Technology holds massive cost-saving potential, but the bleak budget outlook means engaging stakeholders and building solid relationships along with high-level leadership will be the most important factors in achieving innovation in government.
Technology innovation discussions at this week’s Executive Leadership Conference touched on the usual suspects — data center consolidation and the cloud – and the anticipated cost savings. Keep reading →
Whether it’s building a workforce, expanding health IT or integrating ideas to achieve common goals across defense agencies, the need for results-oriented programs on rapid timelines will drive innovation despite dwindling finances.
To do so, however, may mean thinking far beyond the best practices government typically lives by. Keep reading →
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American astronauts are deep in training for future missions, but with the space shuttles retired, they’re currently relying on Russia for transportation.
That’s about to change. Keep reading →
Perhaps the next most famous geek behind his hero, Bill Gates, had a room full of feds chuckling today as he passed along his ideas for how to improve government through technology.
Geek Squad Founder Robert Stephens began his business with a bicycle and cell phone and was uber-inspired when “a geek became the world’s richest person.” Keep reading →
The chief technology officer for HHS said efforts to liberate health records and data within the federal space will spur innovation in the public and private sectors that improves Americans’ health and health care.
“We’ll save the world with health data and create jobs.” – Todd Park Keep reading →
The government has already tapped hidden pockets of innovation throughout the country to solve its greatest problems and can continue to do so through the open government movement, Aneesh Chopra said today at a conference on federal technology and innovation.
“This is an exciting time to be an innovator in America,” the U.S. Chief Technology Officer said during his presentation at Warner Theater in Washington, D.C. “There is now a global movement afoot. It’s about tapping into the entrepreneurial spirit of our people to solve the challenges of our day.” Keep reading →
As the U.S. faces an increasingly competitive global marketplace, leaders within the greater metropolitan Washington, D.C. area must also work to advocate for improving education, infrastructure and low-cost energy if the region’s technology business is to continue moving forward, a group of industry executives said today.
Regional leaders must also do more to ensure an adequate technology workforce continues to flow into the regional economy, and its broad base of technology, communications and other technical services businesses. Keep reading →
A survey report released today of the CIOs of 48 states, the District of Columbia and two territories shows this to be a year of evolving roles, changing capabilities and trying workloads for IT executives. The result: a new, dynamic environment for CIOs consisting of four Cs – clout, change, collaboration and consolidation. Keep reading →
After a day-long FDA hearing last week and a published report from NPR this morning, prescription drug shortages have become the latest public health issue with dire consequences.
According to the Food and Drug Administration, federal regulators are asking U.S. drug makers for advance warning of production shortages, saying medicine scarcities are continuing to increase at a rapid pace after reaching a record high in 2010. Keep reading →