American City & Country

OCTOBER 29, 2024

As procurement professionals, you are constantly balancing tight budgets, increasing demands, and the need to streamline operations. What is Lawson Vendor Managed Inventory? This proactive approach helps eliminate stockouts and reduces excess inventory, minimizing waste and operational downtime.

Vendor Management 58

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Mike Purdy's Public Contracting

JULY 18, 2017

City of Bellingham Position: Purchasing Manager Location: Bellingham, Washington Closing Date: Friday, August 11, 2017 at 4:30 pm Pacific Time Interview Schedule: The most qualified candidates will be asked to participate in a panel interview on August 31, 2017. Experience with budgeting preferred.

Purchasing 100

Purchasing Management Warehouse E-procurement 100

ivalua

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Best-in-Class for Healthcare Supply Chain Management? Are ERP systems better than best-in-class supply chain solutions for managing healthcare supply chains? What are the pros and cons, and what supply chain strategy will pave the way to higher margins, improved supply chain risk management in healthcare and improved patient care?

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FedScoop

APRIL 25, 2024

Notably, the department’s components are already using myriad forms of AI, according to the agency’s AI Inventory. Boyce was previously a senior policy analyst at the Office of Management and Budget, where he focused on FedRAMP and AI policy, according to DHS. DHS CIO Eric Hysen currently serves as the agency’s chief AI officer.

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IT Inventory Budget Engineering 117

FedScoop

AUGUST 20, 2024

In a report made public Monday , the Government Accountability Office outlined 37 total priority recommendations to improve how the Office of Management and Budget encourages adequate technology-related practices across the federal landscape. Fortunately, the [Chief Data Officer] Council does exist right now,” Sager said.

Electronics 128

Electronics Inventory Data Transparency 128

FedScoop

APRIL 10, 2024

The VA is inching toward awarding contracts for its upcoming modernization of a supply chain management system, officials shared during a House Veterans’ Affairs Subcommittee hearing.

Supply Chain 113

Supply Chain Inventory Management Electronics Budget 113

FedScoop

AUGUST 22, 2024

Five of the country’s leading software and tech advocacy organizations are urging Senate and House leadership to pass bipartisan, bicameral legislation aimed at improving federal agency oversight and management of software purchases before this congressional term comes to a close. Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky.,

Purchasing 130

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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., Don’t worry about your job going away from AI. AI is just going to be your personal assistant and help you even more.”

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FedScoop

JANUARY 29, 2024

For their recommendations, the GAO focused on nine agencies based on the size of their IT budgets and then zeroed in on the five most widely used licenses within those agencies. There should be more concerted efforts to compare prices, the GAO stated.

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FedScoop

OCTOBER 16, 2024

According to the survey, 50% of respondents said their agencies are actively developing their post-quantum cryptography readiness strategies and 35% are defining their plans and budgets. Interestingly, 17% said they had no defined plans for post-quantum cryptography and it wasn’t a priority.

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Inventory Budget Integrity Integration 82

ExecutiveBiz

OCTOBER 1, 2024

AI Inventory Jumpstart works to simplify the process of annually cataloging AI use cases at federal agencies as mandated by the Office of Management and Budget while […]

Inventory 59

Inventory Government Government Budget 59

FedScoop

JUNE 28, 2024

That law requires the Office of Management and Budget to release “Phase II guidance” for agencies to implement its open data and comprehensive data inventories requirements. We cannot provide a specific release date at this time, but we are working diligently to finalize it.”

IT 96

IT Data Transparency Inventory 96

FedScoop

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

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. The nature of our content management system is to not use XML content formats which impedes metadata from being included for each page.

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Inside Government Contracts

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Each agency and contract can offer unique challenges, but we offer a few key considerations below to guide contractors in assessing their approaches to potential shutdowns: Assess Impacted Contracts – As a first step, contractors should take inventory of their government contracts to assess how a shutdown could impact performance.

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FedScoop

APRIL 30, 2024

Those reports would be included in each agency’s AI use case inventory, in accordance with Office of Management and Budget guidance finalized in March. Annual summary usage reports for safety- and rights-impacting AI align with an overarching goal to create more comprehensive use case inventories. “We

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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. We’re already seeing pretty impressive improvements based on the SecurityStat approach.”

Data 119

Data IT Budget Leadership 119

FedInsider

JUNE 24, 2024

At the federal level, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) issued a memo in March providing guidance for agencies to establish AI governance and risk management techniques while implementing innovative uses for their own organizations, including steps to enable sharing and reuse of AI models, code, and data.

Government 86

Government Government Participation Leadership 86

ivalua

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

The Purchase Order has been touted as the only way to manage ‘maverick’ spend (stopping off budget expenditure), but it’s also a way to automate invoice processing. to manage Invoicing, Collections and VAT/Sales Tax. Well it does, but only all little, as it creates just another exception to manage.

E-procurement 94

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GovLoop

JULY 17, 2024

“The threat from cryptographically relevant quantum computers — computers with enough horsepower to break cryptography as we know it today — is just around the corner,” said Philip Kwan, Director and Product Line Manager at Palo Alto Networks. In terms of practical steps, it makes sense to begin with a thorough inventory.

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NIH NITAAC

MARCH 1, 2021

It’s about using automation tools to securely audit and manage resources in the cloud. And, it’s about how cloud managed service providers are helping automate operation models to achieve continuous compliance. This new strategy will support agencies to achieve additional savings, greater security and faster services.

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Quality Inventory Purchasing Budget 52

ivalua

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Lifted from their latest webinar, Jean-Baptiste Anne from Amazon Business and Vishal Patel from Ivalua offer insights into tail spend management programs and the ROI these programs can generate for procurement teams. . Budgeting challenges as tail spend typically often not planned for . Tail Spend Challenges. We’re here to help.

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Naomi Clews Consultancy

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

How I got into procurement My peers all have a 'story' about how they got into procurement without knowing they were actually working in a Supply Chain Management (SCM) role. ​I've never met anyone who studied supply chain management at university because they knew that's what they wanted to do. So how did I get into SCM?

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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. Where to start The first step, per M-23-02, is for agencies to inventory their active cryptographic systems and re-inventory them annually through 2035.

IT 40

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FedScoop

OCTOBER 22, 2024

The Office of Management and Budget is getting close to finalizing long-awaited data guidance required by a 2019 law that mandates the machine-readability of federal information, two White House officials with direct knowledge of that work confirmed to FedScoop. The wait on corresponding OMB guidance, however, has lingered.

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Federal News Network

OCTOBER 3, 2024

Jason Miller is the deputy director for management at the Office of Management and Budget. In fact, OMB is expected to release an updated governmentwide inventory of AI uses cases on or around Dec. The third bucket OMB is asking agencies to focus on is managing their business and acquisition processes.

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FedScoop

AUGUST 13, 2024

That same year, the Office of Management and Budget directed agencies to inventory cryptography on certain systems and estimate funding needed for migration to post-quantum standards. The National Security Agency, for example, released its Commercial National Security Algorithm Suite 2.0

Electronics 127

Electronics Evaluation Inventory Integrity 127

FedScoop

DECEMBER 6, 2023

“For the first time in history, the civilian government, we have a comprehensive inventory of our asymmetric cryptography across all the agencies and their critical systems,” Nick Polk, senior adviser to the federal CISO, said Tuesday at GDIT’s Emerge Quantum event, produced by FedScoop.

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FedScoop

MAY 16, 2024

million to transition its identity and access management systems to a zero-trust architecture model. State recently announced a chatbot for internal uses and revised its public AI use case inventory to remove nine items from the agency website. The State Department received two investments: $18.2

Education 124

Education Inventory Media Sustainability 124

FedScoop

AUGUST 1, 2024

We want to be thoughtful about risk; we’re risk managers first here. Following the release of President Joe Biden’s AI executive order and Office of Management and Budget guidance on AI , Whitman said the agency now has a permanent directive where “anyone at GSA can apply to use generative AI tools for these non-sensitive use cases.”

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Data Participation Inventory Transparency 131

FedScoop

AUGUST 14, 2024

A Naval Academy grad with a PhD in English from Maryland, Kaouk carved out that association during lengthy chief data officer stints with the Department of Agriculture and Office of Personnel Management, plus a three-and-a-half-year term as chair of the Federal CDO Council. We ingest and manage over 15 billion records per day.

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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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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 post Law enforcement agencies need standardized AI field testing, presidential advisers say appeared first on FedScoop.

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The Coalition for Government Procurement

APRIL 11, 2024

Under the ACCESS Act, the Office of Management and Budget would be instructed to issue guidance for agencies to implement the bill within 180 days of its enactment. In 2022, the Office of Personnel Management issued Skill-Based Hiring Guidance implementing the EO for agencies to further advance innovation in Federal hiring.

E-procurement 98

E-procurement Procurement Procurement Contracts Supply Chain 98

ivalua

JULY 11, 2022

New release features AI-powered contract management, more seamless messaging and communications, supplier risk and performance enhancements and procure-to-pay efficiency . Redwood City, CA – 11 July, 2022 – Ivalua , a global leader in Cloud Spend Management solutions , announced the general availability of its new platform release 174.

Supply Chain 52

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The Coalition for Government Procurement

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

This course is designed for lawyers and contract managers with significant contract management and compliance responsibilities with GSA and/or VA Schedule contracts. On February 28, again at Miller & Chevalier Chartered, we will hold our GSA and VA Schedule Contracting Training for In-House Counsel course.

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Inventory Price Supply Chain Contract 52

Government Contracts Legal Forum

APRIL 11, 2024

On March 28, 2024, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) released Memorandum M-24-10 , Advancing Governance, Innovation, and Risk Management for Agency Use of Artificial Intelligence (Memo), updating and implementing OMB’s November 2023 proposed memorandum of the same name.

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Risk Management Impact Assessment Procurement Innovation 52

Government Contracts Legal Forum

JANUARY 5, 2024

Acquisition Policy and Management Several provisions in the NDAA require modifications to DoD’s internal processes. Section 1523 tasks the Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Officer with providing the digital infrastructure and procurement vehicles necessary to manage data assets and analytics capabilities.

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