Across the aisle, lawmakers expressed outrage over the recent contract ceiling hike after Oracle’s CEO told Congress four years ago that the company would not raise costs.

And, the VA’s EHR modernization contract ceiling raises to nearly $27 billion.

Due to “unanticipated complexities,” the department proposed a modification to the $10 billion contract to complete deployment of the electronic health record modernization.

OPM is out of the woods on a critical time period for challenges that could have halted Oracle’s nearly $400 million contract from moving forward.

And, CISA calls for agencies to “patch smarter, not harder.”

The $400 million award kickstarts OPM’s process of bringing over 100 disparate federal HR platforms into one system.

A report found two years of missing measures and undefined fiscal 2026 goals for the health records’ interagency cybersecurity and privacy protections.

A White House list of 13 appointees includes leaders from Google, Nvidia, Meta, Dell, Oracle, and Andreessen Horowitz.

The deployment of the Electronic Health Record system will be the VA’s first in nearly three years.

DOE will receive computing power as soon as next week, Secretary Chris Wright said.