Inter-American Development Bank

MARCH 8, 2024

This was the topic of the event Racial Equity Budgeting: Lessons from the United States and Brazil , which was organized by the Inter-American Development Bank and took place in September 2023. We discussed how racial equity budgeting works and how cities and states are applying this instrument to reduce racial inequality.

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FedScoop

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Guidance from the Department of Commerce aimed at establishing a first-of-its-kind framework for using the agency’s public federal data with artificial intelligence tools could come in the next several months. That initial search was an effort to see what was already out there in terms of AI-ready data guidance, according to Houed. “We

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GovLoop

JANUARY 24, 2023

“What people are expecting is personalized, online, digital services for those things that can be digitized,” said Charlie Francis, Senior Consultant at Questica, which provides multi-user budgeting, performance measures, transparency and data visualization software for governments.

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FedScoop

JUNE 20, 2024

Harada said OFPP, which is housed within the Office of Management and Budget, envisions the new tool dovetailing with the existing RFI process that agencies currently use within the Federal Register. We’re not telling agency CDOs what to do in their data strategy within their agencies,” Wilson said.

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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 And with an unthinkable amount of data in the world, errors are inevitable with outdated IT.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

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Agencies looking to establish hybrid data centers need comprehensive security strategies that set realistic time frames and are mapped to their respective budgets. A hybrid data center relies on cloud, software-defined networking and virtualization technologies to distribute applications across physical and multicloud environments.

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Inside Government Contracts

AUGUST 23, 2023

The House also recognized that OTAs and Middle Tier of Acquisition awards (“MTAs”) pathways have accelerated rapid fielding of resources to meet military needs but more data are needed to study and assess production utility of OTAs and MTAs.

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GovSpend

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

On October 17th, Paige Mockler and Kathryn Sanders hosted a webinar highlighting exciting product and data enhancements and upcoming releases to the GovSpend platform. This tool allows users to visualize the vast data sets available on the platform, narrowing them down to the state level. million contacts. million contacts.

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American City & Country

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

By examining organizational objectives, identifying pain points, and prioritizing security around their most critical data sets, workloads and operations first, agencies will be better enabled to achieve quick but lasting wins on the road to Zero Trust. But progress doesn’t require an immediate, large-scale overhaul.

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FedScoop

AUGUST 14, 2024

Few agency workers across the federal government are more closely and publicly associated with their area of expertise than Ted Kaouk is with data. So hopefully it gives a sense of the volume of data that we’re managing.” That data, Kaouk said, is what helps the CFTC oversee market participants. derivatives markets. “So

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FedScoop

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

A bipartisan bill that aims to enhance the Congressional Research Service’s access to executive branch data was passed by the House of Representatives Monday via voice vote as lawmakers seek to assist their support agencies. The Modernizing the Congressional Research Service’s Access to Data Act ( H.R. CRS is a case-in-point,” Rep.

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FedScoop

AUGUST 1, 2024

Atlanta and New York City and co-sponsored by Microsoft and OpenAI, was part of the agency’s efforts to get the federal government to open up authoritative data and set it up for usability, GSA Administrator Robin Carnahan told reporters in D.C. Protecting data and privacy were top priorities, Shive said. “We

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FedInsider

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Despite being rich in data, many agencies are lagging in the data modernization needed to support AI – and combining incomplete or inaccurate data with AI can lead to hallucinations , ultimately placing mission delivery at stake.

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GovLoop

JUNE 9, 2023

Discussions about the value of an enterprise approach to data governance often miss an important point: The difference it actually makes to anyone outside the IT department or the chief data officer’s (CDO) team. I thought about that while listening to a recent GovLoop virtual event on data virtualization.

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FedScoop

JULY 5, 2024

Now armed with a robust artificial intelligence use case inventory and a splashy new data-tracking tool , SSA’s technology leaders feel especially bullish about where they stand in their digital journey. For a “data rich” agency like SSA, Brown said it made sense to O’Malley to give website users the ability to “see that granular data.”

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Government Contracts

APRIL 17, 2024

The Office of Management and Budget's new guidelines for agency collection of data on race and ethnicity reflect societal changes and the concerns of certain demographics, but implementation may be significantly burdensome for agencies and employers, say Joanna Colosimo and Bill Osterndorf at DCI Consulting.

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GovLoop

MAY 10, 2024

In Part 1 , we told you about some of the ways government agencies are using data to make a difference. But data — collected regularly — helps agencies compete by enabling them to monitor trends and plan. To foster a healthy and productive workforce, effective data analysis : Integrates disparate HR systems and eliminates data silos.

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FedInsider

AUGUST 16, 2024

When the federal government adopts Zero Trust principles, it must consider both user identity and the data being accessed. To view this webinar: Zero Trust: Protecting Both Data and Identity. BigID enables organizations to know their enterprise data and take action for privacy, protection, and perspective.

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GovSpend

APRIL 29, 2024

Delving into data is a passion of mine. Whether analyzing financials, customer KPIs, marketing data, or federal spending data, I rely on data for not just monitoring the performance of our business and our government, but for making informed decisions with real-time information.

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Open Contracting Partnership

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

Her passion for helping others understand government contracting led her to join forces with data scientist Marcelo Blanco and establish B2Gov. The system works by collecting public procurement data and structuring it in the Open Contracting Data Standard (OCDS) format. Diegues says.

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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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GovLoop

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Governments at all levels store and consume enormous amounts of data, and they use the information to affect the way we live, the things we do and enjoy, and the challenges we face. And that’s a massive, massive problem — to [sort] through that data and figure out what you can and cannot do with it,” he said. Follow the 80/20 Rule.

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Government Contracts & Global Trade

AUGUST 21, 2024

A recent data breach became public following a class action filed in the Southern District of Florida. But yes, this should clearly be a situation where people are seeing what is happening and taking appropriate precautions and not leaving the data in a manner that it is apparently easily exposed.

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AWS Public Sector

JUNE 6, 2024

Unifying data sources to gain a more complete picture of football fans Pitt knew they wanted to start with a project focused on enhancing fan engagement. Richard Turnquist, assistant athletic director of data and analytics, was interested in how the department could use analytics to drive the department’s budget and financial goals. “We

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AWS Public Sector

JANUARY 11, 2024

Louis University ‘s (SLU) Sinquefield Center for Applied Economic Research (SCAER) required vast quantities of anonymized cell phone data in order to study the impacts of large-scale social problems like homelessness and access to healthcare. Finding a reliable data supplier was relatively simple. Cleaning the data.

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GovLoop

MAY 3, 2023

Flash also is much denser, storing the same volume of data in a smaller system. That’s why Pure Storage offers an integrated data platform with an operating system called Purity that manages that complexity. Being able to scale granularly where you need it can help with budgets,” Alexander said. But that can be a waste of money.

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GovLoop

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Agencies might have a wide variety of technological innovations to choose from, but for Nick Psaki at Pure Storage, those reforms all come down to one thing: data. Digital transformation fundamentally starts with your data,” Psaki said. Speed: People need faster access to data, so agencies need systems that deliver that.

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AWS Public Sector

OCTOBER 30, 2023

The challenge of becoming a data-driven organization Organizations deal with ever-growing data volumes. This means that growth-minded businesses must put data at the heart of every application, process, and decision. percent of companies describe themselves as data-driven , and a mere 20.6

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Federal News Network

DECEMBER 5, 2023

When it comes to data on bid protests, the data is lacking to say the least. So instead of being able to manage on a proactive basis using the data, which by the way they already collect, they just don’t put it in a place where they can use it. The protest process is important to manage the procurement process.

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American City & Country

OCTOBER 24, 2024

In an era characterized by workforce shortages, limited budgets and escalating demands for rapid service delivery, government agencies are frequently hampered by antiquated technology infrastructures that AI-driven technologies are tactfully modernizing. where funding was realigned to support shifting priorities effectively.

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FedTech Magazine

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

With an annual budget exceeding $7 billion, the NCI funds investigative work in everything from cancer genomics to the disease’s detection, diagnosis and treatment. The NCI’s IT division, where Janelle Cortner is director of the Data Management and Analysis Program, is responsible for managing and securing much of the…

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GovLoop

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Pittsburgh was turned down — it met only four of the program’s 23 required criteria — but rather than walk away, thinking that certification was an impossible dream, the city dusted itself off and worked hard to change its entire data mindset. The city was certified in March 2022. Here’s how officials did it. Find Partners and Learn Together.

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GovLoop

JUNE 22, 2023

That’s why Pure Storage offers an integrated data platform with an operating system called Purity that manages that complexity, said Matthew Alexander, Field Solutions Architect at Pure Storage, which provides flash-based storage solutions. Flash also is much denser, storing the same volume of data in a smaller system.

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FedInsider

MARCH 7, 2024

Mountains of data and Artificial intelligence are impacting every aspect of all federal agencies. This is the perfect example of how using data & AI will help all federal agencies in the three methods we explore: We’ll explore identity management on the large scale, advances made, and the challenge of digital credentials.

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FedScoop

OCTOBER 29, 2024

The Federal Trade Commission expects to make its first artificial intelligence use case inventory public before 2025, according to Mark Gray, the agency’s chief information, AI and data officer. Additionally, Gray said the FTC is moving to apply its existing data governance structure to AI governance.

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Open Contracting Partnership

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Approach: The new director of the procurement agency led the development of a data-driven corruption risk monitoring system and worked with a reform team to strengthen the institutional capacity of government buyers, improve cross-agency coordination and increase collaboration with civil society.

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ExecutiveBiz

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Marine Corps improve financial reporting and achieve audit readiness through the adoption of intelligent automation and data analytics tools.

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