SDFM The Business of Defense
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Thomas Davenport President\'s Chair in Information Technology and Management Babson College December 13th and December 15th
December 09, 2009 -
Agencies across the government are moving into social networking as a way to share information, with each other and with citizens. But some CIOs wonder if the role of these tools applies to every agency,…
December 09, 2009 -
Be a teleworker and you can maybe save a life.
December 04, 2009 -
December 2nd, 2009 Most government agency customers are citizens looking for information on services or other government functions. But there is one agency whose constituency is almost exclusively other government agencies. The Office of Government…
December 02, 2009 -
Here come the holidays, ready or not. Teleworkers might appreciate a little something to make doing the job from home more comfortable or just plain fun.
November 30, 2009 -
November 25th, 2009 Most agencies are about providing services to citizens. The Small Business Administration is different. They deal largely with entrepreneurs who are getting new businesses off the ground, or growing businesses that are…
November 29, 2009 -
Rear Adm. Thomas McGinnis Chief Pharmacy Officer Pharmaceutical Operations Directorate at the TRICARE Management Activity November 30th and December 2nd
November 23, 2009 -
November 18th, 2009 The Nuclear Regulatory Commission is just one of many Federal agencies undergoing changes, as they consider the advantages of cloud computing, virtualization, and adopting thin client networks. Thomas Boyce, the Deputy CIO…
November 19, 2009 -
Telework proves its worth, even in the planning stages of an emergency.
November 12, 2009 -
November 11th, 2009 Change is coming in the IT shops across government, and because of how IT is integrated into the everyday business life of agencies, change is coming to every Federal employee. Dealing with…
November 11, 2009 -
Jennifer Main Chief Financial Officer Assistant Secretary for Financial Stability, Under Secretary for Domestic Finance at the Department of the Treasury. November 2nd and November 4th
November 04, 2009 -
November 4th, 2009 The ambitious information sharing project between the Defense Department and the Veterans Affairs Department is a technologically complex one. The two agencies have built electronic health records, and have set the stage…
November 04, 2009 -
We now know the names of the Drug Enforcement Administration special agents who lost their lives in the helicopter crash Afghanistan on Monday. Special Agent Forrest Leamon, 37 of Woodbridge, Va, Chad L. Michael, 30, of Quantico, Va. and Michael E. Weston, 37, of Washington, D.C. were killed when the chopper they were flying aboard western Afghanistan crashed in killing them and 8 members of the military. DEA says special Agents Leamon and Michael were members of DEA\'s FAST (Foreign-deployed Advisory and Support Teams); and Special Agent Weston was assigned to DEA\'s Kabul Country Office.
October 27, 2009 -
October 28th, 2009 It’s a big week for the Recovery Accountability and Transparency Board, the entity that manages Recovery dot gov, and oversees spending under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. This Friday is their…
October 27, 2009 -
France will not send any more troops to Afghanistan and wants instead to see an enlarged Afghan army, President Nicolas Sarkozy said in a newspaper interview released on Thursday. The United States is considering sending up to 40,000 additional troops to Afghanistan and has urged its NATO allies to do something similar. Britain announced this week that it was ready to send 500 more troops but Sarkozy told Le Figaro daily that he was sticking to a long-standing pledge not to send more forces. He said it is necessary to stay in Afghanistan? And to stay to win. \"But France will not send one more soldier.\"
October 16, 2009