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  • Leadership Development Training Tops Priority List For Government Organizations

    Leadership Development Training Tops Priority List For Government Organizations
    A recent informal survey of government professionals showed that leadership development training is the top priority for government agencies' training programs, with leadership development the first ...
    2011-11-29T15:55:00Z by Sam Davis
  • Nine Factors Common To Successful Federal IT Acquisitions

    Nine Factors Common To Successful Federal IT Acquisitions
    The federal government's record for acquiring major information technology projects has rarely earned high marks. However, a new report from the Government Accountability Office identified seven ...
    2011-11-23T08:48:00Z by Wyatt Kash
  • People Will Power Technology Innovation In Government

    Technology holds massive cost-saving potential, but the bleak budget outlook means engaging stakeholders and building solid relationships along with high-level leadership will be the most important ...
    2011-10-27T08:00:00Z by Deanna Glick
  • Why Integrated Program Teams Are Critical To Federal Technology Projects

    Why Integrated Program Teams Are Critical To Federal Technology Projects
    This article, the fourth in a series, originally appeared on CIO.gov, the website of the U.S. chief information officer and the Federal CIO Council. Richard Spires is CIO of the Department of Homeland ...
    2011-10-17T14:08:00Z by Richard Spires
  • Why Agencies Are Racing To Embrace Agile Development

    Why Agencies Are Racing To Embrace Agile Development
    When it comes to buying and delivering government technology projects, few approaches seem to have caught the attention of federal officials the way agile development has. And there's good reason, ...
    2011-10-17T10:05:00Z by Wyatt Kash
  • GAO Report: DHS Needs To Improve Oversight of Counterterrorism Systems

    A GAO Report, released Sept. 7, 2011, found that the Department of Homeland Security needs to improve executive oversight of systems supporting counterterroism. GAO Said: As part of a systematic ...
    Source: GAO
  • Zero-Tolerance Nets Recovery Data Taxpayers Deserve

    Zero-Tolerance Nets Recovery Data Taxpayers Deserve
    This is the second installment in a series of columns by Recovery Board Chairman Earl Devaney on the lessons he has learned from his work on the Recovery Board, which oversees the $787 billion ...
    2011-09-02T09:30:00Z by Earl E. Devaney
  • DoD's Scale Promises Bigger Payoff From IT Reform

    DoD's Scale Promises Bigger Payoff From IT Reform
    The sheer size of the Department of Defense (DoD) makes streamlining IT operations or changing IT investment management daunting, yet this size makes the payoff of successes that much greater. To ...
    2011-08-18T14:00:00Z by Teresa Takai
  • Feds@Work: Recovery.gov CIO Shawn Kingsberry

    Feds@Work: Recovery.gov CIO Shawn Kingsberry
    When Shawn Kingsberry became the Chief Technology Officer of the Recovery Accountability and Transparency Board in 2009, it had a blank slate – just a few good ideas and the urgency to create ...
    2011-08-18T07:00:00Z by Judi Hasson
  • Smart Grid Privacy And Security Risks Loom For Agencies

    Smart Grid Privacy And Security Risks Loom For Agencies
    The effort to modernize America's electric grid is well underway, with nearly $8 billion in federal funding since 2009 and states across the country hastening to deploy everything from electronic ...
    2011-08-04T10:30:00Z by Dan Verton
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