The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) said on Jan. 8 that it has finished work on a series of language templates that local public safety officials can use to greatly expand their ability to deliver wireless emergency alerts in a variety of languages spoken in the United States. […]
MeriTalk sat down with Josh Finke, who joined Lumen in 2024 as Senior Vice President, Public Sector, to talk about what the company is bringing forward to help Federal agencies as the new year kicks off. […]
National Cyber Director (NCD) Harry Coker used a Jan. 7 farewell address prior to the new Trump administration taking office to recap his office’s work on range of security initiatives since 2021, and to urge the incoming administration and Congress to push over the finish line his office’s long-sought goal of achieving “harmonization” of Federal cybersecurity regulations. […]
In the waning days of her leadership of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel is hurrying along an effort to approve rules to auction AWS-3 spectrum and use proceeds from that sale to close a multi-billion-dollar funding gap in the agency’s Secure and Trusted Communications Networks Reimbursement Program. […]
The Federal government is in line to appoint a new senior official in charge of improving government services delivery. […]
Office of Personnel Management (OPM) CIO Guy Cavallo said today that he will retire from Federal government service on Jan. 13 and plans to land back in the private sector later this year. […]
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) kicked off a notice of proposed rulemaking on Dec. 27 that it said aims to change the existing Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) Security Rule with the goal of improving cybersecurity protections for electronic protected health information (ePHI). […]
Two pieces of legislation with significant Federal IT implications successfully completed the long legislative process in late December, while a third such bill has been sent to the White House and still requires President Biden’s signature before becoming law. […]
The increasing use of artificial intelligence technology – both from security threat and protection improvement perspectives – are among the top look-ahead issues for 2025 among officials with providers of security technologies to the Federal government. […]
President Biden today delivered most Federal workers an early holiday present in the form of a day off on Dec. 24 – the day before Christmas that is celebrated by many. The Federal government is already closed for Dec. 25. […]
