The Office of Management and Budget will officially release its IT dashboard by June 30th, guidelines for the IT dashboard were issued by White House Chief Information Officer Vivek Kundra on June 1st. As a part of the Obama Administrations commitment to transparency, the IT dashboard will rate projects on cost, schedule, and a CIO rating. The goal of the new IT dashboard [...]
The first-appointed Chief Technology Officer under the Obama Administration, Aneesh Chopra, spoke with the Richmond Times Dispatch this week about where technology in America is headed. Aneesh Chopra also announced that he will be launching a personal blog to further President’s Obama’s commitment to government transparency. The White House Technology Office is apart of a larger White [...]
The Pittsburg based technology company, Vivisimo has named new leadership: John Kealey, who currently serves on Vivisimo’s board, was named CEO, Raul Valdes-Perez is moving from CEO to executive chairman, and Kevin Calderwood, founder and managing partner of AMP Capital Partners, was named president. Phil Carrai, an executive vice president at Kratos Defense Inc, was [...]
Jeffrey Zients was approved Tuesday by voice vote of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committeea as deputy director for management at the Office of Management and Budget, the last step before a full Senate vote. If confirmed, the experienced executive will also serve as the nation’s first Chief Performance Officer, tasked with streamlining the government’s performance and cutting [...]
Doug Hartman, CSSI Inc, has received the Outstanding Achievement Award for Partners in Safety at the 2009 ATO Safety Summit. Hartman works on ATO’s Chicago O’Hare Modernization project where he has helped develop the integration of safety risk management (SRM) by creating a document tracking system and participating in panels. According to CSSI Inc. some [...]
Guident, a Herndon-based provider of business intelligence, management consulting and systems engineering services, has named Jim Flyzik to its federal advisory board. Flyzik is president and founder of The Flyzik Group and has spent over 27 years working for the federal government at the Department of Homeland Security, Department of the Treasury, and U.S. Secret Service. [...]
Reps. Artur Davis (D-Ala.), Steve Israel (D-N.Y.) and Mary Jo Kilroy (D-Ohio) have introduced H.R. 2872, the Medicare Quality Cancer Care Demonstration Act of 2009. The bill proposes a multi-phase demonstration project for electronic cancer care; collecting medical data and creating a patient-centric program. The bill would create a two year project that would have annual [...]
Gen. Anthony (Tony) Zinni will be stepping in as acting president and CEO of BAE Systems Inc.. Zinni is the current chairman of the BAE board and will be the interim CEO until a permanent replacement for Walt Havenstein can be found. Zinni holds a bachelor’s degree in economics from Villanova University, a master’s in [...]
BAE Systems, Inc. announced Walt Havenstein’s resignation as CEO and Chairman of the Board today. His resignation takes effect Friday the 26th of June and begs the question: what’s next for Walt Havenstein? According to the Wall Street Journal, he will take the helm of defense contractor SAIC as CEO. Larry Prior shook things up [...]
Virginia Senator Mark Warner introduced legislation to improve health care for seniors and other patients with terminal illnesses. The bill proposes increased counseling, support systems, and advanced care management, and aims to improve the quality of care by helping patients make informed decisions. Warner aims to reduce Medicare spending by increasing access to information and support [...]
