Researchers from NASA and Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory have created a geologic map of Ganymede, one of Jupiter’s ice-encrusted moons that were discovered by Galileo Galilei. The scientific team was led by Wes Patterson of APL and Geoffrey Collins of Wheaton College in Massachusetts and used images sent from NASA’s Galileo and Voyager spacecraft […] More

Accenture and DataStax have forged a big data alliance with the goal of helping customers gain insights into information and prevent fraud. DataStax’s big data platform that based on Apache Cassandra will be integrated into Accenture’s analytics and cloud technologies as the companies seek to develop data supply chains and online interactions for clients, Accenture […] More

The Government Employees Health Association and DPS Health have moved to extend their online weight management program partnership through 2014. GEHA and DPS Health aim to have an additional 5,000 health plan members through the program’s continuation, DPS Health said Thursday. Kathy Ross, director of clinical quality for GEHA, said VLM is intended to help address members’ […] More

At ODNI, I was asked to become the program executive for security clearance reform in 2009, and then I became the deputy assistant director for special security and had pretty frequent interactions with Director Clapper, the director of National Intelligence. Those posts gave me real learning experience for the impact of security across the government. […] More