Just as John, Paul, George and Ringo did in the 60’s, Data.gov is sweeping the globe. At least, so says U.S. Chief Information Officer Vivek Kundra. In a blog post titled “They Gave Us The Beatles, We Gave Them Data.gov,” Kundra praised the UK’s new Data.gov.uk, a spin-off of the wildly successful U.S. initiative. Since [...]

As director for the Department of Defense Computer/Electronic Accommodations Program, Dinah F.B. Cohen collaborates with senior federal leaders to make sure employees, beneficiaries, and members of the public with disabilities have equal access to federal services and employment. In addition, Cohen has also been involved in launching a program to provide wounded service members with [...]

Lt. Col. Walter serves as program manager of the U.S. Army Transportation Command. In this capacity, Nichols has held an instrumental role in an effort to unite the Defense Logistics Agency’s integrated data environment and the Transportation Command’s global transportation network programs.

GSA has launched the “Great Government through Technology Blog,” a blog about the federal technology space. Assistant Commissioner for Integrated Technology Services, Ed O’Hare, launched this new blog. It will be a regularly updated blog with breaking news and posts. The goal of the blog is to create a medium for discussions about acquisition trends, [...]

Erik S. Hopkins serves as professional staff member of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee with responsibilities that include IT, cybersecurity and records management for the Federal Financial Management Subcommittee, which Sen. Tom Carper, (D-Del.) leads. Hopkins has been the lead staff member for several subcommittee hearings that exposed wasteful IT investments and [...]

Today marks the first deadline of the Open Government Directive for agencies. It seems like just yesterday we were discussing the launch of the directive on December 8th, 2009. The deadline due today is that each agency must provide at least three high-value data sets open to the public. A high-value data set was defined [...]

At a Navy conference in Arlington last week, Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus told contracting and government officials:  “(The Navy is) going to demand more accountability from contractors on behalf of the taxpayers.”  He continued, “Unless we control costs, we will not get the Navy that we need, and we will not have the [...]

Colleen Coggins is chief architect for the Department of the Interior and as such, responsible for the Interior’s Enterprise Architecture (EA) Program. The program was designed to develop and implement take-action modernization blueprints using the Methodology for Business Transformation. Coggins has lead the development of modernization blueprints for key Interior lines of businesses that define [...]

On May 3-4, 2010, 1105 Government Information Group will host the Cloud Computing Conference and Exhibition for Government at the Grand Hyatt Hotel in Washington, DC. The program will focus on how government using cloud computing in 2010 and the drivers moving agencies to cloud computing, best practices from government agencies that have adopted cloud [...]

In 2009, National Institute of Standards and Technology’s Matthew P. Barrett was awarded the Gold Medal Award by the U.S. Department of Commerce for significantly improving U.S. computer security by creating the Security Content Automation Protocol and the National Vulnerability Database (SCAP). As the agency’s IT specialist, Barrett heads the team that operates SCAP, the [...]