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A VA Official Has 'Deep Concerns' About the Agency's Electronic Health Record Deployment
But leadership at the agency pushed back against projected cost overruns and delays moving forward.
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DHS: Customer experience hiring initiative, hundreds of technologist positions available
The agency’s initiative follows President Joe Biden’s 2021 executive order seeking to streamline the “government-to-customer delivery process.”
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CISA official: Election officials largely successful in deterring cyber threats
The head of CISA’s National Risk Management Center pointed to public-private partnerships and enhanced resource sharing activities as key to defending against outside threats to voting systems.
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Traffic Overwhelms Student Loan Sites Following Biden’s Debt Relief Announcement
Student loan company Nelnet said providers received no advance warning about the White House’s loan forgiveness plan, contributing to confusion and site outages.
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Misinformation ‘harms nearly every element of election administration,’ committee finds
State election officials said that they “need help at the federal level” to counter the threat.
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Cyber threats warrant a government reorganization, former CISA head says
Inaugural CISA director Chris Krebs said the federal government should do more to respond to cybersecurity and data concerns.
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