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How exporting weapons becomes risky for contractors who make the exports

Federal News Network

Interview Transcript: Tom Temin And we think of the defense industrial base has strained in terms of capacity to manufacture what’s needed around the world and, you know, missile systems and ammunition and so forth. Export control laws. You really got under the Arms Export Control Act. Regulatory risk. Great question Tom.

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USDA Funding an Additional $123 Million Towards Second Round of Meat & Poultry Processing Expansion Programming

USFCR

billion pounds of total beef exports expected to decline. 1 The Processing Expansion Program will assist meat and poultry producers in expanding their current capacity and ensure that the proper safety measures are followed in accordance with the USDA. Also, commercial beef production was forecasted to decline by 6 percent, to 26.5

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US: Export Controls Enforcement in 2024: A Fireside Chat with U.S. Assistant Secretary Matthew S. Axelrod

Import and Trade Remedies

Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Industry and Security) where he will share his insights on what to expect in the year ahead for export enforcement. Axelrod currently serves as the Assistant Secretary for Export Enforcement at the U.S. national security by enforcing the country’s export control laws. Register here Questions?

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Hydrating the Natural History Museum’s Planetary Knowledge Base with Amazon Neptune and Open Data on AWS

AWS Public Sector

In order to use Neptune ML, the graph data is exported back to Amazon S3 using the Neptune-Export service. All that’s left to do apart from this is to specify the peak processing capacity of your AWS Glue job by specifying the desired number of workers. A data processing job is run, followed by a GNN training job.

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Maximizing satellite communications usage with Amazon Forecast

AWS Public Sector

However, a key concern is to maximize the utilization of capacity to meet demand while avoiding overprovisioning. Amazon Forecast is a fully managed deep learning service for time-series forecasting which can be used to estimate future capacity needs enabling operators to make planning decisions with more confidence.

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Commerce Bureau Gives Employees a Helping Hand

GovLoop

BIS, which is part of the Commerce Department, oversees export controls and treaty compliance around sensitive advanced technologies. Many employees — for example, those who work in export administration — spend most of their time on laptops at their desks. A small bureau in a massive agency, BIS does not have a robust IT budget.

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Happy Sad app leverages AWS generative AI to improve student well-being

AWS Public Sector

AI insights derived from the data can also be exported and shared with parents. Instead, they were able to instantly tap into the virtually unlimited pool of secure compute resources that AWS offers, paying only for the capacity they actually used. Auto scaling means accessing exactly the power you need, when you need it.”