Jun 29, 2009

Describes coverage of 2009 Management of Change Conference and Vivek Kundra's recent talk on data.gov at Wired Disruptive by Design ...

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Jun 17, 2009

This morning, I had the opportunity to serve on a panel for the 2009 Symantec Government Symposium in Washington, DC, under the title Next Generation Government. Special “shout out” to moderator Tom Temin of Federal News Radio and fellow panelists Chris Kemp (Chief ...

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Republican or democrat, Federal IT reinvention is a graveyard of three letter acronyms.  TQM, FEA, BPR, PMA – the “new-think schemes” have all proved disappointments in the ring –

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Jul 3, 2009

There are things that we all wish were better with our country. Like you, I think I pay too much in taxes (I have yet to meet a person who thinks he doesn't pay enough). I get monumentally annoyed and disgusted when our political leaders get caught doing unethical things. ...

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Jun 30, 2009

I recently attended the Current Strategy Forum hosted by the Naval War College in Newport, RI. The Secretary of the Navy, Chief of Naval Operations and Commandant of the Marine Corps all spoke along with many prominent scholars and authors. The discussion was about maritime ...

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By Tom Temin  |  Jul 1, 2009

I’m going to spend the 4th of July weekend trying to skim the 1,428 pages of HR 2454, the energy legislation which narrowly passed in the House last week.  But I have to say right now,...

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By Tom Temin  |  Jun 26, 2009

When I left my job in publishing two and a half years ago, some friends and I got one of those retirement letters from then-President Bush.  Technically I wasn’t retiring, and I was...

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By Tom Temin  |  Jun 26, 2009

When I left my job in publishing two and a half years ago, some friends and I got one of those retirement letters from then-President Bush.  Technically I wasn’t retiring, and I was...

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By Steve O'Keeffe  |  Jun 24, 2009

Republican or democrat, Federal IT reinvention is a graveyard of three letter acronyms.  TQM, FEA, BPR, PMA – the “new-think schemes” have all proved disappointments in the...

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By Tom Temin  |  Jun 22, 2009

Fools, drunks, and children tell the truth – one of my favorite sayings.  At the recent Symantec Government Symposium in Washington, I moderated a panel which a very young and very...

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By Tom Temin  |  Jun 18, 2009

Melissa Hathaway is a woman in limbo.  Not the dance so popular at Bar Mitzvah parties, but in not knowing if she’ll get the job as White House cyber coordinator.  She is on the...

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