Congratulations go out to tonight’s winner of the Chesapeake Regional Tech Council award for “Tech Company of the Year”: MedAssurant. It’s great to see a successful firm from my own home town of Bowie get proper recognition of their fantastic business, which has an active presence in virtually every county in the United States. Congrats in particular to its founder, Dr. Keith Dunleavy.
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IT Acquisition Reform
There’s a great article today at DefenseLink about the need for information technology acquisition reform on behalf of the DoD. The bottom line: current IT acquisition is patterned after conventional weapons systems acquisition in ways that suited large scale industrial manufacturing, but run counter to the nature of the speedy development, adoption, and enhancements of information technology.
It’s not new to make this observation about IT acquisition. What’s new is the interest on the part of the House Armed Services Committee (HASC) and the recognition by the White House that something drastic must be done quickly.
You can read the article online here.
Shock drowning at 47 years old: R.I.P. Rajeev Motwani
I just read that Rajeev Motwani was found dead Friday in the pool of his Palo Alto home. Very bizarre.
Motwani was the 47 year old Stanford professor who served as inspiration and advisor to many Silicon Valley success stories. Google co-founder Sergey Brin posted a reflection on Motwani on his blog on Friday.
Perhaps we’ll hear more as a complete report of the cause of his death becomes public.
But in the meantime, the moral I get out of this is: no matter how much fun your life might be, no matter what impact you may or may not have on the world … life is short.
Live well.