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- Senators push Tangherlini for assurances GSA is improving
- Contractors with security clearances lack path to report problems
- Lawmakers skeptical of proposed cost-saving commission's future
- Furlough song: Laugh or you'll cry
- Navy strikes enterprise licensing deal with Oracle
- 8 contract executives guilty of 8(a) contracting fraud
- Whistleblower suit leads to $12M false claims settlement by SAIC
- 29-year-old NASA engineer going where no one has gone before
- USPS reaches energy reduction goal ahead of schedule
- NOAA meteorologist helps save lives one storm at a time
- NASA picks 8 new astronauts, 4 of them women
- House passes sweeping $638 billion defense bill
- NIH tops list of best companies for baby boomers
- Latest postal reform proposal OKs 5-day delivery
- IRS official contradicts claims about reviews
- House presses VA for more details after cyber attacks
- DoD maintains BRAC fight, despite opposition
VA's VistA e-health record system moves to open source
The Department of Veterans is moving its electronic health record system to the open source community.
Data breaches at VA expose sensitive information
Two separate incidents at Veterans Affairs result in credit protection services for 1,600 vets
VA to offer protection to some vets after data loss
The monthly data breach report from the Veterans Affairs shows risks due to human error are not as bad as they could be.
Navy's Wounded Warrior program boosts vet hiring
The Naval Sea Systems Command received the ERE Recruiting Excellence Award for Best Military Talent program for its Wounded Warrior hiring program.
GAO: DoD and VA need to communicate more
A program designed to help severely wounded veterans get life-long care isn't working the way it should.
What the new Federal Supply Schedule means for you
David Dowd, Partner at Mayer Brown LLP, discusses the new competition requirements agencies must follow when placing orders exceeding $150,000.
March 22, 2011
Female vets frustrated with VA health care
Female veterans still face significant frustration getting medical care, even in Veterans Affairs facilities with female-specific services.
Record claims spur demand for automation at VA
The Department of Veterans Affairs, which processed a record one million claims in 2010, is still seeing claims come in faster than it can process them and expects even more new filings in 2011. Despite that, VA hopes to eliminate its backlog of claims by 2015.
Excellence.gov Awards: VA's Baker on IT in the budget battle
VA's Roger Baker discussed how to advance IT projects amidst uncertain budget times.
More vets working in public sector
More Iraq and Afghanistan era veterans are finding work in the public sector than ever before.
Time to update the federal CIO law?
Sen. Collins asked GAO to study the current roles and responsibilities of these senior technology managers. This would be the third such study from GAO since 1996, but first since 2005. VA's CIO Roger Baker reiterates his call to give CIOs oversight and authority of their IT budget.
Kundra pushes employee-owned mobile devices for work
Federal Chief Information Officer Vivek Kundra said he wants to move toward giving feds a subsidy - of say, $2,000 - to purchase their own devices to work on.
OMB turns up oversight heat with cyberstat
The administration's IT agenda for fiscal 2012 will include new tools to combat cyber threats as well as major overhauls to how agencies manage their systems. Agency CIOs say agility will be important moving forward.
OPM evaluates agency hiring of vets, disabled
OPM Deputy Director Christine Griffin has an update on the effort increase diversity at your agency.
VA CIO: centralize to increase cybersecurity
Government IT systems are at increased risk to inside and outside threats because departments lack centralized budget and operational authority over their IT systems, says Roger Baker.
Agencies figuring out how to take network vitals
OMB mandated departments implement continuous monitoring of their cyber networks by 2012. Part of meeting that goal is understanding what hardware and software currently reside on the computing backbone.
OMB strategy lays a path to the cloud
Guidance helps CIOs understand how to adopt and manage Internet-based services. Agencies that are considered early adopters are helping to find solutions to common challenges such as data and business process ownership.
Markle Foundation to help advance e-health records
Laura Bailyn, the new senior director health initiatives at the Markle Foundation, discusses the ways the foundation is trying to improve health IT worldwide.
VA, HUD to use better data to aid homeless vets
The departments of Veterans Affairs and Housing and Urban Development have partnered to conduct a more thorough analysis of the nation's homeless veteran population. The agencies said the new data will allow them to get the right services to the vets who need them.
VA's caregiver program partially launches
A new VA support line and website for caregivers of veterans launches, marking the beginning of benefits approved under the Caregivers and Veterans Omnibus Health Services Act.
