On today’s program for Monday May 14th, 2012: Follow the money — federal government style. We’ll take a look at the new Digital Accountability and Transparency Act. We’ll talk to the executive director of the Recovery, Accountability and Transparency Board, Michael Wood, about how you bring lessons learned from Recovery.gov to federal spending. Salary,Read… Read more »
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TwitPolls: Some Relevance for Enterprise Technologists
Early adopters have been evaluating TwitPolls for the last several weeks. I’ve tested it out with our @CTOvision account and see great promise for this easy to use engagement tool. Here is a bit more on TwitPolls and some of its relevance for enterprise technologists: TwitPolls is powered by the technologies and leadership team ofRead… Read more »
Follow the money — federal government style. An inside look at the Digital Accountability and Transparency Act
Do more with less — but how do you get there if you don’t know what you’re spending in the first place. That is one of the big challenges facing federal agencies. In fact, they’ve been facing that challenge for some time. The House of Representatives has approved a bill requiring the government to clearly showRead… Read more »
Why company culture matters in 3 easy steps
When it comes to picking your next job — don’t just factor in pay, benefits and job title. Company culture also makes a big difference. Bill Barnett says, “that’s one element that often gets overlooked in the job hunting process.” Mr. Barnett led the Strategy Practice at McKinsey & Company and has taught career strategyRead… Read more »
Cyber Physical Systems Virtual Organization Holds National Symposium on Moving Target Research 11 June 2012
On 11 June 2012 the Cyber Physical Systems Virtual Organization will be holding a symposium on Moving Target Research. In this context, think of Moving Target as meaning the creation of a dynamic attack surface to adversaries done in a way that dramatically increases the work factor required to successfully attack a system. This cybersecurityRead… Read more »
Update on Splunk Live DC: 15 May 2012
Splunk Live DC will be held Tuesday 15 May 2012 at the Ronald Reagan center in downtown DC. This will be a great event to exchange lessons learned on the use of Splunk capabilities for Big Data analysis. Lessons learned and use cases on government related topics will be a key feature. The agenda includesRead… Read more »
Possible China Connection in Cyber Attacks on Pipelines, Defense Industrial Base Pilot Made Permanent, and More
Here is today’s federal cybersecurity and information technology news: Current attacks against the networks controlling US natural gas pipelines are similar to earlier attacks believed to be by China. More here. The Department of Defense is making its trial program to work with Internet service providers to protect defense firms against foreign data theft permanent,Read… Read more »
Public Service Recognition Week: A look back at the highs and lows of the Secret Service
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 monthsRead… Read more »
Big Data: Are You Ready?
We love buzz words in government. Cloud, SOA, and now Big Data. There is certainly a lot of hype around the buzz. “Keeping Afloat in a Sea of ‘Big Data”, ITBusinessEdge, “The promise of Big Data” Intelligent Utility, and “The challenge-and opportunity-of big data” are just a few of the headlines contributing to the bigRead… Read more »
A Million Monkeys Demonstrate the Power of Hadoop
There are many great use cases for Apache Hadoop, the open source framework for scalable, reliable, and distributed computing on commodity hardware built around Hadoop Distributed File System and MapReduce, such as delivering search engine results, sequencing genomes, and indexing entire libraries of text, but the Million Monkeys Project by Jesse Anderson may be theRead… Read more »