Developing Smarter Systems: A new approach to conducting system engineering trade studies
New Approach to System Engineering Trade Studies Publish at Scribd or explore others: Essays & Theses culture investment
System Engineering Trade Study for Green Initiatives with Model-Driven Development
Whitepaper Green Trade Studies Rhapsody Publish at Scribd or explore others: School Work Research research study
IBM Federal Ready to Protect NASA, NOAA, DOE, USCG, HUD Against New SQL Injection Hacking Attacks
12, March 2009 15:32 EDT — The Web Hacking Incidents Database (WHID) has reported that over 500,000 websites were hacked by a new form of SQL Injection in 2008. The hacking incidents resulted in 19% theft of sensitive data. Government, security, and law enforcement organizations represented the biggest sector suffering from these attacks (32 percent).Read… Read more »
Free National Emergency Alert System
Well, we really don’t have a unified national alert system that is able to alert the population, first responders, law enforcement, etc, in case of natural or man made dissasters. So what did I do about this? Well, I got together with a group of homeland security and IT security professionals and designed a systemRead… Read more »
“Sweet GovTweets” – Fri 1 May, 2009 edition
Apologies for errors in advance. Here are a few tweets from the tweet stream (have not clicked on any of the links) @Nextgov RT White House launches official twitter feed: @whitehouse #gov20 #obama @levyj413 EPA has launched a new mapping app called My Environment. Check it out http://twurl.nl/pdoau8 #gov20 @ariherzog: Snapshot in Twitter Time: HereRead… Read more »
Demographics of EPA’s Pick 5 for the Environment on Facebook
At the moment, we have 686 fans of EPA’s Pick 5 for the Environment page on Facebook. I thought it was interesting that women outnumber men 2:1. The age distribution seems reasonable to me, though. 686 Fans Age Female Male Overall All 67% 33% 13-17 1% 1% 2% 18-24 5% 5% 9% 25-34 24% 9%Read… Read more »
Collaboration Squared (Collaborating about Collaborating)
Last month I setup a wiki, using Wetpaint, to introduce my students to Web 2.0 tools. In thinking of a name, I came up with Collaboration Squared as I was asking them to “collaborate about collaborating.” It seems to me we could use some of the same, unless it’s happening somewhere on GovLoop and I’veRead… Read more »
VistA in health informatics Education
I ran across this today. Apparently VistA is being taken into the classroom at George Mason University. It certainly makes sense to use VistA in the educational setting: no licensing fees, students can download and run their own private version of the VOE appliance to practice their lessons on, and the price is certainly right.
A piggy attitude about Swine Flu
Vice President Biden’s advice that during the flu epidemic people should avoid subways and planes earned criticism from a representative of the travel industry. Well, I say, good for you Mr. Vice President, and to the travel industry I say – sit down, shut up, and worry more about your fellow citizens and less aboutRead… Read more »
The Official White House Twitter Has Been Launched!
The Whitehouse has official taken the plunge into microblogging and launched their official twitter account @whitehouse today. Another milestone in government 2.0 and social media has been reached. The Official White House Twitter URL: http://twitter.com/whitehouse The account was set up and first tweet posted about 2 hours ago putting the time of official release atRead… Read more »