By Bob Gourley This is a video of the world’s top humanoid robots, including Asimo, HPR-4 and NAO! We thought you would want to check this out, these are all progressing so very fast, and soon will be impacting our environment in ways we should all be trying to understand Original post
Resource Assistance for Rural Environments The mission of the RARE AmeriCorps Program is to increase the capacity of rural communities to improve their economic, social, and environmental conditions, through the assistance of trained graduate-level participants, from across the US. These RARE AmeriCorps participants live in and serve the communities for 11 months. RARE AmeriCorps participantsRead… Read more »
By ChrisScott Consolidating data centers has always made sense. Having the data securely tucked away into well-managed data centers has got to improve performance and even cyber security. It will also require fewer of those really smart, well-trained (expensive) system administrators to keep things straight. And if done right, it should save on energy costsRead… Read more »
With all the Federal Government bashing going on in the press and social media, it’s a good time to remember all the valuable things the Government does for its citizens. One of the best and most widely valued of these is caring for our national parks. Every year the National Park Service holds a photoRead… Read more »
Who: Greg Baker, Damascus City Manager What: Greg will discuss his career in city management including lessons learned from his time spent in Missouri. Baker spent seven years as an assistant city manager for Kansas City municipal government and served two years as head of the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum. Greg will also discuss hisRead… Read more »
Fifteen years ago, I predicted the demise of the supermarket. Four years ago, I noted that that hadn’t turned out to be the greatest of predictions: I wasn’t quite daft enough to think that everybody was going to do their food shopping online. My argument was slightly more subtle, though it has so far provedRead… Read more »
By Ryan Kamauff In today’s podcast Bob Gourley and I discuss the value of Mobile devices in the enterprise. We talk about using the Cloud to protect the enterprise and the data center, and architectural decisions surround cloud and mobile computing. Bob and I dip into wearable computing (I cannot wait, he is a littleRead… Read more »
A Highlight from the upcoming NAGC Communications School. Monitoring reporters’ interviews with government officials is a routine practice among public affairs officers, mainly to protect against misquotes, according to a survey undertaken by the Society of Professional Journalists and the National Association of Government Communicators last fall. The final report is being released today inRead… Read more »
By Marcus Williams More Cyber News we are tracking: Several organizations around the country have been collecting and selling PII, DARPA will no longer support CFT, VMware’s Horizon Mirage 4.0, and more Who’s keeping track of Who? After reading this article it made me reconsider how I shop or pay bills online. Several organizations aroundRead… Read more »
Office of Federal Procurement Policy Administrator Joe Jordan recently got some much needed feedback on the debate about insourcing and outsourcing, and how those decision are being made. However, the insourcing versus outsourcing issue is not just external to the government. A recent trend seems to be developing where Contracting Officers are inserting VetBiz verificationRead… Read more »