Wyatt Kash

 

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Agencies Looking Beyond Device Management In Mobile Strategies

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When Roger Baker, the chief information officer at the Department of Veterans Affairs, looks at the challenge of managing mobile technology, he sees more than the task of moving data securely to the tablets and smartphones used by the department’s nearly 280,000 doctors and employees.

Sounding more like a brand manager than a CIO, Baker said that the bigger challenge is managing the department’s mobile applications – and more specifically, the experience veterans and employees encounter when they use them. Keep reading →

 /  Published June 5, 2012 at 10:45 AM

Wireless Industry Propelling U.S. Economy, But Will Capacity Keep Up?

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Mobile technology is not only impacting how people and organizations work, it’s also beginning to impact the U.S. economy in new and not-altogether-surprising ways.

A new report from Recon Analytics, presented by Roger Entner at an event last month hosted by the Progressive Policy Institute, highlighted some of the significant ways the U.S. wireless industry is changing the nation’s economic landscape, and in turn, is adding momentum to adoption of mobile technology in the workplace. Keep reading →

 /  Published June 1, 2012 at 3:50 PM

Microsoft Debuts Dedicated Cloud Service For Government

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Microsoft officials announced the official debut Wednesday of a new dedicated cloud computing service for government customers in the United States, called Office 365 for Government.

Office 365 for Government is a multi-tenant service that stores US government data in a segregated community cloud. Keep reading →

 /  Published May 31, 2012 at 7:51 AM

White House Expands Public-Private Efforts to Combat Botnets

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The Obama Administration today announced a new set of public-private partnership initiatives aimed at combating the rising use of botnets.

Industry estimates suggest that one in 10 computers in the U.S. is currently infected by a botnet – software used by hackers to seize control of vast numbers of personal computers for malicious or illegal intent. Keep reading →

 /  Published May 30, 2012 at 4:57 PM

General Dynamics And Samsung To Market Secure Government Smartphones

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General Dynamics is hardly a name that comes to mind in today’s fast moving smartphone market. Inside National Security Agency circles, however, General Dynamic’s Sectera Edge smartphone — for awhile at least — had gained a reputation for its ability to make secure phone calls and access email and data on classified networks via cellular networks and Wi-Fi access points anywhere in the world.

But priced at more than $3,100 per phone, and weighing 12 ounces, and about as user friendly as its generic government name, the Secure Mobile Environment Portable Electronic Device (SME PED) was all but destined to lose its appeal as smartphone makers and application developers continued to revolutionize what smartphones could do. (Even President Obama, upon taking office, balked at using one, preferring his BlackBerry at the time.) Keep reading →

 /  Published May 30, 2012 at 8:53 AM

DOD Moves Collaboration Tool From Desktop To Mobile Devices

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A popular Web-based collaboration application developed for the Defense Department is now being made available for mobile devices, according to a report from Government Computer News.

Defense Connect Online, an application developed by the Defense Information Systems Agency, currently allows users to host and attend Web meetings, and provides unified communications tools that lets individuals know who among their peers is available on the network. It also supports online chats. Keep reading →

 /  Published May 25, 2012 at 11:10 AM

VanRoekel Argues For Government’s Mobile Opportunity

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The new digital government strategy released Wednesday by the Office of Management and Budget covers a wide range of initiatives that go beyond what Federal CIO Steve VanRoekel initially proposed at the Consumer Electronics Show in January, during which he declared that 2012 would be the year of mobility in government.

In the flurry of releases that accompanied this morning’s announcement of the new digital strategy was VanRoekel’s own take on the importance and role of mobile technology in government. Keep reading →

 /  Published May 23, 2012 at 2:31 PM

Federal CIO And CTO Invite Techies To Disrupt Government

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“We want to disrupt the U.S. Government and we want your help,” declared an ever-animated Todd Park, the chief technology officer for the federal government at a New York technology start-up event today.

“We’re looking for some bad-ass innovators to work on some game changing projects,” said Park, walking back and forth on a stage set inside a cavernous building on one of New York City’s Hudson River piers. Keep reading →

 /  Published May 23, 2012 at 12:04 PM

AOL Gov Contributor Running For Congress

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We feature many contributors on Breaking Gov. It’s not everyday, however, that one of our contributors ops to take a leave in order to run for Congress.

James Windle, who has written passionately about the fine points of federal spending for Breaking Gov since its launch nearly a year ago, is doing just that. Keep reading →

 /  Published May 21, 2012 at 3:12 PM

Strides In Virtual Worlds Point To Real World Benefits For Agencies

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The future of virtual worlds–and how they are providing military, health, and government agencies new and more effective ways to train employees–attracted a crowd of more than 1,700 at the National Defense University’s iCollege last week. And nearly 1,500 of them showed up virtually. Keep reading →

 /  Published May 21, 2012 at 11:45 AM
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