Government agencies are increasingly being asked to do more with less while still offering more services to the general public. HP Enterprise Services is helping meet that tight balancing act — thanks, in many ways, to the leadership of Dennis Stolkey. Ever since HP’s historic acquisition of EDS nearly two years ago the company has [...]
WEB 2.0 & MILITARY | Recently, we all heard the US Marine Corps banned the use of Twitter, Facebook, and MySpace for its active soldiers. So far, the reaction is mixed. “Banning such innovation seems like an archaic, knee-jerk response and I imagine in the not-to-distant future the militaries of [a] country like the US [...]
The other day, David Blumenthal — Obama’s national coordinator for health information technology — and one of two panels he is working with (the Health Information Technology Policy Committee) — reached agreement on the meaning of the term, “meaningful use.” The term will guide doctors on the way to adopting medical health records. Here’s what [...]
Recently, three leading CFOs in the government contracting community received a top distinction: Each was named finalist for the Group/Division CFO of the Year award presented by the Northern Virginia Technology Council. In advance of the awards ceremony — it’s slated for June 3 at the Ritz-Carlton in McLean, Va. — we asked each of [...]
From cybersecurity to tightening budgets, federal agencies are facing the task of doing more with less. Helping federal customers come up with a game plan to tackle these and other issues — everything from green IT to data center transformation — is Tom Hempfield, head of HP’s federal business organization. On the heels of HP’s [...]
The Faces of a “New” Washington-Power Chart Change came to the nation’s capital this week, as President Obama was sworn in as our 44th President. Navigating through the myriad of names and faces of the new administration can be a daunting task. That’s why The Financial Times (FT) created an interactive “Power Chart” detailing a [...]
EDS, an HP company, has been awarded a $111 million contract by the U.S. Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) to provide security readiness reviews for the Department of Defense (DoD). These readiness reviews will support DISA’s mission to provide integrated, agency-wide protection and operational restoration capability to counter security threats. Under the contract, EDS will [...]
