Nearly 700 are expected to attend the DoD Enterprise Architecture Conference Apr 30 – May 3 in Miami! will you be one of them? To learn more about the conference, visit the website at: http://www.dodenterprisearchitecture.org
The DC Chapter of the Labor and Employment Association will hold its monthly luncheon on Wednesday Feb 29, 12 pm-1:30 pm, at the historic Woman’s National Democratic Club, 1526 New Hampshire Ave NW, Washington DC. Eileen Hoffman, FMCS mediator, will look at the changes in today’s workplace — especially the presence of at least fourRead… Read more »
The four games on the ColecoVision kiosk Installation is underway for The Art of Video Games exhibition, which opens in less than a month on March 16. Here you can see the back-lit screen captures from the games on the ColecoVision kiosk, which was the first one to be set up and switched on. ToRead… Read more »
Deltek Analyst Amanda White reports. Today, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) awarded 10 additional states funding under the Level One and Two establishment grants. Grant awards amount to approximately $230 million. Interestingly enough, Arkansas, which has opted for the federal exchange, is among the awardees. Legislation to establish an insurance exchange failedRead… Read more »
Stan Wier is a talented high school basketball player who is driven to challenge himself and improve his skills. As explained in a Buffalo News article, Stan has purposely played for three different high school teams, one of which was out of state in an effort to challenge himself and become better as a player.Read… Read more »
At a couple weeks into February we’re sprinting toward our “alpha cities” events that will occur during the week of February 24 to March 4, as part of the broader Code Across America events. Together with events hosted by our fellows, we’ll Code Across America. As of this writing there will be activities in 15Read… Read more »
In a recent GovernmentExecutive – Management Matters article, Jeffrey Neal makes a simple (in theory) yet revolutionary (in practice) argument: in this time budget restrictions and making more happen with less resources, leaders are in a perfect position to create innovation in their agencies. On all levels, innovative thinking can create major cost savings: fromRead… Read more »
Do you want all your (social) eggs in one basket? Google and Facebook want you to, and they want it to be their basket As I write, Facebook is in the process of executing the biggest IPO in US corporate history. Yet, its security model is so involved, and changes so frequently, that not onlyRead… Read more »
Thousands of angry protesters gathered outside Afghanistan’s Bagram Airfield recently, chanting “Death to America,” firing slingshots, and hurling firebombs at the NATO base in the wake of reports that soldiers had burned a copy of the Koran. The commander of the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) acknowledged that personnel at the base had “improperly disposedRead… Read more »
John Scott’s Thornbush Blues Totem Thornbush Blues Totem by John Scott will be featured in our upcoming exhibition, African American Art: Harlem Renaissance, Civil Rights Era, and Beyond. In preparation, museum conservators and art handlers moved the eight-foot tall sculpture up to the conservation labs for examination and treatment. Staffer Mary Tait described the experience:Read… Read more »