GCN Forum
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GCN 2007 IT Leadership Award winner and Coast Guard Lt. Cmdr. Chris Kluckhuhn answered reader questions during an online editorial forum on July 12.
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Navy Capt. Sam Sumwalt answered reader questions about continuity of operations and disaster recovery.
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Peter Tseronis, co-chair of the CIO Council’s IPv6 Working Group, answered reader questions about the upcoming transition to Internet Protocol version 6.
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Lily Kamikihara discussed how she manages satcom projects for the U.S. Pacific Command, spanning the Pacific Ocean from California to India and touching 43 countries.
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Patrick Svenburg, program manager for Windows Client Solutions in Microsoft Federal, is a member of the Windows Vista Launch Team. He answered questions about the new Vista Operating System.
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Brig. Gen. Susan Lawrence discussed how she makes sure the command, control, communications and computer requirements in 27 countries and two theater of war operate efficiently and effectively.
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Bruce James, the Government Printing Office's chief executive officer, and Mike Wash, GPO's chief technical officer, discussed how they moved the agency into the digital age.
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Mark Forman, the former Office of Management and Budget's administrator for IT and e-government, discussed how the use of IT in the federal government has evolved and where it is heading.
Forman transcript
Ask the writers | DOD Special Report: Red Storm Rising
GCN senior writers Dawn Onley and Patience Wait fielded readers' questions related to their Aug. 21 special report "Red Storm Rising" that focused on the invisible battle being waged in cyberspace between the United States and the People's Republic of China.
Onley/Wait transcript
RFID and biometrics in the U.S. Visit program
Bob Mocny, acting program manager for the Homeland Security Department's U.S. Visitor and Immigrant Status Indicator Technology, answered questions and discuss how U.S. Visit is using these technologies and the progress the program has made, as well as the promises the technologies hold for the program and the challenges U.S. Visit faces.
Mocny transcript
TSA deputy CIO Joe Peters on communications and information sharing
Joe Peters, deputy CIO of the Transportation Security Administration, was online June 29 and answered questions on communications and information sharing.
Peters transcript
Information-sharing between Justice and Homeland Security departments
Tom Bush, assistant director of DOJ’s Criminal Justice Information Services division, answered questions about information-sharing between Justice and the Department of Homeland Security, and how the agencies are coordinating data between two distinct fingerprint databases.
Bush transcript
Karen Evans on OMB's Lines of Business initiatives
Karen Evans, Office of Management and Budget administrator for e-government and IT, discussed the nine Lines of Business initiatives that the administration is pursuing during an online editorial forum.
Evans transcript
Migrating to a human resource Center of Excellence
Lynn Eddy, the Treasury Department's associate CIO for HR Connect, discussed what it takes to migrate to a human resource Center of Excellence under the Office of Management and Budget's Line of Business initiative.
Eddy transcript
Stephen Galvan on SBA's outsourcing of financial management services
Stephen Galvan, Small Business Administration chief of staff and chief operating officer, answered questions about SBA’s decision to outsource elements of its financial management services to the private sector.
Galvan transcript
John Halamka on Health IT and Electronic Health Records
John Halamka, chairman of the Health IT Standards Panel and Harvard Medical School CIO, was the guest of a GCN online question-and-answer forum on how emerging standards are shaping the future of electronic health records.
Halamka transcript
Chad Bungard on Health IT and Electronic Health Records
Chad Bungard, deputy staff director and chief counsel for the House Government Reform Subcommittee on the Federal Workforce, participated in an online question-and-answer forum on efforts to direct federal employee health plan providers to use electronic health records for federal participants.
Bungard transcript
NIST's Curt Barker on HSPD-12 and FIPS-201
GCN Assistant Managing Editor Jason Miller moderated an online forum featuring Curt Barker, program manager for the National Institute of Standards and Technology's Personal Identity Verification office. Barker managed the development of Homeland Security Presidential Directive 12-mandated Federal Information Processing Standard 201, as well as several NIST recommendations and guidelines to assist agencies in implementing the standard.
HSPD-12 and Personal Identity Verification
GCN staff writer Rob Thormeyer moderated an online forum featuring Jim Schoening, the General Services Adminstration's smart project card manager. Schoening is part of a GSA team that is attempting to hammer out interagency service agreements that would detail how agencies could provide services to others.Schoening transcript
Alex Bennet | The essence of data in government's mission
GCN Senior Writer Patience Wait moderated an online forum featuring Alex Bennet, the retired chief knowledge officer and deputy CIO for the Navy Department. Bennet will answer questions about how evolving needs in data acquisition, sharing and control have changed the government's IT infrastructure.Bennet transcript
Michael Todd | Net-centric data strategy and its direction at DOD
GCN Senior Writer Dawn Onley moderated an online forum featuring Michael Todd on DOD Directive 8320.2: Data Sharing in a Net-Centric Department of Defense. Todd shared his insights and expertise about how the directive is being implemented, the implementation guide DOD is working on now, and what's next for information sharing across DOD agencies and services. Todd transcript
Brand Niemann | Data Reference Model 2.0 and the role of metadata
GCN Senior Writer Joab Jackson moderated an online forum Jan. 11 with Brand Niemann, chairman of the Federal CIO Council Semantic Interoperability Community of Practice. Niemann discussed advanced semantic technologies, the usefulness of Wikis and metadata and the upcoming Semantic Interoperability for E-Government Conference.
Niemann transcript
Jerry Lohfink and Gil Hawk on continuity-of-operations planning
National Finance Center Director Jerry Lohfink and NFC CIO Gil Hawk offered their experience and lessons learned in an online forum on government continuity-of-operations planning on Nov. 30.
Lohfink/Hawk transcript
Greg Hanson on continuity-of-operations planning
Greg Hanson, assistant sergeant-at-arms and CIO of the U.S. Senate, answered readers' questions about continuity of operations in government during a Nov. 29 GCN online forum.
Hanson transcript
Scott Young | The next steps for a national health IT infrastructure
GCN staff writer Mary Mosquera moderated an online forum about federal efforts to jump-start development of a national health IT infrastructure. The guest was Scott Young, M.D., director for health information technology at the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, a division of the Health and Human Services Department.
Young transcript.
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The Heritage Foundation's James Carafano and GCN Senior Writer Wilson Dizard answered questions about the effect of reorganization on the Homeland Security Department, what the future holds for DHS and how it can better balance its dual responsibilities of providing services and managing threats.
Carafano transcript
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George Washington University professor William Halal thinks the Internet will soon become mainstream for commercial endeavors. He was a guest on GCN Forum June 29. Transcript
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Business process management “deal(s) with the perceived amounts of waste” in government, says Brett Champlin, president of the Association of Business Management Professionals, a vendor-neutral nonprofit group. Champlin answered questions in a GCN Forum June 7. Transcript
Michael Daconta: The semantic Web
Need help sorting through Web services? What is the semantic Web? Internet expert and researcher Michael Daconta, author of a book by the same title, answered questions Feb. 12 in a live, online forum. Transcript
Future forum: Larry Brandt
Lawrence E. Brandt, program manager for a digital government research program at the National Science Foundation, answered questions in a GCN Forum on the 2004 government IT outlook. Transcript
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Lawrence C. Hale, director of U.S. Computer Emergency Response Team at the Homeland Security Department, answered questions in a GCN Forum on the 2004 government IT outlook. Transcript
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During the week of Dec. 15, join GCN.com for daily live, online forums with information technology leaders and visionaries in government, private industry and education. Marty Wagner, associate administrator for governmentwide policy at the U.S. General Services Administration, is today's guest. Transcript
Future forum: Tom Davis
During the week of Dec. 15, join GCN.com for daily live, online forums with information technology leaders and visionaries in government, private industry and education. Today's first guest is U.S. Rep. Tom Davis, chairman of the House Government Reform Committee.
Future forum: Ben Shneiderman
During the week of Dec. 15, join GCN.com for daily live, online forums with information technology leaders and visionaries in government, private industry and education. Today's second guest is Ben Shneiderman, professor in the University of Maryland’s department of computer science and founding director of the university’s Human-Computer Interaction Laboratory.
Future forum: Ross Altman
During the week of Dec. 15, join GCN.com for daily live, online forums with information technology leaders and visionaries in government, private industry and education. Today's guest is Ross Altman, chief technology officer of SeeBeyond, a Monrovia, Calif., integration technology company.
Future forum: Gordon Eubanks
During the week of Dec. 15, join GCN.com for daily live, online forums with information technology leaders and visionaries in government, private industry and education. They’ll take your questions and comments and look ahead at forces likely to shape the IT world in 2004. Gordon Eubanks, president and chief executive of Oblix Inc., a Cupertino, Calif., company that sells identity-management and web authentication products and services, is today's guest.
Ideas conference: Showcase products
The Interagency Disability Educational Awareness Showcase, held Nov. 5 and 6 in Washington, focused on education, policy and technology initiatives facing the federal government in Sections 501, 504 and 508. John Breeden and Carlos Soto of the GCN Lab discuss the latest assistive technology presented.
Live with the Lab: Wireless security
Nothing will make an 802.11 wireless network completely secure, but there are ways to tighten one enough to keep out most unauthorized users.
Project Management: Randy Englund
Randy Englund, a former Hewlett-Packard program management executive, is currently a consultant and co-author of "Creating an Environment for Successful Projects" and "Creating the Project Office: a Managers Guide to Leading Organizational Change."
Project Management: David Wennergren
David Wennergren, the Navy's chief information officer, is co-chairman of the CIO Council's Best Practices Committee that is developing portfolio management guidelines.
Project Management: Linda Salac
Linda Salac chairs the Government Specific Interest Group of the Project Management Institute, which is meeting this week in Baltimore. She will take your questions Thursday.
Live with the Lab: Portable storage
Handheld external hard drives and key chain minidrives are judged for cost, speed. But when it comes to portable storage, price and brand don’t always dictate quality, and bigger isn’t always better. John Breeden and Carlos Soto of the GCN Lab answered your questions on August 28. Transcript
Live with the Lab: Executive PDAs
Personal digital assistants no longer just organize work but create, edit and disseminate information on wireless networks.
Inside the story: Diploma mills
As OPM steps up scrutiny of academic credentials following reports of the use of inflated degrees on federal employees’ resumes, the two writers who broke the story, Patience Wait of Washington Technology and Wilson P. Dizard III of Government Computer News, will take your questions on the latest developments.
Live with the Lab: Killer notebooks
Replacing your desktop PC with a high-speed notebook no longer means a step down in performance. GCN Lab guys Carlos Soto and John Breeden answered questions about replacemenent PC strategies and products in a June 5, 2003 GCN Forum. Transcript
Live with the Lab: Biometrics
Biometrics products are getting better and more accurate. But there’s still plenty of room for improvement. Some programs are less user-friendly than they should be, particularly when installed under newer operating systems.
Live with the Lab: Desktop clients
Each year the GCN Lab takes a look at desktop clients with faster processors, bigger hard drives, and color and chassis updates. This year, vendors submitted five PCs sporting superfast Pentium 4 processors, 512M of RAM and top-end graphics cards.
Live with the Lab: FOSE Review
Who had the top new products, software and services on display at FOSE this year? Will they save time and money? John Breeden and Carlos Soto of the GCN Lab, with executive editor Tom Temin, review technology products showcased at FOSE, from noon to 1 p.m., Friday, April 11.
Live with the Lab: Digital projectors
Presentation projectors continue to evolve for the better. They’re brighter and lighter. Whether the images they handle are simple or complex, there are performance differences.
Live with the Lab: PDAs
GCN's executive editor, Tom Temin, and Carlos Soto of the GCN Lab, take your questions and comments on PDAs, including the latest Palm.
Assessing Cyber Terrorism
James Lewis, a senior fellow and director of technology and public policy at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, believes one-time assaults on critical information systems rarely cause significant disruption. But there are dangers.
Live with the Lab: Tablet PCs
Tablet PCs have been hyped as the form factor of the future, but not until late last year did any reach the market. Manufacturers are paying attention to ease of use and portability, with generally good results.
GCN Forum: Managed Services
If you outsource an information technology service, how do you continue to manage it? The question is front-and-center these days for many IT managers and answers aren’t always clear cut. One pioneer, Patrick Schambach of the Transportation Security Administration, takes your questions in our GCN live, online forum.
Live with the Lab
Dealing with wireless LANs or think you might? John Breeden and Carlos Soto take your questions and comments on 802.11a wireless connectivity products and how they stack up in the real world.
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