GovBytes: Criminal Identification Improves in Western States

Several western states have come together to improve their integrated fingerprint databases for a better criminal identification system. The states which participate in the Western Identification Network (WIN), a nonprofit responsible for the program, include; Alaska, California, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, Oregon, Utah, Washington, and Wyoming. The improved system will provide high-definition palm and fingerprint matching.Read… Read more »

Award Shows = Joke

Federal workers get beat up a lot. They haven’t had raises to keep up with inflation in two years, likely won’t get them for at least one more years, and Congress continually bashes feds. (It’s not fun when your bosses constantly critique you). However, this isn’t an “oh it’s so tough” post. Others, like stateRead… Read more »

The Homework Quandry

Whether you teach elementary school or graduate school, the effectiveness and purpose of homework has long been debated. Should you ask, most people would probably tell you that homework is important and promotes learning and mastery of course material and in fact, research can be cited to support this intuitive assertion. For example, a studyRead… Read more »

Bird Flu Research Details To Be Released

Despite fear that terrorists could the information to start epidemics, the World Health Organization (WHO) recently announced they would release the “full details” of experiments done last year by research teams, at Erasmus Medical Centre, Rotterdam, in the Netherlands, and at the University of Wisconsin-Madison on the virus known as H5N1, that made the deadlyRead… Read more »

How Critical Is Clarity on Government Projects?

Sometimes pronouncements get made and distributed in email format about a change in direction, etc. When this happens, I sometimes find that the person sending the message doesn’t have an understanding of the recipients. They have not put themselves in the “other person’s shoes”. Therefore, the message is confusing because key points are not addressed.Read… Read more »

Are you going to the DoD Enterprise Architecture Conference in Miami?

Nearly 700 are expected to attend the DoD Enterprise Architecture Conference Apr 30 – May 3 in Miami! will you be one of them? To learn more about the conference, visit the website at: http://www.dodenterprisearchitecture.org

DC LERA Event

The DC Chapter of the Labor and Employment Association will hold its monthly luncheon on Wednesday Feb 29, 12 pm-1:30 pm, at the historic Woman’s National Democratic Club, 1526 New Hampshire Ave NW, Washington DC. Eileen Hoffman, FMCS mediator, will look at the changes in today’s workplace — especially the presence of at least fourRead… Read more »

Picture This: Installing the Kiosks for The Art of Video Games

The four games on the ColecoVision kiosk Installation is underway for The Art of Video Games exhibition, which opens in less than a month on March 16. Here you can see the back-lit screen captures from the games on the ColecoVision kiosk, which was the first one to be set up and switched on. ToRead… Read more »

We Feel Your Pain

As you read this, you may be going through many of the same things that I went through long ago. In fact you’re joined by thousands of other readers right now who are going through much the same thing you are. Some of us are trying to land our first job in project management, someRead… Read more »

Acronyms galore!

Do you ever get the feeling that some agencies pick an acronym for something before they figure out what the full name should be? FCW’s Matthew Weigelt observed that Washington, D.C., is clearly the CEA, or Creative Epicenter of Acronyms. As Matthew writes, the General Services Administration is looking for help in naming a newRead… Read more »

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