Digital Government
Energy agency awards supercomputer contract to IBM
The Sequoia machine is 10 times more powerful than any supercomputer in existence.
Digital Government
Webs, blogs for DISA Buys?
Last week, Lisa Schlosser, director of the <a href=http://www.epa.gov/oei/collection.htm>Office of Information Collection</a> at the Environmental Protection Agency, <a href="http://www.nextgov.com/nextgov/ng_20090129_7141.php">told me</a> that she thought blogs and wikis would be a good way to increase participation in the regulatory process, meeting President Obama's <a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/the_press_office/TransparencyandOpenGovernment/">call for the use of technology</a> to boost openness in government.
Digital Government
Pollett: Field Commanders First
Army Lt. Gen. Carroll F. Pollett, director of the Defense Information Systems Agency since last month, did not make the <a href=http://www.nextgov.com/nextgov/ng_20090130_2556.php>Jan. 30 AFCEA Washington gabfest</a>, but Tony Montemarano, the agency's component acquisition executive, telegraphed Pollett's priorities. Pollett, Montemarano said, has made "getting capabilities to operational commanders in the field" his first priority, a statement that gladdens my old Marine grunt-type radio operator heart.
Digital Government
Daschle received speaking fees from groups opposing patient privacy
Nominee for HHS secretary tied to a health data company and association that belong to a group opposing privacy protections in economic stimulus bill.
Digital Government
Silver Oak Leaves for Schlosser
Lisa Schlosser, who runs the Environmental Protection Agency's Office of Information Collection and serves as a reservist with the Amy's 1st Information Operations outfit at Ft. Belvoir, Va., is up for promotion to lieutenant colonel.
Digital Government
DISA Steps Up for DKO
The Defense Information Systems Agency plans to dig into its pocketbook to ensure <a href="http://www.nextgov.com/nextgov/ng_20090127_9500.php">funding for the Defense Knowledge Online</a> portal for fiscal 2010.
Digital Government
Defense launches online software development site
Forge.mil could allow programmers to cut development time on open source applications from years to weeks.
Digital Government
The GI Bill Countdown Is On
Yesterday I interviewed Stephen Warren, principal deputy assistant secretary for the Veterans Affair's Office of Information and Technology and acting chief information officer. He showed me that he has a handy tool that reminds him exactly how much he has left to get a system in place to process payments to veterans under the new GI Bill, which goes into effect on Aug 1.
Ideas
Desperately Seeking an IPO Chief
The Government Accountability Office on Jan. 28 faulted the Defense and Veterans Affairs departments for failing to appoint a director of a joint Defense/VA Interagency Program Office to manage health information sharing between the two departments.
Digital Government
Desperately Seeking an IPO Chief
The Government Accountability Office on Jan. 28 faulted the Defense and Veterans Affairs departments for failing to appoint a director of a joint Defense/VA Interagency Program Office to manage health information sharing between the two departments.
Digital Government
Two agencies embrace Obama's call for open government
VA and EPA officials say blogs and social networking sites can help agencies engage the public.
Ideas
Defense's New CIO?
I'm picking up strong signals that the Obama team is looking at retired Radm. Robert "Willie" Williamson to succeed John Grimes as assistant secretary of Defense for networks and information integration, the Pentagon's top gadget, gizmo, network and data guy.
Digital Government
AF's Global Strike Team Program
A benevolent reader sent me the bench for the new <a href=http://www.govexec.com/dailyfed/0109/012109kp1.htm>Air Force Global Strike Command</a>, which is headed up by Brig. Gen. James Kowalski and provisionally headquartered at Bolling Air Force Base in Washington:
Ideas
Kolodner to Remain Health IT Chief
Dr. Rob Kolodner told me he will stay on as the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, a position he held under the Bush administration, in the new Obama administration. It will truly be a demanding job considering Obama's commitment to health IT.
Digital Government
New Defense CIO?
I'm picking up strong signals that the Obama team is looking at retired Radm. Robert "Willie" Williamson to succeed John Grimes as assistant secretary of Defense for networks and information integration, the Pentagon's top gadget, gizmo, network and data guy.
Digital Government
Defense Web portal not funded in fiscal 2010 budget
Joint group working on plan to fund Defense Knowledge Online, which provides e-mail, file storage and other services.
Digital Government
Kolodner Still Health IT Chief
Dr. Rob Kolodner told me he will stay on as the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology in the new Obama administration, a truly demanding job considering Obama's commitment to health IT.
Digital Government
In, Out, In, and Back Out
Paul Brubaker, who served as Defense deputy chief information officer in 2000 and most recently headed the Transportation Department's Research and Innovative Technology Administration, joined Cisco as director of the company's North American Public Sector, Internet Business Solutions Group on Jan 21.
Modernization
What's Brewin: Baby Steps
The Army appears to have started a process that could lead to widespread use of wireless technologies for its classified networks.
Modernization