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Alan P. Balutis
Director and Distinguished Fellow
Cisco Business Solutions Group
Don't waste your teleworking dollars
When considering how to save money and "what not to buy in 2010", remember that teleworkers have some special considerations.
CIO Council panel to take buzz out of cloud computing
New group surveyed CIOs to find out what questions they had about this technology and received more than 15 pages of comments. The panel created working groups to address many of the questions. Group will send recommendations to an executive steering committee for action.
Energy Dept. works on how to predict the future of cyberwarfare
Let the sunshine!
The U.S. Army has picked two firms -- Clark Energy Group of Bethesda, and Acciona Solar Power of Henderson, Nevada -- to help develop and build the largest solar power array in the Department of Defense. It will be built at Fort Irwin, in California's Mojave Desert. When complete, the solar farm will generate 500 megawatts using photovoltaic cells, and solar concentrators, which turns the heat of the sun into electricity.
Vendor past performance data not up to par
Agencies making contract awards without fully understanding the contractor's past successes or failures. GAO makes six recommendations to improve and standardize the information.
EPA sets Energy Star ratings for servers
Standards part of broader plan to help reduce data center energy usage. Energy also has tool to measure data center power usage.
Agencies must deal with Recovery Act stress
OMB developing data standards to reduce strain on governmentwide systems
Paintin' a data center green
Paul Scheihing
Technology Manager
Department of Energy
April 14th, 2009
OFPP trying to stem the use of cost-plus contracting
Cost-type contracts nearly double over the last eight years.
Obama to nominate Guthrie to be ODNI CIO
President Obama announces more key administration posts
New guidelines to close 20 biggest cyber holes
The guidelines, issued Monday by public and private sector cybersecurity experts, are considered the low-hanging fruit to help agencies improve their network security immediately, says John Gilligan, a former Air Force and Energy Department chief information officer.
U.S. Department of Energy
Owen Barwell
Deputy Chief Financial Officer
September 1st and 3rd, 2008



