Yearly Archives: 2013

Thirteen Thoughts for 2013

Today marks the end of the first full work week of 2013. Welcome back everybody! The Coalition hopes all had a wonderful Holiday Season. This time of year everybody does lists. This year the Coalition, for the first time, is providing a list that we hope you find interesting and thought provoking. Here are ourRead… Read more »

5 Tips for Managing Millennials

This article was written by Logan Harper, community manager for the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s School of Government’s Masters of Public Administration program – a top online MPA. — Millennials are taking the workforce by storm. Generation Y, or millennials, as they are commonly called, are those born between 1976 and 2001.Read… Read more »

New DoE Energy Center, Flaw found in Cisco IP Phones and more

By RyanKamauff Here are the top cyber news and stories of the day. Four cybersecurity items that need less talk and more action – Jaikumar Vijayan of Computerworld has outlined four cybersecurity items that need less talk and more action in the new year. They are federal cybersecurity legislation, SCADA security, data encryption and strongRead… Read more »

DoD and Non-Lethal to Lethal Scalability: Requirements driving new systems

By ChrisScott Finding and destroying the enemy has always been the main priority of Militaries worldwide. Good intelligence and sophisticated weapons has traditionally been a recipe for success. Today, traditional “Hard Kill” responses are becoming increasingly less desirable and DoD is moving away from “symmetric” responses (you build something big and bad and we buildRead… Read more »

Low Cost FAC-COR Training is available anywhere in the United States and overseas by Distance Learning

COR DISTANCE LEARNING ACCEPTABLE FOR FAITAS You won’t find more cost effective Distance Learning anywhere NEW courses available to take for Level III: COR Level III BASIC Course $895 60 CLP Credits COR Level III Refresher…… $595 40 CLP Credits Sequestration to hit Agencies on March 27 Get your COR Certification Training for Level I,Read… Read more »

Look Good, Play Good

Sometimes all it takes to get in the successful mindset is the right suit I was getting ready to go to the office this morning and was putting a tie on in my bedroom while my oldest daughter watched TV. She looked over at me fussing with my tie and asked a pretty normal question,Read… Read more »

FAC-COR Level I II & III Traininig via online Distance Learning

COR DISTANCE LEARNING: OUR FAC-COR COURSES COR DISTANCE LEARNING CLASSES ARE ACCEPTED BY FAITAS Call: (202) 280-7272 Email: [email protected] ABOUT THE TAI COR DISTANCE LEARNING PROGRAM. Federal employees working in remote areas of our nation require COR training credits, and some employees can’t always find courses easily available to them. Many employees just don’t likeRead… Read more »

Federal IT is poised to take a huge step into the future

A couple of developments in federal IT have me excited. The Federal IT Shared Services Strategy spells out a way that helps federal agencies to innovate without raising cost by adopting a shared approach to IT service delivery. Then came the Digital Government Strategy, which seeks to build a 21st-century digital government, creating an information-drivenRead… Read more »

Transcribe Australia’s archival records – earn points towards publications and posters

Late last year the National Archives of Australia launched a global first for national archives, allowing the public to collaborate in the digital transcription of Australian archival records. The system, at transcribe.naa.gov.au, basically allowed the public to register for an account, pick from hundreds of digitally scanned public records and correct any errors in theRead… Read more »

RFP from the National Institute for Civil Discourse

Here’s an important Request for Proposals from the National Institute for Civil Discourse (an NCDD organizational member, directed by Carolyn Lukensmeyer). The Institute is looking to create a collection of essays that they will make available that decide to convene discussions around gun violence, and we encourage NCDD members to think about what kinds ofRead… Read more »