Whistleblower Network News

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

His case thus underscores the restrictions of SEC’s parameters to qualify as a whistleblower and the need for employee education on these rules. In a joint letter to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Krupski and Greenspan raised questions about Tesla’s accounting practices.

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AWS Public Sector

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

In this blog post, we’ll take key announcements from re:Invent and apply them to relevant K12 education use cases. From generative artificial intelligence (AI) to cost optimization, AWS can support your school, district, or educational service agency and enhance both the classroom and administrative experience.

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Open Contracting Partnership

MARCH 24, 2025

The facility has been expanded with an additional floor for more classrooms and educational services. Now renamed Rutaafter Lithuanias national flower, also cherished in Ukrainian folklorethe new kindergarten is more than just a building; its a symbol of hope.

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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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USFCR

JUNE 27, 2024

Before his tenure at USFCR, Toby worked as an accountant, leveraging his financial acumen to provide precise account management. His education in hospitality has honed his customer service skills, making it his strongest asset.

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AWS Public Sector

JANUARY 10, 2025

It enables government agencies, educational institutions, and healthcare providers to modernize their IT infrastructure while adhering to strict data sovereignty, security, and compliance requirements. Outposts already provides robust capabilities for resource sharing in multi-account environments.

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AWS Public Sector

MAY 22, 2024

Enter Kokomo24/7 , a health and safety software education technology (EdTech) platform committed to creating safer schools and communities. The EdTech credits its partnership with AWS for allowing it to rapidly scale while remaining affordable for K12 and higher education. Learn more by visiting the AWS Cloud for EdTech hub.

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Capital Edge Consulting

AUGUST 14, 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

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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Accountability Government Government Internal Control 52

Public Contracting Institute

JULY 8, 2024

Introduction to CAS 405 and Unallowable Costs In the complex world of government contracting, understanding and properly accounting for unallowable costs as per Cost Accounting Standard (CAS) 405 is crucial for success. Staying Updated: CAS 405 and Regulatory Changes The regulatory landscape of government contracting is ever-evolving.

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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.”

Accountability 52

Accountability Internal Control Distribution Consulting 52

FedScoop

JUNE 18, 2024

The Government Accountability Office in September 2022 tasked the SBA with fully defining and documenting a process to ensure that the agency’s top privacy official is “involved in assessing and addressing the hiring, training, and professional development needs of the agency with respect to privacy.”

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AWS Public Sector

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

The CIC uses emerging technologies to solve real-world problems and has produced more than 50 prototypes in sectors like healthcare, education, and research. The Centre’s work has involved 300-plus AWS accounts across various groups, including external collaborators, UBC staff, students, and researchers.

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AWS Public Sector

APRIL 3, 2024

Personalized learning is a pressing challenge in modern education due to the diverse learning needs of students and the limited resources available to educators. Watch the fifth episode of the AWS Behind the Cloud vodcast to learn more about how generative AI is influencing the global education space.

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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.”

Accountability 52

Accountability Internal Control Distribution Consulting 52

FedScoop

OCTOBER 3, 2024

The reporting that agencies are required by a 2018 law to do on various website and digital services benchmarks is often incomplete and inconsistent, according to a new report from the Government Accountability Office.

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ivalua

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Why does Accounts Payable Need Heroes? In Accounts Payable, it’s the Supplier inquiry. According to Walden, they provide a great opportunity for educating suppliers on how to interact effectively with your organization. When the pressure is on the last thing you need is that unwanted distraction.

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AWS Public Sector

MARCH 22, 2024

In this blog post we show how Pearson PLC , an AWS education technology (EdTech) customer, successfully implemented resilient architectures through chaos engineering using AWS Fault Injection Service (FIS). Afterwards, the Pearson team uses CloudWatch to check the performance of the application during the experiment.

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Select GCR

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

you’ll also need to provide bank routing and account numbers for Electronic Funds Transfer (EFT). How to Create a SAM.gov Account The initial step in the registration journey is creating a SAM.gov account. Setting up multi-factor authentication (MFA) adds an extra layer of security to your account.

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AWS Public Sector

DECEMBER 3, 2024

In this post, I would like to share how two AWS Partners, Ness and CloudThat , used the Generative AI TTM to drive innovation and accelerate their generative AI journeys, benefiting government agencies and education customers. They leveraged AWS generative AI funding to reduce costs and demonstrate solutions for their customers.

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FedScoop

MAY 24, 2024

During a House Oversight and Accountability Committee hearing Wednesday, Office of Personnel Management Director Rob Shriver responded to mostly Republican concerns about federal telework policies by citing the practice’s usefulness with the cybersecurity workforce in advancing agency missions. Matt Bracken contributed to this story.

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Whistleblower Network News

MARCH 22, 2024

Senator Chuck Grassley (R-IA) kicked off Sunshine Week on March 11 with remarks on the Senate floor about the importance of whistleblowers in promoting transparency and accountability. In his remarks, Grassley stressed that “to control a government as big as ours, it takes a lot of very bright light shining on every agency and office.”

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WashngtonExec

MARCH 26, 2025

He is also a Marine, founder of a federal contracting company and executive in higher education cybersecurity. Since joining Leidos, he has collaborated closely with account teams and government customers. His background spans AI, software, cybersecurity and leadership in government and private sectors.

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FedScoop

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

The AI Research, Innovation and Accountability Act of 2023 , introduced Wednesday by Sens. The bill would also require the department to establish a working group to offer recommendations for a voluntary, industry-led consumer education effort for AI systems. John Thune, R-S.D., Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn.,

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AWS Public Sector

APRIL 30, 2024

Over the next few years, the initiative intends to recruit up to 60 new faculty, create a community of scholars, develop AI-focused educational programs, and advance the ethical use of AI. This highlights the deep commitment of AWS to furthering innovation in higher education and pushing the boundaries of what is possible in cloud computing.

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AWS Public Sector

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Conducted by Accenture, the Realizing a Cloud-enabled Economy: How Cloud Drives Economic and Societal Impact through Micro, Small, and Medium-Sized Businesses report reveals that MSMEs in the healthcare, education, and agriculture sectors are expected to unlock up to US$161B in annual productivity gains and support 95.8

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FedScoop

JUNE 5, 2024

That Shark Tank format, which the agency has noted it’s used previously, allows the FBI to educate its organization about its efforts to explore the technology in a “safe and secure way,” centralize use cases, and get outcomes it can explain to leadership. That means that when we deploy and build something, it has to be sustainable.”

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AWS Public Sector

MARCH 11, 2024

These templates are deployed across AWS workload accounts, the security account (capture memory, artifacts), and the forensic account (investigate and analyze). Analyze – Securely snapshot and share the volumes associated with the Amazon EC2 instance for investigation in the forensic account.

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AWS Public Sector

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

And the team was impressed with the work AWS has done with other education technology (EdTech) companies, such as Metis and Gaggle. The app’s other purpose is to provide educators access to individual students’ “mental health report cards,” which are based on their activity and responses in the app.

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American City & Country

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

Education: Awareness is the first line of defense. This makes it much harder for cybercriminals to hack your accounts. Strong Passwords: Make sure your passwords are complex and unique for each account, and regularly changed. Using the same or similar password for multiple accounts makes you more susceptible to identity theft.

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AWS Public Sector

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Education institutions, though, face slightly different decision-making contexts when evaluating which cloud provider to use to host these applications. The value of data and innovation Three of Educause’s 2023 Top 10 IT issues (“ #4: Smooth Sailing for the Student Experience” , ” #7. Moving from Data Insight to Data Action “, and ” #10.

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AWS Public Sector

OCTOBER 22, 2024

The Amazon Web Services (AWS) Skills to Jobs Tech Alliance in France brings together education institutions such as Epitech , ECE Paris , CPE, Lyon , ENSITECH , PST&B , HETIC , DSTI , Datascientest ; community organizations such as France Travail , Numeum ; and employers such as Apside and Capgemini.

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American City & Country

AUGUST 28, 2024

The fiscal cliff can lead to a range of negative outcomes that diminish community quality of life, strain household finances and stifle economic growth, including: Reduced services: Local governments may be forced to cut essential services, including public safety, education, transportation and social services.

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FedInsider

JANUARY 24, 2024

Carahsoft is registered with the National Association of State Boards of Accountancy (NASBA) as a sponsor of continuing professional education of the National Registry of CPE Sponsors. State boards of accountancy have final authority in the acceptance of individual courses for CPE credit.

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Federal News Network

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

But the president and CEO of Crystal Star Associates , an accounting and financial consultancy in Ellicott City, Maryland, has learned since starting his business in 2011 — while also in graduate school — that to grow requires never standing still. . #3: He knew there were many small medical and dental offices that needed accounting help.

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Federal News Network

JUNE 20, 2024

The fund is also backing a Bureau of Indian Education project to modernize school websites for tribal communities. Transportation officials told the Government Accountability Office (GAO) that the agency will finalize the plan by September.

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Transportation Transportation Networking Data 119

FedScoop

MARCH 1, 2024

Spira said the agency is approaching generative tools with discussions about accountability and best practices, such as not inputting private information into tools like ChatGPT or other public large language models. In addition to exploration, the SEC is also educating its staff on AI.

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