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February 12, 2010
Global Warming Can Cause Snow!
Watching the evening news, I saw yet another person ponder the unusually cold weather and claim “I thought global warming was supposed to be a bigger deal…”. Here’s the fun fact: global warming causes amazing new patterns of snow and heat, consistent…
April 8, 2007
And on the other side of the coin…Government’s biggest spenders are the least transparent, report finds
Last week I noted a report about how well the departments of Labor, Transportation, and VA were reporting their performance. Whereas I was seeing this as a half-full glass, FCW sees it quite differently, as their headline — Government’s biggest spenders are the least…
February 24, 2006
Malcolm Gladwell’s started blogging
[Via BoingBoing] Malcolm Gladwell’s books, The Tipping Point and Blink, were extremely compelling, well-informed writing that I think should be mandatory for anyone interested in social change and better decision-making. He’s now started a blog to, as he puts it, “elaborate and…
September 28, 2006
Franchise funds and the GMLOB
We’ve been doing some research into the business models that are driving the various Lines of Business initiatives, and recently compiled some information about Federal franchise funds that we thought might be good to share.
“Franchise funds” is a 1994 program that…
December 19, 2019
A Review of Successful Applications of Machine Learning in Government Tech
Over the past several months the TCG R&D lab has been investigating how federal agencies can successfully utilize artificial intelligence (AI), and more specifically machine learning to meet their mission objectives. Machine learning can be described, in layman’s terms, as…
March 11, 2008
Today’s NGP Meeting: Change of Webcast address
Due to technical difficulties, the address for the Webcast of today’s NGP meeting has been changed to http://www.thengp.org/meetings/20080311/Registration.htm. Register there ahead of the event to get all of the video goodness, courtesy of Ken Fang and the good folks at Altum.…
August 1, 2006
2006 International Enterprise Architecture Survey
John Gøtze highlights a fascinating and comprehensive survey of enterprise architecture implementations and utilization in governments worldwide. Some of the conclusions aren’t surprising (limited realization of EA goals, little calculation of benefits versus costs, etc.) but it’s encouraging to see such…
May 17, 2011
AABPA Conducting Survey of Federal Budget Professionals
The American Association for Budget and Program Analysis (AABPA) has joined forces with Grant Thornton LLP to conduct a survey of Federal budget professionals. This survey covers budget formulation, budget and performance integration, budget execution, resource constraints, congressional issues, systems and…
July 27, 2006
A nice reminder
I went to a meeting today with some folks I’d never met before and we got to talking about the use of open source. They are in a government agency and are extremely enthusiastic about using as much OSS as possible. And…
April 2, 2009
Next NGP meeting — June 9, 2009
The next NGP meeting will be on June 9, 2009. When the agenda is released, don’t forget to register!…