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  • Deputy Director Office of Information Assurance Bureau of Information Resource Management United States Department of State Gary R. Galloway has been the Deputy Director of the Office of Information Assurance since May 2007. He was…

    March 05, 2013
  • Director of Technology Policy for the Committee on House Administration Reynold Schweickhardt was named Director of Technology Policy for the Committee on House Administration in February of 2011. In that role Schweickhardt provides Technology oversight…

    March 05, 2013
  • Business Continuity Solutions Evangelist nformation Management Group Symantec Eric Hennessey is a Business Continuity Solutions Evangelist with Symantec’s Information Management Group. His area of expertise for more than 10 years has been in the area…

    March 05, 2013
  • Setting your company apart from others can be easy. The most important rule is to look at your marketing and make sure is consistent across all channels.

    March 04, 2013
  • Syria's rebels have rejected the food and medical supplies the United States wants to give them. Gen. Salim Idris, told The Associated Press, those supplies, "won't bring them any closer to defeating President Bashar Assad's forces in the country's civil war. We don't want food and drink, and we don't want bandages. When we're wounded, we want to die. The only thing we want is weapons," he said.

    March 01, 2013
  • Deputy CIO U.S. Department of Labor Dawn Leaf is the Deputy Chief Information Officer for the United States Department of Labor. Prior to her appointment to DOL in November 2012, Ms. Leaf served as the…

    March 01, 2013
  • More than 80 percent of the federal systems count on private sector critical infrastructure to work. Should one of the telecommunications, electricity or other providers be hacked or go down from a natural disaster, agency mission would be in peril. Just take last summer's Derecho that impacted the Washington DC area. One agency lost their connection to the Internet for some time because of the storm even though their infrastructure was in the cloud. Over the past decade or more, agencies have applied the lessons learned from the assortment of man-made and natural disasters that have impacted their services to keep their services running as smoothly as possible. But with the emergence of cloud computing, virtualization, mobile computing and other technologies, what should agencies keep in mind to ensure the continuity of operations? How is the idea of COOP and disaster recovery changing? The panel, Carrying on with Continuity of Operations, will look at how agencies have implemented COOP and disaster recovery over the past decade and where they need to go next.

    March 01, 2013
  • Looming budget cuts, expanded missions, greater public demand, and a changing workforce--huge challenges for today's government agency leaders. These challenges present opportunities to maximize value and do better with less. With guidance coming from many directions, how can leaders determine what works best for their agencies? What are the "game-changers" in the arena of driving value? And how can leaders expedite value optimization?

    March 01, 2013
  • Bradley Manning, the Army private arrested in the biggest leak of classified material in U.S. history, offered to plead guilty. The "Associated Press" says he made the plea to charges that could send him to prison for 20 years. He said he exposed the secrets to reveal the American military's "bloodlust" in Iraq and Afghanistan. It was the first time Manning directly admitted leaking the material to the anti-secrecy website WikiLeaks and detailed the frustrations that led him to do it.

    March 01, 2013
  • Dr. Lurie is the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response for the Department of Health and Human Services. Nicole Lurie, M.D., M.S.P.H. Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response Department of Health and Human Services

    February 28, 2013
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    February 28, 2013
  • This week on AFGE's "Inside Government" AFGE Housing and Urban Development Council 222 President Eddie Eitches and Department of Defense Local 2142 President Joe Gonzales detail the devastating impact sequestration would have on their respective agencies. AFGE Bureau of Prisons Local 1112 representatives Mike Schnobrich and April Bennett and Transportation Security Administration Local 778 Executive Vice President Bobby Newsome also appear.

    February 28, 2013
  • Veterans groups and lawmakers are saying the military's new medal for cyber warriors should get a demotion so it doesn't outrank such revered honors as the Bronze Star and the Purple Heart. The Distinguished Warfare Medal was announced two weeks ago. It's a sign of the changing nature of war, and the increasingly important role played by attacks conducted remotely.

    February 28, 2013
  • There's going to be a new Secretary of Defense today. And the outgoing SECDEF Leon Panetta said in a farewell message, "It's been the privilege of my life to serve with and lead the men and women of this Department." And in his final act he expressed deep gratitude to those who are fighting and working every day in national defense. The U.S. Senate voted to confirm Chuck Hagel on Tuesday as President Barack Obama's new secretary of defense.

    February 28, 2013