A group of purged from HHS is managed by more than one hundred contracts worth hundreds of millions of dollars, including important cyber security licenses. It also manages the contract extension for hundreds of specialized contractors to perform important tasks for the department, including dozens of network security contractors working in Computer security incident response center (CSIRC)The main component of the Ministry's overall network security program is supervised by the Director of Information Security.
Although all HHS agencies have their own cybersecurity and IT security groups, CSirc is the only one who is able to display on the entire network of the department. This center, based in Atlanta, monitors the entire HHS network and is tasked with preventing, detecting, reporting and responding to cyber security incidents at HHS.
This is the nerve center of the department, the source said. These have direct links to DHS, CISA, defense health authorities and intelligence community.
The contractors provide insurance all day and night on three shifts that last for eight hours a day, monitoring the network for any incidents of loss or attack from inside or outside the network. Those contracts were set to expire on June 21; Although there is time to renew them, it is not clear who is authorized to do so or know how, because the entire process of monitoring this process no longer works at HHS.
In addition to the threat is the decision of the general service management agency to terminate the lease for CSirc in Atlanta, effective on December 31, 2025.
Many monitoring and network security tools that contractors use to monitor networks are also due to the extension in the coming months.
If the situation is not resolved, then quite early, this department will be completely open to external agents to get the largest database in the world with all our community health information in which our clinical trial information at NIH or FDA or various organizations of other organizations.
In the weeks leading to RIF, some administrative employees have interacted with cooperatives called the Ministry of the Ministry (DOGE) of the Ministry of the Government, including Small ClarkA software engineer has been working at Palantir for more than a decade and has recently been installed as the department's information director.
As an employee who is presenting in detail the work they did at Ocio, they said, they felt that small people Online summary Without detailing any experience in the Federal government, it seemed to be overwhelmed by the absolute HHS scale, a agency that accounted for more than a four -quarter of federal spending by 2024 and included a large number of offices and employees and operating departments.
Primary school did not provide instructions for the remaining HHS staff to convert, according to two sources still at the agency.
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Some internal systems have been broken, according to sources still working at HHS. An employee, who facilitates the travel for HHS staff, said RIF has established a federal tourism back to the processes applied before the first electronic travel system contract in 2004.