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White House team tackles identity management in the cloud

A working group is developing common requirements for a federated cloud identity management shared service. NIH already showed how this could be done with its iTrust tools. The tiger team is expected to issue the common standards in the next few months.

Tags: technology , cloud computing , Jeremy Grant , White House , NIST , identity management , NSTIC , third-party credentials , FICAM , Jason Miller

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White House, agencies commit $200M to solving 'big data' quandary

Federal technology leaders unveiled an initiative to develop better ways of harnessing the rapidly growing volume of increasingly complicated data sets, known as big data. The push is led by a joint solicitation — from the National Science Foundation and the National Institutes of Health — to develop the core technologies for reigning in big data. All told, six federal departments and agencies will take part in the program — committing more than $200 million in research-and-development investments.

Tags: DoD , DARPA , Energy , USGS , NSF , OSTP , John Holdren , Subra Suresh , Francis Collins , Marcia McNutt

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Industry group raises money for children's charity

Rob Guerra, a partner in Guerra Kiviat, chairs this year's AFCEA Bethesda's Children's Inn Gala. He joined In Depth with Francis Rose to discuss the event.

Tags: contracting , industry , AFCEA Bethesda , Rob Guerra , Guerra Kiviat , In Depth , Francis Rose , AFCEA Bethesda Children

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New NIH center translates research into real-world use

This month the National Institutes of Health created the new National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS) to bridge the gap between scientific research and usable drugs or medical devices.

Tags: NCATS , Thomas Insel , FDA , DARPA , Federal Drive

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Contract will help small businesses reap health IT rewards

Ed Wilgus, senior contracting officer with the National Institutes of Health Information Technology Acquisition and Assessment Center, discusses new health IT contract.

Tags: HHS , Ed Wilgus , health IT , Health IT Day , AFCEA Bethesda ,

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Emergency Preparedness

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Tags: technology , emergency preparedness , Steve Cooper , American Red Cross , suzanne peck , Tom Lockwood , DHS , david songco , lou anne brossman , Juniper , Jim Flyzik , Tom Trezza

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National Institutes of Health

August 19th, 2009

The new Director of the National Institutes of Health is in place he offered an outline of five themes of opportunity he sees at NIH.

Tags: technology , Meeting Mission and Goals , Francis Collins

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SSA in final preparations to jump on nationwide health exchange

If all goes as SSA officials expect, the agency's initial use of the Nationwide Health Information Network (NHIN) with MedVirginia will begin to validate Congress's decision to include $19 billion for health IT in the stimulus bill.

Tags: technology , management , Debbie Somers , SSA , HHS , DoD , VA , USDA , DHS , Indian Health Service , CDC , Suss Consulting , health IT , Nationwide Health Information Exchange

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NIAID set to begin H1N1 vaccine clinical trials

Agency under NIH hopes to have vaccine ready for general public by mid-October.

Tags: management , NIAID , Dr. Anthony Fauci , H1N1 , swine flu , Dorothy Ramienski

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NIH prepares for next 10 years

Tags: technology , IT , Diane Frasier

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