Code for America fellows work on a wide variety of projects with their city partners, other organizations, community members, and interested civic hackers. The applications that fellows create range from whimsical to serious, and from simply making a point to potentially making a profit. However, in the nascent arena that combines open and transparent data,Read… Read more »
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SAMMIES Finalist Explains Scientists’ Role In Protecting America
In the wake Septempber 11th, letters containing anthrax spores were mailed to offices across Washington, including several Senate offices, killing five people, sickening others, and creating an atmosphere of fear and unease across the country every time someone opened a letter. Arthur Friedlander, now Senior scientist at the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of InfectiousRead… Read more »
Getting People In Your Corner, It’s All About Crafting Your Story
Influencing people is tough. Influencing them to a point of action is even harder but often times that’s what people in government are trying to do. A large part of government is citizen engagement and getting people to take action and support an idea or project. We sat down and chatted with Sandford Borins aRead… Read more »
GovLoop Guide to Workforce Planning: Being Prepared for Changes to the Workforce
This is the third post in a series of blog posts and podcasts talking through the recent GovLoop Guide to Workforce Planning. Be sure to take a listen to the podcast below and view the guide. You can find more HR resources by visiting the GovLoop Guide to Workforce Planning Homepage. To craft a well-definedRead… Read more »
General Alexander’s Vision, the New DARPA Director, and More
Here is today’s federal cybersecurity and information technology news: Kim Dotcom and his Megaupload associates offered the Federal Bureau of Investigation to fly to the United States without an extradition hearing in New Zealand in return for a fair trial garuntee and funds for lawyers and living expenses unfrozen. More here. The Government Accountability OfficeRead… Read more »
2 Big Questions: What’s the future of the desktop and can Superheros teach you about leadership?
On Today’s Edition of the DorobekINSIDER The future of the desktop: what the changes will mean for how you work. Insights from Cisco, Citrix and NetApp. Click here for the full story. Feds go to the movies — how you can learn leadership techniques from the summer blockbusters with Tom Fox from the Partnership forRead… Read more »
Hunger Games, Spiderman and Brave — Leadership Lessons from the Movies
With summer in full swing it’s time for the annual summer blockbusters to start rolling out of Hollywood. Movies like the Avengers, Spiderman and the Hunger Games. You might be thinking, ok those are great movies but what do they really have to do with the federal government? More than you think. Tom Fox isRead… Read more »
Cleversafe Engineers a New Dispersed Compute Storage Solution with Hadoop
Cleversafe provides dispersed storage solutions that give infinite scale and cost-effective data storage/protection/access. Apache Hadoop and the CDH4 distribution provides all the required software for implementing MapReduce and the other chores associated with analysis over massive quantities of data. What if these two capabilities could be combined in a smart, well engineered way? The potentialRead… Read more »
The rise of the Chief Innovation Officer and the grim outlook for federal contractors
On today’s edition of the DorobekINSIDER We have CIOs, CFOs — does there need to be a chief innovation officer? We’ll talk about what the position is and how it might work. Click here for the full story. The outlook for government contractors might be grim, but there are some areas of growth. We’ll takeRead… Read more »
Contracting Outlook — Is it the Worst of Times?
Budget cuts, steep competition and the economic downturn are hitting contractors hard. That means that the window of opportunity is getting harder smaller. So what is the outlook for government contracting? Lisa Dezzutti is the President and CEO of Market Connections. Market Connections conducted a national online survey of 272 federal government contractor business developmentRead… Read more »