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.” He also worked as the chief of innovation and design for the Refugee, Asylum and International Operations Directorate at U.S.

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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. But succeeding in that task requires congressional support. “We

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FedScoop

JULY 5, 2024

The first image users now see is a graphic that “illustrates the widening gap between staffing levels and the growing number of customers,” a point Brown said was especially important to note given that SSA is operating at a 27-year staffing low while having to serve more beneficiaries than ever before.

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Data IT Budget Leadership 95

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 Got it. How does it work? Tom Temin Got it.

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Import E-procurement Quality Contract 64

AWS Public Sector

MARCH 19, 2024

We have a limited budget. To fully harness the cloud’s potential, organizations should shift their mindset and adopt procurement processes that let them successfully evaluate options and choose the best solution. Many recognize the value of the cloud but are hesitant to abandon familiar legacy systems. Why can’t we just focus on price?

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Procurement IT Price Sustainability 72

The Coalition for Government Procurement

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

Attendees will gain insights into policy shifts, the budget outlook, and the overall procurement state of play in 2025 and beyond. What’s next for the budget and Federal market? Attendees will gain critical insights into: What’s next for the VA budget and healthcare investments? What’s next for interagency contracting?

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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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Great Government Through Technology

DECEMBER 15, 2023

The Office of Management Budget then issued M-23-02 advising agencies how to take the threat seriously. They helped shape the field of quantum information science and birth an entirely new class of devices: quantum computers. Right now, when a computer tries to solve a complex problem it has to check every possible solution one by one.

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FedScoop

MAY 17, 2024

President Joe Biden’s proposed budget seeks an increase for NSF, bringing its funding from $9.06 The more we cut, the more the ideas that are being proposed to NSF in quantum, in AI will not be funded. “The The more we cut, the more the ideas that are being proposed to NSF in quantum, in AI will not be funded. I’m extremely worried.”

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Budget Innovation Import IT 97

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. In a letter sent Wednesday and shared exclusively with FedScoop, the tech groups urged Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y.,

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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. I wish we could do more,” he said. What is your response to them?

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FedScoop

JUNE 6, 2024

Cuts to programs for ocean observation, weather research, and staffing for the National Weather Service were a focus for House lawmakers at a hearing this week on the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s budget request. NOAA’s budget request seeks $6.6 billion in discretionary appropriations, an increase of $224.8

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Budget Sustainability Capacity Data 85

Inter-American Development Bank

JULY 7, 2023

As a result, how governments monitor and govern these institutions is an important element for their success. Efforts to Professionalize SOE Boards: The Cases of Chile and Peru It is important to note that not all efforts to professionalize boards of SOEs have been problematic.

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Finance IT Evaluation Budget 52

FedScoop

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

The subcommittee’s first recommendation was simply for the Office of Management and Budget to push federal law enforcement agencies to follow a checklist when testing AI tools in the field. The subcommittee decided that recommendations on AI field testing would fill an important gap.

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Impact Assessment Inventory Transparency Quality 93

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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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. Moreover, agencies with an extramural R&D budget surpassing $1 billion must reserve 0.45% for the STTR program.

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Naomi Clews Consultancy

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Why are written processes important? Having a process is important because it provides the building blocks for all your organisational operations. Step 2: Budget ​ It's important to establish your budget. This can include a monetary budget, time budget and resource budget.

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Import and Trade Remedies

JULY 25, 2024

On July 4, 2024, the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) announced its compliance priorities for commercial imports and it updated its 2024 trade verification priorities. Dairy products are supply-managed in Canada and are subject to import controls. to determine whether importers are properly classifying gloves. up to 300%).

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Import Export Accountability Management 53

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.

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Government Government Engineering Education 88

Kluwer Arbitration

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

A modern arbitration institution, with an increasingly important role ” were the opening remarks expressed by Claus von Wobeser, who briefly referred to the beginnings of the PCA in The Hague and culminated by providing data on the cases initiated last year (which surpassed the previous year’s record).

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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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GovLoop

AUGUST 2, 2023

Budgets and outdated technology often present as obstacles for protecting your agency’s sensitive data, but those hurdles must be overcome to eliminate cyber risk. The solution was an image-based self-hosted platform. This method gave them the data security and sovereignty it required, because no vendor ever touches or sees any DoD data.

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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. Well, that might be half true.

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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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Federal News Network

AUGUST 6, 2024

You never know when something in the Federal Register is going to be important to you, even if it’s not available, visible from the title. And so maybe it wasn’t deliberate, but it sure has a feeling that it was, which is really troubling, because this is an important issue. That’s what that executive order is about.

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Procurement Professional Services Contract Bidding 109

SmallGovCon

MARCH 22, 2024

Pleads Guilty to Wire Fraud and Illegal Importation for Reselling Chinese Goods as U.S.-Made Hope you are having a good week readers, and enjoying some March Madness. While it looks like spring in our neck of the woods, in this part of the country the weather can change quickly. Never a dull moment!

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Ethics Government Contracts Media Quality 84

GovLoop

JULY 17, 2024

First Steps It’s important to start by recognizing the size and scale of the challenge. That means “you want to make sure you have executive backing and proper resources and budgets in place.” Doing a very thorough crypto inventory is extremely important. In some sense, the threat is already here.

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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. Government employees don’t operate in a vacuum. Trust was not earned.

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Import and Trade Remedies

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

The EPPO has the power to investigate, prosecute and bring to judgment crimes against the EU budget, such as fraud, corruption or serious cross border fraud. The supposed scheme involved importing high quantities of goods, such as textiles, shoes and small electronic items from China to EU countries using fake invoices.

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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 81

GovLoop

JANUARY 31, 2024

The further behind your technology is, the more financially difficult modernization becomes because agencies must anticipate their budgets years in advance — often before the tools they need fully exist, Kowalski said. People use assorted metaphors to describe modernization: a journey, construction project, ballgame, etc. But Heather T.

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Data Quantity Education Budget 105

Federal News Network

JANUARY 11, 2024

So our goal with the implementation plan is to really outline some of the key areas that are important, and that we within Industrial Base Policy have control over. Promoting industrial careers early is important to confront negative stereotypes and increase visibility.” and its closest allies currently can’t match that of China.

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GovLoop

APRIL 22, 2024

GAO, in a 2023 report about the Internal Revenue Service’s modernization efforts, describes it this way: “In an era of constrained budgets, the high costs of maintaining legacy systems could limit an agency’s ability to modernize and develop new or replacement systems.” This is called technical debt. Ron Wyden (D-Oregon), Robert Casey Jr.

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AWS Public Sector

JUNE 12, 2024

Cyber-resilience doesn’t have to be expensive K12 schools have a tall task: addressing rigorous security and compliance requirements while also managing tight budgets. “CR and DR ensures the continuity of the school district’s educational and operational processes and minimizes downtime and the subsequent loss of instructional time.

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Education Budget Purchasing Data 72

The Procurement School

MAY 27, 2024

Author : Chris Sheel Delivering major capital projects on time and on budget has always been a challenging and elusive goal. Budgets previously developed require reactive revisitation as estimates balloon. Supply chain issues” has become an accepted catch-all term to explain a range of circumstances.

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Public Procurement Total Cost of Ownership Collaboration Budget 52

Public Contracting Institute

JULY 14, 2024

To truly grasp the importance of CAS 407, it’s essential to have a solid foundation in government contracting principles. It’s important to understand how it interacts with other Cost Accounting Standards to ensure comprehensive compliance.

Government Contracts 52

Government Contracts Accountability Efficiency Budget 52

Federal News Network

MAY 7, 2024

Appropriations arriving six months late for the current fiscal year and Congress futzing over next year’s budget, which will also arrive late. It is that most magical time of the year. Interview Transcript: Tom Temin And this is becoming routine. Interview Transcript: Tom Temin And this is becoming routine. And that’s right.

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