Dennis Wisnosky


I recently led a team of nine that made a two hour presentation to the Department of Defense at the new Mark Center to provide perspective on the DoD Enterprise Information Web (EIW).

The EIW team is pioneering the adoption of semantic technology and approaches that can be the way forward for enterprise business intelligence and solution architectures in the DoD. Keep reading →


Nearly two dozen government technology executives and organizations were honored by their peers in Washington, D.C., Thursday evening at a ceremony hosted at the Newseum by the Government Technology Research Alliance.

Ira Grossman, chief enterprise architect at the Federal Emergency Management Agency (pictured above, right), and Dr. Ron Ross, senior fellow for the National Institute of Standards and Technology (pictured above, left), were among those who earned special recognition at the GovTek Awards ceremony. Keep reading →

The Department of Defense’s deputy chief management office (DCMO) has just released a Request for Information (RFI) that reminded me of an Breaking Gov story I did about 4 months ago, in which now-retired Gen. James Cartwright and Deputy Chief Management Officer Beth McGrath said semantic interoperability will drive DoD’s information environment.

I was asked how this RFI, which deals with the semantic web, can help DOD in particular and perhaps the federal government on a broader scale because I have worked on semantic interoperability for the government for the past 10 years and on a DOD Enterprise Information Web the past 6 months. Keep reading →