Why it’s harder than you think to hack a voting machine Despite the fear and hype, there are several obstacles that make the most direct form of tampering, altering vote counts, extremely difficult. However, a closer examination reveals that the most direct form of “hacking […]
FCW Article: It’s Hard to Hack a Voting Machine. Or is this just Whistling past the Graveyard?
November 15th, 2017 by admin
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Tags: Derek B. Johnson, FCW, John Thomas Flynn, TechLeader.TV, Voter machine Hack
FCW Article: It’s Hard to Hack a Voting Machine. Or is this just Whistling past the Graveyard?
TechAmerica and the Information Technology Industry Council Settle Lawsuit
May 4th, 2014 by admin
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Tags: FCW, Information Technology Industry Council, John Thomas Flynn, Mark Rockwell, TechAmerica, TechLeader.TV
TechAmerica and the Information Technology Industry Council Settle Lawsuit
The two lobbying organizations had been at war since last fall when TechAmerica filed a $5 million lawsuit against ITI alleging breach of contract by departing employees. The suit had State of California implications. The announced settlement disclosed little detail other than separate statements of […]
Is Lack of federal and state CIO’s Involvement Responsible for Exchange Problems?
November 4th, 2013 by admin
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Tags: Adam Mazmanian, Covered Califoria, Exchange debacle, FCW, John Thomas Flynn, TechLeader.TV, health insurance exchange
Is Lack of federal and state CIO’s Involvement Responsible for Exchange Problems?
Looks like Fed CIO’s are as conspicuously absent from the federal Insurance Exchange project as are their counterparts in state government Who’s helping (and who’s not) on the ‘tech surge’: Dozens of software engineers, developers and other computer systems experts from the private sector and […]
Fed Homeland Security Secretary Napolitano Battles With CIO Over IT Budget Authority
April 16th, 2013 by admin
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Tags: California Technology Agency, DHS, FCW, Frank Konkel. FCW, John Thomas Flynn, Richard Spires, TechLeader.TV
Fed Homeland Security Secretary Napolitano Battles With CIO Over IT Budget Authority
What does a public sector CIO do when his boss, instead of backing up his agency-wide authority on IT budget and spending, decides to override it in favor of various departments in that agency? Apparently, at the Department of Homeland Security as least, the CIO […]
NASA CIO Linda Cureton Retiring; Early Fed Social Media Adopter
April 3rd, 2013 by admin
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Tags: FCW, Federal CIO, Government Social Media, NASA CIO, TechLeader.TV, linda Cureton
NASA CIO Linda Cureton Retiring; Early Fed Social Media Adopter
Linda Cureton announced that she was leaving her position as NASA CIO last month, and she has written an interesting article entitled: The future of the CIO. An early social media adopter, evangelist and blogger as evidenced here: There’s a lot of discussion about the […]
Feds Plan New Price/Value IT Procurement Strategy: “Bid-to-Price”
March 17th, 2013 by admin
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Tags: Bid-to-price, FCW, IT procurement, John Thomas Flynn, TechLeader.TV, darrell Issa
Feds Plan New Price/Value IT Procurement Strategy: “Bid-to-Price”
The solicitation will set the price, then vendors compete on quals, past performance and other non-price criteria. Clever… In California, we often see past performance, i.e., references, representing only 1-2% of proposal scoring. Bad idea… This would indeed be an interesting change… Rep. Darrell Issa’s […]
U.S. Veterans Administration reconsidering MS Office
February 22nd, 2012 by admin
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Tags: Alice Lipowicz, FCW, John Thomas Flynn, TechLeader.TV, Veterans Administration. MS Office
U.S. Veterans Administration reconsidering MS Office
In what is described as a cost savings measure, VA could give MS Office the boot. This from Federal Computer Week: With an eye on reducing ongoing software costs, the Veterans Affairs Department said it is exploring alternatives to Microsoft Corp.’s longstanding Office Suite productivity […]
File this under the “silver lining” category: Budget constraints could help FED IT spending; Same for States?
February 11th, 2011 by admin
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Tags: FCW, Government IT Spending, Input, John Thomas Flynn, state IT spend, state computer system
File this under the “silver lining” category: Budget constraints could help FED IT spending; Same for States?
FCW article by Alice Lipowicz says that Federal IT services contracts could nearly double by 2015. In her analysis of a report by Input: It may sound paradoxical, but the intense pressure from lawmakers to cut federal spending could improve the fortunes of federal IT […]