Context for the CTO, CIO, CISO and Data Scientist
Everyone in the national security establishment knows of NSA’s Deputy Director, John C Inglis. He is without a doubt one of the most professional, competent, courageous leaders in the federal government. Like the vast majority of government servants he also has a strong sense of ethics and is always honest. All who know him realize he is [...]
DoD’s mission will continue to evolve and shift to counter the tactics and intents of our enemies. One day it’s the terrorism inflicted by al Qaeda, the next it’s possible nuclear Armageddon from North Korea, and then the next day it shifts to probable chemical weapons in Syria. Who knows what tomorrow will bring? How [...]
On 4 April 2013, Carahsoft sponsored the Third Annual Government Big Data Forum. This post is the second in a series that seeks to capture key elements of the forum and keep the dialog going. This post captures a high level summary of our three keynote presentations. Kirit Amin kicked off the morning with great [...]
“The Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) offers Secure Technology Application eXecution (STAX), a new DISA Enterprise Platform as a Service (PaaS) cloud computing solution, to the Department of Defense (DoD). STAX provides quick and secure development, testing, and hosting of Java, Microsoft .NET Web applications, and Web services capabilities in the cloud.” “STAX is a key [...]
CQ Rollcall is provider of legislative news and analysis on what is happening at federal and state and local levels of government. They are a great source of info for citizens and government leaders including politicians. The video above captures how they are using MarkLogic capabilities to bring information together smartly for their viewers, including [...]
This is not surprising news, but still I’m sad to report this. The 2013 Defense Intelligence Worldwide Conference has been cancelled. This event had evolved from the famous (in my community anyway) DoDIIS Conference, an event that over my career grew from 50 people in a little room to 3000 global technology professionals all focused [...]
