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Department of Defense Spending Cuts

Brad Ellis

Spending on our nation's defense is often a target for budget cuts, and this year's Federal Budget process is no exception. The Department of Defense (DoD) budget is discretionary, which is to ...

Cask Sponsored Fifth Annual USMC IT Day

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Cask sponsored the Fifth Annual USMC IT Day heldat The Clubs at Quantico on Wednesday, April 16th. The event focused on "Information Technology in a Distributed Operations Environment." To lear...

How Baselines Are Like Ancient Burial Rituals, Google Maps, and Cliches

Amy Dykstra & Drew Walden

Establishing a program baseline is much easier said than done. To examine the challenges Project's face, we need to have a common perspective on what constitutes a baseline. Below are three com...

The Importance of Establishing Commonality in Communication

Michael Sherman

In 1995, the English band "Led Zeppelin" was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. One of the songs on side two of Led Zeppelin's debut album was "Communication Breakdown".Whether it is...

Economic Benefits Analysis - The Other Side of Cost

Paul Gvoth

Over the past few years I've been delivering a presentation on Economic Benefits Analysis toboth domestic and international conference audiences.Cost estimators and cost analysts are curious ab...

Cask Attended NATO C4ISR Industry Conference & TechNet International 2014

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Cask attended the NATO C4ISR Industry Conference & TechNet International 2014 Conference in Bucharest, Romania focusing on "From Assets to Services - Capability Delivery in the 21st Century."

Don't Be Seduced By Metrics

Kelly M. Lowe

Good business leaders understand the importance of establishing key metrics to measure effectiveness and efficiency of delivery against organizational goals and initiatives. Key word here "metr...

Risk Management: The Benefits of Proactive Behavior

Paul Quimby

Uncertainty is everywhere - in markets, in budgets, in boardrooms, and in customer requirements. In fact, "uncertainty" has joined "change" as the only constants. Uncertainty means risk, and th...

Put Security Into a Realistic Perspective

Rob Sipes

You might have heard that National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) recently published a new Cybersecurity Framework for critical infrastructure. The framework is not perfect, but i...

Understanding ITIL and the Service Lifecycle from a "Non-IT" Perspective - Part 5

Paul Solis

Over the course of the last month, we've had a great time at Harbaugh's restaurant. As a reminder, I created Harbaugh's Restaurant to help readers understand the ITIL Service Lifecycle in relat...

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