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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.
Fed Tech Chiefs Don't Foresee Major Cuts from Debt Ceiling Deal
August 4, 2011
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There's no way the White House's information technology program can escape completely unscathed from the $2.5 trillion in budget cuts required by Sunday's deal to raise the government debt ceiling, Federal Chief Performance Officer Jeffrey Zients said Thursday. But the administration doesn't anticipate major cuts to IT initiatives and plans ...
Happy Birthdays Beat Partisan Ire on Obama's FB Page
August 4, 2011
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In the online civility's not dead just dormant department, the two posts acknowledging President Obama's 50th birthday on his official Facebook page received more than 20,000 comments in their first two hours online. That's more comments than the president received on any of several posts in recent weeks urging a ...
New federal CIO named; no major strategy changes anticipated
August 4, 2011
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This story has been updated. Incoming federal Chief Information Officer Steven VanRoekel's goal in office will be to consolidate and carry through on programs developed by his predecessor rather than to launch major new initiatives, the former Microsoft executive and Federal Communications Commission managing director said Thursday. The White House ...
New federal CIO named; no major strategy changes anticipated
August 4, 2011 This story has been updated. Incoming federal Chief Information Officer Steven VanRoekel's goal in office will be to consolidate and carry through on programs developed by his predecessor rather than to launch major new initiatives, the former Microsoft executive and Federal Communications Commission managing director said Thursday. The White House ...
Justice Announces Largest Ever Online Child Porn Arrest
August 3, 2011
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The Justice Department charged 72 people Wednesday for posting images to an online child pornography board, the largest slate of arrests in an online child pornography case in U.S. history. The message board, called Dreamboard, focused on graphic and often violent images of child sexual abuse, usually involving girls under ...
USAID to stand up new Geospatial Data Center
August 3, 2011
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A new geospatial data center at the U.S. Agency for International Development aims to mash together satellite imagery and on-the-ground surveys and reports to cut down on field-based work and give the agency a better sense of where development dollars can do the most good. Agency officials are in the ...
From Nextgov: USAID to stand up new Geospatial Intelligence Center
August 3, 2011 A new Geospatial Intelligence Center at the U.S. Agency for International Development aims to mash together satellite imagery and on-the-ground surveys and reports to cut down on field-based work and give the agency a better sense of where development dollars can do the most good. Read the whole story at ...
Managers doubtful about meeting data center consolidation goal
August 2, 2011
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Only 10 percent of federal information technology managers think the government will be able to reach its goal of shutting down roughly one-third of its nearly 2,100 data centers over the next four years, according to a recent survey. Nearly one-quarter of those officials think there will be more data ...
From Nextgov: Managers doubtful about meeting data center consolidation goal
August 2, 2011 Only 10 percent of federal information technology managers think the government will be able to reach its goal of shutting down roughly one-third of its nearly 2,100 data centers over the next four years, according to a recent survey. Read the full story on Nextgov.
White House Credits Twitter for Debt Ceiling Deal
August 1, 2011
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In the lost perspectives department, White House Communications Director Dan Pfeiffer confirmed to New York Times reporter Brain Stelter late Sunday that the White House believes the Tweeting public helped push Congress toward a debt ceiling agreement. The conversation, which also occurred via Twitter, was first reported by Mashable.com The ...
