Food and Drug Administration
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Health care workers and strategic troops will get the shot first, but distribution is still weeks away.
December 02, 2020 -
Dr. Amy Abernethy, the principal deputy commissioner and acting chief information officer of the Food and Drug Administration, said the agency is looking at common use cases and creating cloud-based package services to give the internal customers the majority of the capabilities they need.
August 17, 2020 -
In today's Federal Newscast, a possible silver lining of the coronavirus pandemic, FEMA has a headstart as the 2020 hurricane season officially gets underway.
June 09, 2020 -
Paul Tibbits, VA’s executive director in the Office of Technical Integration, and Gary Stevens, VA’s deputy chief information security officer, say the cooperative research and development agreement with UL sought to raise the bar of how manufacturers should secure medical devices.
May 29, 2020 -
When you put those burgers on the grill this weekend, remember the 6,500 federal food safety inspectors working in meatpacking plants ordered to stay open.
May 06, 2020 -
In today's Federal Newscast, the world's favorite web site right now is about to get a fresh chunk of federal grant money.
April 30, 2020 -
The FDA, NIH, and the Veterans Health Administration now all have 3D printing capabilities. We discuss with VHAs Beth Ripley.
April 16, 2020 -
The FDA has been at the center of the federal pandemic response trying to speed up medical testing and possible therapies.
April 10, 2020 -
In today's Federal Newscast, three federal agencies have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to work together in using 3D printing technology to build devices and objects used to treat coronavirus.
April 01, 2020 -
President Donald Trump signed to supplemental spending bills into law over the last two weeks giving agencies billions of dollars in extra funding to help fight the coronavirus.
March 19, 2020 -
In today's Federal Newscast, the Interior Department cleared brush and dead trees on double the amount called for in a 2018 presidential executive order.
January 09, 2020 -
New cybersecurity holes in medical devices have the attention of two agencies: The Food and Drug Administration and the Department of Homeland Security.
December 02, 2019 -
In today's Federal Newscast, over 40 Senate Democrats express opposition to how the Environmental Protection Agency is handling its collective bargaining with the American Federation of Government Employees.
October 23, 2019 -
In today's Federal Newscast, D.C. Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) introduces a bill to give federal employees short-term disability insurance, even if it means they'll have to pay for it.
October 03, 2019 -
If the government regulates or bans, its best basis is an evidence-driven one.
September 27, 2019