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Federal News Countdown Stories – Mobile Apps, Continuous Monitoring, Confusion Around Intell Review Leadership

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Last Friday, I was on the Federal News Countdown on WFED, hosted by Francis Rose, along with Steven Bucci, Director of the Douglas & Sarah Allison Center and Senior Fellow for Defense & Homeland Security at The Heritage Foundation.

Here is the link to the broadcast: http://www.federalnewsradio.com/156/3425850/Federal-News-Countdown-New-DHS-contract-standardizes-cyber-protections-DoD-cuts-force-lower-sights-on-drones.

The way the News Countdown works is that each of the guests talks about their third most important story of that week relating to the Federal Government, then the second and finally the most important.

The following are the three articles I selected plus some additional comments.

Federal News Countdown Stories – Mobile Apps, Continuous Monitoring, Confusion Around Intell Review Leadership

AMARC Update

As some of you know, Tom Suder and I have setup a non-profit called the Advanced Mobility Academic Research Center or AMARC, www.amarcedu.org.

AMARC’s three broad goals are to:

  • Increase the efficiency and optimize the delivery of government services in the US at all levels through the utilization of mobile communications technology
  • Implement such efficiency and optimization through the greater integration of academic research capabilities with government organizations and their corporate partners
  • Emphasize STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) investments, training at academic institutions and the exposure of students interested in STEM to government and academic careers

Over the last few months, we have been reaching out to thought leaders in our three constituent communities: academic, government and corporate, to get advice on where we should focus and to identify individuals who might want to get involved more actively to help us out.

Our initial activities have been to host a series of Government summits, working with MobileGov, www.mobilegovt.com; one on cloud, one on networks and July 9, one on mobile technology. I’ll do a write-up on the July 9th summit next week.

AMARC Update

My Appearance on the Federal Countdown, April 26

This last Friday I participated in the Federal News Countdown with Ron Sanders, Booz Allen Hamilton, hosted by Francis Rose, WFED. The transcript and audio can be accessed here, http://www.federalnewsradio.com/86/3301646/Federal-News-Countdown-Furloughs-fizzle-spectrum-search-GS-update.

The way the show works is that each guest brings three articles from their least important, number 3-3-3-3; to their most important, number well you get the idea.My Appearance on the Federal Countdown, April 26

Everything Without Wires

One of the great things about teaching classes is how much one learns from the students.

I have been teaching a capstone graduate class at the University of Maryland University College, UMUC, http://www.umuc.edu/, about the Management of Technology and Innovation for a number of years. One of the running threads culminating in a discussion in the last session (which ended yesterday) relates to future technologies.

One of the threads this year focused on wireless technologies. One of the students linked to a product called Twine from a company called Supermechanical, http://supermechanical.com/. Twine is basically a sensor box, with some coming standard built-in and some requiring additional purchase and snap-on.Everything Without Wires