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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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I Once Was Young And Now …
On weekends I generally try and get things done that I do not get to during the week, both at work and in my on-line classes I teach. However, almost always I am able to avoid accomplishing too much by wandering over to youtube and getting side-tracked in watching video’s. While I am wasting time…
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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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Moving Into the Cloud – Practical Experience
For all those who are near the Washington Convention Center today and tomorrow there is an interesting conference on Cloud Computing and Virtualization, http://govcloudconference.com/Events/2011/Home.aspx, Best of all, they reached back into ancient history, and asked me to moderate a panel Friday, September 9th, from 10:15 – 11:15, entitled Moving Into the Cloud – Practical Experience. We…
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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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Bloody Crimes, A Book About Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson Davis at the end of the Civil War
Finished Bloody Crimes, http://www.amazon.com/Bloody-Crimes-Jefferson-Pageant-Lincolns/dp/0061233781/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1310434681&sr=8-1, by James Swanson, who has written a number of books related to Lincoln’s assassination. This book tells parallel stories about what happened to Lincoln’s body after his assassination as it was taken on a train ride back to Springfield Illinois and what happened to Jefferson Davis during his escape from Richmond to…
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July 4th & American Exceptionalism, Reposted
In December 2009, I was asked by the Inter-American Development Bank to participate in a project to look at eGovernment for the Brazilian Government. During the time I worked on that effort, I got to know a number of the IADB staff. One of them who was born in Spain, married an American wife, and…
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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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