State Department
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As a deputy legal adviser, Robert Harris supervises offices providing advice on an array of issues ranging from human rights and refugees, treaties, law enforcement and intelligence, and regional issues involving the Western Hemisphere and Asia.
August 09, 2010 -
How is the State Department using technology to build bridges?
August 05, 2010 -
August 11th at 11:05am The DoD GIG IA Portfolio Management Office (GIAP) has learned through experience that mission critical networks are contested, violated, infiltrated and penetrated, leading to significant risks to US interests. The U.S. critical infrastructure has evolved from a ‘network enabled\' position to one that is now ‘network dependent.\' No aspect of the national critical infrastructure operates without extensive use of information technology, and it is this very fact that makes our networks such a high priority target for adversaries. The need for secure, self-aware, proactively managed defense mechanisms has never been more critical. Commercially available technologies, when combined with research and development done by both the government and the private sector, represent the best possible approach for combating the types of threats our critical infrastructure is facing today.
August 02, 2010 -
Posing as someone else and using fake birth certificates and driver\'s licenses to get a U.S. passport can still work. For the second time in two years, the GAO has found holes in the country\'s security by deliberately using fraudulent material to obtain passports. But the hole has gotten smaller. GAO\'s Greg Kutz joins us with details.
August 02, 2010 -
A Senate panel probes the government\'s continued foreign language deficiencies. The Government Accountability Office finds limited progress across several agencies. DHS and DoD are taking steps to increase the number of employees with foreign language skills.
July 30, 2010 -
GAO found significant success in obtaining passports using fraudulent documents in the second investigation in two years. While State is implementing facial recognition technology to close the existing gaps, lawmakers are introducing new legislation to give the agency more security capabilities.
July 29, 2010 -
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At the Excellence of Government Conference, the State Department\'s Richard Boly, director of the Office of e-Diplomacy, talks about ways to improve communication and transparency without adding cost or red-tape.
July 19, 2010 -
If outsourcing is the answer, what should be the question? We hear from Commissioner Grant Green of the Commission on Wartime Contracting in Iraq and Afghanistan.
July 15, 2010 -
State Department believes an alleged whistle-blower obtained secret diplomatic data.
July 14, 2010 -
As the U.S. military pulls troops and equipment out of Iraq, the State Department will have to rely increasingly on contractors.
July 13, 2010 -
Get the details on what they can and can\'t do.
July 13, 2010 -
A new State department partnership will reach out to Muslim communities with education, employment, skills training and economic development aid
July 09, 2010 -
Fourteen years ago, Congress passed the landmark Clinger-Cohen Act, creating the job of chief information officer in federal agencies. How has the job changed over the years, and what do today\'s CIOs think of their role?
July 01, 2010 -
The awards are designed to encourage Foreign Service officers to speak out.
June 25, 2010