TECHNOLOGY AND THE BUSINESS OF GOVERNMENT
01/30/09 02:15 pm ET
Lisa Schlosser, who runs the Environmental Protection Agency's Office of Information Collection and serves as a reservist with the Amy's 1st Information Operations outfit at Ft. Belvoir, Va., is up for promotion to lieutenant colonel.>>
01/30/09 02:11 pm ET
The Defense Information Systems Agency plans to dig into its pocketbook to ensure funding for the Defense Knowledge Online portal for fiscal 2010.>>
01/29/09 05:30 pm ET
Yesterday I interviewed Stephen Warren, principal deputy assistant secretary for the Veterans Affair's Office of Information and Technology and acting chief information officer. He showed me that he has a handy tool that reminds him exactly how much he has left to get a system in place to process payments to veterans under the new GI Bill, which goes into effect on Aug 1.>>
01/29/09 12:57 pm ET
The Government Accountability Office on Jan. 28 faulted the Defense and Veterans Affairs departments for failing to appoint a director of a joint Defense/VA Interagency Program Office to manage health information sharing between the two departments.>>
01/28/09 07:07 am ET
A benevolent reader sent me the bench for the new Air Force Global Strike Command, which is headed up by Brig. Gen. James Kowalski and provisionally headquartered at Bolling Air Force Base in Washington:>>
01/26/09 02:23 pm ET
Dr. Rob Kolodner told me he will stay on as the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology in the new Obama administration, a truly demanding job considering Obama's commitment to health IT.>>
01/26/09 12:05 pm ET
Paul Brubaker, who served as Defense deputy chief information officer in 2000 and most recently headed the Transportation Department's Research and Innovative Technology Administration, joined Cisco as director of the company's North American Public Sector, Internet Business Solutions Group on Jan 21.>>
01/27/09 04:39 pm ET
I'm picking up strong signals that the Obama team is looking at retired Radm. Robert "Willie" Williamson to succeed John Grimes as assistant secretary of Defense for networks and information integration, the Pentagon's top gadget, gizmo, network and data guy.>>
