A New Intelligence Agency? Maybe The RAND Corporation has provided the Homeland Security Department with a report on realigning domestic intelligence gathering. The report, “Reorganizing US Domestic Intelligence: Assessing the Options” was written by Greg…
Action For Wounded Warriors At the first Wounded Warriors Family Summit yesterday, Defense Secretary Robert Gates talked about his devotion to helping wounded vets, and changing the bureaucracy at the Pentagon to get them what…
Michael Bradshaw Head of Federal Enterprise Google October 21st, 2008
Is This Security On? The US Chamber of Commerce’s National Security Task Force recently heard from Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff about cybersecurity. The Chair of the Task Force, Verizon Vice President of Government Affairs…
Taking Time, Letting it Work President Bush gave a speech to the US Chamber of Commerce this morning, talking about the government’s response to the financial markets crisis. Click to hear the speech Starting Over…
Bringing In More & Better Feds The state of the Civil Service was under discussion at yesterday’s Coalition for Effective Change event marking the 30th anniversary of the Civil Service Reform Act. One of the…
Martha Morphy Chief Information Officer Oct. 23rd, 2008
Where Have You Been for the Last 30 Years? The Coalition for Effective Change hosted an event today looking back at the 30 years since the Civil Service Reform Act. Robert Tobias of American University,…
Anthony Robbins Vice President Federal Sales Sun Microsystems October 14th, 2008
Changing the Business Model Federal News Radio Executive Editor Jason Miller’s story Friday morning on FederalNewsRadio.com focused on changes the Navy’s bringing to the Navy/Marine Corps Intranet Program. Jason talked to me today about the…
Rex Cowdry Executive Director October 13th and 15th, 2008
A Medium Fish in a Big Pond There are the “big guns” in the government contracting world, there are the small players, and then there are the in-betweens. Pragmatics counts itself in the last group.…
Make EVERY Interview a GREAT Interview The Office of Personnel Management is offering a new resource called “Structured Interviews: A Practical Guide.” The goal is to offer help to make the interviewing process easier and…
The Owner’s Manual for Transition There are a lot of resources out there for Federal staff, both career and political, to help them prepare for the transition to a new administration. The IBM Center for…
Straight From the Sponsor’s Mouth New IT security legislation, dubbed “FISMA 2.0” on In Depth last week, is awaiting a vote from the full Senate. The bill’s originator, Senator Tom Carper of Delaware, talked about…