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- UASI, Bureaucracy and Terror
Homeland InSecurity This week I was, in turn, amused, maddened and fasincated by disaster. I had the opportunity to do both leadership and followership as officials from the “Seattle Urban Area”...
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- A Peek at the National Broadband Plan
Broadband Wireless On January 26th Admiral Jamie Barnett of the FCC spoke about the National Broadband Plan, which is now due out on March 17th (and I understand New York City, Boston and other cities...
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- PITS Computing
Non-Computing Fads There are fads and trends in information technology, just like in the world of clothing or hairstyles. One of the latest fads is pie-in-the-sky computing (PITS), otherwise as “cloud...
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- Why Don’t Cops just use Cell Phones?
The National Plan Police officers and firefighters carry $5000 radios. Local and state governments spend hundreds of millions of dollars to build public safety radio networks. Yet, today, cell phone...
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- Bin Laden changed Gov’t Tech
Osama Bin Laden’s death is a welcome event for most people, especially in the United States. Yet his life profoundly changed the direction of information technology as it is used in City, County, State...
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- Why don’t Cops Use Smart Phones?
Responders’ Smart Phones – Click to see more Every teenager – including some of us 50 and 60 year old teenagers – seems to have a smart phone these days. I’m writing this on an airplane, and I just...
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- Can a City be Hacked to its Knees?
The New York Times had the audacity to research and write a story critical of Chinese Prime Minister Wen Jiabao’s family. In return for its journalism, the Chinese government apparently unleashed a...
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- Cyberhacked – Again
In the face of continuing breaches, what are Governments to Do? The depressing news made headlines in Washington State and nationwide last week – the Washington State Courts systems had been hacked,...
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FirstNet Business Plan: Mission Impossible?
How can FirstNet possibly pay for its initial construction, subsequent network enhancements and long-term operations? While extremely challenging, there is a way. The Spectrum Act of 2012, which...
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Lee Harvey Oswald and 9/11
Oswald Lee Harvey Oswald robbed my parents of their youth. In a similar way, 9/11 and the destruction of the World Trade Centers may have robbed the rest of us (even those of us now in our 60s) of our...
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