AWS Public Sector

JUNE 20, 2024

In the intricate landscape of public sector procurement, the demand for innovation, efficiency, and reliability is paramount. Yet, the journey from small business solution to impactful collaboration is a field with challenges and opportunities. Engenome’s eVai platform enables precise and early diagnosis of rare disease.

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AWS Public Sector

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

As climate change and demographic shifts continue to strain water resources, the need for innovative, technology-driven solutions has never been more urgent. Additionally, innovations like analyzing camera images and crowdsourcing personal weather data are expanding sustainable monitoring capabilities.

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AWS Public Sector

OCTOBER 12, 2023

That’s why Netsmart, an industry leader in electronic health records (EHRs) for human services and post-acute care, and Amazon Web Services (AWS) joined forces to advance artificial intelligence (AI) for community-based care providers, through the development of an AI Data Lab.

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Data Collaboration Networking Electronics 131

How to Crack a Nut

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

On 13 November 2023, the UK Government published guidance setting out its ambitions for innovation procurement under the new Procurement Act 2023 (not yet in force, of which you can read a summary here). This further expands on the ambitions underpinning the Transforming Public Procurement project that started after Brexit. 94 PA 2023).

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AWS Public Sector

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

the Accelerator supports government technology (GovTech) startups as they develop innovative solutions enabling justice and public safety agencies to better serve their communities. The company’s innovative career readiness platform features the Whole Learner Framework, which focuses on engagement and personalized learning.

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FedScoop

APRIL 16, 2024

These tools enhance efficiency and change how governmental bodies collaborate, access information and serve the public. By leveraging Workspace tools like Google Docs and Sheets, UNOPS has streamlined project management and data handling and significantly reduced operational friction while enhancing user experience.

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AWS Public Sector

MAY 22, 2024

The COVID-tracking and health data system built for the district during the COVID-19 pandemic had become clunky, difficult to customize, and expensive to maintain. Because the district’s data contained sensitive student health information and images, the data had to be encrypted during transit and migrated securely.

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AWS Public Sector

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Collaborating with industry can in turn accelerate innovation through to practical implementation. ASU’s focus on thought leadership and innovation hasn’t gone unrecognized, with the university being ranked first for innovation in the USA for the eighth year in a row in the annual Best Colleges rankings by U.S.

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GovLoop

OCTOBER 19, 2023

In data transformation, it helps to view things through a different lens. It’s looking at your data like an ecosystem,” said Winston Chang, Chief Technology Officer for the Global Public Sector at Snowflake, a leading data cloud company. Think of the quality data that lives and breathes as an ecosystem.”

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Data Collaboration Quality Import 104

GovLoop

JANUARY 31, 2024

For instance, “If you’re on Windows XP and you’re relying on faxes, those tools are so old that [new] analysis tools can’t read [your data],” Kowalski said. And with an unthinkable amount of data in the world, errors are inevitable with outdated IT.

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FedScoop

MARCH 28, 2024

HHS’s Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC), which released the draft Wednesday, establishes the following four goals: “promote health and wellness, enhance the delivery and experience of care, accelerate research and innovation and connect the health system with health data.”

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GovLoop

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

In today’s world of siloed and scattered data, agencies often have an incomplete picture of their constituents. But adopting an integrated, digital data platform can vastly improve how agencies do business and interact with the public. But agencies that look more deeply can greatly impact lives.

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FedInsider

JANUARY 9, 2024

As the DOD works with industry to adopt 5G networks, prototyping and sandboxing 5G capabilities can bolster adoption and innovation. These capabilities can also help with real-time data collection from all sources and devices – like drones, satellites, weapons systems, sensors and more. 5G is also a security enabler.

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GovCon Wire

JULY 19, 2024

John Ustica, president and CEO of Siemens Government Technologies and a two-time Wash100 awardee, said the Defense Business Board’s February report includes recommendations that call for the Department of Defense to invest in digital infrastructure, promote a culture of innovation and create clear governance frameworks to facilitate data sharing while (..)

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ivalua

JANUARY 31, 2023

By integrating the EIC’s functionalities in their procurement practices, organizations can dramatically accelerate sustainability agendas with reliable emissions data for all the direct and indirect products and services they acquire, and establish transparent reporting standards.

Supply Chain 98

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The Procurement ClassRoom

NOVEMBER 23, 2024

To succeed, governments must embrace innovation, integrate cutting-edge tools like artificial intelligence (AI) and blockchain, and empower procurement teams to lead the way. Governments worldwide control vast budgets through procurement, giving them the power to: Drive innovation by demanding advanced solutions from vendors.

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Procurement Supply Chain E-procurement Public Procurement 59

AWS Public Sector

OCTOBER 3, 2023

This is a guest post by Ari Jóhannesson, chief executive officer of Andes, a cloud infrastructure and security company, in collaboration with the AWS Institute from Amazon Web Services (AWS). Expanding capability The ministry took an innovative approach to resourcing the project.

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AWS Public Sector

APRIL 17, 2024

The University of Pittsburgh , the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), the University of California Davis Health Cloud Innovation Center (UCDH CIC)—powered by Amazon Web Services (AWS)—and the AWS Digital Innovation (DI) team have seized on Dr. Fauci’s call-to-action to “flood the system with correct information.”

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Innovation Data Education Evaluation 87

AWS Public Sector

JULY 16, 2024

EVe’s transformation journey Since its inception, EVe recognized the pivotal role of data and has become a data-driven organization. The initial step involved calling up a comprehensive tender to establish a secure, scalable, and flexible data platform. NTT Data e-Mobility data platform.

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AWS Public Sector

OCTOBER 10, 2024

During her visit to Armenia on July 10, 2024, Samantha Power, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Administrator, announced $5 million in funding for a new public-private collaboration between USAID, the Government of Armenia, and Amazon Web Services (AWS).

Collaboration 119

Collaboration Innovation Efficiency Finance 119

Open Contracting Partnership

MARCH 24, 2025

Explore 10 years of open contracting With so much public money at stake, we expected to find data teams in government who already knew exactly who was buying what from whom for how much. We were never just after a bit more transparency though, we wanted to transform how procurement is done. Thats a return on investment of 200:1!

Public Procurement 76

Public Procurement Procurement E-procurement Transparency 76

Scottish Government Procurement

JUNE 24, 2024

Scottish Procurement and Property Directorate’s National Collaborative Procurement Division (NCPD) administers the Scottish national collaborative frameworks and contracts for the whole of the Scottish Public Sector, as well as agreements that can be accessed by central government organisations of the Scottish Government.

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AWS Public Sector

MARCH 18, 2024

ASPPH’s mission is to advance academic public health by mobilizing the collective power of its members to drive excellence and innovation in education, research, and practice. While ASPPH provides many services, members consistently rank the curated data resources published on the Data Center Portal (DCP) as a top benefit.

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Data Education Distribution Collaboration 78

AWS Public Sector

JULY 23, 2024

The event covered a range of topics including forging effective public-private partnerships, aligning AI governance strategies with allies, debating opportunities and challenges in the age of AI innovation, and building responsible, resilient AI systems. At its core, alliances are about data sharing,” said Myler.

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WashngtonExec

MARCH 26, 2025

Linger will lead initiatives to improve federal agencies efficiency with automation and artificial intelligence-driven insights to turn complex data into actionable information. He most recently served as Leidos lead AI software architect, overseeing research and development projects that drove innovation in the companys AI capabilities.

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AWS Public Sector

OCTOBER 23, 2023

As the education field continues to evolve, data-driven decision making is an essential strategy to transform teaching and learning practices and unlock new opportunities for student success. To help accelerate innovation in education, AWS has launched the new AWS Education Accelerator.

Education 124

Education Participation Data Collaboration 124

Govshop

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

The collaboration aims to engage both minority as well as underserved businesses. The new approach seeks to enhance collaboration by minimizing classification levels and enabling sharing with allies and industry partners. This MOU reinforces the ongoing partnership between NASA and MBDA, focusing on mitigating barriers to equity.

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AWS Public Sector

APRIL 12, 2024

UK Biobank is the world’s most comprehensive source of health data used for research. Today, UK Biobank has about 10,000 variables per volunteer, from simple lifestyle information to physical measures, electronic health records (EHRs), genetic sequencing, biomarker data, and full body scan images.

Data 126

Data Participation Leadership Electronics 126

Open Contracting Partnership

AUGUST 28, 2024

Data-driven monitoring enables citizens to submit high-quality complaints to authorities. Formal guidelines have been introduced in several regions to ensure data-driven audits are conducted to a high standard. Results: The reform has led to significant improvements, particularly in audits triggered by public complaints.

Corruption 90

Corruption Data E-procurement Procurement 90

AWS Public Sector

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

Across all aspects of healthcare, from diagnostics and imaging to genomics and personalized healthcare, the demands for healthcare data availability, storage, compute, and artificial intelligence (AI) tools are rapidly accelerating.

Data 75

Data Government Government Procurement 75

ExecutiveBiz

MARCH 7, 2024

Leidos has entered into a strategic collaboration agreement with Amazon Web Services , a partnership that will see the two companies leverage their strengths to deliver innovations benefiting public sector and commercial customers.

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AWS Public Sector

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

This is a guest post by Suzanne Wait with the Health Policy Partnership and Dipak Kalra, from the European Institute for Innovation in Health Data The health sector holds approximately one third of the world’s total volume of data. One such example is the development of cloud-enabled electronic health records (EHRs).

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Data Sustainability Innovation Electronics 80

AWS Public Sector

AUGUST 21, 2024

They apply that frugal approach to IT: they build and operate only what they need to pursue their mission, and constantly innovate both to meet mission objectives and optimize cost. To expand their reach, they often collaborate with academia and other nonprofits, and they engage early-career talent.

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Innovation Data Education Quality 75

GovLoop

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

The past several years have taught government about the importance of collaborative, virtual technology that allows employees to engage and excel from anywhere. Collaborative technology should make it easy for colleagues to work on projects simultaneously, with reliable HD video and audio. How scalable is the collaborative platform?

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AWS Public Sector

JUNE 6, 2024

The University of Pittsburgh Athletics Department has always embraced innovation. It’s no surprise, then, that when Pitt wanted to know more about its fans, they looked for an innovative solution and turned to Amazon Web Services (AWS). This is a guest post written by the leaders from the University of Pittsburgh’s Athletic Department.

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Data Education Innovation Warehouse 75

AWS Public Sector

JANUARY 9, 2024

Announced in October 2023, the AWS Education Accelerator supports education technology (EdTech) startups who are innovating to enhance the teaching and learning experience and improve educational outcomes. Lessonbee’s whole-school wellness solution provides data to help teachers improve student self-efficacy and well-being. Oblio, Inc.

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Education Participation Retail Data 140

FedScoop

APRIL 9, 2024

” USAID’s IT strategic plan , which runs from 2024 through 2028, is built around five pillars: “creating a culture of data- and insights-based decision making; delivering agile, secure, and resilient IT platforms; building worldwide skills and capacity; establishing pragmatic governance; and driving high operational performance.”

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