I had the pleasure of meeting a number of the people CSC has in place supporting NASA Ames. Having visited both the NASA JPL and NASA Ames facilities over the last few months, it is exciting to see the great work being done in both locations. It is great to be where it really DOES [...]
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Earlier today, October 28, I was priviledged to give a talk at the National Defense Industrial Association about Social Network & Cybersecurity. My focus was to review why Social Network has taken off in the last few years and what implications for the future based on those conclusions. I also briefly reviewed Cloud Computing using [...]
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I have always taken pride, deserved or not, about being pretty progressive if that is the right word about gender issues. For example, one of the proud moments in my younger political career happened when I was active in College Republican politics in the state of Maryland. One of the young women active in the [...]
For those who came in late, ACT-IAC, http://www.actgov.org/Pages/default.aspx, one of the larger organizations enabling Government and Industry IT to be able to informally interact and learn from each other, holds an Executive Leadership Conference, ELC, each year. This year ELC is being held October 25-27 in Williamsburg, VA, http://www.actgov.org/events/ExecutiveLeadership/ELC%202009/Pages/default.aspx. On Monday, October 26, most of [...]
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This is a copy of the article that I wrote for the Public Manager, reprinted here with their permission, originally published October, 2008 ; http://thepublicmanager.org/cs/blogs/featured/archive/2008/10/14/government-2-0-fact-or-fiction.aspx. I, and the other authors that contributed similar articles making predictions and/or providing some thoughts about the then upcoming Obama Administration, are in the process of writing brief updates based on [...]
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I was lucky enough to be part of a panel discussing cyber-security at a Fedscoop conference Wednesday, October 14, at the Newseum. The agenda for the conference is here: http://fedscoopevents.com/agenda.php. I thought it might be useful to summarize my general points for those who were not able to attend. The theme of the conference was [...]
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This weekend my wife, Ellen, and I decided to spend the weekend at a B&B in Gettysburg, swinging through Antietam on the way home Sunday. She had never visited and I hadn’t been in a long time. The area is really beautiful this time of year, the B&B is very nice (out of town so [...]
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I recently attended the annual conference of the National Association of Telecommunications Officers and Advisors, http://natoa.org/events/annual-conference/2009/. NATOA is a national trade association representing local governments. It includes both elected and appointed officials and staff who oversee communications and cable television franchising. It was great interacting with the attendees and hearing the kinds of issues that [...]
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