Lt. Col. John Persano is a former intelligence officer who headed Operation Golden Phoenix, the counterterrorism training drill that took place in San Diego, Calif., July 2008. For his role in planning
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Mary Laureno is director of the Office of Beneficiary Information Services at the Department of Health and Human Services. In that capacity, Laureno manages the government’s toll-free Medicare call center. Laureno’s past
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Homeland Security Secretary Napolitano has called for a reassessment of SBInet, the virtual border fence program. SBInet is an $8 billion electronic surveillance system, first contracted by Boeing in September 2006. According
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George Bressler currently serves as supervisory border patrol agent of Department of Homeland Security’s Customs and Border Protection. Bressler was lead coordinator for the 2008 Operation Golden Phoenix antiterrorism training exercise in
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With the Obama Administration placing a high priority on the goal of transparency in the federal government these days, blogging has become a dynamic, useful tool for agency officials to communicate thoughts,
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As senior procurement executive at the Department of Education, Perry brought together the CIO Council and Chief Acquisition Officers Council by helping the two agencies understands each other’s expertise. Also co-chairman of
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The Office of Personnel Management has taken steps to improve the federal government’s job engine USAJOBS.gov, making changes to increase ease and efficiency. “USAJOBS is a great example of a hugely successful
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The OMB has announced an across-the-board, top-line hard spending freeze in the federal budget. Pell grants will be unaffected, as will job creation measures before congress for fiscal 2010 because the freeze
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As the U.S. Army’s project director for tactical biometrics systems, Margaret Patton delivers biometric capabilities to soldiers in the field while managing costs, schedules and performance. Her responsibilities also include supervising the
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