Posted on May 23rd, 2013 by Deborah Collier
On May 21, 2013, the General Services Administration (GSA) announced the approval of Amazon Web Services as an authorized cloud service provider for the federal government under the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP). The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) submitted the application for Amazon Web Services to receive its provisional authority [...]
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Posted on May 15th, 2013 by Deborah Collier
On Tuesday, May 14, 2013, the House Oversight and Government Affairs Subcommittee on Government Operations held a hearing on “Data Centers and Cloud Computing: Is the Government Optimizing New Information Technologies to Save Taxpayer Dollars?” Citizens Against Government Waste’s (CAGW) most recent cloud computing report, the 2012 Federal Cloud Review discussed the potential for savings [...]
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Posted on April 25th, 2013 by Deborah Collier
Citizens Against Government Waste (CAGW) applauds approval by voice vote today of S. 607, the Electronic Communications Privacy Act Amendments Act of 2013, by the Senate Judiciary Committee. The Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA) was enacted in 1986, long before widespread use of the Internet. Today’s society communicates in a dramatically different manner than in [...]
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Posted on April 15th, 2013 by Deborah Collier
The federal government is once again picking winners and losers. On April 12, 2013, the Department of Justice (DOJ) submitted its recommendations to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) for the upcoming broadcast spectrum incentive auctions. Among the DOJ’s suggestions are that the FCC adopt rules that prohibit larger mobile competitors from bidding on low-frequency spectrum [...]
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Posted on April 3rd, 2013 by Deborah Collier
The private sector was mandated by the HITECH Act to use an Electronic Health Records Systems (EHRs) that has the electronic capability to exchange key clinical information with other healthcare providers. This capability is also known as interoperability. Charged with sharing health information for service members transitioning to civilian life since 1982, the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) and [...]
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Posted on March 13th, 2013 by Deborah Collier
On February 13, 2013, the House Committee on Energy and Commerce held a hearing on the broadband stimulus programs managed by the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) and the Rural Utilities Service (RUS). At that hearing, a number of concerns were raised about the issue of overbuild within the programs across rural America, and [...]
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Posted on March 8th, 2013 by Tom Schatz
The House and Senate (after four years) Budget Committees will mark up the fiscal year (FY) 2014 budget resolution next week. Budget resolutions provide spending limits for each budget account, leaving specific policy decisions to authorization and appropriations committees. That does preclude suggestions for how to save money; in particular, both budget resolutions should call [...]
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Posted on February 28th, 2013 by Deborah Collier
On February 27, 2013, the House Committee on Government Reform held its second hearing on information technology (IT) acquisition reform. According to an article in Nextgov, legislation proposed by the Committee could be the largest overhaul of IT acquisition since 1996. Federal IT spending has grown 76 percent since 2001, and in 2012 the federal [...]
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Posted on February 28th, 2013 by Tom Schatz
On the eve of sequestration, Citizens Against Government Waste (CAGW) today released Prime Cuts 2013, our annual comprehensive list of spending cuts. This publication is useful at any time; it is of particular importance when Congress and President Obama are facing multiple crucial budget decisions. The automatic cuts known as sequestration, necessitated by the Budget Control Act [...]
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Posted on February 8th, 2013 by Deborah Collier
The year was 1996. Bill Clinton was in the White House; scientists reported that there might be life on Mars; Dolly the sheep, the first cloned mammal, was born; the T.V. hospital show E.R. topped the Neilsen’s ratings long before the “McDreamies” and “McSteamies” of the world entered onto the scene; the Simpsons became the [...]
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