Agencies are pursuing a handful of major initiatives to continue modernizing the IT landscape in the federal government. One of the Administration’s pushes within their Digital Government Strategy is directing agencies to look toward cloud solutions to create savings and enhance service delivery. The Cloud First Policy would require agencies to default to cloud-based solutionsRead… Read more »
The first thing I did was look for a mention of “.pdf” in the document, but I didn’t find it. That made me wonder how effective this will be if specifics aren’t incorporated about requiring data formats that are more amenable for manipulation. Yes, I know that many tools exist for scraping and extracting structureRead… Read more »
By Bob Gourley DISA has just made an announcment regarding mobility I believe will be of high interest throughout the Department of Defense and Intelligence Community but also with the systems integrators that bring together solutions to serve the federal market. The announcement provides information on implementation guides for both Blackberry and Samsung Knox devices.Read… Read more »
The euphoria in the open government community has been palpable since the White House released a new Executive Order titled, Making Open and Machine Readable the New Default for Government Information, and an accompanying new Open Data Policy – Managing Information as an Asset. Just reading the recent tweets on the Open Data Policy willRead… Read more »
This blog was originally posted by Dan Chenok on the Center for the Business of Government blog. In order to keep The Center for The Business of Government’s research current, we host occasional roundtable discussions with leaders from the public sector, the academic research community, and across industry; these discussions help to challenge current assumptionsRead… Read more »
By Michael Ipsaro, PMP, CCE/A Your agency just received a legislative mandate to implement a capability by a specific date. The mission could range from expanding a capability, to improving security at a checkpoint, to meeting an estimated surge in demand for transactions in a compressed time period. It may take months or years toRead… Read more »
HydroPoint Data Systems Partners With Belkin Echo Water for Smart Water Management; Department of Defense Selects Belkin Echo Electricity for Military Installation Demonstration Belkin, a trusted leader of technology solutions for office, classroom, IT infrastructure, and mobile environments, today introduced Echo, an advanced sensor technology system for buildings that analyzes the use of water, electricityRead… Read more »
An international digital marketing agency today rated Chicago the 5th most socially connected city during Big Data Week. Bloom Agency UK rated Cook County’s “CHGBigDataWeek” Twitter account the number one social media influencer of the event and “@ToniPreckwinkle” was rated number three in influence. Click here to read the full report During the recent BigRead… Read more »
By Ryan Kamauff FOSE is the nation’s premier event for government technology professionals who need tools, resources, and best practices to transition to the cloud, mitigate cybersecurity threats, and achieve the goals of the DGS while managing uncertainty and the critical need to make it all happen on-time and on-budget. “The heavy impact of sequestrationRead… Read more »
Have you ever been called to give advice to someone just starting their career? Heck, have you ever considered giving yourself a career checkup? Letters To A Young Scientist by Pulitzer Prize winning author Edward O. Wilson is a delight. Twenty one “letters” (actually each is more focused than a letter, how about a greatRead… Read more »