Acquisition

Acquisition, Leadership, Tech

CTOlabs.com Survey Finds Data Deduplication Aids in Managing Data Growth in Federal Agencies

Crucial Point LLC subsidiary CTOlabs.com has just published the results of a study on the impact of data growth in government. To download your copy see: http://www.carahsoft.com/dedupesurvey From the press release: http://www.prweb.com/releases/2011/04/prweb5243224.htm Data Growth and Virtualization Mandate New Approach to Federal Storage Management Survey Finds Data Deduplication Aids in Managing Data Growth in Federal AgenciesRead… Read more »

Acquisition

Overcoming Proposal Writer’s Block

FREE One-Hour Webinar on April 14, 2011 (Thursday) at 1pm EST The proposal clock is ticking, pressure is building as the deadline is getting closer, and soon the stress becomes palpable. But you still have a hard time squeezing the words from your or your proposal team’s brains down on paper. You produce something byRead… Read more »

Acquisition, Career, Communications, Human Resources, Leadership, Miscellaneous, Social Media, Tech

Girl walks into a Twitter conversation

This is another entirely random ‘what if?’ post. I freely admit that not the right amount of serious considered intellectual thought has gone into this. But. What if, right, we all rotated Chief Executives every few years or so? I can’t quite remember how it started and finding the conversation would be difficult, but IRead… Read more »

Acquisition

Recent conversations on Section 508

Recently, GSA gathered a number of people responsible for their agencies Section 508 programs, including contracting officers, to discuss how well government acquisitions were including correct language in their solicitations. The conversation shared some best practices, gave advice on avoiding “worst practices” and provided the attendees with a copy of “Guidance on Creating 508 CompliantRead… Read more »

Acquisition, Leadership, Miscellaneous, Tech

Project of the Week: GSA’s Federal Cloud Computing Program

Government Rockstar Mary Davie has been posting Projects of the Week for some time now…but this is the first time I’ve been able to catch up with her after she started her new role as GSA’s Assistant Commissioner for the Office of Integrated Technology Services (ITS). Below is a quick Q&A that highlights GSA’s effortsRead… Read more »

Acquisition, Human Resources

Infoporn

Sales Professional Wanted! Must be able to fill out timely sales reports accurately! (actual recruiting ad) Increasingly we can amass formidable data on anything we want. Damn little is worth the effort involved to capture it. When I set up a new analytic, it usually falls into one of two categories, “Ooops, not useful,’ orRead… Read more »

Acquisition, Communications, Tech

Call For Volunteers for Better Government IT Working Group – Due April 22

On December 9, 2010 the U.S. Chief Information Officer Vivek Kundra released a “25 Point Implementation Plan to Reform Federal Information Technology Management.” Many of the points in this plan are consistent with recommendations previously made by ACT-IAC. One of these recommendations, and a major priority in the Administration’s plan, is to improve communications betweenRead… Read more »

Acquisition, Communications, Tech

Call For Volunteers for Better Government IT Working Group – Due April 22

On December 9, 2010 the U.S. Chief Information Officer Vivek Kundra released a “25 Point Implementation Plan to Reform Federal Information Technology Management.” Many of the points in this plan are consistent with recommendations previously made by ACT-IAC. One of these recommendations, and a major priority in the Administration’s plan, is to improve communications betweenRead… Read more »

Acquisition, Leadership

PMF Data 2009-2011

[Update 2/12/2011: By popular request, I have also formatted this for CSV/Excel: http://pmfellow.kodingen.com/scripts/getcsv.php The format is slightly different and includes is_vet, which is a field denoting whether the finalist is/was a veteran.] Here is another quick update to let you know that I have made available all of the finalists data from 2009-2011, in JavaScriptRead… Read more »