The Secret History of OpenStack, the Free Cloud Software That’s Changing Everything, Wired “So [Federal CIO Vivek] Kundra summoned Chris Kemp to the White House, and he eventually used NASA Nebula to launch USAspending.gov — a site that shared the government’s spending with the world at large — while drawing up plans to expand the platform to other agencies as well. The problem was that certain U.S. lawmakers and NASA […]

Announcing the Launch of IaaS, powered by Nebula “Today, the pre-release of NASA Cloud Services, powered by Nebula is available to all NASA personnel. Plans call for the pre-release to be seamlessly transitioned to production after the Operational Readiness Review (ORR) is completed in the coming weeks.” NASA wants to run space missions, not data centers, ComputerWorld “NASA CTO Chris Kemp said he believes that compute resources are fundamentally a […]

Keith’s note: One of the participants in this evening’s reception in Washington, DC after the NEO conference was a NASA field center director. Given that he recently had some foot surgery and is not supposed to travel, he used an avatar instead. The center director? Why ARC’s Pete Worden, of course. His avatar of choice was an “Anybot” droid. I have seen this little wonder in action in NASA CTO […]

Gov Forum: NASA Seeks To Optimize IT Innovation, Information Week “NASA’s new CTO for IT, Chris Kemp, wants to more fully exploit the myriad technology innovations created by the space agency’s researchers, scientists, and technologists. Kemp this week shared his strategy for channeling that innovation in new ways. NASA CIO Linda Cureton last month announced Kemp’s appointment to CTO for IT, a newly created position. Kemp is responsible for NASA’s […]

NASA Joins Web Consortium to Help Improve Universal Access “NASA announced Thursday it has joined the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). The consortium is an international organization that develops protocols, standards and guidelines to ensure universal Web access. “Standards will play a key role in making NASA’s content more accessible on the Internet and in the implementation of our Open Government plan,” said Chris Kemp, chief technology officer for Information […]

Open source is NASA’s next frontier, FCW “The challenges to government’s adoption and participation in open-source communities is often thought to be a simpe culture clash, but in reality it goes deeper than that, accordning to NASA’s newly-appointed chief technology officer. “The issues that we need to tackle are not only cuture, but beyond culture,” said Chris Kemp, formerly chief information officer at NASA’s Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, […]