. The research by Accenture found 45 percent of U.S. doctors think healthcare IT will improve diagnostic decisions, compared to 61 percent across the globe. And only 45 percent think it improves their patients\' health outcomes. In the rest of the world, it\'s 59 percent.
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Department is calling for better internal communication to ensure records managers are on the same page. VA will offer credit monitoring to more than 2,000 veterans.
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Symantec\'s Veritas storage software had caused a shutdown of a military health database.
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Aneesh Chopra, the White House\'s first chief technology officer, is stepping down, the White House has confirmed.
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David Jacobs, a consumer privacy fellow at the Electronic Privacy Information Center, talks to The Federal Drive with Tom Temin about what Google\'s new policy means for you.
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Agencies are struggling to keep up with the tremendous amount of data being created every day. DIA deputy director David Shedd said too much information and not having the right IT to sift through it is the biggest remaining challenge the government faces. Kshemendra Paul, the program manager for the Information Sharing Environment, said tagging and standards, such as NIEM, could help solve the data deluge.
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Richard Spires said the Homeland Security Department has more than 130 human resources systems and that\'s too many. He said an intra agency group recently completed a segment architecture of HR technology to figure out where they can consolidate systems and find savings. January 26, 2012
January 26, 2012
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