Federal Communications Commission

Federal cybersecurity blanket stretches to cover Internet of Things (IoT) devices

Billions of Internet of Things (IoT) devices are scattered all over the world. These devices are potential entry points for cybersecurity attacks

Technology

FILE - In this Sept. 16, 2017, file photo, a person uses a smart phone in Chicago. Most Americans across party lines have serious concerns about cyber attacks on U.S. computer systems and view China and Russia as major threats. That's according to a new poll by The Pearson Institute and the Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research (AP Photo, File)

The FCC strengthens its approach to data privacy and security

Technology

Is there light at the end of the stalemate on resuming spectrum auctions?

Defense

Why access to suicide prevention services is easier in one crucial way

People

Congress aims to reauthorize Commerce telecom agency for first time in three decades

IT Modernization

FILE - In this Dec. 14, 2017, file photo, the seal of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is seen before an FCC meeting to vote on net neutrality in Washington. The Senate has narrowly approved President Donald Trump’s lame-duck nominee, Nathan Simington, on Tuesday, Dec. 8, 2020, to become a member of the Federal Communications Commission. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)

FCC launches its Space Bureau

Federal Newscast

FILE - In this Thursday, Dec. 14, 2017, file photo, a person with a smartphone enters the Federal Communications Commission building in Washington. Tech companies and nearly two dozen U.S. states clashed with the government in federal court Friday, Feb. 1, 2019, over the repeal of net neutrality, a set of Obama-era rules aimed at preventing big internet providers from discriminating against certain technology and services. The action rolling back the neutrality rules

This group says the federal government, for all the auctions, is still a spectrum hog

Agency Oversight

Looking for help with space regulations?

The Space Hour

Biden renominates Gigi Sohn to FCC after failed first confirmation effort

Federal Newscast

Inside the FCC decision to ban sales of Chinese-made telecom gear

Technology

Biden administration’s cyber regulatory plan comes into focus

Cybersecurity

Biden admin. wants more federal employees to qualify for student loan forgiveness

In today’s Federal Newscast, new proposal from the Department of Education is aiming to expand student loan relief programs for federal workers.

Federal Newscast

broadband, spectrum, telecommunication. National Telecommunications and Information Administration, workers, NTIA

A former Commerce official on the internet policy work yet to be done

The Commerce Department has been dealing with the internet and its implications since at least the mid-1990s, mainly through the National Telecommunications…

Technology

FILE - In this Aug. 21, 2019, file photo, pamphlets are shown in the clinic of Planned Parenthood of Utah in Salt Lake City. The Biden administration on Oct. 4, 2021, reversed a ban on abortion referrals by family planning clinics, lifting a Trump-era restriction as political and legal battles over abortion grow sharper from Texas to the U.S. Supreme Court. Groups representing the clinics say they hope the rule reversal leads to the return of hundreds of service providers that left the program to protest the Trump administration's policy. HHS has estimated that the upheaval led to as many as 180,000 unintended pregnancies. The clinics provide birth control and basic health care mainly to low-income women.(AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)

Members of Congress want Pentagon to start covering birth control under TRICARE

Federal Newscast

In today’s Federal Newscast, lawmakers are trying to achieve cost parity under TRICARE to cover birth control.