The Do’s and Don’ts of Contests, Cloud in Intelligence, Is Acquisition boring for Millennials? by GovLoop Insights On today’s program for April 2, 2012 Apps for the Environment… it is one of the more successful challenges that the government has conducted. What worked… and what didn’t? The EPA has put together their lessons learned —Read… Read more »
There’s a lot of talk about challenges and contests and many government organizations are actually doing them. But what works and what doesn’t? Last year, the Environmental Protection Agency conducted a challenge… Apps for the Environment — the EPA’s developer challenge. The goal was to create environmental applications using EPA data. And the challenge scoredRead… Read more »
Apparently yes! In fact, Bob Gourley, the Chief Technology Officer at Crucial Point, says the Intelligence Community is leading the cloud computing charge. He’s just wrapped up a whitepaper for the Intelligence Community. He told Chris Dorobek on the DorobekINSIDER program why. Bob Gourley talks Cloud Computing with Chris Dorobek by cdorobek The 8 BigRead… Read more »
Millennials — they are often motivated, pushy, impatient and innovative — they want change and they want it now. So it seems like they would be a perfect fit for the acquisition community. But there’s a problem. Not many young people are interested. One of the reason could be it’s lack of “cool” appeal. NoRead… Read more »
Welcome to GovLoop Insights Issue of the Week with Chris Dorobek… where each week, our goal is to find an issue — a person — an idea — then helped define the past 7-days… and we work to find an issue that will also will have an impact on the days, weeks and months ahead.Read… Read more »
We’re thrilled to bring you a special edition of the DorobekINSIDER today. Chris Dorobek is out of the DorobekINSIDER offices hosting the Acquisition Excellence 2012 Conference. The event is being put on the by GSA and ACT-IAC. But we couldn’t leave you hanging. So we’ve put together a highlight reel from our latest Book ClubRead… Read more »
Have you ever been lost in something to the point that you lose track of time? Is there a topic that you find yourself gravitating to in every conversation? If you think about it, there is a core to who you are. The most important thing you can do is embrace it. We welcome FrankRead… Read more »
A new study says people are less likely to lie about big things on resumes they post on the professional network LinkedIn compared with traditional resumes. The study, from researchers at Cornell University, says people are actually more deceptive about their interests and hobbies — things that are more difficult to verify. Jamie Guillory isRead… Read more »
The National Highway Administration is using Virtual World technology to prevent bridges from collapsing. The Virtual Bridge Compter Based Training puts students in a 3-D graphically enriched environment to check a bridge’s conditions. The virtual world simulates real life bridge defects without putting the students in real world danger. Meredith Perkins is a Senior InstructionalRead… Read more »
The Yelp for gov’t healthcare, Ranking state’s transparency and using virtual worlds to save bridges by GovLoop Insights Tuesday March 27, 2012: Happy Tuesday… We have to start out with the historic debate at the U.S. Supreme Court yesterday over the health care bill — the first of three days of talks. The Washington PostRead… Read more »