Summary: Patience at the National Institute of Standards and Technology is starting to wear thin. NIST has been waiting since January for the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs in the Office of Management and Budget to finish its review of new and expanded privacy controls in special publication 800-53, Revision 5. The nine-month approval process is now having a downward impact on several other publications that NIST wants to release. In his weekly feature, the Reporter's Notebook, Federal News Network Executive Editor Jason Miller writes about how OIRA's review sluggishess isn't just a challenge for NIST, but for other agencies and vendors too.He joined Federal Drive with Tom Temin for the details.
