GSA’s Sustainability in Procurement Fellows (SPF) Program

Applications and Project submissions are now being accepted for Cohort 4 of GSA’s Sustainability in Procurement (SPF) Program. The SPF program is a professional development program that provides federal employees in-depth training on sustainability. The fellowship covers regulatory requirements, industry trends, systems thinking concepts, and provides hands on sustainability project experience. As part of theRead… Read more »

Showing Appreciation for Our Public Servants

This week we have been celebrating Public Service Recognition Week. And this year, it seems more important than ever that we highlight public servants who are doing great work. In recent weeks, we have all seen a bombast of news stories about wasteful spending at the General Services Administration (GSA), corruption at the Transportation SecurityRead… Read more »

Weekly Round-up: May 11, 2012

Gadi Ben-Yehuda
 Where Data Meets Decisions. The Pew Internet Research Group has an interesting and important report out about “Just in time information,” which they describe as people using mobile devices to acquire and/or act upon information to address a need or desire that has arisen in the moment. Where Machines Talk to One Another.Read… Read more »

A Million Monkeys Demonstrate the Power of Hadoop

There are many great use cases for Apache Hadoop, the open source framework for scalable, reliable, and distributed computing on commodity hardware built around Hadoop Distributed File System and MapReduce, such as delivering search engine results, sequencing genomes, and indexing entire libraries of text, but the Million Monkeys Project by Jesse Anderson may be theRead… Read more »

The Tragic Toll from the Epidemic of Opiate Drug Use

BEHAVIORAL HEALTHCARE May 10, 2012 by Ron Manderscheid, Exec Dir, NACBHDD 0 Comments Share on facebookShare on linkedinShare on twitterShare on google | More Sharing ServicesShare | Print Accidental deaths from drug overdosing now exceed those from automobile crashes This week, I had the privilege to participate in the Ohio 2012 Opiate Summit: Miles TraveledRead… Read more »

Government Adoption of Ruby on Rails

Ruby on Rails has quickly become the default web app development framework among the “hacker” and startup community since first releasing in 2004. Why? Because Rails was designed from the ground-up with programmer productivity in mind. It uses a variant of the Model/View/Controller architecture pattern to organize application programming. In addition to the MVC-based arch,Read… Read more »

First Responder R&D, Moving Target Cybersecurity, and More

Here is today’s federal cybersecurity and information technology news: The Department of Homeland Security‘s Science and Technology Directorate is struggling with matching first responder needs and budget cuts. More here. Senator John McCain once again pushes for a greater role for the Department of Defense in cybersecurity and asks for Gen. Kieth Alexander of CyberRead… Read more »

Even with a “Seedy” Past, Can I Still Get a Security Clearance?

The short answer is, yes – security clearance investigations take into account something called the “whole-person” concept. So mistakes in the past – be it serious debt, or even a felony offense – will be considered in light of the person you are today, and the circumstances behind the conduct. So, if you’re a governmentRead… Read more »