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The Homeland Security Department’s Science and Technology Directorate is playing matchmaker between systems integrators and up-and-coming companies. The goal is to get cutting-edge cybersecurity technology into the government as quickly as possible. This is part…
May 20th, 2009 Steve Rosen, Director of Performance and Strategic Planning in the Office of Federal Asset Sales at the General Services Administration, on the \"eFAS\" system. This system has more than tripled the number of Federal assets sold online, and nearly doubled the amount of money recouped for the government. Mr. Rosen won a Leadership Award from the Chief Information Officers Council at IRMCO this year.
May 13, 2009 Stephen W. Warren, VA\'s acting CIO (and acting assistant secretary for information & technology) and Gail Graham, VA\'s deputy chief officer for health information management, talk about updating VA\'s health records system, and integrating it with the Pentagon\'s system.
Space Shuttle Atlantis blasted off earlier this week on its final trip to the Hubble Space Telescope. Commander John Herrington is a former NASA astronaut. He got a behind-the-scenes look at preparations for the Hubble…
‘Transparency’ and ‘collaboration’ are the watchwords for this administration. But managers have to be careful to not use collaboration just for collaboration’s sake. We learned about this when we talked with Morton Hanson, the author…
Mary Theofanos, NIST computer scientist, May 14, 2009
President Obama said the public should be able to trust the science informing public policy decisions. He assigned his science advisor to come up with a plan to achieve scientific integrity. He’s also reaching out…
The Army developed the MC-4 system to replace the paper medical card that often was stained or soaked with blood by the time a wounded solider got back to the field hospital. Little did they…
New guidance provides advice to ensure non-federally issued identity cards can work with federal HSPD-12 cards and systems.
I get a lot — and fairly regular… and sometimes bordering on angry — comments the lack of commentability on FederalNewsRadio.com, and, specifically, on the DorobekInsider. In the months since I moved the DorobekInsider over…
I mentioned on Federal News Radio 1500 AM today the sad news that AFCEA International vice president Becky Nolan’s husband, Paul, passed away today unexpectedly. Here is the note from Kent R. Schneider, AFCEA International’s…
The deadline for implementation of Transportation Worker Identification Credentials (or TWIC cards) has officially passed. Now, the Coast Guard is working to develop requirements for the card readers that will be deployed at ports across…
The 2009 Webbie Awards have been announced — for those who don’t know, these are the preeminent online awards. The Webbies have scores of categories. One category each year, however, is government. This year’s winner…
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