Welcome to a Special Edition of the DorobekINSIDER. Chris Dorobek is currently in New York City at the Personal Democracy Forum. The two day conference features 135 thought leaders who are at the nexus of technology, politics, government and social advocacy. Now in its ninth year, PDF has grown to become the city’s largest techRead… Read more »
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Multipurpose Biometric Access Cards for the DoJ, Better Weather Forecasting for the Navy, and More
Here is today’s federal cybersecurity and information technology news: The Department of Justice is developing biometric smartcards that will provide access to buildings, cloud databases, and mobile applications without a password. More here. The Office of Naval Research is pursuing several projects to improve weather forecasting through next-generation weather models. More here. LinkedIn is workingRead… Read more »
Discussion of Big Data in the Geospatial Intelligence Domain
The US Geospatial Intelligence Foundation (USGIF) held a Geoint Community Week June 4-8 2012 which included a technology day. The afternoon of 07 June was dedicated to fast-paced “ignite” style presentations from some of the key community thought leaders on geospatial data. At the end of these presentations Bob Gourley was asked to summarize andRead… Read more »
Book Worms Listen Up: We’ve got your summer reading list and your weekend reads
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 »
Weekly Round-up: June 08, 2012
Gadi Ben-Yehuda Social Media: Useless and indispensable? Naomi Simson writes a contrarian post titled “Face it – social media is not the answer to customer engagement” which juxtaposes nicely with “Social Media Customer Service Faces a High Bar,” an article that demonstrates how customers expect a response through social media within 24 hours. How muchRead… Read more »
5 Books for Your Summer Reading List: What Would You Add?
Each week, GovLoop partners with the Washington Post to ask a “Question of the Week.” This week’s question is: What books are on your summer reading list? With Memorial Day behind us, it’s time to focus on your summer reading list. But your beach books don’t have to be trashy romance novels, you can actuallyRead… Read more »
Developing the National Cybersecurity Workforce, The National Level Exercise 2012, and More
Here is today’s federal cybersecurity and information technology news: The Department of Homeland Security has launched a new initiative to develop and recruit the national cybersecurity workforce. More here. A Washington Post poll finds that Americans are divided about what role, if any, the federal government should play in setting and enforcing cybersecurity standards forRead… Read more »
Google Music in your browser and on your computer and Android and iPhone
In the old days (say 5-10 years ago), when you migrated from one technology to the next generation, there were only two-to-three possible platforms you were migrating from, so it was easy for developers to test, and ensure a relatively smooth migration process. Now we have a myriad of mobile platforms (iPhone, Android, Windows, BlackBerry,Read… Read more »
How one feds is making inroads on nuclear proliferation and is big data a fad or something more?
On today’s DorobekINSIDER We often talk about the challenges of government work — and one of the real challenges is measuring results. Today, we’re going to introduce you to somebody who works on one of the most challenging issues — nuclear proliferation. That work has made her a finalist for the Service to America MedalsRead… Read more »
Connery got the job done at the 2010 Nuclear Security Summit
In post 9/11 world, securing nuclear materials and safeguarding them from non-governmental actors is as important as ever. In 2010, President Obama hosted 50 world leaders in Washington, DC at the Nuclear Security Summit. The gathering was the largest of world leaders since the creation of the United Nations in 1945. Joyce Connery, the currentRead… Read more »