Category: technology
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Why FedRAMP Is Worth Caring About
Reposted from AOL Government, http://gov.aol.com/2011/12/12/why-fedramp-is-worth-caring-about/. If you have been at a recent Washington Capitals hockey game when the opponent scores a goal, you know the crowd routinely shouts out “Who cares!” Last week, Steven VanRoekel, Federal CIO, released the long awaited OMB plan for the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program, or FedRAMP; which reminds me to be…
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Reflections At ELC: Why Klososky’s Keynote Missed The Mark
This last weekend I attended the Executive Leadership Conference (ELC) sponsored by ACT-IAC in Williamsburg. The opening night keynote speaker Scott Klososky, presented some interesting points but I felt left out some key issues; probably a bit of an unfair feeling since he only had an hour to cover a lot of material. I wrote…
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Earthquakes, Emergency Training, and COOP
When I was at the Department of Transportation … It occurs to me that a lot of my writing starts with that phrase. I haven’t yet decided if I use it because I learned a lot there or because I think people will be more likely to listen if I start a discussion with it.…
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How I Survived the Great Washington Quake of 2011
Earlier this afternoon I had a meeting in my office with one of my staff to go over a number of difficult issues. We went back and forth over a number of topics. I, of course was up at my whiteboard drawing things on it and proving key points with insight and wit, or I…
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Dave Wennergren – Solving Problems vs Managing Dualities
I recently had the pleasure of listening to Dave Wennergren, one of the more thoughtful Government IT and Management leaders, discuss the areas he was focuse on in his current job as the Assistant Deputy Chief Management Officer for DoD. There was one particular anecdote that Dave told that I thought was in particular worth…
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My GWU Discussion – Part 2 – What to do About Cybersecurity
Previously, I had written about a class at George Washington University to which the professor, Dr. Robert McCreight, invites me to be a guest lecturer on cyber-security from time to time. I posted a copy of my slides then and do so again here: George Washington University Slides on Cyber-Security I wanted in this entry to…
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My Guest Lecture at George Washington University on Cybersecurity
Every year or so I am lucky to be invited by Dr. Robert McCreight who teaches a graduate class on National Security and Technology to be a guest lecturer on Cybersecurity. Since the classes I teach at the University of Maryland and Syracuse University are on-line distance learning, it is always a treat for me…
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Advice Needed for Federal IT Stories This Week
Francis Rose is a radio host for Federal News Radio, 1500am, http://www.federalnewsradio.com/index.php?nid=16. Francis has a show called In Depth which is broadcast from 1pm – 3pm every day. The focus of the show as the title suggests is to look at topics that have been in the news but taking a deeper examination. On Friday’s…
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Lessons From a Political CIO by Dan Mintz CIO, Department of Transportation
This morning in the Washington Post there was a column discussing the regular transition of political appointees, http://views.washingtonpost.com/leadership/fedcoach/2011/02/political-appointee-merry-go-round.html?hpid=smartliving. For those of you are are thinking of becoming a political appointee or wonder about the process, it is worth reading. In December, 2008, I wrote a column about what I learned from personally being a political…
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Signature Lines on Email
Apropos of nothing in particular and to take a brief break from grading research papers from my University of Maryland class I teach, I was again reminded of one of the problems I have with signature lines from emails (have I mentioned this before?). Many people have a permanent signature that has some generic sign-off…