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Military leadership in the real world
The Harvard Business School completed a survey of how different branches of the military work in leadership positions.
Tags: Dorobek Insider , DoD Report , Andrew Hill , Toby Johnson , Boris Groysberg , best practices
Government 2.0 in metamorphosis
Lovisa Williams writes in her blog that Gov 2.0 is not in a slump but in metamorphosis.
Tags: Lovisa Williams , State , Athena's Lightning , Gov 2.0 , technology , transparency , social media , David Dejewski , Must Reads , Dorobek Insider , collaboration tools
Army directs new energy savings initiatives
A pair of memos requires facilities worldwide to improve how they construct buildings to be more green and to use different light bulbs. The goal is to conserve energy, be environmentally responsible, and save taxpayer dollars.
Tags: management , technology , energy efficiency , Army , Katherine Hammack , U.S. Green Building Council , green government , Max Cacas
British send message to U.S. Government
Take down the websites used by extremists. British Minister of Security Pauline Neville-Jones called on the the U.S. to do that during a speech at the Brookings Institution. She also urged the U.S. to do more to stop militant threats without going to war. Neville-Jones pointed about Al Qaeda's leaders in Pakistan have shown "startling resilience" and their affiliates have both the intent and the capability to strike the West.
Tags: Pentagon & Beyond , Pentagon , J.J. Green
Army advances mobile technology efforts
The Army Knowledge Online portal is one of the apps that is currently in use and evolving. Gary Winkler, head of the Army's Program Executive Office for Enterprise Information Systems, talked about it with the DorobekINSIDER.
Tags: Army , technology , mobile apps , Army Knowledge Online , Gary Winkler , Dorobek Insider
Airmen finally arrive home
The remains of two servicemen, missing in action from World War II, including one from Maryland were laid to rest yesterday. Army Air Forces Staff Sgts. Claude G. Tyler of Landover, Md. and Claude A. Ray of Coffeyville, Kan were both 24. Tyler was buried at Arlington National Cemetery, and Ray was buried in Fallbrook, Calif. They took off from an airfield near New Guinea on Oct. 27, 1943. They were to land near the Bismarck Sea, but the craft was lost. In August 2003 a Defense Department team received information on a crash site from a citizen in Papua New Guinea. That led to the identification of Tyler and Ray.
Tags: Pentagon & Beyond , Pentagon , J.J. Green
Navy on course to meeting energy conservation on ships
The service has reached an important first milestone in its effort to achieve a key energy conservation goal with last week's test of the first experimental ship to operate using algae-based bio-diesel fuel.
Tags: technology , Navy , Coast Guard , Air Force , Ray Mabus , Phillip Collum , biofuel , biodiesel , Max Cacas
McConnell explains need for DHS-DoD cybersecurity partnership
Bruce McConnell, Senior Counselor at the Department of Homeland Security's National Protection and Programs Directorate, joined the DorobekINSIDER to explain why the partnership between DHS and DoD are necessary and how that agreement will work.
Tags: Cybersecurity Update , technology , DHS , Bruce McConnell , Dorobek Insider
Another military building hit by gunfire
USMC recruiters in Chantilly discovered in the early morning hours yesterday that their office had been hit by gunfire overnight while the building was being renovated. The recruiters had been working out of their Sterling, Virginia office. This was the third military facility that had been shot at in the same two week time frame. The Pentagon and the Marine Corp Museum had been hit by gunfire from the same weapon. Authorities in an Illinois suburb are also looking into the stabbing of a Marine recruiter that happened within that time period.
Tags: Pentagon & Beyond , Pentagon , J.J. Green
Should we be worried about a cyber war?
Seymour Hersh writes in the New Yorker about the EP-3E debacle that has fueled a debate on whether the military or civilians should take the lead in cybersecurity.
Tags: Seymour Hersh , New Yorker , cybersecurity , technology , China , EP-3E , Must Reads , Dorobek Insider , NSA ,
