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Last week, ITI submitted its comments in response to the important and much-anticipated Preliminary Cybersecurity Framework issued by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). Since the Framework plan was put forward in February 2013 as part of President Barack Obama’s cybersecurity Executive Order, we have fully supported the collaborative concept behind it -- a concept in which [...]
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Earlier this year, ITI unveiled its last iteration of Moving Education Forward: Strengthening STEM in Today’s Classrooms -- an excellent resource that spotlights many of our member companies and the investments they’ve made in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) programs that prepare our nation’s students and workers for today’s dynamic economy. Today, ITI moved this book and its content [...]
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This week, as part of efforts to reach a budget agreement, key members of the House and Senate will be looking to reach a deal to fund the U.S. government for the next fiscal period – providing business and U.S. citizens with certainty that essential services and policies will continue apace and without interruption. This agreement, if approved by Congress, would be a step forward for bipartisanship [...]
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Even in his parting, Nelson Mandela has given us a gift. The opportunity to look beyond today and towards the lessons learned from his life that may help all of us tomorrow. That legacy is rich and potentially rewarding if we are willing to embrace it. Nelson Mandela was a patriot, pragmatist, and the rare leader who realized that what matters most are first principles rather than tactics. For [...]
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The legislative express train that has been patent reform reached top speed in the House of Representatives this afternoon, and its next scheduled stop will be the United States Senate. By a vote of 325-91, the House passed H.R. 3309, the Innovation Act, a bipartisan bill advanced by House Judiciary Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-VA) to curb abusive litigation by patent trolls. Make no mistake, today’s [...]
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Were Grace Hopper still alive, she’d turn 107 years young on Monday, December 9th. Grace Hopper, as I’m sure you know, served in the United States Navy with great distinction. She first enlisted in the Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service (WAVES) program in 1943, in the midst of the Second World War, and served in various roles in the Navy until 1986, when she retired as the oldest active-duty [...]
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The Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA) is an outdated law. Since it was enacted in 1986, the technological advances have been tremendous. ECPA must be updated so that law enforcement is required to obtain a warrant in order to gain access to online content. ITI urges Congress to make ECPA reform a priority and pass a clean reform bill that wouldn’t allow civil agencies to get a pass on a [...]
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There has been a lot of debate in the media recently about who or what is to blame for the Healthcare.gov failure. The saying “success has many fathers, but failure is an orphan” comes to mind. Practically everyone in government and the private sector with a role in Healthcare.gov has been under the media’s microscope. The media’s finger-pointing aside, the fact is that no one individual or office [...]
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Global industry sent a strong message this week to China’s senior-most leadership: return to the negotiating table to expand product coverage of the Information Technology Agreement (ITA) with “a more forward-leaning, ambitious approach.” Communicated in a December 4 letter to Premier Li Keqiang, the heads over 40 associations from the around the world called on China to “actively help steer the negotiations…to [...]
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The Federal Information Technology Acquisition Reform Act (FITARA) is one of House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa’s major pieces of legislation this year. The bill is designed to bring greater efficiency and technology into the federal acquisition system, and he should be commended for taking on the daunting task of acquisition reform. Originally introduced earlier [...]
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