It was a rough week for both the stock and bond markets as the Fed put a scare in investors by reiterating that they will, at some point soon, lighten up on their bond buying policy. While this should be a positive because it insinuates that the economy is getting closer to being able toRead… Read more »
Earlier this year, we partnered with the City of San Francisco and Yelp to develop and deploy a data standard for restaurant inspection scores, called LIVES. Data standards, such as LIVES or Open311, are simply an agreed upon, common format for publishing information that make it easier for platforms to integrate that information in anyRead… Read more »
On Thursday the Coalition traveled to Chicago to host a “Myth-Busters” Healthcare Committee meeting with the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) National Acquisition Center (NAC). The VA NAC manages a family of Federal Supply Schedule (FSS) contracts for pharmaceuticals, medical supplies and services. A primary focus of the Coalition Healthcare Committee is the operations, policiesRead… Read more »
When I was a lad, sodas were 10 cents from a vending machine. Not being fond of sweet carbonated drinks, I told friends that it would be great to have these machines dispense ice cold spring water in bottles. Of course they laughed at such a goofy idea. My bottled water idea was a larkRead… Read more »
By Ryan Kamauff Here are the top cyber news and stories of the day. Trojan Uses Fake Adobe Certificate – One new piece of malware that has been discovered is pretending to have a certificate from Adobe Systems to trick users. The software injects itself into IE and notepad and allows the handler to takeRead… Read more »
Yesterday, GovLoop and WordPress hosted the event, Do More With What You Have: Experience WordPress in Government, highlighting the power of WordPress to modernize and optimize government websites. The event included numerous case studies of websites that use WordPress CMS services, which are robust, scalable and adaptable with numerous plug-ins and add-ons. At the event,Read… Read more »
7Delta is hosting a Hawaii Interview event on July 17th in our Columbia MD headquarters. We have several openings located on the island of Maui Hawaii. This event is invitation only so please respond and send interest to the email address below. [email protected] We are hiring for: Project Managers Technical Writers Java Developers Software TestersRead… Read more »
Continuing the development of my thinking around the Framework for Digital Local Public Services I wanted to share some really basic thoughts around how the connectivity challenge can and perhaps should be approached. This isn’t really a post about what is happening in Devon either, but i’ll naturally use examples locally to help illustrate theRead… Read more »
Yesterday, GovLoop and WordPress hosted the event, Do More With What You Have: Experience WordPress in Government, highlighting the power of WordPress to modernize and optimize government websites. The event included numerous case studies of websites that use WordPress CMS services, which are robust, scalable and adaptable with numerous plug-ins and add-ons. At the event,Read… Read more »
A General Services Administration procurement vehicle for office supplies has saved the agency $200 million and supported small contracting businesses. GSA Chief Acquisition Officer Anne Rung announced the number during the Small Business Administration’s National Small Business Week Phoenix and Procurement Awards ceremony in Washington, the agency said Friday. Small contractors won 13 of 15Read… Read more »