Yesterday, January 25th, 2010, the Small Business Administration announced that they renewed their partnership with the Minority Business RoundTable (MRBT). MRBT is a national membership organization for minority CEOs. SBA hopes to continue outreach efforts to minority entrepreneurs with this two-year agreement. According the a SBA press release, Karen Mills, the SBA Administrator, said “During [...]

The U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) has released a critical report on the Federal Communication Commission (FCC)’s internal communications procedures and ability to attract and retain quality personnel. “(The) FCC lacks written procedures for ensuring that inter-bureau collaboration and communication occurs,” said the report.  “FCC’s reliance on informal coordination has created confusion among the bureaus [...]

John H. James, Jr., has been appointed to lead the sizeable task of reforming the National Security Personnel System (NSPS) by serving as director of the NSPS Transition Office (NSPSTO). He will be charged with overseeing the shift of 226,000 Department of Defense civilians from NSPS to pre-NSPS personnel systems. The National Defense Authorization Act [...]

James currently serves as the Director, National Security Personnel System (NSPS) Transition Office, bringing over 28 years of experience with the federal government. Prior to his current post, James serves as Executive Director, Logistics, Maintenance and Industrial Operations at Naval Sea Systems Command where he oversaw ship maintenance, environment policies and execution oversight. He began [...]

Just last week we mentioned the launch of “milBook,” the Defense Department’s secure networking tool. Now the Navy is launching “Pulse.” This will be their very own secure blog. Robert Carey, Navy CIO, said that this blog allows anyone in the Navy or Marine Corps to give feedback on IT issues. The blog will be [...]

Richard Boe has been with the Federal Aviation Administration since 1998 and serves as manager of the operations group in the Information Technology Directorate. In his role, Boe heads a team that provides administrative IT support to all FAA air-traffic control towers, federal contract towers, and air-route traffic control centers, among many others. Other notable [...]

Philip Klokis is director of enterprise infrastructure at the Office of Enterprise Infrastructure, which is part of General Administration Services. Under his leadership, Klokis managed to increase user satisfaction of the GITGO program, which combines IT services and technologies across the agency, and improve its infrastructure availability. 

FBI Section Chief for Biometric Services Kimberly J. Del Greco has been a leader in identity management and interoperability on several interagency committees, including those involving the National Counterterrorism Center and the National Science and Technology Council. Del Greco represents the FBI in a global Interpol automated-fingerprinting expert group, and she also works on developing [...]

Maintaining an agile Air Force that proactively meets the technological and tactical advances of the enemy is of the utmost importance, according to AF Chief of Staff Gen. Norton A. Schwartz. “This demands that the United States Air Force set a clear vision of how it will move to meet emerging threats and fulfill evolving [...]

Molly O’Neill has served as vice president at CGI Federal since August 2009, a position she took after leaving her role as assistant administrator and CIO at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. At EPA, O’Neill oversaw the agency’s strategic information planning, investment and information policies, enterprise architecture, and information-security program. In her current position, O’Neill [...]