At 3:44 a.m E.T. this morning, May 22 2012, SpaceX launched its unmanned cargo capsule, the Dragon C2, carried by their rocket, the Falcon 9, from Cape Canaveral, Florida. This remarkable event will forever be marked as the first time a private company had sent a spacecraft into space. It is expected that it shouldRead… Read more »
More thank likely you have been studying Big Data. I wonder what you mean when you use the term? I believe many of us are using that term in similar ways now. I just updated the Wikipedia entry on Big Data to capture an increasingly common use of the term: ”For the enterprise CTO, BigRead… Read more »
Here is today’s federal cybersecurity and information technology news: Hackers from Anonymous have gained access to a Bureau of Justice Statistics server at the Department of Justice. More here. The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services’ Transformation initiative to digitize immigration paperwork has resulted in its first online immigration form. More here. The U.S. Federal TradeRead… Read more »
On the program today for Tuesday May 22, 2012 Karen Evans, the OMB administrator for e-government and IT, talks about the departure of Howard Schmidt as the first White House cyber-security coordinator and we’ll talk about his replacement. We’re also going to start our series looking at groups that are helping Veterans — theRead… Read more »
This week on the DorobekINSIDER, Chris spoke with Karen Evans, the national director of the US Cyber Challenge. Evans discussed her organization and its mission and unique approach to improving U.S. cybersecurity efforts. The US Cyber Challenge is an online talent competition, developed to help move 10,000 people into the cybersecurity profession. In short:Read… Read more »
A business owner has two options when engaging consultants: they can either outsource the proposal work entirely, or have consultants augment your business development team. Typically, there are severaltypes of situations when you should hire proposal consultants: You are new to priming competitive government proposals or really large and complex quasigovernment commercial proposals, and youRead… Read more »
The Rutherford County Government in Tennessee has a Technical Support Manager position open with the Rutherford Office of Information Technology in Murfreesboro, TN. Starting salary $61,450 to $66,000 annually, commensurate with experience. June 1 at 12 noon posting deadline. Job description and application instructions: http://www.rutherfordcountytn.gov/hr/jobs.htm
Let me start by saying, I really like SurveyMonkey. By this I mean, I like SurveyMonkey specifically, but I also like online survey’s in general. They are easy to ignore if I’m uninterested in the topic but – when the topic is relevant – it is a great, simple service that allows me to shareRead… Read more »
Does your government agency monitor the social media for information relevant to your mission? Should it? IBM’s Analytics Solution Center recently held a seminar to explore how agencies and companies can obtain value and insight using social media analysis. Pat Fiorenza discussed how agencies can develop an ROI Model – Return on Influence Model –Read… Read more »
Everyday there seems to be a new technology and new service that is being tested out. Many times, they involve geo-locational services as well, and running behind the scenes and helping to power the technology is Geographic Information Systems (GIS). GIS is not just for programmers or coders, there are dozens of applications of GISRead… Read more »