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Friday, October 7, 2011
FDCCI – Lowering Costs & Environmental Impact of Government IT
At DOT, we view FDCCI as an opportunity to leverage new technologies and surplus data center capacity to achieve further cost savings and cost avoidance.
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Monday, September 26, 2011
Agile Software Development in the Executive Office of the President
The Office of Administration (OA) supports the President and the staff of the Executive Office of the President (EOP). Our Office faces the unique challenge of supporting multiple missions including those of the White House and the 11 components of the EOP, such as the Office of Management and Budget, and the Office of Science and Technology Policy.
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Wednesday, July 20, 2011
Shutting Down Duplicative Data Centers
Just as our cell phones and computers have gotten progressively more efficient over the past decade, so too have data servers. However, the government has not taken advantage of the increasing efficiency of data storage.
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Friday, May 20, 2011
From Data to Apps: Putting Government Information to Work for You
When the Department of Defense in the 1990s released GPS data, originally developed for military use, to the public, it sparked an explosion of innovation that gave rise to tools we now use in our everyday lives – from helping us find our way in an unfamiliar city to assisting first responders save lives. But why stop...
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Thursday, March 31, 2011
Open Sourcing the IT Dashboard & the TechStat Process
We launched the IT Dashboard and the TechStat Accountability Sessions to improve IT transparency and accountability across the Federal Government. The Dashboard has helped us shine a light on IT projects, providing performance data to fuel TechStat reviews, which have led to over $3 billion in cost reductions.
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Monday, March 14, 2011
The Challenge of Delivering Successful IT Programs
I have had the good fortune of being involved in large-scale IT program management for 25 years. My involvement has included the delivery of systems in private industry to the banking, brokerage (Wall Street), and telecommunications industries, as well as at the Federal government, including the IRS (Business System Modernization) and now DHS.
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Friday, December 17, 2010
Department of the Interior is Leading the Way in Redefining the Role of the Department CIO
Too often we hear stories about how the Federal government, for one reason or another, lacks technological capabilities that are commonplace in the private sector and our everyday lives. For example, when this Administration first came into office employees at the Department of the Interior couldn’t even send a department-wide message due to its siloed infrastructure, which consists of 210 data centers and 9,000 servers.
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Friday, December 10, 2010
Saving Money on Government IT
For too long, many government IT projects cost hundreds of millions of dollars more than they should, took years longer than necessary to deploy, and delivered technologies that were obsolete by the time they were completed. This summer we took a hard look at 26 high priority projects that were either over budget, behind schedule, or at high risk for the kinds of problems that too often plague our large IT efforts. We completed the review of two projects in October, and this week, we announced the results from our review of the next 16 projects.
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Tuesday, October 26, 2010
Benefits of Peer Interactions and Perspectives
I returned recently from the largest gathering of Information Technology (IT) officials from public, private, non-profit, and international organizations. This was an annual symposium that attracted over 7,500 attendees this year, including over 1,900 Chief Information Officers (CIOs). The benefit of the symposium was that it is vendor neutral–by that I mean it is not focused on a particular product, software, or company.
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Wednesday, October 6, 2010
Seeing Eye to Eye with the Tech CEO Council
Today, the Technology CEO Council released a report outlining a plan to “maximize productivity…and enhance government services” through the use of technology. This distinguished group of corporate leaders -- from companies such as IBM, Dell, and Motorola -- believe that by utilizing some of the best practices of the private sector, the government can realize significant savings and improve the service delivered to you, the taxpayers.
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Friday, July 2, 2010
Social Media Presence at NRC
I was recently asked about the Nuclear Regulatory Commission's (NRC) use of social media tools. The two questions I got had to do with why NRC doesn't yet have an "official" presence.
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Friday, June 4, 2010
Growing Sophistication of Technology in Cars
While I was stuck in traffic the other day, I recalled a Wall Street Journal article about driverless robocars. I enjoyed the article and even Tweeted it. The article referred to predictions that futurist Norman Bel Geddes made back in the 1930s.
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Tuesday, June 1, 2010
No Stupid Ideas
I had a wonderful opportunity to be shadowed by Anthony who was in a leadership development program from another agency. He and I talked a lot about innovation and the whole notion of how to get good ideas.
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Thursday, March 11, 2010
Getting Outside the Four Walls of Washington
I just returned from a productive trip to the West Coast, where I met with technology innovators from the private sector and state and local governments to hear their ideas about how the Federal Government can leverage the power of technology to deliver better results for the American people.
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Wednesday, March 3, 2010
Open 311
I’m on the road today, joining San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom and San Francisco CIO Chris Vein for an event to highlight San Francisco’s Open 311 API (Application Programming Interface) initiative. This is a great approach that ties together efforts in San Francisco, Boston, the District of Columbia, Portland, and Los Angeles to open more services to citizens, and to use data to drive progress in people’s lives.
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Wednesday, February 24, 2010
TechStat: Improving Government Performance
In June 2009, we launched the IT Dashboard, which allows the American people to monitor IT investments across the Federal government. The IT Dashboard, which has received over 86 million hits, shines light into the operations of the Federal government. However, it is not enough to simply shine a light on IT programs and hope that results will follow.
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Tuesday, February 23, 2010
How “Open Gov” Datasets Affect Parents and Consumers
On December 8, 2009, the Administration issued the Open Government Directive to hardwire the values of transparency, participation and collaboration into the DNA of the Federal government. Around here, we call the general effort "Open Gov." You can learn more about it here: WhiteHouse.gov/open.
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Thursday, January 21, 2010
They Gave Us The Beatles, We Gave Them Data.gov
Taking a page from our efforts here in the Obama Administration, the United Kingdom today launched data.gov.uk - a site to aggregate datasets from the UK government. It is exciting to see the seeds of openness, accountability, and transparency taking root around the world.
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Wednesday, December 16, 2009
Changing the Way Washington Works
In order to democratize data and advance the President’s agenda of an open, transparent and participatory government, the Data.gov platform was launched on May 21, 2009, with 47 datasets. Today, we have over 118,000 datasets and have received more than 47 million hits. Since the launch, many state, local and international governments have followed the path to democratize data through their own platforms. From San Francisco to the United Kingdom, there is a global movement to share public sector data to unleash the creativity of citizens, drive transparency and ensure accountability.
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