Carter gambles with DIUx direct report

IT & Networks

VA, DoD tout major progress in effort to join electronic health records systems

The departments of Defense and Veterans Affairs are eyeing the end of the summer for significant advances in their efforts for a new, joint electronic health record, a move that both bureaucracies have made the long-term centerpiece of medical reforms for their patients.
Can industry help make FedRAMP security evaluations less painful?

The Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program’s Program Management Office is soliciting ideas on how to fix numerous challenges that cloud service providers and agencies face in receiving approval.
IRS missing basic IT security measures

The federal government’s watchdog recommends the Internal Revenue Service implement over 100 old and new recommendations to address a significant deficiency in the agency’s control over its reporting systems.
Lawmakers to Trump: Don’t delay Pentagon cloud contract. No, do.

Amazon Web Services Inc., a division of Amazon, and Microsoft Corp. are finalists for the contract estimated to be worth up to $10 billion over a decade.