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Public-sector Continuity
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The Federal Reserve Board Drills for Disruption. Its Systems Lack Recovery Plans.
The Federal Reserve Board tests contingency arrangements twice a year. It keeps plans for its divisions. Yet the inspector general found no complete recovery plan for individual information systems, and the teams that rank business needs and restore technology do not have a rule…
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FEMA Took Its Disability-Response Course Offline. An Update Is Planned for 2027
The federal disaster agency had a course that local emergency managers could take when no storm was approaching. It taught how to include people with disabilities in preparation, response and recovery. FEMA removed it from its curriculum and website in 2025 for an internal…
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Commerce Cut Two Weather Satellites. NOAA’s Spare May Retire Before the New One Is Ready
The United States plans to keep two geostationary weather satellites working and one waiting in orbit. The waiting one is projected to reach the end of its life in October 2032. Its successor is scheduled to launch that year, then needs months to become operational. Commerce…
Asia-Pacific National Telecom Trends
The Phone Is Still on Sale. Its Emergency-Call Test May Be Past Its Sell-By Date.
Australia's communications regulator wants an old model's first test to stop licensing every later phone in the box. After the next emergency-call standard changes, continued supply would require fresh evidence. The proposed rule reaches the sales counter; the phone already in…
Europe and Middle East Institutional Trends
Brussels Wants a 12-Month Cloud Move. Sweden Counted the Procurement Steps.
A draft EU cloud rule would start a one-year migration clock when a public body's risk review requires a move. Sweden's telecom regulator read the clock beside the work order: end a contract, study a replacement, procure it, then build it. Critical systems do not change homes by…
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The FCC’s 137-exchange voice exit has a missing number: homes
November 3 opens the first authorized discontinuance date for seven Consolidated Communications legacy-voice applications. The FCC can count exchanges. Its public notice cannot tell a household whether its replacement line is ready.
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The FAA Knows the Signal Can Lie. It Still Waits for Someone to Report It
An aircraft can receive a radio message that looks ordinary and is not. The Federal Aviation Administration has identified spoofing, jamming and interference as threats to aviation communications. It also told federal auditors that its tools do not yet give it defined, continuous…
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Washington Counts 48 Cyber Incident Reporting Rules. Which Clock Runs First?
An operator has just found an intruder in a critical system. The first useful questions concern containment, affected services and who needs a warning. Federal reporting rules may ask another question immediately: which agency's definition of an incident has been met, and when…
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Thirteen Countries Joined Europe’s Cyber Alarm. Its First Two Hubs Couldn’t Sound.
Europe recruited countries for a shared cyber alarm before it finished the equipment order or agreed how a warning would travel. An audit of the European Cybersecurity Alert System found its first two cross-border hubs, ATHENA and ENSOC, unable to operate. The delay was built…
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Congress Ordered an Annual Checkup. Three of Four Agencies Skipped 2025.
A strategic plan can sit on a shelf and still look authoritative. Congress asked federal agencies to do the less decorative work each year: examine whether their programmes actually move the goals in that plan. In a four-agency audit, the Government Accountability Office found…
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The EU Set Aside €49.1bn for Better Administration. Its Audit Found a Digital Shortcut.
A new public-service screen is easy to photograph, count and mark complete. Changing who can make a decision, how quickly a case moves, or whether an office can keep its skilled staff takes longer. The European Court of Auditors found that digital projects took 53% of…
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Britain Committed £1.15bn to Shared Services. Who Can Make Departments Join?
Five government service centres are meant to put payroll, finance and hiring on compatible rails. The National Audit Office found a less photogenic problem: no central owner with the levers to secure the passengers. Departments with working software want to see the fare before…
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The School Internet Fund Wrote Down Nine Fraud Controls. Hydrogen Hubs Left Four Blank.
Five federal award programs sat for the same audit. The school internet fund brought written procedures for all nine selected fraud-control practices. The Regional Clean Hydrogen Hubs program had no documented program-specific fraud-risk assessment, antifraud strategy…
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Washington Found 2,074 Exclusion Matches. The Missing Keys Are the Bigger Story.
A federal screening system can count the records it can join and stay silent about the records it cannot. GAO matched 2,074 awards to recipients listed in SAM Exclusions at the time of a transaction. Most exclusion records had no unique entity identifier, so the same test could…
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FEMA Changed Vulnerability Values in More Than Half of Counties. It Did Not Test the Final Risk Score.
A county can move on a federal risk map without a storm, fire or flood. Change the data source inside the model and the map may redraw itself. FEMA did exactly that for the social-vulnerability component of its National Risk Index in 2025. Its own comparison found different…
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Treasury Fixed a $1.4 Trillion Footnote. The Machine That Missed It Is Still on Trial.
The largest number in the room was an estimate of possible losses, not a bill to pay. In a draft of the U.S. government's fiscal 2025 consolidated financial statements, Treasury gave the top of a reasonably possible legal-loss range as $1.5 trillion. It left readers without the…
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Nine Regulators Switched On a Data Rule. Not One Filing Changed.
October 1 brought a new federal rule for the way financial regulators describe data. It brought no new filing obligation for a bank, credit union or other reporting entity. That is not a trick of the calendar. The nine agencies that wrote the Financial Data Transparency Act's…
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Washington Asked for a Software Parts List. Seventeen Agencies Got Two Rulebooks.
A software bill of materials can sit in a procurement file like a receipt, or move through a security team like a map of vulnerable components. Federal agencies were handed instructions for both jobs without a clean handoff between them. In a June 2026 cloud-procurement audit…
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GAO Bought a Five-Year IT Plan. Its Own Auditors Couldn't Find the Exit Memo.
The agency that asks everyone else to document their decisions paid a contractor about $1 million for a five-year technology plan. Less than 18 months after the plan was finished, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) moved to a rolling modernization strategy. Its inspector…
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GAO's Big VA Savings Bar Is $210.36 Million. Its Footnote Says $35 Million.
The chart belongs to June 2025. The footnote arrived from VA a year later. In its July 2026 audit of the Technology Modernization Fund, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) printed $210.36 million as the expected savings from Veteran Identity Modernization, then recorded…