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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Budget Collaboration Finance Balance 52

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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Budget Capacity Education Participation 52

Federal News Network

MARCH 5, 2024

Even as Congress takes up spending bills for a fiscal year already half over, budget watchers are preparing for release of the administration’s 2025 wish list. With all the votes in the president’s budget. So, there’s really a lot of interest in what’s in this FY 25 budget.

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Budget Professional Services Contract Integrity 52

FedTech Magazine

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Top intelligence officials stressed the importance of partnerships — whether the collaboration be with other agencies, allies, academia or industry — in talks Monday at the 2023 Department of Defense Intelligence Information System Worldwide Conference in Portland, Ore. “We’re talking about leveraging emerging technologies,” said Lt.

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Federal News Network

OCTOBER 25, 2023

And that’s really important so that federal agencies and Congress and others can have accurate information about the extent to which the required E-Verify clause is being included in federal contracts. Rebecca Gambler Yes, this is a really important point from our report, Tom. Tom Temin Yes. Rebecca Gambler That’s right.

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FedScoop

JANUARY 26, 2024

The White House Office of Management and Budget is looking for input on how federal agency privacy impact assessments could more effectively mitigate risks as technologies, such as artificial intelligence, become more advanced. Existing privacy risks are escalating, and new privacy risks are emerging,” OMB said in the request. “It

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Impact Assessment Transparency Budget Import 109

FedScoop

AUGUST 29, 2024

Coming off the release of long-awaited FedRAMP modernization guidance last month, the White House is now considering how to navigate its technology budgeting needs in a “rigorous and thoughtful way,” the federal government’s top IT official said Thursday.

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American City & Country

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Cross-departmental collaboration and scalable solutions are important to maximizing ROI and adapting to changing citizen demands within budget constraints.” Additionally, it’s important to plan for the entire product lifecycle, factoring in system maintenance, upgrades and eventual replacement when considering budget constraints.”

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Purchasing Total Cost of Ownership Government Government 110

FedScoop

APRIL 25, 2024

“As a former refugee officer who used to travel all over the world to determine which refugee officers can receive protection in the United States, I am keenly aware of the life-and-death importance of that mission.” Notably, the department’s components are already using myriad forms of AI, according to the agency’s AI Inventory.

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FedScoop

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Charles Clancy, MITRE’s senior vice president and chief technology officer, said in a statement that AI has the potential to transform government services and “address important challenges ranging from improving resilience of critical infrastructure to making Medicare sustainable.”

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American City & Country

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

A holistic approach to cybersecurity Zero Trust also prioritizes some of the basic cyber hygiene practices that agencies can start now without needing to invest in people or budgets. Agencies can start by mapping enterprise traffic. They should investigate: What connections exist on their network?

Budget 63

Budget Networking Ethics Government 63

FedScoop

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

Federal agencies across the government have posted their plans to comply with an Office of Management and Budget memo on artificial intelligence governance, providing a window into what risk management and reporting practices will look like in the executive branch. The plans come as several other deadlines are approaching under the AI memo.

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Inventory Risk Management Export Budget 112

FedScoop

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Bureau personnel told the OIG that the lack of a research and development budget makes procurement especially challenging, given that staffers are largely unable to test unproven AI tools that could aid missions. Intelligence Community agencies do have R&D budgets, while the bureau has had to rely on one-off requests to ODNI.

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Utilities Strategic Planning Budget Inventory 97

FedScoop

APRIL 1, 2024

Hamilton, who previously served as a cybersecurity policy analyst with the Office of Management and Budget, pointed to the 2021 breach of a water treatment plant in Oldsmar, Fla., By having humans monitoring these systems as well as what we’ve talked about with the importance of the automation, it’s going to come into play.”

Inventory 116

Inventory Import Balance Budget 116

FedScoop

JULY 11, 2024

“From the pandemic to Russia’s attack on Ukraine and other global conflicts, the last few years have taught us just how important a secure domestic supply chain is to America’s national security,” Cornyn said in a statement provided in the release.

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Electronics Purchasing Supply Chain Manufacturing 96

AWS Public Sector

DECEMBER 1, 2023

The importance of inclusion There are 1.5 Not all citizens have the same ability to identify and digest the information that’s important to them, so councils have to invest in alternative versions of documents in a format known as Easy Read. This was as important to us as the technology collaboration.

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Import Demand Budget Evaluation 115

FedScoop

MAY 17, 2024

President Joe Biden’s proposed budget seeks an increase for NSF, bringing its funding from $9.06 Notably, those funding levels fell short of what lawmakers previously authorized to carry out the work of the CHIPS and Science Act, which was signed into law in 2022 to boost U.S. billion in the fiscal year 2024 appropriations to $10.18

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Budget Innovation Import IT 104

Federal News Network

OCTOBER 3, 2024

Jason Miller is the deputy director for management at the Office of Management and Budget. As federal spending on AI increases, this guidance is not only an important framework for protecting the public from potential harms but for encouraging responsible AI practices throughout the AI marketplace more broadly,” Anex-Ries said.

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Federal News Network

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Once the form is finalized, the Office of Management and Budget has directed agencies to begin collecting the form from their software vendors. Goldstein called the attestation form “a step down a road, and incremental one at that, but still an important measure to ensure that we are adopting the right approaches.”

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AWS Public Sector

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

This perspective defines a project management office, the importance of cloud-specific governance reviews, and the value in applying an agile approach to cloud projects. What is the solution and most important customer benefit? Managing costs – Select tools that help track and manage project resources to keep the budget on track.

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GovSpend

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

By interrogating hours of meeting transcripts with prompts that have been finely tuned for government contracting use cases, we can distill these meetings down to relevant, actionable bullet points that highlight the things you care about: purchasing decisions, budget discussions, and RFP planning and review.

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Purchasing Budget Data Price 101

FedScoop

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

The point of the project, Fretwell told FedScoop, was to show how well the government was performing on certain important aspects of web page operations. government appears to be on par with other organizations, like academic institutions and nonprofits, that have limited budgets for IT and competing priorities, Woods added.

Government 94

Government Government Engineering Education 94

FedScoop

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

It also has other components, including directions for the Office of Management and Budget to test those guidelines with one federal agency and to implement reporting guidelines for drone security vulnerabilities. Federal agencies would also be forbidden from buying drones that don’t meet these guidelines without a waiver.

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Evaluation Utilities Manufacturing Budget 102

The Procurement ClassRoom

MAY 11, 2024

This discussion delves into the importance of these principles, examining both the goals to be achieved (effectiveness) and the optimal use of resources (efficiency). Introduction In public procurement , effectiveness and efficiency are crucial for achieving optimal results using public resources judiciously.

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Public Procurement Efficiency Procurement Management 98

FedScoop

MAY 22, 2024

” That’s particularly important, she said, as the Office of Management and Budget in draft guidance issued last fall pushes to modernize FedRAMP — short for the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program — with more of a focus placed on agencies using commercial cloud services instead of the government-specific offerings.

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GovLoop

OCTOBER 26, 2023

To understand the importance of trust and how to build it, she busted three myths associated with the term. We aligned our outcomes back up to…organizational success and ensured that we had the fiscal budgeting to support the bottom line,” Benjamin said. It’s not enough to issue a paycheck for the work.

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Strategic Planning Influencing Import Transparency 119

SmallGovCon

MARCH 22, 2024

Pleads Guilty to Wire Fraud and Illegal Importation for Reselling Chinese Goods as U.S.-Made Made Washington State Man Sentenced to Federal Prison for Marketing and Selling Low-Quality Ballistic Protective Equipment Produced in China to Dozens of Law Enforcement Agencies and the U.S.

Ethics 87

Ethics Government Contracts Media Quality 87

GovSpend

JUNE 20, 2024

to the SBIR program if their extramural research and development budgets exceed $100M. Moreover, agencies with an extramural R&D budget surpassing $1 billion must reserve 0.45% for the STTR program. It’s important to note that SBIRs can also be awarded through grants. in FY 20 to $6.3B

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FedScoop

JUNE 4, 2024

Working under the threat of technology-related budget cuts that has elicited concern from both sides of the aisle , the Department of Veterans Affairs has managed to make progress on several tech priorities, the agency’s artificial intelligence chief said last week. Editor’s note: The transcript has been edited for clarity and length.

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Budget Integrity Integration Supply Chain 111

FedScoop

DECEMBER 5, 2024

The IoT Cybersecurity Improvement Act of 2020 required the National Institute of Standards and Technology and the Office of Management and Budget to develop guidance for securely procuring IoT — networked technology and devices typically connected to physical objects like buildings, vehicles and other infrastructure.

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Inventory Transportation Transportation Accountability 115

FedScoop

APRIL 26, 2024

This is an important part of our effort to meet taxpayers where they are, give them options to interact with the IRS in ways that work for them and help them meet their tax obligations as easily and quickly as possible.” We saw a strong response from the pilot, and Direct File’s users generally found it fast and easy to use.

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Balance Electronics Accountability Budget 88

FedScoop

AUGUST 22, 2024

Passing the legislation is important “given the amount of dollars that are at stake, but also … [the] security implications and just pure efficiencies and resiliency of operations,” Triplette said. “We We depend on our cloud operations, we depend on our daily technology to function every day, and this is getting at it.”

Purchasing 119

Purchasing Inventory Utilities Transparency 119

Whistleblower Network News

MARCH 14, 2024

” This bill is too important to remain on the sidelines, and it is already long overdue. These debilitating delays undermine the efficacy of the IRS program.” According to NWC’s letter, “H.R. 7024 may be the last opportunity to get S. 625 attached to a tax bill this year.”

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Finance Negotiation Budget Accountability 90

AWS Public Sector

MAY 15, 2024

What’s often a secret is that public sector CIOs with sensitive information have unique considerations when providing technology-based capabilities that meet rapidly evolving mission needs, are delivered on-time and on-budget, and adhere to regulatory compliance requirements.

Balance 83

Balance Sustainability Budget Efficiency 83

American City & Country

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

It’s important to have a robust system in place to control access while ensuring that staff and attendees can move freely and efficiently. It’s important to have clear lines of communication between all stakeholders, as well as access to medical personnel who can respond to emergencies on the ground.

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Procurement Procurement Team Supplier Quality 58

ivalua

JANUARY 13, 2021

– Spend control through real-time visibility into budget consumption, negotiated prices, preferred suppliers, engagement channels. Users only see information that is relevant to them, i.e. Requisitioners see expected delivery dates, Managers their budget consumption, Accounts Payable their pending invoices.

Eprocurement 94

Eprocurement E-procurement Supplier Purchasing 94

FedScoop

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

The bill would also require the National Institute of Standards and Technology to develop recommendations for agencies regarding “high-impact” AI systems, which the Office of Management and Budget would then implement. This bipartisan legislation is one important step of many necessary towards addressing potential harms.

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Transportation Transportation Innovation Risk Management 95