SDFM The Business of Defense

  • The Federal Marketing Insight is a weekly feature highlighting a topical marketing subject. It’s meant to be interesting and a quick read.

    July 29, 2013
  • Jon Desenberg of the Performance Institute and John Kamensky of the IBM Center for the Business of Government, will discuss how to instill a culture of performance at your agency. July 26, 2013

    July 27, 2013
  • Dr. Robyn leads one of the largest and most diversified public real estate organizations in the world. Dorothy Robyn Commissioner Public Buildings Service General Services Administration

    July 25, 2013
  • This week on AFGE's "Inside Government" Department of Defense Local 1708 President Bill McGuire talks about the impact of furloughs on the Military Ocean Terminal Sunny Point in Southport, N.C. AFGE National Council of SSA Field Operations Locals President Witold Skwierczynski discusses resolved outstanding articles from the union's contract agreement with SSA while Economic Policy Institute Economic Analyst David Cooper addresses the lingering effects of unemployment on the economic recovery.

    July 25, 2013
  • Federal contractors have members whom they’d like to position as thought leaders which is a great way to position your company as experts in an area.

    July 23, 2013
  • Hundreds of convicts, including senior members of al Qaeda, broke out of Iraq's Abu Ghraib jail after comrades launched a military-style assault, authorities said on Monday. Reuters reports ten policemen and four militants were killed in the clashes. Suicide bombers reportedly drove cars packed with explosives to the gates of the prison on the outskirts of Baghdad on Sunday night and blasted their way into the compound, while gunmen attacked guards with mortars and rocket-propelled grenades.

    July 23, 2013
  • The Federal Marketing Insight is a weekly feature highlighting a federal marketing subject. It’s meant to be interesting, insightful and a quick read.

    July 22, 2013
  • Ruchi Bhargava Intel IT Hybrid Cloud Program Manager Ruchi Bhargava is the Hybrid Cloud Program Manager for Intel IT. In this role, she is responsible for building, deploying and running an enterprise wide Hybrid Cloud…

    July 19, 2013
  • Henry Fleischmann is HP’s Chief Technologist for Federal Cloud Solutions. As the regional lead for cloud computing, Mr. Fleischmann is focused on helping government customers build integrated, open systems to consume, offer and manage cloud…

    July 19, 2013
  • Buchholz has stewardship responsibility for NASA's workforce. Jeri L. Buchholz Chief Human Capital Officer NASA

    July 18, 2013
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    July 18, 2013
  • While leaders at CMS said the hub connecting personal information stored in the health insurance marketplace to multiple agencies will be ready by the Oct. 1 deadline, legislators are concerned with how well CMS is securing individuals' personal information from cyber threats.

    July 17, 2013
  • This week on AFGE's "Inside Government" Rep. Hank Johnson, D-Ga., voices his concern about federal employee furloughs and the long-term consequences of sequestration. AFGE Council of Prison Locals President Dale Deshotel describes life as a correctional officer in the Bureau of Prisons while Department of Defense Local 2077 President Jon Suminski discusses the consequences of furloughs at Selfridge Air National Guard Base in Michigan.

    July 17, 2013
  • This AFCEA Answers episode investigates current trends in cloud computing in government and industry. Hear what US Navy CIO Terry Halverson has to say about cloud computing in the US Navy.

    July 16, 2013
  • Germany was one of several European countries expressing outrage over the NSA surveillance of their diplomats under certain circumstances. Now it turns out according to German newspaper Bild, the government has known about the capability for years and has actually used the apparatus to collect information about German citizens. Apparently, according to the newspaper the BND, Germany's intelligence agency asked NSA for email and telephone records of German citizens kidnapped in Yemen and Afghanistan.

    July 16, 2013