Yearly Archives: 2010

Lawmakers question Census lease tied to mosque

By Carol Morello and Ed O’Keefe Two Republican lawmakers are raising questions about the U.S. Census Bureau’s decision to lease space in an office building owned by a Falls Church mosque. Sen. Susan Collins of Maine and Rep. Darrell Issa of California each sent letters this week to the General Services Administration asking for detailsRead… Read more »

GSA Expo 2010 Pics

Thanks to everyone who visited the Shoplet Booth (#450) at the GSA Expo! Our Sales team had a great time in sunny Orlando, Florida and hopefully you did too. To all those who missed it, we missed seeing you! Come next year okay? See more pictures on our blog!

AFGE CONGRATULATES CHAIRMAN SKELTON AND BIPARTISAN REJECTION OF ANTI-INSOURCING AMENDMENT AT HOUSE MARK UP OF FY11 DEFENSE BILL

(WASHINGTON) – The House Armed Services Committee rejected, 37-23, an amendment to the FY11 National Defense Authorization Act that would have killed the Department of Defense’s (DoD) promising insourcing initiative. The amendment would have prevented any insourcing—even if the functions are inherently governmental and never should have been contracted out in the first place orRead… Read more »

Get Your Head Out of That Gantt Chart and Do Some Thinking Once in a While

This post originally appeared on my external blog, “Social Media Strategery.” I know we’re all busy. We have deadlines to meet, emails to write/respond to, projects to work on, management issues to take care of, errands to run, families to care for, and many many other things that we do on a daily basis. ToRead… Read more »

May 26, 2010: Law.gov Core Specifications Task Force Meeting

The first Law.gov Core Specifications Task Force Meeting will be held 26 May 2010 at the offices of Google in Washington, DC, USA. The co-convenors of the meeting are Vinton G. Cerf of Google and James Stogdill of Accenture. Click here for the conference program. The Twitter hashtag for the workshop is #lawgov. Click hereRead… Read more »

America’s Top Military Officer Uses Business (and interdisciplinary thinking) to Boost National Security

Originally posted to http://www.andrewdwelch.com at http://www.andrewdwelch.com/2010/05/americas-top-military-officer-uses.html. I have grown to appreciate the value of interdisciplinary thinking. Put another way, I have found that my experiences in business, the Coast Guard, education, non-profits, information technology, even retail have together prepared me to better tackle a variety of challenges across industries, organizations, venues. Of course, I doRead… Read more »

Craig (from Craigslist) to Keynote Virtual FOSE

Craig Newmark, the creator and founder of Craigslist.org and recent Federal 100 winner of 2010, will address the Virtual FOSE audience on Wednesday, July 21st at 2:00PM EST. From the convenience of your computer, watch Craig’s LIVE presentation titled “Trust is the New Black Distributed Networks of Trust.” PLUS, get your questions personally answered byRead… Read more »