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The VA on Tuesday experienced a systemwide outage of its Oracle-Cerner EHR that’s currently running at five sites.
Lots of nation's impinge on the Arctic Circle. Even more try to use it strategically, like China. That's why, for years, the U.S. Coast Guard has been stepping up its patrols in the Arctic and why it convinced Congress to fund two new heavy ice-breaking ships.
Human migration patters, the billowing drug trade, allies nervous about China, it's all picked up the pace for the U.S. Coast Guard.
The cloud and data branch lives in the C5I Service Center in the Coast Guard. The C5I Service Center provides all IT development and support services for the entire Coast Guard infrastructure.
The spending bill also cuts the Biden administration's request for the Homeland Advanced Recognition Technology system.
The Coast Guard recently joined scores of other agencies in appointing a chief data officer. More than that, in August it set up what it calls a "technical domain," centered on data and how to handle it.
Recruiting challenges for the Army and Air Force mean they have trouble meeting end-strength goals. But what about the Coast Guard? It has also been having trouble meeting yearly goals.
The Coast Guard is prioritizing data readiness as it begins updating its network infrastructure. One big challenge it faces is how to provide connectivity to its fleet in remote operating areas.
The U.S. National Ice Center. It sounds like a hockey rink. But actually it's an agency, operating under the Naval Meteorology and Oceanography Command.
In today's Federal Newscast: GAO warns the Coast Guard that it's way behind improving safety aboard older commercial fishing vessels. DoD employees who drive electric vehicles will have an easier time charging their vehicles in 2023. And veteran homelessness dropped 11% in 2022, according to the VA.
The Homeland Security Department's headquarters project might be one of the longest running construction programs in government history. Planning started more than 17 years ago. And the latest estimates pegged the completion date now at 2027.
If the armed services didn't allow tattoos, they'd probably have to cut the forces in half. In recent years, they've relaxed rules on allowable tattoos, responding to the fact that ink has become a cultural norm.
Also in today's Federal Newscast, does telework help or hurt diversity efforts? And was the Coast-Guard-connected couple in Hawaii in the spying business?
A U.S. judge is upholding a previous ruling to detain a Hawaii couple accused of stealing identities of dead babies.