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Big Data Success in Government

January 20, 2012 by Alex Olesker
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On January 19, Carahsoft hosted a webinar on Big Data success in government with Bob Gourley and Omer Trajman of Cloudera. Bob began by explaining the current state of Big Data in the government. [read more]

Big Data Fights Crime: The FBI’s Next Generation Identification

December 10, 2011 by Alex Olesker
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"The Federal Bureau of Investigation has been in the Big Data business since 1999 when it launched the Integrated Automated Fingerprint Identification System (IAFIS), the world’s largest biometric database on individuals. IAFIS contains over 55 million sets of fingerprints and is used by law enforcement agencies nationwide for criminal investigations and civil background checks." [read more]

How to Innovate in a Bureaucratic Culture

August 1, 2011 by Ann All
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"A few months ago I wrote a post on getting everyone involved in innovation initiatives, assuming that was something many, if not most, organizations wanted to do. Yet many organizations are more comfortable with maintaining the status quo than with converting promising ideas into new products or services or using them to improve internal processes. In particular, the public sector often discourages efforts to innovate." [read more]

Medicare Cost Analysis - Guest Radio Appearance to Explore Data-Driven Insights

July 27, 2011 by Jaime Fitzgerald
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On Thursday, July 28th Jaime Fitzgerald, will approach the challenges of Medicare costs and quality via analytics, as a guest commentator on Inside Analysis, a new show by AOL.gov which analyzes federal spending trends. [read more]

Governing Data vs Governing People

February 10, 2011 by Gwen Thomas
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My friend David Plotkin, who is the Data Governance Manager of AAA of Northern California, Nevada, and Utah, reached out to me recently to restate something I’d said last summer at the MIT Information Quality Industry Symposium. He asked me to tell him again what I’d said about data governance not being about governing data at all. [read more]

CTOs: Provide Your Inputs on Government Implemention of Cloud Computing Constructs

February 8, 2011 by Bob Gourley
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Our nation’s technologists have always come to the aide of their nation. There are many great exemplars in this domain. two of my personal favorites are: Edwin Land, inventor famous for his work on consumer cameras but also a key designer of reconnaissance systems (including the U2). Frederick Terman, the thinker most responsible for... [read more]

Recap of the Government Big Data Forum of 26 Jan 2011

February 2, 2011 by Bob Gourley
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On 26 January 2011 government IT professionals, federally-focused systems integrators and IT vendors met in the Government Big Data Forum to dialog on issues of common concern on the topic of overwhelming data.  This event, sponsored by Carahsoft, included presentations, discussions, panels and a tech expo all focused on the issue... [read more]

Increasing “Jointness” and Reducing Duplication in DoD Intelligence

October 6, 2010 by Bob Gourley
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When the Secretary of Defense asks you to do something, you need to heed the call, whether you are in government or not. He recently asked all DoD military and civilian employees to submit their ideas to save money, avoid cost, reduce cycle time and increase the agility of the department. He asked in a way that should generate many... [read more]

The Twilight of Network-Centric Warfare

August 10, 2010 by Bob Gourley
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Highly respected writer and industry analyst Loren B. Thompson has just penned an opinion piece on recent changes in the Pentagon related to how DoD does IT.  The piece, titled “The Twilight of Network-Centric Warfare” is worth a full read by anyone in the IT business, in or out of government. Dr. Thompson argues that the recent... [read more]

Google Announces Apps for Government: More choices for gov CTO/CIOs.

July 26, 2010 by Bob Gourley
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I remember 3 years ago having a conversation with Vint Cerf and Lewis Shepherd about federal data in the Google Cloud.  Lewis and I both shared what we believed to be key obstacles Google would have to surmount before gaining widespread acceptance of their cloud capabilities by US feds.  In my opinion, today’s... [read more]

Interview: General John Handy on Military Data Analysis

July 17, 2009 by Robin Carey
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General John Handy is the just the kind of guy you want with you in a foxhole, if the foxhole were flying at 10,000 feet. Over a 39-year career in the U.S. armed services, he was a pilot, a wing commander, the Vice Chief of the Air Force and finally the guy who ran the equivalent of UPS and travel service for the Pentagon (U.S.... [read more]

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Interview: General John Handy on Military Data Analysis

July 17, 2009 by RobinFrayCarey
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General John Handy is the just the kind of guy you want with you in a foxhole, if the foxhole were flying at 10,000 feet. Over a 39-year career in the U.S. armed services, he was a pilot, a wing commander, the Vice Chief of the Air Force and finally the guy who ran the equivalent of UPS and travel service for the Pentagon (U.S.... [read more]

ISO TC 184/SC 4 Conference in Canada

March 25, 2009 by Brittany Marmo
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The developers of ISO Standard for Industrial Data and Data Quality are scheduled to meet in Parksville, British Columbia, Canada from May 17th through May 22nd 2009. ISO TC 184/SC 4 is a committee of the International Standards Organization responsible for the development of international standards Industrial Data. These standards play... [read more]

PAW: The High ROI of Data Mining for Innovative Organizations

February 18, 2009 by James Taylor
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Live from Predictive Analytics WorldJohn Elder presented a collection of case studies to showcase the ROI of data mining. John started by making the point that many of his case studies had technical success but not business success - an interesting statistic. John sees three major ways that predictive analytics can help - streamlining,... [read more]