John D. Negroponte is the former U.S. deputy secretary of state and director of national intelligence, and currently serves as research fellow and lecturer in international affairs at his alma mater, Yale University. Negroponte began his career in 1960 when he joined the Foreign Service and was posted in Asia, Europe, and Latin America. He [...]
On Jan. 29, 2009, Dennis C. Blair became the nation’s third director of national intelligence. He retired from a 34-year-long Navy career in 2002 as a four-star admiral. During his Navy tenure, Blair served on guided missile destroyers in the Atlantic and Pacific fleets and commanded the Kitty Hawk Battle Group. He also served as [...]
Are you a worker in the federal government? Then Federal CIO Vivek Kundra needs your help. Kundra took to his blog to underscore the importance of making federal data open to the public, a major piece of the Open Government initiative. As part of his message, he pointed out several ways that federal government employees [...]
Yesterday, the Director of National Intelligence, Dennis Blair, gave his testimony on the Annual Threat Assessment of the US Intelligence Community in front the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence. The first topic Blair addressed was the impact of the cyber threat. For an in depth report on his Blair’s comments on cyber security, check out [...]
President Obama’s 2011 budget is expected to have more than $20 in savings through cuts from various federal programs – 120 to be exact. So where are the program cuts? In the proposal, the Defense Department, the Veterans Affairs Department, the Department of Homeland Security, and the Education Department will each receive budget increases. Other [...]
If America is going to protect her interests, she needs to get old school and new school – at the same time. The Pentagon’s new Quadrennial Defense Review has found an increased threat from China in the realms of space and cyberspace, and the need for more choppers, predator drones and light armor on the [...]
As part of his new budget proposal, President Obama has opted to drop “User fee” language from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) budget. User fees would break from the traditional excise tax format of the past. Following ambiguous language hinting at a shift from the excise tax format to the system that would charge general [...]
The Department of Veterans Affairs recently introduced a test website. This website details the status of various IT projects from the federal IT Dashboard website. According to Roger Baker, the VA CIO, the website, called the “Veterans Affairs IT Product Delivery Dashboard” first went live about a month ago. However, it has not been publicized [...]
Back in October 2009, President Obama signed an order that established new targets for the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions for agencies. To learn more about the order in detail, read our report from December 21st 2009: http://www.executivegov.com/2009/12/greening-the-government/ Under the executive order, each agency came up with a pollution reduction target and submitted it to [...]
In a effort to bolster progress being made in developing wide-reaching government Electronic Health Records (EMR)s, President Barack Obama included funding for the jeopardized initiative. According to Reuters: “His plan calls for $268 million to expand efforts to compare various medical treatments to see which ones work best as well as $110 million for additional [...]