Unisys Corp. is supporting Customs and Border Protection in opening the first pedestrian border crossing in El Paso, Texas. This initial phase of CBP’s Pedestrian Reengineering Initiative project features a combination of gate systems, mobile handheld devices and radio frequency identification technology to identify and process pedestrians entering the U.S. In the future, ten fingerprint [...]
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 [...]
It’s an interesting time to be a CTO in the federal marketplace. As the needs of government clients increase, so does the need for vendors to provide the most robust and cost-effective solutions. That takes innovation — and collaboration. In the spirit of that collaboration, ExecutiveBiz went looking for some of the area’s top CTOs. [...]
Comedian Rodney Dangerfield is perhaps best known for his line “I don’t get no respect.” One wonders if, in a previous life, Dangerfield was a chief operating officer. While the president and chief executive officer are accountable for establishing an organization’s goals – and meeting them – over time it is the COO who is [...]
