Don Adcock is the executive director of the Information Technology Agency (ITA) of the US Army. The ITA is the executive agent for many OSD IT functions in the DC area and is a group which must operate a highly functioning IT enterprise at a very high level of availability. Don recently conducted an interview on Fed News Radio where he provided some insights into how the Army ITA is addressing its challenges and how their business model is changing. … [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...]
Larry Ellison on the Sun-Oracle Close, January 27, 2010
February 6, 2010 By
The clip below is Larry Ellison giving some context on the Oracle Acquisition of Sun. His mantra: complete, integrated, focused on business value for customers. I have more context and opinions coming in a follow-on post. … [Read more...]
A CTO’s views on the new Fed CTO
April 18, 2009 By
I'm very pleased with the pick of Aneesh Chopra as the Federal Government's CTO. I wish I could add more context than that, and was thinking of a quick biographical sketch of Aneesh and some ideas on why this is great news. Then I read Tim O'Reilly's post at OReilly Radar, and frankly I just totally agree with everything Tim said. Please check out his post at: http://radar.oreilly.com/2009/04/aneesh-chopra-great-federal-cto.html Here is an … [Read more...]
A Blog I Like: Haft of the Spear
February 11, 2009 By
Michael Tanji brings a perspective forged in years of intelligence work and a successful stint protecting information in the financial sector. He is a well published author who focuses on national security issues and is also a thought leader in the computer security domain. At Haft of the Spear he writes primarily about technology related/enabled national security issues, which includes a heavy dose of information warfare. Read HOTS at: … [Read more...]