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  • Paul Christman Vice President Dell Software Public Sector Paul Christman leads Dell Software’s public sector subsidiary, covering the federal government, state and local governments, and higher education in the U.S. In this role, he oversees…

    September 04, 2013
  • Ryan Sobel Director, Virtualization/Secure Mobility Solutions Iron Bow Technologies Ryan Sobel is an industry expert on virtualization and mobile technologies who currently serves as the Director of the Secure Mobility Solutions Practice for Iron Bow…

    September 04, 2013
  • The administration is ushering out old technologies and accelerating the adoption of new technologies. At the same time, end of life support from Microsoft for XP and Exchange 2003 in April of 2014 are forcing agencies to migrate applications and email to new platforms to avoid tripling (and budget crippling) service costs. This leaves agencies to assess an array of options to modernize and move to new platforms. Approaches like cloud, agency sharing, and thin client offer budget-saving ways to innovate while fulfilling their agency's mission.

    September 04, 2013
  • On this week's edition of Agency of the Month, Navy Rear Admiral Sean Buck, director of the 21st Century Sailor Office, joins host Sean McCalley to discuss the prevention of sexual assaults and suicides within the Defense Department.

    September 04, 2013
  • What's the U.S. going to do about the use of chemical weapons in Syria? Our military objective in Syria would be to hold the Assad regime accountable, degrade its ability to carry out these kinds of attacks, and deter the regime from further use of chemical weapons," said Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel. He told the Senate Armed Services Committee Tuesday," the Department of Defense has developed military options to achieve these objectives, and we have positioned U.S. assets throughout the region to successfully execute this mission."

    September 04, 2013
  • Tom Romeo, president of MAXIMUS Federal explains how the appeals process works when a healthcare claim is rejected. September 3, 2013

    September 04, 2013
  • Followers of anti-American Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr held rallies in Baghdad and the southern Iraqi city of Basra to denounce any Western strikes against Syria. In the capital, about 2,000 Sadrists demonstrated while chanting anti-American slogans after Friday prayers. About 3,000 Sadrists rallied in Basra, some carrying banners reading "No to America."

    September 03, 2013
  • What happens the day after a US attack on Syria for using chemical weapons. A senior US defense officials says the U.S. will still be in the same military posture and will still have the same capabilities, but that official says Syria will have a degraded capability to launch another attack and will be deterred from launching another attack.

    September 03, 2013
  • The Federal Marketing Insight is a weekly feature highlighting a topical federal marketing subject. It's meant to be an insightful and a quick read.

    August 30, 2013
  • ViON Corporation President and CEO, Tom Frana talks to Hu Yoshida, Vice President and Chief Technology Officer of Hitachi Data Systems about the most pressing customer challenge...DATA.

    August 29, 2013
  • ViON Corporation President and CEO, Tom Frana talks to Ray McCay, Product Manager and Advanced Solutions for ViON about Converged Solutions, Tiered Environments and Analytics.

    August 29, 2013
  • ViON Corporation President and CEO, Tom Frana explores today's most pressing technology initiatives with Carl Fulp, Chief Technology Officer for ViON, including "The Magnificent 7" Solutions.

    August 29, 2013
  • ViON Corporation President and CEO, Tom Frana talks to Hu Yoshida, Vice President and Chief Technology Officer of Hitachi Data Systems about Social Infrastructure Innovation and how the Marines prepared him for his role at HDS.

    August 29, 2013
  • ViON Corporation President and CEO, Tom Frana talks to Hu Yoshida, Vice President and Chief Technology Officer of Hitachi Data Systems about a wide range of topics including: Flash.

    August 29, 2013
  • ViON Corporation President and CEO, Tom Frana explores today's most pressing technology initiatives with Carl Fulp, Chief Technology Officer for ViON, including winning strategies for new technology.

    August 29, 2013