The Department of Health and Human Services has issued a challenge to solicit designs and approaches that will work to address concerns from patients about the clarity of medical bills. HHS Secretary
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Patricia Flatley Brennan, a professor at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, has been appointed by National Institutes of Heath Director Francis Collins as the new director of the National Library of Medicine effective August. “Patti brings
More The Defense Department plans to open a second outreach office for its Defense Innovation Unit Experimental in Boston, less than a year after launching the organization in California’s Silicon Valley area, DoD News reported
More The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has updated the Global Forecast System in an effort to process four-dimensional weather data and provide hourly updates on weather conditions. NOAA said Wednesday the update was
More The House Appropriations Committee’s defense subpanel has introduced a bill that would authorize $517.1 billion in discretionary spending and $58.6 billion in overseas contingency operations funds for fiscal year 2017. The committee said
More The Congressional Budget Office has added an online search tool on its website for users to find intergovernmental and private sector mandates in bills and public laws that are identified under the Unfunded Mandates Reform Act. CBO
More A Federal Communications Commission task force will develop a planning framework and scorecard to support efforts by public safety agencies to shift their 911 systems to Internet Protocol-based platforms, Urgent Communications reported Tuesday. Donny Jackson writes the FCC’s Task Force
More President Barack Obama has nominated National Highway Traffic Safety Administration deputy head Blair Anderson to serve as policy undersecretary for the Transportation Department, the NHTSA’s parent Cabinet organization. Anderson served as the deputy
More Defense Department acquisition chief Frank Kendall has decided to withdraw his legislative proposal seeking greater agency oversight of merger and acquisition activities between defense companies, Defense News reported Tuesday. Aaron Mehta writes Kendall made the decision
More NASA has validated 1,284 new planets from Kepler space telescope’s July 2015 catalog to post a new record as the single largest batch of confirmed planets to date. The space agency said Wednesday the new
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