Miscellaneous

How Can The Nation Better Prepare for Biological Attack?

There is no single federal department, agency or position that has ultimate responsibility for securing America against a biological attack—it’s a task that is spread widely across our civil service and military. This network of emergency managers, medical personnel, logisticians and policy makers is critical, yet loosely coordinated. To help establish a unified vision, BioDefenseRead… Read more »

Washington DC is opening up its budgets, will you?

Sonny Hashmi, Deputy Chief Information Officer, OCFO at DC Government, sent me a note highlighting the new CFOInfo DC Dashboard, which is in Beta. This dashboard is exposing details of the District of Columbia’s budget to a degree I have never seen before, and making it easy for your average user to dig in andRead… Read more »

12 Critical Questions on Risk Management

Risk Management AssessmentAre You Gambling With Your Contingency Plan? Answer these questions to find out! Comment and share your answers below. 1) Is your company delaying important continuity plan updates due to scarce resources? 2) Are you spending too much time and energy assessing risks and aren’t sure how to distill the data into aRead… Read more »

Commentary from the Wiki Phase of the BetterBuyProject (Chris Hamm)

Originally published by Chris Hamm on the BetterBuyProject Blog. GSA FEDSIM has two BetterBuy pilots underway: Data.gov and ClearPath. The experience so far has been interesting. On my end, there was a tremendous amount of uncertainty leading up to the launch. Will the wiki work? Will people know how to use it? Can the serverRead… Read more »

IRMCO analysis and report

My name is Tom Suder and I am with a company called Concert Technologies that does business in the Federal and Commercial market place. I am semi-notorious for being an insatiable networker. I attend many events and conferences in the general Fed IT space including those put on by AFCEA, AFFIRM, ACT/IAC, Fedscoop, DISA, ExecutiveRead… Read more »

Leadership: Are You Really Committed?

This article was originally posted on the Tri Tuns, LLC blog at https://trituns.wordpress.com/ Please check out this blog or the Tri Tuns website for more articles and other great resources. OBSERVATION “We judge others by their actions, but we judge ourselves by our intentions.” We all know that leadership commitment to a new project, ITRead… Read more »

TSP Talk – 11,000 & 115

Weekly TSP Wrap-up from TSP Talk Stocks continued their bullish ways as many of the major indexes made new 52-week during the week. The U.S. market seem to be watching the employment numbers and the ongoing debt saga in Greece closely, and so far nothing overly negative has developed. It was another good week forRead… Read more »