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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.
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FEMA readies emergency system
Web-based disaster response system will push timely information to first responders
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Welles: Avoid e-mail drudgery
Cleaning up message clutter simply requires following these 9 principles of organization
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Updated homeland security strategy emphasizes resilience
The 62-page document outlines continued preparedness and prevention efforts, including border security, surveillance, biometrics and information sharing.
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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.
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DHS exploring integration of ID card standards
Officials want TWIC standards to work with the border-crossing card requirements.
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Tapella becomes Public Printer
He has been involved with GPO's digital transformation for the past five years.
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Letter: Local responders need access to online database
Local organizations are the ones in charge of dealing with emergencies, so they should have access to FEMA's planned National Emergency Management Information System.
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Justice's Paul becomes acting OMB chief architect
Kshemendra Paul temporarily replaces Dick Burk.
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New wiki targets federal IT community
The GovITwiki aims to be a one-stop shop for questions about the often complex government IT arena.
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SSA cuts disability claims backlog
The agency plans to go nationwide with a process that uses a predictive model to analyze selected data elements in electronic files and identify claims that can be handled quickly.
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