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Power Players | 4 - Shay Assad
Director of procurement and acquisition policy at the Defense Department.
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Power Players | 6 - Rep. Tom Davis (R-Va.)
Ranking member of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee.
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Power Players | 7 - Scott Charbo and Robert Howard
Charbo is chief information officer at the Homeland Security Department, and Howard is CIO at the Veterans Affairs Department.
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Power Players | 8 - Martha Dorris, Venkatapathi Puvvada and Leslie Steele
Dorris is president of the American Council for Technology, Puvvada is chairman of the Industry Advisory Council, and Steele is executive vice chairwoman of IAC.
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Power Players | 9 - Paul Brubaker
Administrator of the Transportation Department’s Research and Innovative Technology Administration.
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Power Players | 10 - Anne Armstrong and Neal Vitale
Armstrong is president and group publisher of 1105 Government Information Group and Vitale is president and chief executive officer of 1105 Media.
Digital Government
Technology briefs
Adobe PDF bug jeopardizes securityThe Adobe PDF could be used to compromise a system running on Microsoft Windows XP, Adobe confirmed last week week. Remote code embedded in a PDF could be executed in Versions 8.1 and earlier of Adobe Reader, Adobe Acrobat or Acrobat Elements. Adobe Acrobat 3D is also vulnerable. All those programs must be used in conjunction with Internet Explorer 7 to trigger the exploitation. According to the SANS Institute, which…
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FEMA readies emergency system
Web-based disaster response system will push timely information to first responders
Digital Government
Wagner: Why SOA matters
Service-oriented architecture might seem difficult, but it offers government a way out of the swamp
People
Welles: Avoid e-mail drudgery
Cleaning up message clutter simply requires following these 9 principles of organization
Acquisition
Kelman: The art of negotiation
Many contracting officials are showing business savvy on behalf of the government. GSA should help them.
People
Updated homeland security strategy emphasizes resilience
The 62-page document outlines continued preparedness and prevention efforts, including border security, surveillance, biometrics and information sharing.
People
DHS offers baseline for U.S. IT security skills
The department started working on the “IT Security Essential Body of Knowledge” in 2003 with input from DOD, academia and industry.
People
DHS exploring integration of ID card standards
Officials want TWIC standards to work with the border-crossing card requirements.
People
Tapella becomes Public Printer
He has been involved with GPO's digital transformation for the past five years.
Acquisition