FCW Insider: September 2, 2021

HASC bucks Biden on topline military budget

The House Armed Services Committee adopted an amendment that would increase defense spending by $24 billion over the requested amount to about $770 billion.

House panel mulls mandatory disclosure bill

Industry reps at a hearing of the House Homeland Security Committee were supportive of new requirements to report hacks, but want more clarity on how to report and what constitutes a covered incident.

Bill would require big social platforms to support data mobility

Under the bill, the Federal Trade Commission would assess data interoperability for platforms with more than 100 million monthly users.

ICYMI: Where does the TMF Board go from here?

With a $1 billion cash infusion, relaxed repayment guidelines and a surge in proposals from federal agencies, questions have been raised about whether the board overseeing the Technology Modernization Fund has been scaled to cope with its newfound popularity.

Quick Hits

*** MITRE was awarded a sole source contract by the Defense Health Agency on behalf of multiple users of the new electronic health record system being fielded by the Defense Department, the Department of Veterans Affairs and the U.S. Coast Guard to explore the potential to use the vast amounts of health data to extract insights and intelligence to improve the quality of care across these institutions as well as in the larger, private healthcare system.

*** The National Security Agency awarded Hewlett Packard Enterprise a 10-year, $2 billion to provide high performance computing services, the company announced on Wednesday. Washington Technology has more on this story.

*** Evaluation.gov is the federal government's new home for the Evaluation Officers Council and a clearinghouse of information about federal program evaluation – an activity that has been supercharged in recent years as a result of the passage and implementation of the Foundations for Evidence-Based Policymaking Act.