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Joseph Marks
Staff Correspondent
Joseph Marks covers government technology issues, social media, Gov 2.0 and global Internet freedom for Nextgov. He previously reported on federal litigation and legal policy for Law360 and on local, state and regional issues for two Midwestern newspapers. He also interned for Congressional Quarterly’s Homeland Security section and the Associated Press’s Jerusalem Bureau. He holds a bachelor’s degree in English from the University of Wisconsin and a master’s in international affairs from Georgetown.
Federal CIO Imagines One Device, Many Screens
April 23, 2013
FROM NEXTGOV
One of federal Chief Information Officer Steven VanRoekel’s best attributes -- at least as far as reporters are concerned -- has always been his willingness to speculate about the long-term future. This is a rare quality among federal leaders who are often hesitant to speak about anything five or more ...
Sequestration Hashtags and the White House on Vine
April 22, 2013
FROM NEXTGOV
It’s a popular trope that sequestration is too complex and abstract for the average citizen to pay much attention. That complexity hasn’t stopped both parties from trying to communicate about the slate of automatic, across-the-board federal spending cuts in that simplest of all mediums: the Twitter hashtag. House Republican leaders ...
Timeline: Crowdsourcing Law Enforcement
April 19, 2013
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Crowdsourced photos and videos from the Boston Marathon finish line appear to have played an important role in identifying Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev, Chechen-born brothers suspected of planting bombs that killed three and left more than 150 wounded. Tamerlan was killed in a shootout with police Friday and Dzhokhar has ...
Federal Tech Chief Touts Data-Driven Innovation
April 19, 2013
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Lessons the White House has learned about using quantitative data to make federal information technology projects more efficient and effective can be put to use helping non-technology government programs as well, federal Chief Information Officer Steven VanRoekel told an industry group on Friday. President Obama’s fiscal 2014 budget request includes ...
FBI Seeks Open Architecture
April 18, 2013
FROM NEXTGOV
As I was skimming through a solicitation document the FBI posted surveying vendors that might provide it with new video monitor technology, one word jumped out at me: open. The FBI is looking for a system that will allow it to monitor video from all sorts of devices, including those ...
Tax Agency Should Beef Up Reporting on IT Projects
April 18, 2013
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The Internal Revenue Service has kept a majority of its major information technology projects on schedule and within cost projections, a government auditor said Wednesday. The tax agency could do a better job, though, of ensuring its cost and schedule estimates are accurate and of making sure officials are reporting ...
Wanted: Someone to Keep an Eye on Mount Rushmore
April 17, 2013
FROM NEXTGOV
Here’s something you probably didn’t know about Mount Rushmore. A series of studies in the early ‘90s identified 21 distinct “rock block[s]” on the monument, three of which were deemed structurally significant, according to a recent National Park Service posting on the government contracting site Federal Business Opportunities. There isn't ...
IRS Should Be Doing More With Its Websites, GAO Says
April 17, 2013
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The Internal Revenue Service's Web tools lag behind other federal agencies and some state governments, especially its inability to give taxpayers secure online access to most of their records, a government auditor said Tuesday. The tax agency has also been too slow to collect data on how people are using ...
White House Debuts Shared Services Catalog
April 16, 2013
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The government’s team of top information technology officials published a catalog of shared services on Tuesday aimed at helping agencies save money on IT services. Agencies will be able to use the catalog to shop for IT services provided by other agencies that are cheaper than they could provide on ...
Boston Bombing Aftermath Documented on Vine
April 16, 2013
FROM NEXTGOV
In the wake of Monday’s bombings at the Boston Marathon finish line that have left three dead so far, some people have turned to Twitter’s six-second social video site Vine to document the tragedy and to share their grief. Here’s a sample of those videos. Many people shot Vine videos ...
