Department of State

At the June 6 Tech@State: Moneyball Diplomacy event in Foggy Bottom in Washington, D.C., speakers and the audience engaged in a discussion about using big data in the government today, particularly as it relates to diplomacy.

Though feds themselves may perceive innovation to be declining, there are agencies within government working to be the change they wish to see in the federal space.

FedScoop’s afternoon roundup of news and notes from the federal IT community.

The civil liberties-protecting, multistakeholder approach to Internet governance and Internet Protocol version 6 took the spotlight recently at a high-level diplomatic conference, thanks in part to a senior official at the State Department.

FedWire is FedScoop’s afternoon roundup of news and notes from the federal IT community. Send your links and videos to tips@fedscoop.com.

Earlier this week, troubling news emerged that government innovation is overall on the decline. However, just yesterday, the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation, part of the Harvard Kennedy School, released the Top 25 Innovations in Government, nine of which are from U.S. government agencies.

If you are a federal employee, you already know government innovation is on the decline — unless you work at the Office of Management and Budget, that is.

You’ve heard of TechStat and PortfolioStat. Well, for the last few months, the Office of Management and Budget has been doing CyberStat sessions, Dr. Andrew Ozment, senior director of cybersecurity at the White House, said Tuesday at McAfee’s Public Sector Summit presented by FedScoop.

FedWire is FedScoop’s afternoon roundup of news and notes from the federal IT community. Send your links and videos to tips@fedscoop.com.

A new iPhone app, hōrd, wants to change the way federal government contracts are followed.

Called DOSCareers, the app aims to educate and engage aspiring Foreign Service candidates and others seeking to familiarize themselves with diplomatic careers.

The most pressing issue for Internet freedom today is surveillance, not only state sponsored, but increased monitoring by private companies, said Andrew McLaughlin, former U.S. deputy chief technology officer, at the 10th Tech@State symposium on Friday.

Richard Boly, Director, Office of eDiplomacy, State Department, is our FedMentor of the week!

The game, called “Trace Effects,” follows a college-aged student named Trace from the year 2045, who has accidentally traveled back in time to the present.

The agency was named the best large federal government agency to work for in the Partnership for Public Service’s 2012 rankings of the top places to work in the government.

Richard Boly, director of the State Department’s Office of eDiplomacy, recently sat down with FedScoop to highlight a number of programs his office is working on.

The Department of State is looking for an office director to work with the deputy chief information officer for operations. The job pays between $119,554 and $179,700 per year and is open for applications until October 18.

State Department Vanguard 2.3 industry day, FedScoop sits down with Department of Justice EOIR CTO Ajay Budhraja, 2012 Red Hat Government Symposium and Agile Government Symposium updates and up-and-comer Karen Lellock.

The State Department’s Bureau of Information Resource Management will host an industry day on Oct. 9, 2012, to discuss the Vanguard 2.3 program, part of the department’s information technology consolidation strategy.

Steven Taylor has been serving as acting chief information officer at the Department of State since the beginning of August.