ASMC The Business of Defense

  • Featured guests: John Dubek, Managing Partner, Keller & Heckman LLP Ola Sage, CEO, E-Management Wolf Ruzicka, CEO, East Banc Technologies Anita Smith, President & Co-founder, Clinovations

    February 07, 2013
  • Featured guests: Al Espinoza, Founder, CEO & President, Innotion Enterprises George Stephenson, Owner, Stephenson Printing Sadhna Agrawal,President & CEO, Astor & Sanders

    February 07, 2013
  • Featured guests: Alex Armour, CEO, Offspring Solutions, LLC David Isaacson, President, Technology Management Inc Matt Curry, President & CEO, Curry's Auto Service Peter Rogers, Co-founder & Senior Advisor, Front Point Security

    February 07, 2013
  • Featured guests: Jason Bloomberg, President, ZapThink AFrank Sherman, CEO, Transportation Management Services Ahmed Ali, Chairman & President, Tista Science & Technical Corporation Kymm McCabe, President & CEO, ASI Government

    February 07, 2013
  • Mr. Whitley describes the challenges of measuring unobserved events such as tax cheating, drug smuggling, or illegal immigration. John Whitley Senior Fellow Institute for Defense Analyses

    February 07, 2013
  • In one of the biggest moves yet in the battle against sequestration, the Pentagon is cutting its aircraft carrier presence in the Persian Gulf region. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta has approved the plan to just keep one carrier there. The U.S. has maintained two aircraft carrier groups in the Gulf for most of the last two years. Pentagon Press secretary George Little said in a statement the deployments of the USS Harry S Truman and the USS Gettysburg, a guided-missile cruiser, have been delayed because of budget uncertainty.

    February 07, 2013
  • The concept of big data isn't new. The intelligence community and the Defense Department have understood the benefits of analyzing information to find enemies or determine intentions of nation sates. But with the acceptance and move to cloud computing and mobile devices, every federal agency now has the opportunity to make data work for them. But most federal agencies are struggling to manage and use information to make better decisions. This discussion will look at different use cases of how the public and private sectors are dealing with the deluge of information that is coming at them every day, and how they are using that data to make mission-critical decisions.

    February 06, 2013
  • This week on AFGE's "Inside Government" attendees of the Families USA Health Action 2013 address the future of health care and the implementation of the Affordable Care Act. Common Cause President and CEO and former Rep. Bob Edgar, D-Pa., former Clinton White House spokesman Bob Weiner, Newsweek and The Daily Beast contributor Eleanor Clift and Families USA Executive Director Ron Pollack join the conversation.

    February 06, 2013
  • A little more than 15 months after the Pentagon repealed its ban on openly gay service members, the military is on the brink of extending some benefits to the same-sex partners of service members, U.S. officials said Tuesday. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta hasn't made a final decision on which benefits will be included, but the Pentagon is expected to allow same-sex partners to have access to the on-base commissary and other military subsidized stores.

    February 06, 2013
  • Building on the success of its Global Entry program for pre-enrolled travelers, U.S. Customs and Border Protection has developed a self-service kiosk that anyone can use. John Wagner, executive director for Admissibility and Passenger Programs at CBP, tells Agency of the Month about this and other new technologies coming to an airport near you.

    February 05, 2013