AWS Public Sector

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

This post discusses the management of AWS in higher education institutions, emphasizing governance to securely foster innovation without compromising security and detailing policies and responsibilities for managing AWS accounts across projects and research. These OUs help apply management controls like service control policies (SCPs).

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FedScoop

OCTOBER 1, 2024

As artificial intelligence continues transforming the federal government, agencies are investing in innovative AI applications to enhance mission effectiveness, security and efficiency. According to Berntsen, DOD is also investing heavily in computing power and upskilling personnel to meet AI’s growing demands.

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AWS Public Sector

JULY 31, 2024

Lire cet article en Français The potential of open data to transform governance and public services is immense, but realizing this potential requires overcoming common obstacles. Advancing data governance and stewardship practices to build trust and enable secure data sharing between departments, including safeguarding privacy.

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AWS Public Sector

MAY 7, 2024

As demand and usage grew, ASTERRA faced limitations when needing to process and manage increasingly large volumes of data efficiently and to provide timely and dependable results to their customers. To scale dynamically based on customer demand, ASTERRA migrated these workloads to AWS.

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Inter-American Development Bank

AUGUST 1, 2023

The COVID-19 pandemic had a very large impact on government finances. As governments saw their revenues reduced and their expenditures increased to cope with the health and social emergencies, the public debt rapidly mounted. Governments have several policy options to achieve these goals.

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WashngtonExec

APRIL 10, 2025

Mandy Walter-Beam, Two Six Technologies As vice president of contracts and procurement at Two Six Technologies, Mandy Walter-Beam helps to shape the company’s strategic direction, foster growth and lead the complex world of compliance in government contracting. I know the stakes, because Ive lived them. We aim to be a force multiplier.

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GovLoop

JULY 15, 2024

During the latest Mangement Minutes with Mika recording, Mika Cross, Workforce Transformation Expert and Alex Tremble, Author, Leadership Expert and Podcast Host, discussed the top challenges facing middle managers in government today. Below are a few key takeaways from that discussion, and you can watch the entire video on demand now.

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Inter-American Development Bank

JANUARY 12, 2024

The COVID-19 pandemic underscored the critical role of flexibility in fiscal governance. These clauses, designed to provide temporary flexibility from strict fiscal targets during crises, aim to strike a balance between upholding fiscal rules and effectively responding to unexpected circumstances.

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AWS Public Sector

JULY 10, 2024

The system uses AWS-powered AI decision making to handle highly complex and dynamic satellite tasking requirements, and demanding mission requirements. Using AWS ML services, the platform balances customer order priority, fleet, spacecraft, and system constraints to optimize collection planning and link management.

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AWS Public Sector

JUNE 10, 2024

This is especially problematic in public sector organizations as they work to balance finite resources against a growing demand for mission impact. The AWS CMA consists of 77 questions that measure capabilities across six perspectives (business, people, governance, platform, operations, and security).

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Federal News Network

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

While fiscal 2023 isn’t available yet, HigherGov, a government market intelligence company, estimates that DoD had over 1,200 active OTAs worth about $23.6 Unlike some traditional contracting methods, OTAs demand constant oversight and active participation. Between 2016 and 2022, DoD took 15,000 OTA actions worth about $70 billion.

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AWS Public Sector

OCTOBER 3, 2023

This is particularly valuable in times of crisis or when there’s a need to respond swiftly to constituent demands. Government agencies use Amazon EKS and Amazon ECS to build and maintain citizen service portals, offering streamlined access to various public services, such as tax filing, permit applications, and social welfare programs.

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ivalua

MARCH 11, 2020

Companies will face a variety of short and long-term challenges, such as balancing the effects of downward prices, output cuts, movement of demand to alternative energy sources, heavy capital investment for new capacity, complex government regulations and rising operating costs.

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FedScoop

JULY 23, 2024

Like prior technological innovations, the adoption of AI technology does not necessarily demand sweeping regulatory changes,” Zecca said. “We We support leveraging NIST to coordinate across the government.” Calling U.S.

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Open Contracting Partnership

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

At first glance, procurement might seem like a purely behind-the-scenes function, its quality measured by efficiency and transparency; but, in reality, procurement is about how government delivers for people. Struggling to pay bills, to save, and to believe that government can work for them. It can support robust, inclusive economies.

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AWS Public Sector

OCTOBER 19, 2023

The DFS on AWS solution delivers to customers a secure identity aggregation, data access, and data governance-at-scale solution which is optimal for large-to-enterprise use cases. Automated containerized deployment: DFS on AWS provides an automated, turnkey deployment of identity unification, data access, and governance capabilities.

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AWS Public Sector

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Transforming mobility is a central policy lever for European governments to drive their sustainable growth and economic recovery agenda: transport contributes to around 5% of the European Union (EU) gross domestic product (GDP) , employs more than 10 million people , but also accounts for around 25% of the EU’s greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.

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AWS Public Sector

MARCH 21, 2024

Yaara Tam, head of multinational organizations, and Barbara Baeyens, head of Benelux, announced the launch of new AWS learning plans for civil servants , specifically designed for European Union (EU) government agencies to help government employees build cloud skills and accelerate digital transformation.

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The Procurement School

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

These changes require national and international interventions by business and thought leaders and governments. An unfettered free market does not want any government intervention. We acknowledge that government intervention is necessary to enforce responsible business practices.

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AWS Public Sector

JULY 16, 2024

EVe encountered challenges in consolidating near real-time data from diverse and disparate sources, such as charge point operators and government data platforms. These visualizations are embedded into a web application powered by Amazon ECS Fargate containers fronted by an Application Load Balancer (ALB).

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Open Contracting Partnership

DECEMBER 6, 2023

The government wanted to shift that to 100% by 2023. The government took three key steps: i) careful planning for the green transition; ii) implementing green public procurement (GPP) in practice with a focus on building the capacity of public buyers; and iii) learning powered by data-driven monitoring with a public dashboard.

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GovLoop

DECEMBER 22, 2022

With virtual government no longer hypothetical, agencies must decide how they will balance collaborating, operating and training in person and virtually. Every agency’s response depends on different factors, including budget restraints, workforce demands and available technology. Creativity can come from those constraints.

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GovLoop

JANUARY 19, 2023

We say the best employee is one that can go from one agency to another, and the best employee is one that can go out of government into industry and later come back in.” Work-life balance is so important to millennials,” he said. Work-life balance is so important to millennials,” he said.

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Federal News Network

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

government. You know, their business model, their profit margins, their market demand, their volume, their scene, etc. And often what you see in these larger, I’ll call them acquisitions or procurements, when large governments or large companies, there’s a sense of risk aversion. We are doing business with the U.S.

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How to Crack a Nut

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

The importance and positive contribution of public procurement law to the adequate management of public funds may seem difficult to appreciate in ordinary times, and there are recurrent calls for a reduction of the administrative burden and bureaucracy related to procurement procedures, checks and balances.

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American City & Country

OCTOBER 29, 2024

As procurement professionals, you are constantly balancing tight budgets, increasing demands, and the need to streamline operations. This flexibility makes our solution ideal for public sector agencies, schools, government facilities, and any agency with evolving needs.

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Federal News Network

OCTOBER 21, 2024

That timeline is basically unheard of in the world of large federal ID/IQ contracts, which typically take the government years to plan and award. Some of the other changes in the latest draft solicitation: The Army will open the contract up to vendors who’ve never worked for the government before.

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ivalua

APRIL 3, 2019

This tips the advantage to platform technologies, especially those that balance the rapid deployment of best practices with the flexibility to enable additional scope or functionality over time. If, on the other hand, rules-driven governance and usage based on relevant past experience is available, quick value is still a possibility.

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The Procurement School

AUGUST 21, 2024

Due to workload demands, internal procurement staff have limited ability to provide timely input on projects which are running concurrently. Policy challenges: Staffing time is consumed on a daily basis, meeting the demand for the ongoing requisite goods and services. Outsourcing deliberations demand a measured business case.

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Tracker Intelligence

AUGUST 4, 2022

It works Microsoft Japan, in 2019, tested a shorter working week programme titled “ Work-Life Choice Challenge ” in which it gave 2,300 of their employees the opportunity to adopt flexible working patterns that, as you’ve probably guessed, improved their work-life balance. Source: metro.co.uk) But is now really the right time?

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The Procurement School

JUNE 25, 2023

While there are many similarities, the nuances of public legislation and free trade requirements create a procurement environment that is more regulated, demands a greater level of transparency, and requires vigilance to stay on top of the constantly changing landscape. This is particularly true for sub-federal entities.

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ivalua

APRIL 27, 2023

The question is, how do you balance all three while maintaining continuous operations and generating revenue at the same time? Gaps and dysfunction in the supply chains and a lack of visibility are making it difficult to support Environment, Social, and Governance (ESG) initiatives. Those are three hot topics in the enterprise today.

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University of Bristol

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

In the absence of as yet unlikely developments in the explainability of AI, legal requirements will continue to demand the presence of a ‘human-in-the-loop’ or, at the very least, an actively involved ‘human-over-the-loop’ in all AI anti-corruption procurement solutions.

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ivalua

JANUARY 27, 2021

Top-performing AP organizations, he said, have matured in seven areas: human capital, service partnering, organizational design, governance, technology, service design and analytics. Partners: Top performers have found a balance between doing things in-house and outsourcing.

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Open Contracting Partnership

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

We are also very pleased that we achieved one of the closest gender balances in survey responses last year, closing the gap between Men and Women from a 22% differential in 2022, to an 11% differential in 2023. Across the last five years, this puts us at an average of Net Promoter 82, exceeding our strategy cycle target of 80.

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GovLoop

AUGUST 17, 2022

Successful DevSecOps transformation means striking the right balance within your organization. DevSecOps is a practice that demands patience to discover the tools, workflows, feedback mechanisms and pace that work for you. Don’t mistake speed for success. You might be able to deploy to production quickly, but security could be lacking.

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AWS Public Sector

AUGUST 13, 2024

Amazon EC2 provides a broad spectrum of purpose-built instance types, enabling organizations to tailor their compute resources to the specific demands of their workloads. 8xlarge with 2 TB storage, selected for their balance of compute, memory, and storage resources. Specifically, all machines were r5a.8xlarge

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