By Bob Gourley DISA is a large organization with many moving parts and. They have had some huge successes (which I should write more about, they deserve lots of love for doing things no other organization on the planet has ever done, from providing the largest encrypted mesh of comms in the globe to providingRead… Read more »
By Marcus Williams Today’s cyber news we are tracking: 3D printing facial implant, Receiving online orders in less than 15 minutes, AV world rankings, and more. Technology has reinvented itself again. A British restaurant manager was diagnose with a cancerous tumor growing on the left side of his face. He was referred to a surgeonRead… Read more »
I find this stuff so you don’t have to: On IBM, OpenStack and Chef: an interview Intelligent Impact: Evaluating an open data capacity building with voluntary sector organisations WordPress.tv: Understanding the WordPress Dashboard Tony Hall’s biggest test as BBC director general is to create a digital future Tony Hall’s biggest test as BBC director generalRead… Read more »
Code for America, in partnership with Google for Entrepreneurs, is excited to announce a new Incubator program, which will support Code for America fellows as they seek to turn their products into companies. CfA’s longest standing program is an annual service-year Fellowship for developers, designers, and community managers, where they work hand-in-hand with city governmentsRead… Read more »
Below is an excerpt from GovLoop’s Latest Report: Crafting a Comprehensive Digital Government Strategy View Online Below or Download PDF GovLoop’s research defines a digital government as “the tools, applications, resources and methodologies allowing government to leverage new and emerging technology to serve the most mission-centric goals of the agency.” Below is an excerpt fromRead… Read more »
What leadership lessons can we learn from the firing of Rutgers coach Mike Rice? If you’ve been following the news story about how now former Rutgers basketball coach, Mike Rice, was verbally and physically abusing his players, then you undoubtedly know that he was fired and his assistant, Jimmy Martelli, has also recently resigned andRead… Read more »
…if you think about it. I was talking to a friend who hosts a series of industry meetings. Being spring and the sap is rising, her last meeting had a lot more people than usual, but she noted most of the newcomers were prospectors, looking for new sales. She saw it as the physical equivalentRead… Read more »
[reposted by request from original] Most federal civilians have really good job protections: while they are subject to furlough and sequestration, taking actual punitive actions against a general schedule civilian employee is pretty uncommon. In particular, things like the Employee Rights & Appeals process, and Merit Systems Protection Board exist to protect employees, and theyRead… Read more »
The Shining: The Inside Story Behind The National Anthem Of College Basketball The High Five Margaret Thatcher, Britain’s first female PM, dead at 87 – Former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher,a towering figure in postwar British and world politics and the only woman to become British prime minister, has died at the age of 87.Read… Read more »
By Ryan Kamauff Here are the top cyber news and stories of the day. Army defends its mobile device security plan – “The Department of Defense’s inspector general has reposted and updated a report critical of the Army’s shortcomings in handling cybersecurity for commercial mobile devices (CMD), with some changes to correct for what itRead… Read more »