What do the Green Bay Packers and the Army Installation Management Command have in common? They both use the same computer software to make critical decisions.
The Packers use decision-making software from Decision Lens Inc. to more systematically weigh a variety of criteria in evaluating potential draft picks. Depending on priorities, those decisions can often be too close to call. Keep reading →
Dozens of online federal auctions have come under scrutiny after President Obama’s executive order calling for web site consolidations and cuts in a massive online system that now results in confusion and massive duplication.
The auctions, designed to offload excess government property, currently offer no easy way for consumers and businesses to find the best deal. You can find similar wares on many different government websites, and there’s no roadmap to help the public find their way. Keep reading →
Otavio Good, leader of the San Francisco-based team that won the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s Shredder Challenge earlier this month, doesn’t just do computer programming.
“I live it,” he told AOL Government in a telephone interview. Keep reading →
What you don’t know about your mobile technology can harm you–and your organization–warned a long-time federal intelligence executive now helping the U.S. Army’s leading logistics provider.
That was the impetus behind a new seven minute video developed for the 70,000 employees of the Army Materiel Command, but which offers a primer for virtually anyone using a mobile smart phone or laptop for work. Keep reading →
Federal CIO Steve VanRoekel, speaking publicly for the first time to the government IT community since being appointed last August, laid out a redirected vision for how the federal government needs to move forward using information technology, and highlighted his primary imperatives heading into 2012 that call for making “little things big and big things little.”
VanRoekel outlined several imperatives Friday for his office in the coming year that build on, and to some extent, recasts the policies of his predecessor, Vivek Kundra. Specifically, he stressed his desire to: Keep reading →
A new online service has put a spotlight on the 1000 most highly paid federal civil servants, renewing the debate on whether government employees are overcompensated.
The list of highest paid civil servants, issued by an Internet start-up firm, WikiOrgCharts, provides a new perspective on the extent to which doctors, lawyers and banking professionals hold top paying government jobs and the sizable incomes that the federal government pays to attract senior management talent. Keep reading →
NASA’s deputy CIO Deborah Diaz doesn’t just talk about data center consolidation. She’s rolling up her sleeves and making it happen at the space agency.
Since Diaz joined NASA in 2009, she’s been responsible for shrinking the number of data centers from 79 to 54 and eventually to 22, driven by the Obama administration’s effort to eliminate excessive and duplicative services. Keep reading →
UPDATED Dec. 13 with video synopsis. Despite the looming threat of significant, across the board budget cuts for federal agencies, there are still major government contracting opportunities that will remain vibrant into the near future. And regardless if you’re a large government contractor, small business or agency program manager, you need to know where to look before you can take advantage of these opportunities.
That was the underlying message at a monthly luncheon forum on Government Acquisition Trends and Techniques Dec. 8, hosted by the Association For Federal Information Resources Management (AFFIRM). Keep reading →
The Telework Enhancement Act of 2010, signed into law a year ago this month by President Obama, created a lot of buzz around the word ‘telework.’
According to the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) memorandum, the Act provides a framework for agencies to better leverage technology and to maximize the use of flexible work arrangements, which will aid in recruiting new federal workers, retain valuable talent and allow the government to maintain productivity in various situations. Keep reading →
Calling it a “monumental first step in addressing security in cloud computing,” Federal CIO Steven VanRoekel announced the official launch of the long-awaited Federal Risk Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) today.
FedRAMP provides a standardized “do once, use often approach” framework for cloud security; one VanRoekel said will save money and reduce staff time needed to conduct security assessments, thus allowing the government to better purchase and leverage cloud technologies. Keep reading →