Concerns about the elimination of technological personnel from the Ministry of Health and Social Services have reached at least one legislator in Capitol Hill.
Senator Jacky Rosen, D-NEV., Sent a letter To the secretary of HHS, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., expressing a concern on Monday as to the impact that the reduction of managers and cyber-responsible could have on the systems and cybersecurity of the department. His letter comes in the midst of efforts to reduce and consolidate personnel in the health service, including elimination roughly 10,000 staff members.
“The withdrawal of staff and cybersecurity threatens the basic features of HHS systems and networks as well as the ministry’s ability to protect its IT assets and the large amounts of data it holds,” Rosen.
Rosen, who signed the letter alone, has generally cited recent reports according to which technological personnel had been affected in the continuous efforts of the department to reduce the workforce, calling these “very disturbing” references. FEDSCOOP, for example, reported on the endowment reductions within the department and the computer office of the computer Food and Drug AdministrationAnd the concern that managers have had about the reductions in the workforce on systems.
As part of his letter, Rosen asks the Ministry of information on the endowment levels of each information officer office as well as the technology strategy offices and technology management. Rosen also requests documents on the reductions of computer labor and information on staff and contracts in the IT security response center, which, according to her, has lost the staff.
In response to a FEDSCOOP survey on the letter, an HHS official shared the same declaration as the ministry provided for a previous survey on the reduction of computer staff: “Under Secretary Kennedy, to rationalize HHS to better serve the American people, the department’s computer offices will be consolidated. The work of these offices will continue. “
Rosen asked for an answer no later than May 19.