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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.
Big Data Can Help Keep the Peace
April 12, 2013
FROM NEXTGOV
Some of the same social media analyses that have helped Google and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention spot warning signs of a flu outbreak could be used to detect the rumblings of violent conflict before it begins, scholars said in a paper released this week. Kenyan officials used ...
President’s Budget Moves Spending Transparency Site from GSA to Treasury
April 11, 2013
FROM NEXTGOV
President Obama’s fiscal 2014 budget proposal moves control over the spending transparency website USASpending.gov out of the General Services Administration and gives it to the Treasury Department. The budget also requests $5.5 million in additional funding for Treasury to manage the site, a Treasury spokeswoman said. The site was previously ...
House Oversight Chairman Calls IT Budget Request Misleading
April 11, 2013
FROM NEXTGOV
This post has been updated to add comment from Rep. Gerry Connolly, D-Va. The chairman of the House committee that oversees most government information technology spending on Thursday criticized the $82 billion IT request included in President Obama’s fiscal 2014 budget proposal, saying the figure is likely misleading. The Obama ...
Obama Seeks Slight Increase in Tech Spending for Fiscal 2014
April 10, 2013
FROM NEXTGOV
This story has been updated. President Obama’s fiscal 2014 budget hikes information technology spending slightly to $82 billion, a 2 percent increase from estimated fiscal 2012 levels. Much of that increase comes from a 22 percent jump in proposed IT spending at the Veterans Affairs Department, focused mainly on reducing ...
Air Traffic Control of the Future Requires Better Coordination Today, GAO Says
April 9, 2013
FROM NEXTGOV
The Federal Aviation Administration should coordinate more with airlines on plans for a next generation air traffic control system or it risks missing out on some benefits, government auditors said. FAA pared back its midterm NextGen goals to ensure it would produce tangible benefits for airlines and passengers by 2018, ...
Majority of Senate Standing Committees Still Aren’t Tweeting
April 9, 2013
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This post has been updated. The official launch of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee’s Twitter account on Tuesday brought the percentage of tweeting Senate standing committees to just less than 50 percent. Homeland Security Chairman Sen. Tom Carper, D-Del., officially unveiled the Twitter account and a new ...
Here’s What Government is Vine-ing About
April 8, 2013
FROM NEXTGOV
Government-friendly terms of service inked by the General Services Administration and Twitter cleared the way last week for agencies to post six-second Vine videos without fear of violating any rules. A handful of agencies and officials had already begun posting Vine videos before GSA’s announcement, though. The breadth of those ...
Paper Records Can Be Tracked Too
April 8, 2013
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The Education Department’s contracting arm is investigating new ways to track paper documents even when regulations, security concerns or other technological limitations mean that those documents can’t be digitized, solicitation documents show. The immediate goal is to track about 2,000 contracting files that are on paper, according to a request ...
Welcome to the Data Driven World
April 5, 2013
FROM NEXTGOV
University of Wisconsin geologist Shanan Peters was frustrated by how much he didn’t know. Most geological discoveries were locked away in troves of research journals so voluminous that he and his colleagues could read only a fraction of them. The sheer magnitude of existing research forced most geologists to limit ...
Development Agency’s Chief Innovator to Step Down
April 3, 2013
FROM NEXTGOV
The Chief Innovation Officer at the U.S. Agency for International Development, Maura O’Neill, will leave her post in June. O’Neill announced her departure on Twitter Wednesday. During three-and-a-half years on the job, O’Neill led numerous projects focused on bringing ideas and expertise from outside government to bear on problems in ...
