'Back-Door' Base Closures
Biden Talks Loss With Fallen Troops' Families
Neely Out at GSA
More USPS Buyouts
Gimme My Discount! Deals for Feds
Buyout Watch: Who's Offering What
AUTHOR ARCHIVES
Threat Levels and Dangerous Biscuits
September 18, 2009
FROM NEXTGOV
I was rather entertained a few weeks ago when I read that former Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff said politics was never a factor in determining whether the nation's color-coded terror-alert level should be raised. Chertoff was made his remarks in response to former GOP lawmaker and Pennsylvania governor Tom ...
Defense Giant Passes Away
September 4, 2009
FROM NEXTGOV
The defense acquisition, systems and software engineering communities lost one of the true giants this week with the passing Monday of retired Rear Adm. Wayne E. Meyer at the age of 83. Adm. Meyer was the "father" of Aegis, shepherding it from its beginning to its successful deployment in the ...
Show Me The Plan!
July 20, 2009
FROM NEXTGOV
I don't know if Roger Baker is a "rock star" CIO, but I do think Mr. Baker is an extremely competent one who seems intent, along with his boss, Secretary of Veterans Affairs Eric K. Shinseki, on creating a new standard for IT governance, risk management and project accountability in ...
Public CIOs: Optimistic or Conservative?
July 2, 2009
FROM NEXTGOV
It was great to see that U.S. Chief Information Officer Vivek Kundra was able to get the new federal government IT dashboard up and running as promised by the end of June. Score one for a government group meeting an IT promise on schedule. I find the dashboard interesting for ...
The CIA Memo Transparency Test
April 23, 2009
FROM NEXTGOV
It was probably the stark absurdity of the situation that created the final decision tipping point: release classified documents relating to the CIA waterboarding of captured Al Qaeda members, but move mightily to keep information about aircraft bird strikes from the public. Transportation Department Secretary Ray LaHood yesterday sensibly ordered ...
Follow the Bonuses
March 18, 2009
FROM NEXTGOV
I am greatly heartened to see all the moral outrage that the AIG bonuses are bringing out in our politicians. We have House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, D-Md., wanting to shame AIG executives into giving up their bonuses (I presume by making them wear the letters AIG in scarlet on ...
On The Look Out
March 2, 2009
FROM NEXTGOV
If government's job is to protect the people, it must be able to manage risk - before disaster strikes. A Continental Airlines turboprop plane crashes outside Buffalo, killing 50 people. Salmonella-tainted peanut butter kills nine and sickens more than 500. Bernard Madoff is arrested for bilking investors out of $50 ...
On The Look Out
March 1, 2009 If government's job is to protect the people, it must be able to manage risk-before disaster strikes. A Continental Airlines turboprop plane crashes outside Buffalo, killing 50 people. Salmonella-tainted peanut butter kills nine and sickens more than 500. Bernard Madoff is arrested for bilking investors out of $50 billion. The ...
Improving Government Through Breathalyzers
December 8, 2008
FROM NEXTGOV
Assuming that the soon-to-be Obama administration is serious about entertaining new ideas for creating an open approach to government, I thought a review of some ideas for improving government that other countries are contemplating might be worth considering here as well. In the United Kingdom, for instance, the Tory Party ...
More Study Needed for E-Health System
December 4, 2008
FROM NEXTGOV
There was an interesting story a few days ago by Nextgov reporter Jill R. Aitoro on the Health and Human Services Department's plans to determine the value doctors derived from electronic records by distributing questionnaires and conducting focus groups in Colorado. The purpose is to gather clinicians' feedback on a ...
