At last Thursday’s Bisnow Federal Procurement Update Dan Gordon, Administrator for Federal Procurement Policy with OMB and Steve Schooner, Co-director of the Government Procurement Law Program at George Washington University, discussed federal procurement and how it needs to change in the current budget environment. Increase in procurement dollars Beginning in 2001 government procurement figures soaredRead… Read more »
There is a great old George Harrison song, which is titled “If you don’t know where you are going, anyroad will get you there.” Presumably, there is a corollary “if you know where you are going make sureyou pick a road that gets you there”. Moving forward without any direction appears to be the preferredmethodRead… Read more »
Twitter has long been a place where fictional characters – from Darth Vader to strange turns on comic book heroes to the characters from the space opera Firefly – have found life. Now, in a move to warm a tourism board’s heart, some of the most iconic features of San Francisco are also animated onRead… Read more »
I have previously outlined some thoughts an experiences related to Digital Divide issue s in my community and my observations and thoughts on steps the community and to an extent, the government can take to overcome these issues. I am firmly in the camp where I believe Digital Divide issues are getting worse, and somethingRead… Read more »
Carl Malamud of Public.Resource.Org and the Law.gov movement was sworn in Thursday as a member of the Administrative Conference of the United States (ACUS). ACUS advises the U.S. federal government on improving the federal regulatory and administrative law process, and particularly on eRulemaking and the Regulations.gov system. A recent profile highlighted Carl’s role in digitizingRead… Read more »
I receive many offers from publishers to receive complimentary copies of new project management books, project management software, etc. Normally I respectfully decline as I do not have the time to read and review the flood of books and software. I was thinking however, that it might be fun to offer these up to you,Read… Read more »
I may not be able to post here anymore. This editor is just impossible to work with. I hope you can read it because it won’t let me change the font… The breakout The S&P 500 started the week bumping up against the November high, and after testing that resistance level for a few daysRead… Read more »
Posted by Vivek Kundra on December 10, 2010 at 04:03 PM EST For too long, many government IT projects cost hundreds of millions of dollars more than they should, took years longer than necessary to deploy, and delivered technologies that were obsolete by the time they were completed. This summer we took a hard lookRead… Read more »
Happy Holidays It’s the time of year again. Hope all you folks had a Happy Thanksgiving. The holiday season is right around the corner. Please remember to donate to the Combined Federal Campaign. You can found out more about the mission of the campaign here. Play Govloop’s Bowl Pick’em Here’s the deal… you know theRead… Read more »
How is your cause or organization better because of the leadership you provide them? I really hope to hear some answers that have absolutely nothing to do with technology. Yes indeed, you and I, we are at the head of the class when it comes designing and applying technology solutions. We enjoy this fact andRead… Read more »