What I Learned at NASA Ames
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… What I Learned at NASA Ames
Social Networking & Cybersecurity
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 some of Peter Mell’s slides from his presentation at the same conference on Monday, with his permission of course.
I had three major points.
ELC Infrastructure and Cloud Computing Track
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 the day is taken up by panels organized into four tracks. I had the privilege to chair along with Eric Won of GSA, one of the tracks focused on Infrastructure and Cloud Computing.
This post will provide an overview of what we intended to accomplish during the course of the track and thus why we made the decisions we made in creating the panels. My discussion at the beginning of the track will in large part echo what I write here, subject to any suggestions made by my vast reading audience.
Cyber-Security Discussion at the Fedscoop Conference
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 Lowering the Cost of Government with Technology though the panel’s comments ranged from cost issues to government 2.0 and social networking to cyber-security in general.
The panel was moderated by Chris Dorobek, the afternoon co-anchor for WFED. The other panelists included Vance Hitch, the Department of Justice CIO, Pat Howard, the Chief Information Security Officer, CISO, for the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Dr. Ron Ross, a key figure in defining security requirements and policy at the National Institute of Standards and Technology, NIST, Gary Galloway, the Deputy Director for Information Assurance at the Department of State, and Rue Moody, the Director of Strategic Technology at Citrix.
So How Do You Start The Darn Thing
After staying in a hotel in Sacramento where the air conditioning broke and where there were no other rooms free, I flew down to Los Angeles this morning for the second of my two stops in California.
The plane flight was uneventful, I was able to get tomorrow’s boarding pass before leaving the airport, and then went outside to catch the rental car shuttle.
After waiting for what seemed a VERY long time for the shuttle for my unnamed rental car company to come, whose name rhymed with Mudget, I arrived to get my rental car. The guy at the counter told me it was in C-8 around the building to the back, the list location near the road.So How Do You Start The Darn Thing
Evidently Someone Finds Me Fascinating
In the July 28th edition of govfresh, Goldy Kamali wrote a column entitled the Top 25 Most Fascinating Communicators in Government IT. Goldy evidently needs to get out more since she was kind enough… Evidently Someone Finds Me Fascinating
First Blog Entry – Responding to Government RFP's
During the three years I was the CIO at the US Department of Transportation, I found ready mechanisms to articulate my opinions about government management, the challenges of being a CIO, the impact of social networking and the internet, and how to deal with technology decisions.
As a Departmental CIO, I was invited to far more events and meetings than I had the time or inclination to speak to. There were frequent requests for interviews and when I wrote a column it was eagerly accepted for publication. Whether the reasons for this happening were the title of the provider or the value of the contents I will leave to those who listened or read.
Over time I became active on Facebook and Linked In, and over the last six months in the Government experimented with the challenge of saying something that at least potentially would be of interest 140 characters at a time on Twitter.First Blog Entry – Responding to Government RFP's
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