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How federal IT officials are navigating the post-AI executive order ‘hype cycle’

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At the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., Shelly Hartsook, acting associate director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency’s Cyber Capacity Building Subdivision, said she’s also observed a trend in products with AI “a little bit more baked in that becomes plug and play.”

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Covered California provides affordable healthcare access, powered by AWS

AWS Public Sector

Before the Affordable Care Act (ACA) was implemented, purchasing insurance in the individual market proved challenging for those without employer-sponsored health benefits. In 2013, more than 17% of Californians did not have health insurance. It connects with multiple health insurers’ enrollment systems.

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Public procurement of AI between opportunities and risks -- guest post by Giuseppe Bitti

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an insurance). A recurrent auditing is particularly important, as the performance of the tool will evolve due its capacity to learn (and sometimes possibly even detect it is being tested ). In the long run this would become a structural weakness in the capacity of the public sector to deliver on its mandate and stay competitive.

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Unlocking opportunities: How Ekiti State, Nigeria is enabling women businesses through better procurement practices

Open Contracting Partnership

The public procurement agency improved access to information about upcoming opportunities for women-led and small businesses and conducted training to improve their capacity to respond. The team have expanded their capacity to manage these updated processes.

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Does the Civil False Claim Act Liability of a Bonded Contractor Extend to its Surety?

LexBlog: Contracts & Procurement

On July 19, 2022, in the decision filed under seal, the District Court ruled in favor of Hudson Insurance Co., Hanover Insurance Co., The case is alarming because it suggests that payment and performance bond sureties could potentially be liable for the civil False Claims Act violations of the principals on the bonds they issue.

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Emory University supports AI.Humanity initiative with high-performance computing on AWS

AWS Public Sector

Storage options: Emory uses high-speed file systems, like Amazon FSx for Lustre , to meet the performance needs of their high-performance computing (HPC) workloads, along with virtually unlimited storage capacity with services like Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3).

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What to look for when investing in a space start-up

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And you can allow this ability to almost create trains of them as they orbit, particularly for types of workloads that don’t require real time insurance, but are more batch type processing. But that’s satellite capacity was based on large geo satellites that didn’t have a lot of flexibility that were very expensive.