During the recent GEOINT conference I spoke with SGI and Cloudera about the meaning of their recent announcement. They just announced a strategic agreement where SGI will ship Cloudera’s Distribution Including Apache Hadoop (CDH) and Cloudera Enterprise Management Suite factory installed on SGI Hadoop Clusters. Although this is good news for both companies there isRead… Read more »
Gadi Ben-Yehuda It’s not real until it’s on YouTube. Writing in Huffington Post and Aol.Gov, respectively, Alex Howard and Deanna Glick cover Steven VanRoekel’s inaugural appearance on YouTube as the US CIO, filmed in California. Perhaps unsprising, given the speaker and the audience, VanRoekel said “America’s future now depends on our capacity to innovate, andRead… Read more »
Just back from our biggest ever users’ conference and the question on many government end users’ minds is “What next?” Not surprising in the current “New Normal” climate of risk reduction, cost-cutting and staff squeezes. Also, not surprising that when you invest in an enterprise technology, you continue to assess where and how to deployRead… Read more »
BUNDLERS AND OBAMA. The Times. “Despite a pledge not to take money from lobbyists, President Obama has relied on prominent supporters who are active in the lobbying industry to raise millions of dollars for his re-election bid.” 2012 LOBBYIST GIVING. The Post. “K Street is playing an increasingly central role in the 2012 presidential race,Read… Read more »
Day 61 Balancing Budget Line Items I finally completed the analysis of my budget and identified two line items that needed to have funds amended to agree with the actual expenditures. Fortunately there were amounts in related funds that I could amend to a lower amount so the overall change to my division’s budget isRead… Read more »
Deltek Principal Analyst Jason Sajko reports. Yesterday, the National Association of State Chief Information Officers (NASCIO) published its state CIO priorities and priority technologies for 2012 report based on its annual state CIO survey. The survey is a valued peek into the minds and wish lists of state IT executives; and when compared against pastRead… Read more »
Read what Code for America Fellow Matt Lewis had to say about technology, government, and a better America — in Arc News: It’s no surprise that the last few years have been particularly hard on governments across the country. While there’s been a lot of attention focused on how the federal government will meet itsRead… Read more »
President Obama put Vice President Biden in charge of the implementation of the $787 billion Recovery Act. Ed DeSeve had an eagle eye’s view of the interaction between agencies, states, localities, and non-profits. He shares his lessons learned from Recovery Act implementation, as well as advice for “the next big implementation challenge,” whatever that mightRead… Read more »
Dr. Kathryn Newcomer is the current Director of the Trachtenberg School of Public Policy and Public Administration at the George Washington University and a foremost authority on program evaluation (see full bio below). Why is the knowledge of program evaluation so important to a government employee? Program evaluation entails the application of social science analyticalRead… Read more »
A friend who is a former Representative and a respected advisor of many senior politicians recently asked me for some thoughts on cyber legislation. In general, people ask my thoughts because of time I’ve spent working strategic cyber issues in the Cyber Conflict Studies Association (CCSA) or because of my history at DoD’s Joint TaskRead… Read more »