Is entrepeneurship in your genes or something that can be taught? For the past 15 years, The National Foundation for Teaching Entrepreneurship (NFTE) has shown over 18,000 students in the Washington, DC area that business enterprise is indeed a life skill you can pick up in the classroom. NFTE offers a “mini-MBA” program that requires [...]
Obama Names Jeffrey Zients His Score Keeper President Barack Obama named Jeffrey Zients, a prominent Virginia business management consultant, as his choice to serve as the governments first Chief Performance Officer (CPO). Our new president pledged to gain control over wasteful spending and hold those responsible parties accountable. The President reminded Americans “If we’re going to rebuild our [...]
Aneesh Chopra has been named the nation’s first chief technology officer. The news was announced Saturday during President Obama’s weekly address. As federal CTO, Chopra will work alongside Jeffrey Zients, the new chief performance officer, and Federal CIO Vivek Kundra, who’s responsible for setting technology policy across the government. Since he entered public life in [...]
Less than two months after announcing his departure from ManTech, Bob Coleman is now gearing up for another opportunity inside the Beltway. Coleman has just partnered with the private equity firm GTCR to form Six3 Systems. The Fairfax, Va.-based company will concentrate on acquiring government services providers with a focus on national security. Coleman will [...]
When the name Jim O’Neill comes up in conversation, it’s typically met with a mixture of admiration — for his 30-plus years in the technology industry — and awe — for his tireless, globe-trotting schedule as head of Siemens Enterprise Communications. A joint venture between the private equity firm The Gores Group, and Siemens AG, [...]
Tackling cybersecurity isn’t just a federal problem, it’s a “team sport” that will require private sector involvement. So said two senior administration officials recently, speaking in advance of the release of the 60-day cybersecurity review being conducted by Melissa Hathaway. Officials offered an inside look at the methodology used to generate the upcoming review. Among [...]
According to Wall St. Journal reporter Bret Stephens, 2008 winner of the Eric Breindel Awardfor Excellence in Journalism, Cyber-threats have the potential to pose a pernicious impact equivalent in numbers to an atomic bomb. Perhaps the outpouring of recent news stories on cyber crime has anesthetized much of the public, but our government says it is hard at work [...]
