FedScoop

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

As of this July, all 24 Chief Financial Officers Act agencies completed an OMB requirement in its Cloud Smart strategy to ensure that CIOs oversee modernization efforts, according to the Government Accountability Office. Gerry Connolly, D-Va.,

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AWS Public Sector

JANUARY 30, 2025

As illustrated in Figure 1, this enables secure data sharing and collaboration across multiple AWS accounts, teams, and departments. Solution architecture The previous blog post showed a high-level architecture for health data sharing between a data holder and a data user in a Health Data Access Body (HDAB) governed account.

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Capital Edge Consulting

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

Two Quick Ways to Fail DCAA T imekeeping Requirements The federal government is the biggest purchaser of goods and services, so it's important that you have a good grip on your accounting practices. DCAA’s position, as in other cost accounting practices, is that “if it isn’t documented, it didn’t happen.”

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Capital Edge Consulting

AUGUST 23, 2024

Two Quick Ways to Fail DCAA T imekeeping Requirements The federal government is the biggest purchaser of goods and services, so it's important that you have a good grip on your accounting practices. DCAA’s position, as in other cost accounting practices, is that “if it isn’t documented, it didn’t happen.”

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GovSpend

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

In FY24, they accounted for 59.87% ($464.2 Combined, these four categories account for over 54% of all federal contract awards. billion was awarded through these vehicles, accounting for more than 9.5% Why does it take time to access the prior years spending data? Although the total value of awarded contracts decreased by $3.3

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Capital Edge Consulting

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

Two Quick Ways to Fail DCAA T imekeeping Requirements The federal government is the biggest purchaser of goods and services, so it's important that you have a good grip on your accounting practices. DCAA’s position, as in other cost accounting practices, is that “if it isn’t documented, it didn’t happen.”

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FedScoop

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

a top Democratic lawmaker from Silicon Valley says he wants to ensure that workers within the federal government and the private sector have greater control over the deployment of AI and that the economic growth and opportunities that come from the technology are fairly distributed. In an exclusive interview with FedScoop, Rep.

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FedScoop

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

The FBI and Department of Homeland Security’s information-sharing efforts on domestic extremist threats with social media and gaming companies lack an overarching strategy, a Government Accountability Office report found , raising questions about the effectiveness of the agencies’ communications to address violent warnings online.

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The Coalition for Government Procurement

MARCH 14, 2025

The VA has made steady and significant progress in the management and operation of its prime vendor distribution contract and Supply Blanket Purchase Agreements (BPA) for the Medical/Surgical Prime Vendor (MSPV) program. The MSPV program accounts for approximately $700 to $800 million in purchases in support of veterans healthcare.

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AWS Public Sector

OCTOBER 25, 2024

Distributed vs. centralized internet ingress design When designing the internet ingress architecture for your AWS environment, there are two primary approaches to consider: distributed ingress and centralized ingress. Distributed ingress Figure 3 is an architectural diagram of distributed internet ingress using GWLB.

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Capital Edge Consulting

APRIL 10, 2024

Two Quick Ways to Fail DCAA T imekeeping Requirements The federal government is the biggest purchaser of goods and services, so it's important that you have a good grip on your accounting practices. DCAA’s position, as in other cost accounting practices, is that “if it isn’t documented, it didn’t happen.”

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AWS Public Sector

MARCH 19, 2024

On-premises models over-provision to account for spikes and growth, risking underutilized capacity. To fully harness the cloud’s potential, organizations should shift their mindset and adopt procurement processes that let them successfully evaluate options and choose the best solution. Workloads typically follow fluctuating demand curves.

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GovLoop

JUNE 30, 2023

A Government Accountability Office report issued in June 2021 noted that most of the federal government’s $100 billion fiscal year spending on IT went to maintaining and operating existing technology, including old, unsupported systems with known vulnerabilities. Get the report Favorite

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Whistleblower Network News

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

930 million was distributed back to harmed investors. “The On November 14, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced its enforcement results for the 2023 Fiscal Year. Year after year, the SEC Whistleblower Program continues to build on its immense success,” said whistleblower attorney Stephen M.

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FedScoop

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Part of that was driven by new agency mandates issued in an August 2021 White House memo (M-21-31) outlining steps to establish a more mature log management system to detect, investigate and remediate cyber threats on-premises and across increasingly distributed third-party services.

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GovLoop

JULY 11, 2023

One was to be divided among Montana’s 56 counties, based on the same formula used to distribute money collected from the state’s gasoline tax. The map of city and town planned infrastructure projects shows a wide distribution across the state. I think that’s why spatial data works in this regard. Proposals were judged solely on merit.

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AWS Public Sector

JULY 15, 2024

To deploy the described pipeline you will need: Access to an AWS account with sufficient permissions to use AWS Ground Station; The guide in the repository uses the JPSS-1 craft as an example, so you must have it onboarded into your AWS account. You can also get JPSS-1 onboarded to your account for the CPE public beta.

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AWS Public Sector

MAY 17, 2024

This initiates an automated process where AWS Lambda functions and Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) topics facilitate the sharing of these templates with AWS accounts owned by delivery teams. The process enhances review efficiency across accounts by automating milestone setting and workload updates.

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AWS Public Sector

AUGUST 22, 2024

Lire cet article en Français Introduction This post addresses eight common misconceptions about cloud computing held by Canadian public sector organizations. It covers cloud security, cost savings, value beyond expenses, and cloud providers’ investments in Canada. It can be up to 3.8 times more efficient than traditional data centers.

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AWS Public Sector

APRIL 30, 2024

Security and compliance: AWS supports security-sensitive standards like the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) , the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) , and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) 800-171 compliance requirements.

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FedScoop

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

Tools that could make it easier to look up House staffer contact information, create one-page summaries of bills, track inauguration ticket distribution, and build AI apps a la carte were among the many presentations at Congress’s biggest modernization idea-sharing and brainstorming event Thursday.

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Federal News Network

DECEMBER 14, 2023

The bill comes in response to recent sexual harassment allegations at the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC). Compulsory Requirement to Eliminate Employees Who Are Perpetrators of Sexual Assault (CREEPS) Act - Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa)) The IRS is shaking up the structure of its leadership team for the first time in decades.

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Naomi Clews Consultancy

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

​If demand was greater than anticipated or suddenly increased, it would put pressure on the record company to manufacture and distribute more singles. ​I was responsible for my individual budget that included a Profit and Loss (P&L) account. I needed to predict when demand would peak and how fast it would decline.

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Federal Construction Contracting

JULY 25, 2022

The ASBCA reaffirmed its prior holdings that such switching, regardless of whether a time extension was involved, violated applicable Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) cost principles for a single distribution base for allocating a given overhead pool. Among other things, the ASBCA stated that “run-of-the-mill government caused delays….

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AWS Public Sector

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

The migration was frictionless and speedy, with excellent guidance from the AWS account team—working directly alongside our AZDHS leadership,” said Paula Mattingly, chief information officer (CIO) for AZDHS. “The CloudFront provides end users the benefit of a faster distribution of both static and dynamic web content.

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American City & Country

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

However, while distributing agency application infrastructure and workloads among different cloud providers has distinct benefits, it also has specific drawbacks. Local and state governments have increasingly embraced a multi-cloud strategy, providing them with greater resiliency than ever before and helping avoid vendor lock-in.

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AWS Public Sector

OCTOBER 13, 2023

It uses Amazon Forecast to build a time series predictor model for each satellite beam in the ship(s) path, accounting for the impact of weather conditions in a given location. Customers typically purchase satellite bandwidth, measured in MHz, and have some degree of flexibility in the distribution of bandwidth across each of the beams.

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AWS Public Sector

MAY 24, 2024

Alerts with supporting imagery can be rapidly distributed to first responders, providing critical real-time insight into the nature and location of incidents. Cross-agency collaboration In multi-jurisdictional emergencies, effective collaboration between agencies is critical to operational and public safety.

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AWS Public Sector

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Users can deploy the proof-of-concept in their own AWS accounts, and use it as a baseline for the implementation of ground segment architectures to communicate with their own satellites. Traditional ground segment architecture composed of antenna, modem, front end processor, and mission operations software backend.

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American City & Country

AUGUST 26, 2024

Network Distribution can help organizations make sure their hygiene regimes are top-notch and meet all standards and expectations with their expansive portfolio of cleaning and sanitation supplies, as well as their foodservice disposable solutions, available through OMNIA Partners. Encourage a culture of responsibility and accountability.

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AWS Public Sector

AUGUST 26, 2024

This distributed architecture not only enhances performance but also mitigates the risk of service disruptions to prevent uninterrupted access to banking services for members. With data centers strategically located around the world, AWS delivers high availability and reliability, which is essential for the 24/7 nature of financial services.

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AWS Public Sector

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Cyberattacks and cybersecurity regulations In recent years, healthcare organizations have experienced an increase in cyberattacks such as ransomware, unintended data access, and distributed denial of service (DDoS). First, they set up a landing zone , a scalable, secure multi-account AWS environment.

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Whistleblower Network News

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

In a joint letter to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Krupski and Greenspan raised questions about Tesla’s accounting practices. If a table collapsed, workers would be seriously injured or killed. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. whistleblower lawyer and properly report his findings, Krupski could have qualified.

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Public Contracting Institute

APRIL 1, 2024

This groundbreaking technology offers a new level of security, efficiency, and accountability, promising to revolutionize the way government agencies and public sector institutions conduct procurements. Trust Builds trust among stakeholders through a decentralized and transparent system.

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AWS Public Sector

JUNE 22, 2024

Access to AWS GovCloud (US) is restricted to US entities and root account holders who have successfully passed a thorough screening process. To enhance the customer experience and ensure secure access to these workloads, the overseas postings are now exploring hybrid distributed solutions that run closer to the edge.

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GovSpend

MAY 2, 2024

A Look at the Agencies The Department of Veterans Affairs, Health and Human Services, Homeland Security, Department of Agriculture, GSA, and Defense Agencies collectively represent the top 10 agencies awarding contracts to small businesses, accounting for a significant 80.5% or $138.19B. Darley & Co, Global Military Products, Inc.,

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GovLoop

MAY 9, 2023

Distributed Data Makes Protection More Complex While hackers, ransomware and insider attacks are attention-grabbing threats, data is also vulnerable to more mundane risks — accidental deletions, misconfigurations, file corruption, failed hardware. And as that data becomes more distributed, it’s harder to protect.”

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