{"id":366,"date":"2006-03-07T20:19:14","date_gmt":"2006-03-08T04:19:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/?p=366"},"modified":"2006-03-07T20:28:56","modified_gmt":"2006-03-08T04:28:56","slug":"focus-at-fose-is-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2006\/03\/07\/focus-at-fose-is-war\/","title":{"rendered":"Focus at FOSE is War"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-images\/0603\/rummy.jpg\" class=\"left\" \/><strong>FOSE <\/strong>stands for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fose.com\/index.cfm?fuseaction=Custom.Content&#038;MenuID=1000\">Federal Office Systems Expo<\/a>, and is a yearly trade show held in Washington, D.C.  FOSE is currently in progress at the D.C. Convention Center. <strong>EWeek<\/strong> notes that a big demand this year is for IT and information services. To put the article in perspective, recall Secretary of Defense <strong>Donald Rumsfeld&#8217;s<\/strong> recent remarks about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.freerepublic.com\/focus\/f-news\/1580753\/posts\">losing the media war<\/a>. Last December, Rumsfeld also indicated a need to improve our military cyberspace capabilities.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-images\/0603\/fose.jpg\" class=\"right\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eweek.com\/article2\/0,1759,1935105,00.asp?kc=EWRSS03119TX1K0000594\">The Focus at FOSE is War<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The exhibition floor at this year&#8217;s FOSE, the annual technology fair for the federal government, is decorated with big, rugged gear, reminding attendees that we are still at war, and there&#8217;s money to be made.<\/p>\n<p>The Department of Defense, which had an operating budget of $430 billion last year, reports that it manages more than twice the dollar volume of the world&#8217;s largest corporation, and it carries 500 times more inventory items than Home Depot. This year, the department&#8217;s IT needs are greater than ever.<\/p>\n<p>[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.eweek.com\/article2\/0,1759,1935105,00.asp?kc=EWRSS03119TX1K0000594\">Read the rest<\/a>]\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FOSE stands for Federal Office Systems Expo, and is a yearly trade show held in Washington, D.C. FOSE is currently in progress at the D.C. Convention&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":190,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,24,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cyberspace","category-war-on-terror","category-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/190"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}