FedTech Magazine

AUGUST 23, 2022

Between the pandemic, record-breaking data breaches, ransomware attacks and the shift to virtual services, federal agencies are looking for ways to continue developing their technology services to meet changing needs. The role of the federal government in citizens’ everyday lives has drastically changed over the past two years.

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Open Contracting Partnership

JANUARY 9, 2025

But until recently, like many governments, New York City relied on antiquated systems and lacked the tools to take full advantage of its procurement data. Its important for us to be accountable to them and understand they are the end user and beneficiary of our procurement. This is an enormous amount of spending, more than most U.S.

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FedTech Magazine

AUGUST 10, 2023

Cloud service offerings ranging from basic computing infrastructure to a framework paired with software applications and other elements can be a cost-effective way for federal agencies to access and share data, networks and other resources.

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Federal News Network

JUNE 10, 2024

Jim Wesloh Well, we focus on government contract accounting, including timekeeping expense reports, the entire general ledger and project management and project reports. Or do the accounting for my government programs, and not worry about commercial contracts if they had the commercial contracts before? Jim Wesloh Yes.

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FedScoop

JULY 25, 2024

The Department of Health and Human Services announced a reshuffle of its technology, data, AI and cybersecurity responsibilities Thursday, mainly moving portfolios from the Assistant Secretary for Administration to other components. The CTO role has been unfilled since Ed Simcox departed in 2020.

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GovLoop

MARCH 22, 2023

Data drives decisions — both good and bad. The days of “static data” housed in filing cabinets or resources like encyclopedias are long over. Intelligent data management helps organizations enhance their public-facing services, while improving their backend operations, Breakiron said.

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FedScoop

MAY 8, 2024

The Environmental Protection Agency would be required to update the legacy IT platform it uses to store air quality data systems under new legislation in the House. The bill’s requirements come directly from recommendations in a September 2023 Government Accountability Office study that Connolly requested. Gerry Connolly, D-Va.,

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Open Contracting Partnership

JUNE 26, 2024

A publicly available tool, ACT Ai aggregates data on over 31 million public procurement projects, linking them with company registration data to detect potential fraud and corruption. For example, Thailand’s procurement data could be improved by releasing planning data and ensuring a more timely publication.

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Federal News Network

DECEMBER 3, 2024

And the oversight and accountability of subcontracting efforts by prime contractors is getting more scrutiny. The Government Accountability Office’s annual report to Congress on the state of bid protests always is fascinating. Two data points help us understand some important facets of federal contracting.

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Open Contracting Partnership

OCTOBER 11, 2023

A series of recent scandals shows just how little accountability there is. Enter Data Club This is where our work at the Mongolian Data Club comes in. As part of that project, we developed two data-intensive but user-friendly tools for CSOs and journalists to help them write data-driven investigative stories.

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GovLoop

MAY 26, 2023

By definition, data ethics refers to the norms of behavior that promote appropriate judgments and accountability when acquiring, managing or using data. But AI’s expansive use has made data ethics increasingly important. 4 Basic Principles of Data Ethics Ownership: Individuals own their data or their information.

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FedScoop

AUGUST 12, 2024

Nearly two years after launching its bureau chief data officer program, the Department of State is seeing success and aiming to almost quadruple the size of its current cohort, Farakh Khan, director of communications, culture and training at the agency’s Center for Analytics, told FedScoop in a recent interview.

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AWS Public Sector

JUNE 3, 2024

However, you can use SageMaker notebook instances with the R kernel to perform data analytics tasks in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. In this post, we’ll walk through the steps to create a notebook instance with the R kernel and demonstrate how to query data stored in an AWS Glue Data Catalog repository using R.

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AWS Public Sector

MAY 22, 2024

The COVID-tracking and health data system built for the district during the COVID-19 pandemic had become clunky, difficult to customize, and expensive to maintain. Because the district’s data contained sensitive student health information and images, the data had to be encrypted during transit and migrated securely.

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FedScoop

MARCH 28, 2024

HHS’s Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC), which released the draft Wednesday, establishes the following four goals: “promote health and wellness, enhance the delivery and experience of care, accelerate research and innovation and connect the health system with health data.”

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GovLoop

JANUARY 31, 2024

For instance, “If you’re on Windows XP and you’re relying on faxes, those tools are so old that [new] analysis tools can’t read [your data],” Kowalski said. And with an unthinkable amount of data in the world, errors are inevitable with outdated IT.

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FedTech Magazine

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

For example, after the 14th FITARA scorecard was released this summer, the House Committee on Oversight and Reform and the Government Accountability Office suggested that data center closures, once a key metric, might be dropped from future scorecards because agencies have already…

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FedScoop

AUGUST 19, 2024

Collecting data from inside a hurricane can feel like sticking toothpicks in a donut. Each of those devices is dropped from one of the agency’s “Hurricane Hunter” aircrafts, falling through the storm like a toothpick piercing a donut and collecting data about temperature, air pressure, humidity, and wind speed on its downward path.

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AWS Public Sector

OCTOBER 4, 2023

This blog summarizes some of the benefits of cloud-based ground segment architectures, and demonstrates how users can build a proof-of-concept using AWS Ground Station’s capability to transport and deliver Wideband Digital Intermediate Frequency (DigIF) data , along with the software-defined radio Blink, built by the AWS Partner Amphinicy.

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Open Contracting Partnership

MARCH 24, 2025

Explore 10 years of open contracting With so much public money at stake, we expected to find data teams in government who already knew exactly who was buying what from whom for how much. We were never just after a bit more transparency though, we wanted to transform how procurement is done.

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Whistleblower Network News

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

The DOJ alleges that Lockheed Martin violated the Truth in Negotiations Act (TINA) which mandates that when negotiating sole source contracts, the government has access to the cost or pricing data that the offeror used when developing its proposal. Shumate of the Justice Departments Civil Division.

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GovLoop

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

The concept of digital twins, which has been around for years, is gaining traction as agencies gather better data and vendors develop better tools. Government Accountability Office defines a digital twin as a virtual representation of a physical object, process or system.

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Federal News Network

JANUARY 9, 2025

It calls on the Defense Department and the Government Accountability Office to develop a plan to test a novel idea: having companies that lose bid protests to repay DoD for legal costs. A clause in the Defense Authorization law for 2025 has procurement attorneys sitting up in their chairs. Chris Griesedieck: Right.

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FedScoop

AUGUST 8, 2024

Most experts agree that the long-term potential of artificial intelligence (AI) depends on building a solid foundation of reliable, readily available, high-quality data. One area where data quality and readiness play a particularly crucial role for federal, state, and local government agencies is identity management.

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AWS Public Sector

JUNE 27, 2024

In this post, we show you how you can push or pull your security telemetry data to the National Cybersecurity Protection System (NCPS) Cloud Log Aggregation Warehouse (CLAW) using Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) or third-party solutions. NCPS recommends delivering logs from the central logging account when possible.

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AWS Public Sector

MARCH 18, 2024

While ASPPH provides many services, members consistently rank the curated data resources published on the Data Center Portal (DCP) as a top benefit. ASPPH’s technical team has built custom web applications that capture and store data in a relational database. The production server stored raw data from multiple sources.

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Open Contracting Partnership

AUGUST 28, 2024

Data-driven monitoring enables citizens to submit high-quality complaints to authorities. Formal guidelines have been introduced in several regions to ensure data-driven audits are conducted to a high standard. There was also a lack of data on the volume and outcome of audits. Semarang City made a similar agreement in 2023.

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AWS Public Sector

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Because of AWS’s scalability, along with using multi-Availability Zones paired with cross-regional data replication, CentralSquare delivers resilience and continuous availability to seamlessly handle demand spikes during emergencies while maintaining high performance, making sure vital services stay operational when they’re needed most.

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AWS Public Sector

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

Across all aspects of healthcare, from diagnostics and imaging to genomics and personalized healthcare, the demands for healthcare data availability, storage, compute, and artificial intelligence (AI) tools are rapidly accelerating. Use a risk-based classification framework with granular examples and guidance.

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FedScoop

APRIL 9, 2024

As the IRS’s Direct File pilot approaches the end of its 2024 runway, a new watchdog report finds that the tax agency’s cost estimates for the program were incomplete and would need “a comprehensive accounting” ahead of a potential takeoff in 2025. We found this as well.

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GovCon Wire

JANUARY 30, 2025

Before you look ahead, however, one question: How did your year-end accounting process go? Was it smooth and painless, or did an inefficient process and disorganized data cause you headaches? By Kim Koster, Vice President of Industry Marketing at Unanet 2024 has come to an end. Youve closed your books and moved on to 2025.

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GovSpend

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Why does it take time to access the prior years spending data? The answer is straightforwardthe data is sourced from the Federal Procurement Data System (fpds.gov), and there is typically a 90-day delay for Department of Defense contract data to become public. In FY24, they accounted for 59.87% ($464.2

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Select GCR

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Preparation steps such as obtaining an EIN/TIN, UEI, and ensuring accurate physical and financial data are essential for a smooth SAM registration process. you’ll also need to provide bank routing and account numbers for Electronic Funds Transfer (EFT). If your entity is based in the U.S.,

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Open Contracting Partnership

MARCH 24, 2025

To answer these questions, civic group ACIJ (Civil Association for Equality and Justice) developed a methodology using open data and citizen participation to monitor progress. They, along with other residents and activists, wanted to track the projects impact: Were the improvements truly benefiting the people?

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FedScoop

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Artificial intelligence-driven algorithms can be used to better forecast models for natural disasters, saving lives and protecting property by rapidly analyzing massive data sets and identifying relevant patterns, a top government watchdog said in a report released Thursday. Natural disasters result in hundreds of U.S.

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GovCon Wire

APRIL 22, 2024

In an opinion piece published

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FedScoop

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

Over the past five years, the Government Accountability Office’s inaugural Innovation Lab director, Taka Ariga, treated the component as something of a startup organization. Next steps As the new top data official at OPM, Ariga will oversee the enterprise data and AI portfolio, including the agency’s chief AI officer.

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