Will Hurd
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The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee is particularly concerned by a penetration test the Homeland Security Department performed on the Social Security Administration's IT systems last summer, when testers gained access to personally identifiable information while they were inside. SSA did not share the findings of that report with its inspector general.
May 26, 2016 -
Commerce, Energy, Labor and NASA told House lawmakers how they each are meeting the spirit and intent of the IT reform law.
May 23, 2016 -
The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee will hold a hearing May 25 on legacy IT systems where Federal CIO Tony Scott will have maybe the administration’s best chance to make its case for Congress to support the IT Modernization Fund.
May 23, 2016 -
House lawmakers are set to release the second scorecard grading agencies' implementation of the Federal IT Acquisition Reform Act (FITARA) and the progress across all four categories is limited.
May 17, 2016 -
Small agencies are having some of the biggest problems modernizing their legacy systems to strengthen defenses against cyber attacks. But major agencies like Treasury are also in the spotlight on how they are addressing system vulnerabilities.
April 20, 2016 -
The Department of Veterans Affairs is rolling out a scheduling pilot program to make it easier for veterans to get access to medical care. The pilot was one of many updates VA's CIO LaVerne Council shared with lawmakers March 16.
March 17, 2016 -
House Oversight and Government Reform Committee members took Education Department’s acting Secretary John King and chief information officer Danny Harris to task for systemic cybersecurity problems, and what some say is a lack of accountability for past behaviors.
February 02, 2016 -
The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee released the Federal IT Acquisition Reform Act scorecard and the governmentwide average is a “D.” Lawmakers and OMB expect agency scores to improve across the four metrics.
November 05, 2015 -
Budget constraints, IT management issues and a tight timeline could thwart the Census Bureau's ambitious redesign plan for the 2020 count. The bureau said it could save more than $5 billion during the 2020 Census cycle. Census' last count was the most expensive ever in U.S. history.
November 04, 2015 -
Rep. Will Hurd, the chairman of the Oversight and Government Reform Subcommittee on Information Technology, plans to release the first set of grades for agencies on how they are implementing the Federal IT Acquisition Reform Act, and the news isn’t good for many agencies.
November 03, 2015 -
The Senate's passage of the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act on Oct. 27 has a top House cybersecurity lawmaker pushing for the White House to get the bill as soon as possible.
October 30, 2015 -
The EINSTEIN Act of 2015 authorized the Department of Homeland Security to deploy the EINSTEIN 3A program across the federal government. Secretary of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson said he wants Congress to authorize EINSTEIN as the Act does. Rep. Will Hurd (R-Texas), chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Information Technology subcommittee, is the sponsor of the EINSTEIN Act. He told In Depth with Francis Rose how the EINSTEIN Act would empower DHS.
October 08, 2015 -
Section 209 of the Senate's Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act would give DHS emergency powers during a cyber attack on federal or contractor networks holding federal data. Some say the provision is too vague.
October 05, 2015 -
There is a growing interest on Capitol Hill to codify some aspects of cloud computing, including the security authorization program known as FedRAMP.
September 28, 2015 -
Congressman Will Hurd (R-Texas) held a field hearing in San Antonio, Texas last week to better understand how agencies are implementing cloud computing.
September 28, 2015