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June 29, 2010
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Gov IT Budget Crackdown
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| Don't miss the all-star speakers at our upcoming Defense and Diplomacy event: State Department CTO/Deputy CIO Charles Wisecarver, BTA DBSAE acting director Keith Seaman, Defense Acquisition University's Mark Whiteside, and Appian's Matt Calkins. July 13, Tysons Ritz. Early bird prices. Sign up today! |
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| The Obama Administration will review all technology projects that are behind schedule or over budget and stop any deemed to risky, OMB Deputy Director for Management Jeff Zients said yesterday. First up: All government financial management systems. Let's all swallow hard together. |
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| According to two OMB memos on the decision, Federal CIO Vivek Kundra will issue guidance on the highest at-risk projects within the next 30 days. Agencies must then submit improvement plans. To make sure it doesn't happen again, OMB says it will develop recommendations within 120 days (nice, something else to worry about around Oct. 1) for improving IT procurement, including beefing up existing policies and doing away with some everyone hates. |
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| Small Businesses Looking to Hire |
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| Last night, Women in Technology hosted a meet and greet with nine local small businesses looking to hire, at AT&T Government's offices in Tysons. Wendy Henry, COO at Johnston McLamb, says the company just sold the trademark to its name for a new sandwich at McDonald's. OK, we made that up. What she did say is the company just graduated from the small business set-aside program and now has more than 140 people doing IT consulting for the Postal Service (they had two just a few years ago). She says the people they hire don't need "top secret" security clearances, only public trust clearances, which require a much more streamlined process. |
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| Another fun one: Dan Yates is CEO of OPower, a smart grid and energy efficiency software company that sounds like a segment on Oprah (so we hear). He says the company has helped save as much energy as 1/3 of the US solar industry and created 75 high tech jobs in the DC area last year alone and plans on adding another 100 in the next 12 months. It also has thoughts of going public, so it's a good time to join. |
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| LAST NIGHT'S SCHMOOZE |
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| Thanks to the 400 of you who came last night to the new Againn Tavern on Rockville Pike to join us for great food and drink. Among our great guests: JBG's John Schlichting, Edens & Avant's Amy Hibler, ADI Construction's Keith Good, Maier & Warner's Karen Widmayer, and Vernon Commercial HVAC's Kathleen Turner (we wondered what had become of her since her Golden Globe-winning performance in War of the Roses). Againn is located in the Lerner Enterprises' Towne Plaza. It has an old English pub flair (yet modern enough, thankfully, to have 21st century air conditioning). |
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| We caught up with social media mastermind Dr. Mark Drapeau, left. He made the move to Microsoft earlier this year to be its Director of Innovative Social Engagement, focused on the public sector. We learned he'll soon be launching a new blog focused on conversation in the areas of American progress, technology innovation, and public service and public good. The site will feature numerous Microsoft writers, and eventually guest writers, and be aimed at an audience of young public sector leaders. The name? A well-guarded secret. May we suggest Le Drapeau Sheau. |
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| Big shoutout to our evening's sponsor Cordia Partners-ace outsourced accounting, recruiting, and staffing firm we've known a long time and use ourselves: Cordia founding partner Mitch Weintraub (second from right), Medimmune's Andy Weintraub (must be a common last name), Cordia's Karen Weintraub (must be a really common name-oh, wait, Mitch's wife), Jess Kreider, Ann Mattis, and Jen Barren of Mark V Barren DDS. |
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| Guests reluctantly exit back into the heat-but this was a really fun place and lives up to its name: They will be coming back Againn and Againn. |
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