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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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