- The U.S. Coast Guard is formalizing its method to acquiring behavioral well being applications and enhancing entry to psychological well being take care of its service members. A brand new coverage would require commanding officers and supervisors to refer their personnel to a well being care supplier for analysis as quickly as service members request help. Whereas the Coast Guard plans to implement elements of Brandon's Regulation to enhance its behavioral well being program, the service wanted a barely totally different implementation technique. The service has additionally printed a behavioral well being handbook to help management on psychological well being points. Moreover, the Coast Guard is separating its obligatory suicide prevention coaching from sexual assault prevention coaching, making them separate programs.
- The Normal Companies Administration is able to take the subsequent step in establishing its new cloud providers contract. GSA is outlining its preliminary pondering on what Teams 2 and three will seem like below ASCEND's blanket buy settlement for cloud providers. In a request for info, GSA asks distributors to touch upon the three software-as-a-service classes it needs to deal with, together with workplace productiveness, buyer relationship administration, and IT service and asset administration. . In Group three, GSA needs suggestions on the service areas it selected, together with utility rationalization, multi-cloud administration, and cloud governance and coverage growth. Feedback on each RFIs should be obtained by March 29.
- The Division of Well being and Human Companies is launching an investigation into the cyberattack on Change Healthcare. The HHS Workplace for Civil Rights mentioned it should examine whether or not delicate affected person information was uncovered within the ransomware assault. Change Healthcare mentioned a ransomware gang accessed a few of its IT methods in late February. The cyber incident has disrupted the healthcare business and brought on widespread delays in processing claims and funds.
- The Division of Homeland Safety has huge plans for synthetic intelligence this yr. DHS is establishing an AI sandbox that may permit elements to experiment with giant language fashions. That's one of many prime targets for 2024 in line with DHS's new AI roadmap, launched Monday. It particulars a number of use instances for AI at DHS, starting from coaching immigration brokers to aiding in police investigations. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Safety Company may also consider how AI may very well be used to seek out and repair cyber vulnerabilities.
- NATO's Protection Innovation Accelerator for the North Atlantic (DIANA) is increasing its transatlantic community of accelerator websites and take a look at facilities. The variety of expertise websites will improve from 11 to 23 and the community will add 92 take a look at websites in 28 allied nations. The DIANA program was created to speed up the event of rising applied sciences, together with synthetic intelligence, cyber and autonomous methods. Final yr, 44 corporations joined this system to deal with challenges associated to underwater detection and surveillance and safe info sharing.
- As much as 68,000 extra Protection Division contractors will be capable of be part of the unclassified cybersecurity info sharing program. The Pentagon finalized up to date necessities for the Protection Industrial Base Cybersecurity Program that expands eligibility necessities, together with eliminating the necessity to have an present lively set up authorization. The Protection Division mentioned the need to have extra corporations be part of the cyber program drove its determination to resume eligibility necessities. Of all candidates looking for to hitch this system in 2022, 45% got here from suppliers deemed ineligible. The brand new eligibility necessities will go into impact on April 11.
- After 5 years of examine, the Nationwide Institutes of Well being continues to be stumped by Havana syndrome, which was first reported in Cuba by American personnel affected by complications, steadiness issues and issue sleeping. The NIH printed two papers yesterday detailing its analysis. MRIs revealed no detectable mind lesions, and batteries of different exams confirmed no organic abnormalities. Nevertheless, the NIH lead researcher mentioned that solely implies that if an occasion brought on the signs, it left no markers or lingering physiological adjustments. However contributors with Havana syndrome did present important signs of post-traumatic stress and 41% certified for a prognosis of useful neurological dysfunction.
- The Division of Protection is about to achieve far more authority to rent and retain managers in its science and expertise laboratories. The navy's 22 Science and Know-how Reinvention Laboratories (STRLs) have already got substantial leeway to function outdoors of the federal government's common wage and personnel guidelines. However an advisory the Protection Division launched final week would depend on these flexibilities. A number of the adjustments: STRLs will probably be allowed to quickly promote staff to supervisor and group chief positions, and provide bonuses of as much as 50% of their base wage to retain them. The brand new authorities will take impact on April 15.
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