The March 1st deadline for sequestration is only a week away. And agency managers are grappling with the very real possibility that they will be forced to furlough thousands of workers. The DoD has already announced that if a deal to avert sequestration is not passed, it will be forced to furlough 800,000 civilian workers.Read… Read more »
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Accelerating your Government Career with Social Media
How do you leverage Facebook, GovLoop, LinkedIn, Twitter and Google to advance your government career? In this online training, Andrew Krzmarcizk, GovLoop Community Manager, shares more than 30 ways to do just that. These helpful tips and tricks range from what should be on your Facebook page to connecting with people on LinkedIn. You canRead… Read more »
Apple has been Hacked, Twitter Goes Public Secretly, HTC One vs. HD, and more…
By Marcus Williams Today’s Cyber News We Are Tracking: Apple has become one of the top Fortune 500 companies in the US to be hacked. Twitter is thinking about going public secretly. Smartphone and tablet maker HTC has introduced their newest phone called HTC One. Another Fortune 500 Company has been Hacked Apple has becomeRead… Read more »
Peering into the BYOD Crystal Ball
GovLoop’s Chris Dorobek hosted a special live edition of the DorobekINSIDER. The hot topic of the day was BYOD and we gathered an excellent group of professionals to share their expertise on our panel. (Click here for the full recap.) We were joined by Kimberly Hancher, Chief Information Officer, Office of Information Technology (OIT), EEOC,Read… Read more »
PlugFest at AFCEA West: Terracotta Wins First Place
By Bob Gourley Government technologists have always been under pressure to make engineering choices that are efficient and effective. They must support demanding missions under resource constraints and this is one of the reason government technologists like seeing proof that something works before investing in it. Demonstrations, prototypes and proof of concepts are important inRead… Read more »
Is your program/agency on GAO’s High Risk List
What is the high risk list? Beginning in 1990 the Government Accountability Office started putting together a list of programs that were most vulnerable to waste, fraud, abuse, mis-management and the need for fundamental transformation. The GAO produces the list every two years to help Congress and the Executive Branch set priorities on high riskRead… Read more »
MeriTalk: The Government IT Network
By Bob Gourley In this series of posts we are providing views on three key community-focused, virtuous collaborative venue that help the DC tech community exchange lessons learned and accomplish big goals. With this series we hope to provide insights you can use to make the most out of MeriTalk, GovLoop, and WashingtonExec. We selectedRead… Read more »
INSA Publishes White Paper on Intelligence Community Information Technology Enterprise
By Bob Gourley The Intelligence and National Security Alliance (INSA) has released a white paper documenting the vision and approach for enhancing enterprise information technology in support of intelligence and national security missions. This paper, titled ”Doing in Common What Is Commonly Done” provides insights based on interviews of government leaders including CIOs, CTOs andRead… Read more »
Shared Services: DHS Tests Multi-Band Radio Solution for First Responders
Breakdowns in communications are hurting first responders. And one of the reasons for the communications breakdown is that their radio’s aren’t on the same bandwidth. That means that during an emergency firefighters can’t talk to EMS or law enforcement on their radios. It slows down reaction time and operability. The solution seems simple, give everyoneRead… Read more »
Everything’s Bigger in Texas: State Adopts Office 365 as Part of a State-Wide IT Modernization Strategy for More Than 100k Employees
Michael Donlan (Bellevue, WA) – The Texas Department of Information Resources is adopting Office 365 for more than 100,000 employees in the largest state-wide deployment of email and collaboration services in the U.S. The state will consolidate multiple systems in an effort to streamline and improve the state’s communication and collaboration capabilities across agencies andRead… Read more »