A survey shows the US needs more cyber education. Accenture has helped San Antonio get on the cyber bandwagon. BAE’s sales were up over 21% in 2009. Vangent’s Mac Curtis announced a healthcare partnership with Medsphere. Raytheon landed an $866 million dollar GPS deal from the Air Force. The FCC wants Congress to pay $18 [...]
At the bipartisan health care summit yesterday, President Obama and Democratic Congressional leadership sat down with their adversaries across the aisle in a largely unsuccessful attempt to bridge major gaps in the road to healthcare reform. In general, Republicans repeated over and over again that only an incremental approach to healthcare reform was acceptable to [...]
Undersecretary of Defense for Policy Michele Flournoy gave testimony to the Senate Armed Services Committee, emphasizing that the ongoing campaign in Southern Afghanistan’s goal of reclaiming Marjah is the only the opening salvo in a larger initiative to crack the Taliban. Flournoy was an entry on the Top 20 People to Watch in 2010 list [...]
Senator Olympia Snowe (R-ME) was critical of the cyber coordinator’s placement in the executive branch on Tuesday. The OPM is crowd-sourcing an online tool to recruit managers. The open government ball kept on rolling. By Light and InZero are teaming up to fight cyber attacks. Melissa Hathaway joined Core Security Technologies’ Advisory Board. Donna Morea [...]
In the wake of almost 260 reports of “malfunctions with the potential for patient harm,” healthITBuzz reports that the FDA is considering regulation of healthcare IT, specifically Electronic Health Records. In his prepared remarks for Congress today, Jeffrey Shuren, director of FDA’s Center for Devices and Radiological Health, an operating room electronic health record management [...]
Writing on the FTC’s broadband blog, BlogBand, National Broadband Initiative Director Blair Levin made the case that the National Broadband Plan will spur increased investment on both the supply and demand side of “every part of the [broadband] ecosystem in the long-term.” He detailed how the plan would do so: “The plan will accelerate the [...]
Vivek Kundra will moderate the AFCEA’s Bethesda Budget Preview Breakfast. Platinum Equity is merging OAO Technology and Pomeroy IT Solutions. Jim Lewis sees an increased role for government in cybersecurity. Microsoft is hosting a “CIO Summit” in Washington State. EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson announced a plan for the Great Lakes. The DOD is helping disabled [...]
