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- Homeland Security: Risk Assessment - Conducting a Vulnerability Assessment
- In 2000, the University of Washington UW was invited by FEMA to participate in the Disaster Resistant University Project DRU, along with the University of California, Berkeley, Tulane University, Miami University, University of North Carolina/Wilmington, and the University of Alaska Fairbanks. The overall goal after identifying risks, and assessing vulnerabilities...
- Tags: Risk Assessment, University Of California At Berkeley, Vulnerability Assessment, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Federal Emergency Management Agency, Homeland Security, Tools & Techniques, Security, Strategy, Government, Management
- Case studies
- Management Blunder of the Month: October
- Anyone can make a mistake, right? Misunderstanding a situation, shooting ourselves in the foot, failing to take action as or when required - these things happen occasionally. It comes with the territory when you're in a management role. And, as long as our good decisions...
- Tags: Federal Emergency Management Agency, Advertising & Promotion, Government, Recruitment & Selection, Marketing, Human Resources, Workforce Management, John McKee
- Blog posts 2007-11-01
- Management Blunder of the Month: October
- My Favourite Line"(What does it say about National Intelligence if they wanted a communications guy like this?)"The first thing that came to mind when I read that was "it sais to me that they're sticking to age old quality of Intelligence leaders then?" followed quickly by "a leader who's not...
- Tags: Leadership, Neon Samurai, Federal Emergency Management Agency
- Discussion threads 2007-11-02
- Technology of Inclusion
- I took a trip this weekend which involved air travel. As I stood in line to wait my turn at the "mandatory" self service kiosk to check in, I observed an elderly couple struggling with the process. I say "mandatory" because the two employees behind the kiosks (who were not...
- Tags: Federal Emergency Management Agency, self-service, Web, Web site
- Blog posts 2005-10-23
- U.S. cybersecurity due for FEMA-like calamity?
- U.S. cybersecurity due for FEMA-like calamity?article rootU.S. cybersecurity due for FEMA-like calamity?The Department of Homeland Security's cybersecurity unit, similar to the Federal Emergency Management Agency FEMA, has received criticism for not meeting responsibilities. An assistant secretary for cybersecurity would help streamline the division's ability to respond to emergencies; legislation is...
- Tags: cybersecurity, Federal Emergency Management Agency, fema, HLS, legislation, security, Sonja Thompson
- Discussion threads 2005-10-10
Additional Resources
- Financial Management Solutions
- Financial management within a Federal agency touches every organizational element and every person as they do their jobs. The systems used to support financial management in an agency provide financial visibility and accountability to Congress and to executive oversight organizations. From supporting the preparation and justification for the agency budget,...
- Tags: BAE Systems Plc., Financial, Agency, Financial Management, Financial Accounting, Investment, Financial Planning, Finance
- White papers 2005-05-04
- Sun Helps Deploy J2EE Technology-Based Traffic Management System
- The Freight Systems Office FSO from the U.S. Military Traffic Management Command MTMC is breaking new ground using Sun technology and services. The first U.S. Department of Defense DOD agency to deploy a solution using Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE) technology, the FSO manages shipping operations for all branches...
- Tags: Java 2, Sun Microsystems Inc., U.S. Department Of Defense, J2Ee, Java, Application Servers, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Programming Languages, Software
- Case studies
- Business Objects and Accenture: Improving Government Performance With Federal Financials Solutions
- The need to improve federal agency financial management and performance has increased dramatically. The President's Management Agenda PMA and additional legislation have changed the federal financial manager's role from controller and scorekeeper, to strategic business partner. All financial information must now be shared with agency directors, program managers, and senior...
- Tags: Financial, Performance, Agency, Accenture Ltd., Government, Business Objects, Advertising & Promotion, Financial Accounting, Marketing, Finance
- White papers 2005-01-12
- Federal Agency Uses Earned Value Management Solution to Boost Efficiency, Cut Costs
- Project Solutions Group PSG is a Microsoft Certified Partner that helps organizations better manage their projects. PSG recently created an Enterprise Project Management EPM reporting solution for a federal agency that risked losing project funding if it failed to meet stringent new reporting requirements mandated by the Office of Management...
- Tags: Agency, Microsoft Corp., Project Solutions Group, Financial Management, Advertising & Promotion, Financial Planning, Finance, Marketing
- Case studies 2006-02-01
- FISMA: Making the Grade - An Introduction to the Federal Information Security Management Act
- The Federal Information Security Management Act of 2002 FISMA makes permanent many of the new information security management responsibilities introduced by the Government Information Security Reform Act GISRA, which became law in 2000. FISMA goes further, however, requiring objective assessments of the effectiveness of security controls at least once each...
- Tags: FISMA
- White papers 2005-01-01
- Homeland Security: Response - Tabletop Exercises
- After September 11, many colleges and universities realized that their emergency response plans needed either to be updated or expanded. Berklee College of Music, in downtown Boston, recognized these needs, and formed a Crisis Management Team involving the highest officials at the College. Concurrently, they revised a list of hazards...
- Tags: Emergency Response, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Crisis Management, Homeland Security, Security, Government
- Case studies
- U.S. Department of Transportation: Results Agenda
- The study describes a few of the Department of Transportation's most notable accomplishments since the initial President's Management Agenda PMA evaluation in 2002. Management is not a glamorous topic. But without effective management too many federal programs, no matter how well-intentioned or worthwhile, either fail or cost far more than...
- Tags: U.S. Department Of Transportation, Management, E-government, Human Capital, Performance Management, Advertising & Promotion, Government, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Marketing
- Case studies
- Fortifying Your Agency With Security Management
- Federal agencies understand the critical importance of protecting mission-critical data including confidential citizen information, applications and systems. Federal agencies are increasingly concerned about the damage that threats of all kinds can cause. In addition, managing users and their access privileges is straining the administrative capability of most agencies, as well...
- Tags: Agency, Security Management, Computer Associates International Inc., Advertising & Promotion, Security, Marketing
- White papers 2007-08-01
- Federal Government Agency: Upgrading ARS, Help Desk, and Change Management
- This federal government agency designs, prints, and furnishes a large variety of security productions and other special security documents. RIGID Systems' customer ran an older version of the AR System, Help Desk, and Change Management applications. Help Desk and Change Management were highly customized with new fields and workflow. The...
- Tags: Security, Agency, Government, Customer, RIGID Systems, Change Management, Help Desk, Call Centers, Leadership, Tools & Techniques, Management, It Operations
- Case studies
- The Challenges of Emergency Management Planning in 2005
- Emergency management planning today faces many critical obstacles, such as an imbalance of focus between homeland security and natural disaster management, the challenge of involving the public in preparedness planning, the lack of an effective partnership with the business community, cuts to EM funding, and questions surrounding the evolving organizational...
- Tags: Obstacle, Disaster Recovery, Homeland Security, Organizational Structure, Business Structures, Data Management, Government, Human Resources, Finance
- White papers
- Process Automation - The Key to Policy Compliance
- Regulatory oversight by the OMB, GAO, the House Committee on Government Reform, and others is raising the visibility of agency management practices. Demonstrating compliance with these mandates is dependent upon business processes - steps taken to achieve certain results - and internal controls over those processes. Automating those processes is...
- Tags: Process Automation, Hewlett-Packard Co., Agency, Compliance, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing
- White papers 2006-06-01
- The anxious new dawn of cybersnooping
- It's in thereAt the risk of showing faulty memory, I think the Privacy Act already does more than the article gives it credit. It has always referred to systems of records MAINTAINED by an agency, with no reference to how the records were created or acquired. If an...
- Tags: agency, FEDERAL REGISTER, Privacy Act, privacy, juststaff, it management
- Discussion threads 2006-05-04
- Wireless Security at a Federal Agency
- The agency sought a technical solution that could do the job with a minimum of user interaction. The main concern was to control the content of the laptops accessing the internal network. The agency needed the ability to differentiate access rights, depending on the privileges of the group that the...
- Tags: Agency, Wireless Security, Wireless, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing
- Case studies
- Agency-Wide Purchasing Reporting Reduces Procurement Costs
- With 90,000 employees, the Bundesagentur fu Arbeit BA, Germany's federal employment agency, is the second-largest public sector customer after the German Federal Armed Forces. The company wanted a fully integrated system that maps all procurement processes and can be linked to the catalog system and our existing financial systems. As...
- Tags: Agency, SAP NetWeaver, SAP AG, Procurement, mySAP SRM, Purchasing & Procurement, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Enterprise Software, Pricing, Business Operations, Software, Marketing
- Case studies
- Guide for the Security Certification and Accreditation of Federal Information System
- Security certification and accreditation are important activities that support a risk management process and an integral part of an agency's information security program. Developed through an extensive public review process, the document represents a significant contribution to federal agency security management by providing specific recommendations on how to certify and...
- Tags: Information System, Certification, Agency, NIST, Quality, Strategy, Security, Business Operations, Management
- White papers 2004-05-01
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