Tag: Reform

October 17, 2019

Apple CEO Tim Cook on Thursday encouraged the U.S. Senate to pass legislation that would phase out per-country limits on green cards. “Immigrants make this country stronger and our economy more dynamic. As a first step toward needed comprehensive reform, […]

December 6, 2018

The Federal Reserve rejected Wells Fargo’s plan to prevent more consumer abuses by the embattled bank, adding it needs stronger checks on the company’s management, Reuters reported citing three people with knowledge on the matter. According to the report, the […]

July 4, 2017

In June, the Department of Defense ended the school year with an “F+” on the Federal Information Technology Acquisition Reform Act’s Scorecard 4.0 – a mark the DOD’s CIO says the department is taking steps to boost. Lawmakers chided the […]

June 13, 2017

Countering the notion that the large number of high-level agency vacancies is hindering President Trump’s efficiency reforms, the key White House management adviser on Sunday told a television audience a “good dialog” is taking place between agency career staff and […]

May 26, 2017

I recently testified before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee on actions the government could take to modernize its IT acquisition process. The hearing covered a lot of ground, but much of the discussion focused on how much of […]

April 3, 2017

Among the many topics addressed by the innovative leaders at the table was a question of definition: What is citizen engagement? How does this concept relate to citizen services, digital transformation, and similar terms used to describe how government is […]

January 19, 2017

With roughly a half million individuals awaiting either their initial security clearance or a reinvestigation, the Obama administration has just released an executive order designed to reform and streamline the clearance process. The intent of the 23-page order is to […]

June 17, 2016

The U.S. House of Representatives voted down an anti-surveillance amendment after some of its members expressed concern about its impact on the fight against terrorism, in the wake of Sunday’s massacre at a nightclub in Orlando. The measure was proposed […]

June 2, 2016

Defense policy bills in the House and Senate are trying to get the Army to incorporate more commercial-off-the-shelf components into a controversial intelligence-sharing platform, the Distributed Common Ground System-Army. While the manager of the program, Col. Robert Collins, says the […]

December 3, 2015

A new bill introduced in the Senate aims to let the U.S. National Security Agency hold on for five years to phone records collected by the agency, while also making permanent some anti-terrorist provisions that have been criticized by civil […]

July 8, 2015

India’s IT outsourcing firms are betting on U.S. President Barack Obama’s healthcare reform to rev up revenue growth which is slowing as the $146 billion industry’s key financial and manufacturing clients spend less on software services. The United States is […]

May 20, 2015

Reform Government Surveillance, an organization that represents large technology companies like Google, Apple and Microsoft, on Tuesday pressed the U.S. Senate not to delay reform of National Security Agency surveillance by extending expiring provisions of the Patriot Act. The House […]