Tag: FEMA

September 28, 2023

The National Flood Insurance Program isn’t doing too well. The program, which offers public flood insurance to almost 5 million households nationwide, is about $20 billion in debt, and it lost almost half a million customers last year after debuting […]

August 21, 2023

President Biden is heading to Hawaii Monday to view the widespread damage from the recent Maui wildfires, meet with survivors and fend off criticism that his administration responded to the disaster too slowly. There were no details on the itinerary […]

October 4, 2022

Asurvey the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency makes available every year for state, local, tribal and territorial governments to assess their cybersecurity is now open. The annual survey is a result of legislation Congress passed in 2010 instructing CISA’s predecessor […]

October 4, 2022

Local governments continue to grapple with ransomware and other cyberattacks that have crippled their school systems and halted other civic functions. The latest crisis in a long string of local government cyber incidents involves the Los Angeles Unified School District. […]

April 26, 2022

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency is playing a key role in guiding agencies towards ensuring their Internet of Things devices and systems are secure, according to a senior technology expert at the Federal Emergency Management Agency. James Rodd, FEMA’s […]

August 12, 2021

MeriTalk: The Federal government’s reliance on data is growing, and so is the cyber threat. How are recent attacks changing how teams approach data security in cloud environments? Cameron Chehreh: We’re seeing changes at every level – from the White […]

April 21, 2021

The Defense Department’s health program is running a significant deficit halfway into the 2021 fiscal year, and efforts are underway in the Pentagon to make up for the shortfall. Dr. Terry Adirim, acting assistant secretary of defense for health affairs, […]

September 14, 2020

President Donald Trump signed a memorandum last month to provide a $300 enhanced weekly unemployment benefit to be paid on top of state benefits. But the $44 billion allocated by Trump for the enhanced unemployment benefit, which comes from the […]

September 8, 2017

The head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency said on Friday Hurricane Irma will devastate part of the United States and that U.S. officials are preparing a massive response to the storm. With Irma set to hit Florida as early […]

March 1, 2017

The Federal Emergency Management Agency needs a new, experienced administrator quickly or it could lose some of its forward momentum, said both the agency’s former head and lawmakers during a hearing on FEMA’s future. “FEMA is not the place for […]