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The Markup: Dec. 22, 2017 | Washington's Latest IT Modernization & Cybersecurity News - Duration: 4:20.
welcome to your December markup with the latest news and the federal IT community.
December has been a big month for the federal government. President Trump
signed the NDAA turning the MGT Act, along with several
other bills into laws, the FCC voted on net neutrality, the scramble over the
government shutdown deadline on December 22nd and so much more. To keep it short,
we're going to focus on IT and cyber initiatives. Here's what we're going to
cover: First, we'll give an update on the MGT Act and discuss the IT modernization
report that followed, second we'll talk about the Centers of Excellence
initiative that the office of American innovation rolled out, and third we'll go
over the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency Act of
2017.
Let's start with a newly signed MGT act and dive into what followed. As most
of you are aware, President Trump signed the Modernizing Government Technology
Act into law last Tuesday December 12th. We did a special report on The Markup
of the MGT Act, so if you want to get up to speed on the new law and how it came
about, click on the link below. On December 13th, the day after the MGT Act
was signed, the White House's American Technology Council released an updated
version of the IT Modernization Report, which was initially released in August.
This version hints at the types of projects it will prioritize now that the
MGT Act is a law, and the report's action plan is set to begin January 2018.
One day later, on Thursday December 14th, the White House's Office of American
Innovation rolled out the Centers of Excellence. The CoE's are made up of
federal employees, industry experts, and research organizations to help bring
skills such as cloud adoption, and customer design, and analytics to these
modernization efforts. They strategically have decided to start this new
initiative by testing out the concepts on the Department of Agriculture. All-in-all,
the Centers of Excellence are intended to encourage cross-agency
thinking and sharing of API's and best practices for IT modernization. Federal
News Radio sums it up perfectly. "Last week was a good week to be a federal IT nerd."
From the MGT Act signed on Tuesday, the White House releasing its final Modernization Report
on Wednesday, to the office of American Innovation rolling out the CoEs
initiative on Thursday... yep, definitely sounds like a good week to be a federal
IT nerd! Alright, switching the conversation to cybersecurity. The
Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency Act of 2017, also known
as CISA, past the House of Representatives
on December 11th. This Bill's purpose is to amend the Homeland Security Act of
2002, and streamline the infrastructure of the National Protection and Programs
Directorate and redesignate it as the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security
Agency. CISA will lead the national efforts to protect and enhance the
security and resiliency of U.S. cybersecurity, emergency communications, and
critical infrastructure. Next stop for the bill is the Senate to receive
approval. What's the markup of everything we just
discussed? In terms of IT modernization, you can see the administration and
Congress have put forth all the right pieces for the IT modernization effort
to move forward. Now it's all about execution, so keep a close eye on those
agency CIOs! As for the CISA bill, not only with the name change and clarify
the agency's mission, but also the bill itself would open the door to other
changes including staffing and acquisition authorities. That concludes
this week's markup! If you have a story you wish to be featured in the next markup,
send it to press@metrostarsystems.com
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Washington Post busted for pushing totally FAKE NEWS about �seven words banned� in
CDC budget documents
by: JD Heyes
You�ve got to hand it to the unhinged establishment media.
They take it on the chin time and time again for publishing fake news about President Donald
J. Trump and his administration. But they continue to allow themselves to be played,
even as the last shards of their credibility fade away because they are so wedded to their
Alt-Left ideology and Trump hate.
That�s loyalty to a cause, no matter how stupid and idiotic it is, considering that
without credibility, eventually, they won�t have much of an audience.
The Washington Post is the latest outlet to get burned ginning up phony allegations against
the Trump administration � a dishonor the paper is actually committing fairly routinely
in the Age of Trump.
Late last week WaPo published a story claiming that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
was being prevented by the Trump administration from using seven words and phrases � allegedly
including �fetus� and �transgender� � because, you know, the Trump administration
is full of Russian-controlled homophobes and haters. (Related: How the Washington Post
lost its Pulitzer Prize by faking the news.)
The paper noted further:
Policy analysts at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta were told
of the list of forbidden words at a meeting Thursday with senior CDC officials who oversee
the budget, according to an analyst who took part in the 90-minute briefing. The forbidden
words are �vulnerable,� �entitlement,� �diversity,� �transgender,� �fetus,�
�evidence-based� and �science-based.�
In some instances, the analysts were given alternative phrases. Instead of �science-based�
or ��evidence-based,� the suggested phrase is �CDC bases its recommendations
on science in consideration with community standards and wishes,� the person said.
In other cases, no replacement words were immediately offered.
After making its blanket claims, the story then attempts to muddy the waters a bit by
stating that some terms supposedly prohibited in draft budget documents �had been conveyed
verbally� in a meeting among career officials at the CDC � hard to verify. Still, the
principal claim is that the Department of Health and Human Services, which oversees
the CDC, wants the terms banned.
The only problem with this is that it didn�t happen � at least, not in the context of
the Post�s story (Trump sucks, he�s a bigot, his people suck and are bigots, etc.).
As explained by National Review�s Yuval Levin:
What seems to have happened here involves two sets of circumstances. First, the budget
office at HHS sent the various divisions of the department a style guide to use in their
budget-proposal language and �congressional justification� documents for the coming
year. That style guide, which sets out a standard style for everything from capitalization of
the titles of key offices to some commonly disputed points of grammar and punctuation,
also sets out some words to be avoided. These, I am told, are avoided because they are frequently
misused or regularly overused in departmental documents (make of that what you will) and
they include three terms on the Post�s list: �vulnerable,� �diversity,� and �entitlement.�
The style guide does not prohibit the use of these terms, but it says they should be
used only when alternatives (which it proposes in some cases) cannot be.
He says further that he doesn�t remember using a style guide when he worked at HHS
and the White House during the Bush years, but one person he spoke with suggested there
was one in the Obama administration.
A more viable explanation for some of the more inflammatory words is �not that retrograde
Republicans ordered career CDC officials not to use these terms but that career CDC officials
assumed retrograde Republicans would be triggered by such words and, in an effort to avoid having
such Republicans cut their budgets, reasoned they might be best avoided,� Levin added.
And if you don�t believe him, perhaps you�ll believe the director of the CDC, who tweeted
there are �no banned words� at her agency.
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