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Mind the Gap: Using Sharepoint for Compliance Tracking
Published in Energy Central, December 23, 2008. A compliance culture implies that the organization understands the standards and the organization takes proactive steps in order to meet or exceed them. More importantly, the organization can prove this compliance empirically with documentation. In this article, Kevin McDonald of ICF International demonstrates how routine compliance tasks can be automated using native Sharepoint capabilities. This framework can free the ompliance organization to operate at higher operational tempo and increased productivity.
Protecting Privacy in Public Private Partnerships:
What Government Agencies Should Know
Published in the March 2008 edition of The Privacy Advisor, the newsletter of the International Association of Privacy Professionals, and coauthored by David Carpenter of ICF International and Rebecca Andino of Highlight Technologies. The content of the article is based on their experience supporting the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) Registered Traveler Program. ICF International developed security and privacy standards based on National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) guidance and Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy (FIPP). The standards are flexible enough to allow market-driven innovation, yet provide TSA assurance that its private partners maintain necessary levels of security and privacy protection of sensitive participant information.
Cyber Security Under the NERC Reliability Standards
By James R. Stanton of ICF International and published in IT Compliance Magazine, Spring 2007. The interconnected nature and electronic control systems of the nation’s high voltage electrical system renders it susceptible to coordinated cyber attacks. Critical infrastructure protection (CIP) requirements are key components in the newly enforceable set of NERC Reliability Standards. Perhaps more than any other set of standards, the CIP group holds the potential to deflect and address the most potentially devastating contingencies on the interconnected systems. Cyber security has a wider meaning in the context of large system disruptions and interrupted service to broad areas of users than the previous concerns about data and file server corruption.
Going Online With Existing Assessments: Blessing or Curse?
Published in the Personnel Testing Council of Metropolitan Washington (PTC/MW) Quarterly Newsletter, March 2007, by Greg Beatty, Ph.D., of ICF International. This article reviews the layout factors to consider when taking paper-based tests that are used for hiring or promotion and converting them to an on-line environment. The implications of changes in layout shape and length, and the inability to see more than one page at a time are examined, and options for overcoming the differences are offered. Advantages of on-line tests over paper-based tests are also reviewed.
Primer
on Information Design for Transportation Agencies
Prepared by William Schroeer of ICF International for the American Association
of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO), Standing Committee
on Planning, July 2006, as part of the National Cooperative Highway Research
Program (NCHRP), Project 08-36. How can we use the vast array of data that
are collected by transportation agencies to create information that is easily
understood and acted on by target audiences? Practitioners have powerful data
management, integration, and dissemination tools to work with. However, the
NCHRP believed that a more sophisticated approach to developing and communicating
information was needed to further improve the decision-making process. This
primer aims to educate and guide transportation professionals as they create
information graphics for documents and presentations.
Enabling
Transformation with Communities of Practice (CoP)
ICF International has partnered with the U.S Department of Transportation's
Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) to bring innovative
approaches to internal operational challenges in FHWA's
Knowledge Sharing Initiative. This Communities
of Practice Case Study describes
a virtual network of people tied together by a common job
function or focus area. FHWA's external
communities link more than 4,000 staff members from
partner organizations in an ongoing information-sharing
effort to find common solutions to common problems in the
industry.
How to Efficiently Gather Metadata and Content and Write
Your XML Too
Published on the Advanced Distributed Learning (ADL) SCORM® Web site, September 27, 2005, by Greg Gardner of ICF International.
This article discusses how programmers and instructional designers
can easily work together to identify very detailed information
about on-line training courses during the early stages of product
development. The processes shown provide a series a questions,
many with multiple-choice type options that nontechnical people
can complete. The programmer then uses the completed form to
create the XML needed for a Learning Management System. The
key to the process is the way the questions are mapped to XML
templates.
Fixing Program Management
Published in the September 1, 2005, issue of Government
Executive, by Ellen Glover of ICF International. Poor program
management hurts both the image and the mission effectiveness
of the government. The article highlights some of the initiatives
underway to address the issue, including Project Management
Institute (PMI) certifications and the work of the Industry
Advisory Council, which Glover chairs.
Introduction to Documentation Management for Lone Writers
Published in INTERCOM,
June 2005, by Katharyn Bine of ICF International and David J.
Dick of Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication. Used
with permission from INTERCOM,
the magazine of the Society for Technical Communication,
Arlington, VA. The authors' recommendations for dealing
with the many documents handled by lone writers, including
creating a documentation review board, defining a policy
for approving documents, and ensuring that the documents
are available to users. This article is part of INTERCOM's
special issue on lone writers.
Contract
Repair Asset Visibility—Around
the Corner: The CRISP Pilot
Published in The
Air Force Journal of Logistics, April 2005, by Joe
Mueller of ICF International, Christine Caroen of the Altarum
Institute, William Clark and Robert Heckler of the U.S. Air
Force Material Command (AFMC), Stuart Scott of Defense Automated
Addressing Systems Center (DAASC), and Keith Tindal of Rockwell
Collins. Contract Repair Information System Protocol (CRISP)
was a pilot sponsored by the Defense Sustainment Consortium,
which focused on applying extensible markup language (XML)
to enable automatic real-time reporting of repair status between
commercial repair contractors and the Air Force and evaluated
its impact on the contract repair parts supply process. ICF International’s
role was to act as the technical lead in the team effort to
develop system requirements, design, development, and implementation.
ICF International is assisting AFMC by converting all
necessary logistic transactions into an XML standard approved
by the U.S. Department of Defense in order to implement CRISP
in the Air Force repairable reporting system.
Automatic
Identification: When to Use RFID
Published in ICF International's Perspectives, a quarterly
report that provides executive briefs on key insights and
perspectives, Fall 2004.
Effective
Implementation Management Needs an IT Entrepreneur
Published
in ICF International's Perspectives, a quarterly
report that provides executive briefs on key insights
and perspectives, Fall 2004.
Emerging
Standard Addresses eCommerce Message Security—Commerce
Portals Use ebXML to Enhance Reliability
Published in ICF International's Perspectives, a quarterly
report that provides executive briefs on key insights and
perspectives, Fall 2004.
Performance-Based
Contracting: Here to Stay, But Challenges Ahead
Published in ICF International's Perspectives, a quarterly
report that provides executive briefs on key insights and
perspectives, Fall 2004.
The
Business Value of CMMI
Published in ICF International's Perspectives, a quarterly
report that provides executive briefs on key insights and
perspectives, Fall 2004.
The
Tangible Value of Enterprise Architecture
Published in ICF International's Perspectives, a quarterly
report that provides executive briefs on key insights and
perspectives, Fall 2004.
Why
Conduct User-Centered Design for Software Development?
Published in ICF International's Perspectives, a quarterly
report that provides executive briefs on key insights and
perspectives, Fall 2004.
Customer
Insight Program for eGovernment
Published in ICF International's Perspectives,
a quarterly report that provides executive briefs on key insights
and perspectives, Summer 2004.
A Safe Architecture Framework: Leverage the Security Features
of BEA WebLogic 8.1
Published in WebLogic Developer's Journal
Magazine, March 2004, by Ashley
Byrd of ICF International and Girish Gupte of BEA Professional
Services. EMALL is a procurement and collaborative commerce
portal for the U.S. Department of Defense and based on
J2EE and WebLogic Platform 8.1. One core component of EMALL
is a rule engine based on WebLogic Platform 8.1.
EMALL:
Building an Integration Application—A
Secure, Mission-Critical App in Almost No Time
Published in WebLogic Developer's Journal
Magazine, January 2004, by Ashley Byrd of ICF International
and Girish Gupte of BEA Professional Services.
EMALL is a procurement portal for the U.S. Department of
Defense. Defense and federal personnel use it to tshop for
items ranging from office supplies and equipment to weapons
systems. The personnel have various levels of privileges
to access classified catalogs and place orders.
Shopping Without Dropping: DOD EMall Embraces New XML Extension
to Handle Transactions of $1 Million Weekly
By Joab Jackson, published in Government
Computer News,
January 12, 2004. This article describes the Emall portal
developed in party by ICF International as a subcontractor to
the South Carolina Research Authority, one of the three primes
on the U.S. Department of Defense Emall project. The Emall
portal is one of the largest online operations, within or
outside of government, to adopt the ebXML standard, which
uses Extensible Markup Language for Electronic Business.
The common format is a more scalable and affordable solution
for multiple transaction systems and uses the Java2 Enterprise
Edition platform plus WebLogic application servers and application
development tools from BEA Systems, Inc.
IT
Innovations in Grants Management
Published in ICF International's Perspectives, a quarterly
report that provides executive briefs on key insights and
perspectives, Summer 2003.
Documentation
Management for Dummies
Published in The Nor'easter, the publication of the Northern New England
(NNE) chapter of the Society for Technical Communication (STC), July/August 2003,
by Katharyn Bine of ICF International and David Dick of the Society for Worldwide
Interbank Financial Telecommunication (SWIFT). This article outlines the goals
of documentation management and how to define a documentation management strategy
to save time and effort and improve quality throughout your organization.
Testing,
Testing, Easy as 1-2-3
By Pete Arvanitis of ICF International, February 2003. Published
in WMUsers.com,
a monthly electronic publication that serves webMethods
developers, administrators,
and managers. This article discusses how to write unit tests
to help ensure quality and accuracy of web services.
E-Government:
Talk of the Town
Published in ICF International's Perspectives, a quarterly
report that provides executive briefs on key insights and
perspectives, Summer 2002.
Five
Essentials for E-Learning Success
Published in ICF International's Perspectives, a quarterly
report that provides executive briefs on key insights and
perspectives, Summer 2002.
Secure
Collaboration in Low Bandwidth Settings
Published in ICF International's Perspectives, a quarterly
report that provides executive briefs on key insights and
perspectives, Summer 2002.
Coordinated
IT Functions Support Homeland Security Needs
Published in ICF International's Perspectives, a
quarterly report that provides executive briefs on key insights
and perspectives, Summer 2002.
Consulting
Insights—GIS: One Picture is Worth a Thousand Words
Published in ICF International's Perspectives, a quarterly
report that provides executive briefs on key insights and
perspectives, Summer 2002.
Consulting
Insights—Customer Relationship Management: Much More
than Technology
Published in ICF International's Perspectives, a
quarterly report that provides executive briefs on key insights
and perspectives, Summer 2002.
Internet
Watch—One-stop Shopping for Geospatial Data
Published in Public Roads magazine, a publication of the U.S. Department
of Transportation Federal Highway Administration, May/June 2002, by Keri Funderburg
of ICF International. This article describes a Web site developed by the U.S. Department
of Interior that serves as a one-stop shop for geospatial data and information,
which can be helpful in planning a transit route, rehabilitating an existing
road, or performing other tasks in the public and private sectors of the transportation
industry.
Consulting
Insights—Managing Environmental Compliance
Published in ICF International's Consult, a quarterly
report that provides executive briefs on key insights and
perspectives, Spring 2002.
Web
Site Development: Tools for Integrating the "Voice
of the Customer"
Published in ICF International's Consult, a quarterly
report that provides executive briefs on key insights and
perspectives, Winter 2001/2002.
IT
Accessibility; Governments and Industry React
Published in ICF International's Consult, a quarterly report that provides
executive briefs on key insights and perspectives, Fall 2001.
Section
508 and Why It Matters
By Katharyn Bine of ICF International. Spring 2001. Published
in Hyperviews:Online,
a quarterly publication of the Society for Technical Communication
(STC) Online Information Special Interest Group (SIG). This
article discusses the implications and effects of this U.S.
law on Web sites, applications, and anything that uses online
information.
Bridging
the Digital Divide: Community Technology Centers in the
U.S.
Published in ICF International's Consult, a quarterly report that provides
executive briefs on key insights and perspectives, Spring 2001.
Using
E-Business Solutions to Create Value from Emission Assets
Published in ICF International's Consult, a quarterly
report that provides executive briefs on key insights and
perspectives, Fall 2000.
The E-Business Revolution in Energy Services
by Philip E. Mihlmester of ICF International and Michael McKelvey. Reprinted with
permission from American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy, ©2000,
Washington, D.C. Published in Proceedings of the ACEEE 2000 Summer Study on
Energy Efficiency in Buildings 5.209-5.218. For information about the ACEEE
proceedings, contact http://www.aceee.org. This paper offers insights
into the key steps involved in configuring an e-business and demonstrates how
e-business can transform and is transforming the energy and energy efficiency
marketplace. This paper provides an overview of energy and efficiency related
e-business concepts, including examples.
Structural
Change and Spatial Dynamics of the U.S. Software Industry
by Ted Egan, Ph.D. (1998), of ICF International. This paper
explores some reasons for why the software industry has experienced
such tremendous secular growth in the U.S., even within the
context of a rapidly expanding information technology sector.
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