With bin Laden now out of the picture one might think it’s high time to pull out of Afghanistan. However, it’s definitely not as easy as it might sound to some, and the situation is always more complex than what we are able to observe stateside. Whatever the case may be, it would appear theRead… Read more »
Poof! It’s your lucky day you just rubbed some random object in your office and out popped a genie that will grant you one wish for Open Government. What are you wishing for? – An awesome data site? – A world class developer? – An agency that really gets the Open Gov concept? You canRead… Read more »
Here is another post from Accessibility Forum 2.0 blog by Terry Weaver. The biggest problem with buying accessible electronic and information technology in the Federal government isn’t bad VPATs (or other 508 conformance documentation); it is the fact that we don’t even ask most of the time! As part of GSA’s sampling of Fed BizRead… Read more »
Today (Thursday) is Cinco de Mayo, which “celebrates the legendary Battle of Puebla on May 5, 1862, in which a Mexican force of 4,500 men faced 6,000 well-trained French soldiers. The battle lasted four hours and ended in a victory for the Mexican army under Gen. Ignacio Zaragoza. Along with Mexican Independence Day on Sept.Read… Read more »
Let’s face it. You’re well aware of Twitter. Your favorite yogurt is tweeting, your dry cleaner, your sister, and local government. But once you actually manage to pick a twitter handle name, sign up, and follow your first 100 people, you seem to enter upon a room where people are chatting non-stop, and seemingly, toRead… Read more »
Does anyone else find it interesting that the day bin Laden was taken down marked the beginning of Public Service Recognition Week? Recently came across this great post from Federal Computer Week blogger Steve Kelman. Steve talks about how many fail to realize that it was indeed govies who took out the high-profile terrorist. Yes,Read… Read more »
Several of the CTOvision.com/ Crucial Point team, including RyanKamauff, BobGourley, AlexOlesker, have been at the DoDIIS Worldwide Conference, immersing ourselves in presentations, attending demos, visiting technology providers and integrators on the expo floor, and networking with people we admire and respect. While here we have also been collecting video and photos of several key technologies.Read… Read more »
Jeremy Grant, senior executive advisor for ID management to the Information Technology Laboratory at the National Institute of Standards and Technology, has a very large task. He is responsible for establishing a program office for the National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace, or NSTIC. Find out more about how Grant is working to keepRead… Read more »
Customer service is about to become an annual performance goal for each federal department. First, there was last week’s presidential order on customer service. Then the Office of Management and Budget began pushing along compliance with the Government Performance and Results Act (GPRA) Modernization Act of 2010, which calls for agencies to measure customer service.Read… Read more »
The recent Amazon cloud crash raised the question of whether cloud is doomed for the federal government. It’s a familiar phenomenon and an unfortunate one, the projection of a single incident to impugn an entire industry. Was this incident serious enough to ruin the future of cloud computing in the federal government? FedInsider takes aRead… Read more »