A great feature of DoDIIS conferences is the expo floor, a place where capabilities from industry, academia and government are demonstrated. For technologists this is like Disneyland. I really enjoy learning capabilities this way. If you want to know the latest from the community this is the place to be. One great booth to visit, if you are here, is AFRL's. I plan on spending much more time there. But I have a negative to mention this time … [Read more...]
Live Blog from Gov 2.0 Expo – Best Practices in Smartphone App Development
May 25, 2010 By
Bob and I are very interested in Smartphone app development, specifically Android development. Apps are being used across the world to enable work, play, and collaboration. App development and sales is a huge economical force. Governments are starting to use apps to make work easier - there are even military apps for the iPhone. Basically what I am saying is if you don't have an App, you are way behind. Since I am one of those without my own … [Read more...]
Live Blog from Gov 2.0 Expo – Introduction to Government Social Publishing with Drupal
May 25, 2010 By
Kieran Lal of Acquia led a great talk (adventure) on the use of government Social Publishing and Drupal. Kieran is the Drupal community adventure guide for Acquia, which provides commercial subscriptions for Drupal. He is a board member of the Drupal assocation, coordinates testing.drupal.org, and the Drupal security team. Recently he’s been involved in scaling Drupal.org, organized 900 attendee Drupalcon, and is driving the Drupal.org … [Read more...]
Pros and Cons: Bill Clinton as DNI
May 24, 2010 By
This post will be cross-posted at Halfofthespear.com With Denis Blair soon to depart as the Director of National Intelligence, the engine driving the speculation over who his replacement will be is in high gear. One of the more unusual names to surface: former President Bill Clinton. Two intelligence professionals and former colleagues – Bob Gourley and Mike Tanji – square off over the merits – or lack thereof – the former President would … [Read more...]
Announcing CTOlabs.com: Concept Development and Tech Reviews
May 21, 2010 By
With this post I would like to bring your attention to CTOlabs.com The purpose of the CTOlabs site is to provide a venue for providing technology concepts and reviews which highlight some of the commercial capabilities of Crucial Point LLC (CTOlabs.com is a subsidiary of Crucial Point). Crucial Point and our collaboration of world class technologists provides a wide range of consulting services, all related to an understanding of enteprise mission … [Read more...]
2010 DoDIIS Worldwide Conference
May 21, 2010 By
The 2010 DoDIIS Worldwide Conference will be held 23-27 May in Phoenix Arizona. This venue is hosted by the Defense Intelligence Agency's Directorate for Information Management and Chief Information Officer. The focus is on topics relevant to mission success for the Department of Defense Intelligence Information Systems (DoDIIS). DoDIIS is all about facilitating the collection, analysis and presentation of intelligence to tactical users and policy … [Read more...]
General Dynamics Press Release on SITE
May 20, 2010 By
General Dynamics is one of the champions of IT support to the DoDIIS mission. It was great to know they will be continuing to serve in a big way by winning a key prime slot on the DIA SITE contract. I know many of these performers and leaders and hearing they will be there for the mission gave me a good feeling as a technologist familiar with this complex mission area. I look forward to congratulating these guys at the DoDIIS conference next … [Read more...]
FBI CIO Chad Fulgham: Delivering Real Capability
May 20, 2010 By
The FBI has some critically important missions. They have always been sent to address the big crimes, the hard challenges that required the most advanced training and skills. And they have always had roles in counter espionage and counter terror (with both those roles growing in the last several years). They have long been active in making the world a much much safer place. Consider some of the topics in the weekly top news stories release of 14 … [Read more...]
SAIC Press Release on SITE Award
May 18, 2010 By
As previously announced, DIA has announced awardees for their major information technology acquisition program Solutions for the Intelligence Technology Enterprise (SITE). We are starting to see press releases from the winning firms. SAIC's is below: http://investors.saic.com/releasedetail.cfm?ReleaseID=470858 SAIC Awarded Contract by Defense Intelligence Agency to Support Combatant Commands, Service Intelligence Agencies MCLEAN, Va., May 18, 2010 … [Read more...]