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Bob Gourley (@bobgourley)
- Twitter Bio:
- A CTO. Also find me @CTOvision and @CTOlist. National Security, Cyber Security, Enterprise IT and tech fun are key topics of interest.
- Location:
- Washington, DC
- Website:
- http://ctovision.com
Bob Gourley's Selections From the Web
Traffic citations are critical for funding police departments, courts, and municipalities. Unpaid citations or missed court appearances result in warrants and additional fees, but finding or arresting fugitives and collecting unpaid fines is difficult as well as time and manpower intensive. As a result, the process often stops there. In Texas alone, there is almost $1 billion in outstanding warrants, with $300 million in Houston and $100 million in Dallas.StreetCred Software is a Big Data solution designed by two Texas police officers, one a technology industry veteran who later joined the force to cut down on that backlog by collecting and
FedScoop has learned that Department of Homeland Security’s Chief Information Officer Richard Spires has been put on immediate “on leave” status with no further explanation as to why. Inquiries made to DHS officials about the matter this morning confirmed his “on leave” status and that Margie Graves the agency’s Deputy CIO has been asked to step in as Acting CIO.Spires has served as DHS CIO since August 2009. He also serves as vice chairman of the Federal CIO Council and co-chairs the Federal Data Center Consolidation Initiative. He was CIO of the Internal Revenue Service from September 2006 to September 2007.
Yesterday I joined 200 other DoD and Industry big data experts in Charleston, South Carolina at the AFCEA Big Data in the Maritime Battlespace Symposium as we wrestled with how to manage big data in a maritime battlespace environment. As hard as that is with plenty of bandwidth, storage and computing power, the problem becomes infinitely more difficult in the disconnected, intermittent, low bandwidth world of ships at sea. This AFCEA Low Country chapter event was aimed at connecting the government and industry strategists and technicians so they could tackle some of these issues.One of the more interesting discussions revolved around the idea
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