Deltek Analyst Kristin Howe reports. The Virginia State Police (VSP) released a solicitation for the long-awaited Virginia Intelligence Management System (VIMS) project. This system will be used in the Virginia Fusion Center (VFC), which works to assemble federal, state and local law enforcement officials in one facility. Fusion centers were designed to help facilitate communicationRead… Read more »
With rising demand for energy and natural resources, machine-to-machine (M2M) solutions give utilities a powerful emerging tool for managing demand and promoting sustainability. To this end, Sprint is fast tracking M2M to the marketplace, collaborating with innovative companies that specialize in enhancing reliability, optimizing service delivery and improving efficiency. Sprint has announced agreements with Itron,Read… Read more »
Tom in The Glass Menagerie wants to know how the magician or anyone can “find a way out of coffin that is nailed shut without removing one nail, or you could say how to find “a way up the slippery slope.” Work and work relationships can do more harm than good. This is one suchRead… Read more »
Buffalo ReformED is an education reform advocacy organization that brings together parents, teachers, business leaders, and community stakeholders and aims to revitalize Buffalo through an improved education system. Buffalo ReformED has developed a report card that they use to evaluate Buffalo Board of Education meetings. What do you think about this meeting Report Card? CouldRead… Read more »
The Leadership Game is a new, recurrent feature about leadership lessons from the world of sports. On Sunday, the world champion Dallas Mavericks defeated the rival San Antonio Spurs in overtime on a last second basket by Jason Terry. It wasn’t the first time Terry had won a game with his crunch time heroics, andRead… Read more »
The demographic of government is rapidly changing, as the Baby Boomer’s near retirement federal agencies need to continue to execute their strategies around human capital. One key area of human capital is recruiting and cultivating talent, which is a critical part of retaining the most innovative and talented employees within the federal government. Talent managementRead… Read more »
It’s 2012. People are thinking outside the box, especially in the corporate world. Work no longer refers to where you go, but more importantly, what you do – and how you do it. Take the traditional conference for example — a number of employees shuffling into an ordinary office, sitting around an ordinary table, takingRead… Read more »
press release Jan. 31, 2012, 1:00 p.m. EST Sprint Leads Wireless Industry in Green Power, Securing No. 13 on EPA Fortune 500(R) Green Power Partner List Only wireless carrier named to National Top 50 OVERLAND PARK, Kan., Jan 31, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) — Sprint Nextel /quotes/zigman/240259/quotes/nls/s S +1.28% announced today that the company has movedRead… Read more »
For those of you that haven’t noticed, we’ve been busy across the pond: How did it come to this, that the government has one of the most exciting start-ups in the UK?! — Rev Dan Catt (@revdancatt) January 31, 2012 Last night saw the release of the beta version of .GOV.UK which as Francis Maude,Read… Read more »
The New York Times reports that in two years New York City Comptroller John C. Liu has handed out more than 760 official commendations to individuals and groups. The Times reports that nearly one-quarter of the recipients of the commendations are connected to Liu’s political campaign. Official commendations have been provided to: “A Liu donorRead… Read more »