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The House Appropriations Committee approved the Financial Services and General Government fiscal 2019 spending bill with additional money for the three governmentwide funds.
June 18, 2018 -
GSA is starting to look for other agencies to begin creating and working with their own CoEs for 2019 and beyond.
June 15, 2018 -
But even if the ACA disappeared, the government would still have a giant footprint in health and disease research. The National Institutes of Health's annual budget and what the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services pays out for kidney dialysis both equal about $35 billion.
June 15, 2018 -
GSA to hold cloud reverse industry training day to help further educate federal acquisition and IT executives about buying, using these services.
June 14, 2018 -
The Interior Department's IG reported two of the nation's largest hydropower dams are at risk from insider threats.
June 13, 2018 -
OMB announced USDA, Energy and HUD earned approval from the TMF Board to get some of the $100 million in additional funding to push ongoing IT modernization projects over the top.
June 08, 2018 -
House Oversight and Government Reform Committee members were not happy with the continued slow or lack of progress in implementing the Federal IT Acquisition Reform Act (FITARA).
May 29, 2018 -
An unusually active last few weeks in the federal IT community brings changes in executive positions at DHS, EPA, GSA and USDA.
May 29, 2018 -
The administration wanted it to be harder to achieve a good grade on the FITARA scorecard, because it wants to focus agencies on certain tangible actions.
May 25, 2018 -
Federal CIO Suzette Kent says a White House summit with tech leaders this week touched on ways to get the most out of the federal government's huge stores of data.
May 24, 2018 -
The Trump administration has big plans to improve the government's customer service, but Margaret Weichert, the deputy director for management at OMB, says getting there means more than just modernizing IT.
May 23, 2018 -
Despite their factions, Democrats and Republicans appear unified in their disdain for the latest Farm Bill.
May 22, 2018 -
Tim Hurlebaus, president of CGI Federal joins host John Gilroy on this week's Federal Tech Talk to discuss continuous diagnostics and mitigation and steps agencies can take to make a successful transition to the cloud. May 22, 2018
May 21, 2018 -
The Agriculture Department’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) is using geospatial technology in a more collaborative and coordinated effort.
May 16, 2018 -
The Environmental Protection Agency received one of the inaugural Citizen Champions of Change awards for its customer service efforts.
May 03, 2018