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Data.gov.uk – What’s Not to Like

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This week at the SemTech Biz DC Conference, Jim Hendler, advisor to Data.gov, explained the history of the “friendly competition” between the US data.gov and data.gov.uk and said that the latter had about 6000 data sets that were in better shape than the former. So I decided to take another look and was very impressed.

Hendler also said that the UK Government has designed and made great use of standard Web address practices in their linked data and moved even further ahead of the US in open data with creation of the Open Data Institute. Keep reading →

 /  Published December 5, 2011 at 9:55 AM

Adm. Thad Allen: Changing Government Requires Flexible, Learning Leaders

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In 2007, Admiral Thad Allen had a feeling that something was changing in the workforce he led. There was something fundamentally different about the new generation of men and women in the Coast Guard. So Allen, who had become the 23rd Commandant a year earlier, did what nobody would expect a 36-year veteran to do — he embraced social media and started blogging.

“I was sensing a change with the advent of social media and how young people were aggregating [data] and producing behaviors without being in each other’s presence,” said Allen, who spoke to Breaking Gov contributor Dan Verton at his new Booz Allen Hamilton office in McLean, Va., last week about a variety of management topics, including the importance of “meta-leadership” in government. Keep reading →

 /  Published December 1, 2011 at 2:30 PM

DoD Seeks IT Interoperability With Enterprise Information Web

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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 →

 /  Published November 18, 2011 at 9:07 AM

House Committee Asks ‘Is OPM Meeting Its Mission?’ in USAJobs Aftermath

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A lack of institutional knowledge in developing IT systems was believed to be a leading cause behind the Office of Personnel Management’s troubled launch of its new government jobs search site, OPM’s inspector general testified at a House subcommittee hearing yesterday.

“I cannot stress how important it is to have the correct processes in place at the beginning of any project,” said Patrick McFarland at an Oversight and Government Reform subcommittee hearing that looked into whether OPM is meeting its mission. Keep reading →

 /  Published November 16, 2011 at 11:05 AM

Inside A Super Secure Federal Data ‘Vault’

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Federal agencies have begun the long march to cloud — moving selected portions of their data processing work into the Internet cloud, prompted in large part by an Obama administration “Cloud First” mandate initiated last year.

Some of that work–from computing infrastructure on demand to software delivered as a service–is already being provisioned by commercial providers, including Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), as well as Google, Microsoft and others. Keep reading →

 /  Published November 14, 2011 at 8:56 AM

EarthCube Shows How Collaboration Is Changing Geoscience Research

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Last week I attended the EarthCube Charrette with about 140 geoscientists from the National Science Foundation (NSF), US Geological Survey, academic institutions, and industry. Estimates are there are about 100,000 geoscientists in the world.

The goal of EarthCube is to transform the conduct of research by supporting the development of community-guided cyberinfrastructure to integrate data and information for knowledge management across the geosciences. Keep reading →

 /  Published November 11, 2011 at 4:30 PM

Federal Researchers Help Electronic Screens Pack More Punch

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This video from the National Science Foundation (NSF) shows how researchers at Princeton University have developed an innovative technique to transfer microscopic materials by blasting them from one place to another with a laser. The tiny patterns help to advance technology as they make help pack more into electronic screens. Keep reading →

 /  Published November 8, 2011 at 8:00 AM

Crowd-Sourcing Yields Ingenious Solutions for Air Force Research Lab

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When scientists at the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) were tasked with creating a way to stop a fleeing vehicle moving at high speed, they turned to crowd-sourcing for a solution. What they got was an ingenious idea from a retired, 66-year-old South American engineer, Dante Barbis (pictured above).

Using InnoCentive Inc.’s open innovation platform (discussed in video below), AFRL and its research partner, the Wright Brothers Institute, posted a $25,000 challenge contest last March for a viable and inexpensive means for stopping a speeding vehicle without harming any of its occupants or causing significant damage to the vehicle. Keep reading →

 /  Published November 7, 2011 at 1:36 PM

Government Innovation Can Happen On Any Budget

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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 →

 /  Published October 25, 2011 at 12:30 PM

Private Hospitals To Gain Access to Vets’ Medical Records

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The Department of Veterans Affairs has reached the final stretch of what’s been a long effort to employ technology that allows private hospitals access to veterans’ medical records that can be used to evaluate health history and deliver better care.

The move is one of many within the VA as it strives to overhaul its image and provide the best care for America’s veterans and protect the security of their records. Keep reading →

 /  Published October 19, 2011 at 12:00 PM
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