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FBI’s AI efforts face funding and workforce barriers, OIG finds

FedScoop

The funding issues the FBI faces manifest themselves in two primary areas: procurement, and data architecture and IT infrastructure. Intelligence Community agencies do have R&D budgets, while the bureau has had to rely on one-off requests to ODNI. An FBI official told the OIG that other U.S.

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Smart Public Procurement for Better Public Spending in Latin America and the Caribbean

Inter-American Development Bank

Public procurement spending accounted for an average of 30% of total public spending across the region [1] and as much as 74% of that spending is wasted due to inefficiencies [2] , according to data from FISLAC , an analytics platform developed by the IDB’s Fiscal Management Division (FMM). of GDP, according to FISLAC calculations.

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White House, VA launch new website to protect veterans from fraud

FedScoop

VSAFE combines resources from across the federal government — including the Department of Education, the Federal Trade Commission, the Internal Revenue Service, the Office of Management and Budget and others — to ensure there is no “wrong door” for veterans and service members to access tools and information to fight scam attempts.

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Scale Up Your Agency’s Success

GovLoop

Agencies have a lot of data to manage and that can get costly – it’s estimated that 45% or more of all enterprise IT spending will be used toward public cloud solutions by 2026. Strategic planning: Agencies can struggle to keep IT current, especially with recent supply chain issues.

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Tax watchdog says IRS hasn’t completed key IPv6 modernization requirements

FedScoop

Office of Management and Budget guidance released in 2020 called on federal agencies to migrate to IPv6 across all information systems and services. The next month, the IRS added a document to track asset transitions to IPv6, though that plan “was not approved by the Chief Technology Officer as required.”

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B2Gov: Meet the open data bundlers turning binners into winners

Open Contracting Partnership

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. They currently service 30 clients in Latin America.

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Creating Trust and Inclusion at Your Agency: NextGen Speakers Explain How

GovLoop

The Office of Personnel Management charged federal agencies to develop and implement diversity, equity, inclusion and accessibility (DEIA) plans. At AmeriCorps, that meant embedding DEIA in human resources and strategic plans and engaging with all stakeholders. “We Forward-leaning organizations commit to fostering inclusivity.