Cspan, created by americas cae companies in 1979, brought to you as a Public Service by your television provider. Host steven ran roque l, what is a u. S. Chief Information Officer do . Guest well, the u. S. Chief Information Officer wears a few hats. One is sets the budget for the technology span of the executive branch, so it covers all the agencies of government and the department of defense to think about and form late the president s budget every year and do that. The second thing is through the egovernment act that we have in the u. S. , the u. S. Chief Information Officer has the ability to set policy, Statutory Authority to set policy government wide with. So thinking about, you know, visionary view of Technology Use in government and driving that forward as part of the, part of the, what we do. And then the third is and this is really under this administration the u. S. Chief Information Officer, a title and role created by president obama acts as an adviser to the president a
Surrounded and banged on his cruiser. Authorities say rioters vandalized numerous buildings and set fires, including the burning of the american flag. At least to kill police cars also reportedly were damaged in all of this. A mob surrounded a jail, as well. Watch. [crowd chanting] protesters there were trying to break through a sense, demanding all prisoners be released, and reportedly they were breaking windows of the Bail Bond Office and the county building. This comes one day after people were targeting the i. C. E. Facility in portland demanding an end to deportation and borders. This is a declared an unlawful assembly. Anyone trespassing on federal property is subject to arrest. Harris all right, see so you go from one title, protesters, from an unlawful assembly. You are easing your way into rioting. President biden has yet to condemn the far left violence and all that is happening in the days since his inauguration. And its only been a few. White House Press Secretary jen psaki
Companies, two big disappointments and two stocks that carry a lot of weight. One of them the dow, the other the nasdaq, big blues Quarterly Report out after the market close was another in a long line of revenue misses, income continues to be hurt by sharp declines in hardware sales. Ibm earned 2. 54 a share, right along with predictions but revenue missed coming in at 22 and a half billion, less than expected. That sent shares initially lower in afterhours trading. Morgan brenner has been looking through the report and has more on that. So morgan, as you look through the numbers what do you see as the key takeaway from ibm. Well, ibm is one of the ones with the bigger numbers, but shares have continued to weigh on their growth, countries like brazil, china, revenue falling in those countries about 11 from a year ago. But none more so than china. So revenues in the worlds second largest economy actually fell about 20 from a year ago. That is as demand for servers and storage products
Itself and were competing for a fixed right of away. Were in different modes of transportation and that creates conflict that were trying to be as sensitive to that conflict but coming from strong policy and technical decisions as we can and opt milliliters i noted some gaps and the performance have not consistently reached overtime and that needs to happen. As i said before, when our awardy was hired we have a lot of work to do to hire positions. You authorized positions in the budget and its taking us to too long to get them in place. We have opportunities. Youll hear next about the task force. Were working, i think, better in work closely with our Sister Agency and with Community Groups and were getting much more sophisticated in our Capital Planning and budgeting. Last january we presented the bike strategy and ped strategies. Were updating the fleet plan and well see growth in transit vehicles in that plan. Weve updated our 20 year capital plan that you just improved. Were working
Positions have been eliminated. So, there actually is a loss of five positions thats reflected here. In terms of the work load of our office, our Largest Division which involves felony cases, we handled in this fiscal year 8,6 12 felony cases. Our average annual caseload per attorney is 196. Now, in our profession, we look to whats called the nac, American Bar Association standards. Thats the National Advisory commission. These standards were set forth in 1973 to determine what caseloads public defenders should be handling. And for felony cases the standard is 150. So, were about 28 above the standard. We recently completed a case weighting report. The case weighting report is in addition to counting cases. What the case weighting process does is it allows managers to determine the actual work load of the attorney. And, so, what were looking at there is the number of cases that the attorney is handling individually, the type of cases, each type of case is assigned a weight based on the