Monday Means Money & Security

Changing the Business Model

Federal News Radio Executive Editor Jason Miller’s story Friday morning on FederalNewsRadio.com focused on changes the Navy’s bringing to the Navy/Marine Corps Intranet Program. Jason talked to me today about the changes, and why they’re such a big deal.

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That Sounds Like My Kinda Job

Aneesh Chopra, Secretary of Technology for the Commonwealth of Virginia, told me last week about some of the policy successes that earned his state a #1 rating in IT from the National Association of State Chief Information Officers. Today he told me more about his job description, and how it matches what some folks have said a Federal Chief Technology Officer’s job description should look.

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This Is How We Do It

Neel Kashkari, Interim Assistant Secretary for Financial Stability, answered the questions people have been asking about the financial markets bailout bill since it passed Congress and was signed by the President: who does what, who controls the money, and who watches over the money handlers? Secretary Kashkari told the Institute of International Bankers–and all of us–in a speech today.

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Merging Two Concerns

Al Qaeda has proven they’re willing and able to interfere with the electoral process in other countries. That has some people asking, “why not ours?” Federal News Radio National Security Correspondent JJ Green has been writing and reporting on the health–or lack thereof–of Al Qaeda, and he gave us an update.

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180 Degrees Apart

Many people think information sharing and information security are diametrically opposed. But companies are coming up with new ways of integrating these two concepts into the same plan that helps organizations work faster and smarter. Steve Coggeshall, Chief Technology Officer at ID Analytics, told me today about how they’re doing it. We also talked about good examples of agencies that are sharing info well.

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