GovLoop

APRIL 4, 2023

Accommodating remote work and collaboration is now policy, requiring a cultural shift in government. In many cases, hybrid work environments are becoming the norm, no longer a temporary adjustment. The agency also is making use of automation to enhance visibility across the GSA ecosystem.

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American City & Country

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

“Local governments face issues that range from balancing public safety and individual privacy rights to managing vast amounts of data securely and efficiently. Transparency and accountability are crucial to maintaining public trust and require clear policies on surveillance use and data access.”

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AWS Public Sector

MAY 24, 2024

Digital engineering fundamentally relies on integrating data across model structures by using a digital thread – an underlying framework for integrating data from across traditionally siloed functions that create a consolidated view of the system’s data throughout its lifecycle.

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Public Contracting Institute

JULY 12, 2024

This article will delve into the best practices for mitigating risks and ensuring smooth collaboration with your subcontractors. Understanding the Importance of Subcontractor Management Effective subcontractor management is crucial for the success of government contracts.

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Federal News Network

AUGUST 9, 2024

Refresh 22 included the expansion of Transactional Data Reporting (TDR) as an option for contractors to 67 new Special Item Numbers (SINs) covering non-configurable products. The results also showed significant improvement in the completeness of the data and its overall use by contracting officers.

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FedScoop

AUGUST 5, 2024

Laura Gerhardt, director of technology modernization and data at the Office of Management and Budget, said during an Advanced Technology Academic Research Center event last week that the prioritization of threat assessments is part of an overarching strategy to position FedRAMP and its updated guidance as “a security-first program.”

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ivalua

MARCH 29, 2019

First of all, to really make the most of what your suppliers can offer, you need to manage the basics of supplier management well. That means supplier master data management; spend and contract analytics; risk management and so on. Blog first published by our friends at Procurious.

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ivalua

MARCH 16, 2022

Not surprisingly, risk management and cost reduction are considered the most important priorities for Procurement professionals (see image 1). . Risk Management is Top of Mind. On the increased importance of managing risk. CEO Risk Management Priorities. Main Corporate Risks.

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FedInsider

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

Tuesday, September 24, 2024 | 2:00PM EDT | 1 Hour | 1 CPE In the rapidly advancing world of artificial intelligence (AI), government agencies are leveraging AI technologies to enhance security, operational efficiency, and data analysis across various sectors. Before joining GSA, Zach served as the Chief Data Officer at the U.S.

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ivalua

MAY 18, 2022

Even reducing costs often depends more on effective collaboration rather than negotiation in today’s market. At the same time, organizations have never been more exposed to risk from their supply chains, from supply continuity, quality, or ESG violations. Gain control of your supplier data. Leaders must make a concerted effort.

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Federal News Network

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Just some checks and balances, so we’re doing this in a collaborative manner, we’re taking a risk management approach to cybersecurity, both for the government and for the contractor,” Schneider said. The groups also said there should be an appeals process so contractors can object to “unnecessary” access to systems.

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ivalua

AUGUST 1, 2022

In doing so, they have improved supplier collaboration and created a greater capacity for resilience, innovation, and continuous improvement. . How do these organizations build their supplier management programs? Most spend management or S2P solutions severely lack strong supplier management capabilities.

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FedInsider

OCTOBER 10, 2023

The strongest form of identity management is attribute-based, moving beyond one’s role or position to a host of other characteristics, from behavioral to physical to time-sensitive. It takes multi-factor authentication (MFA) to a whole new level, but it requires reliable attributes and quality data to implement. Army War College.

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ivalua

MAY 9, 2023

Collaborate to Win Henry Ford’s quote that “coming together is a beginning, keeping together is progress, working together is success” has never rang more true. Being more agile and addressing more strategic objectives requires procurement to be more collaborative. 78% engage suppliers more collaboratively than they did 3 years ago.

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The Coalition for Government Procurement

AUGUST 9, 2024

Refresh 22 included the expansion of Transactional Data Reporting (TDR) as an option for contractors to 67 new Special Item Numbers (SINs) covering non-configurable products. The results also showed significant improvement in the completeness of the data and its overall use by contracting officers.

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ivalua

APRIL 13, 2021

A great example is Meritor , who brought a unique approach to supplier collaboration and new product introductions to life, delivering more products at higher profit to support a board level initiative and multiply their stock price. Digitize to enable effective collaboration across more suppliers and categories.

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ivalua

JUNE 4, 2020

In this article we’ll review how supplier management capabilities in Source-to-Pay technology can free-up and enable a manufacturer’s direct material procurement team to do what they do best to ensure the supply chain remains resilient and agile: be creative and strategic. Supplier Data Quality & Management in Decision Making.

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ivalua

AUGUST 16, 2021

A checklist guide to getting the most out of your supplier risk management program. This reliance can increase supplier risk or uncover a large source of value and supplier innovation for organizations. . Employ more structured processes around supplier risk management. Evaluate and manage supplier performance.

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ivalua

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

Ivalua’s Risk Center offers customers a holistic solution to actively monitor and mitigate third-party risk and compliance. This combined picture is visible in actionable dashboards to provide a comprehensive and timely picture of risk and the potential impact on the business.

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ivalua

JANUARY 30, 2023

Key Steps to Get Started As Procurement professionals, you play a crucial role in reducing Scope 3 emissions–first by understanding emissions, and then, collaborating with your suppliers. Below, we list a few high-level actions to get you started: Establish a strategy to generate reliable Scope 3 emission data based on categories and spend.

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ivalua

JANUARY 30, 2023

Key Steps to Get Started As procurement professionals, you play a crucial role in reducing Scope 3 emissions–first by understanding emissions, and then, collaborating with your suppliers. Below, we list a few high-level actions to get you started: Establish a strategy to generate reliable Scope 3 emission data based on categories and spend.

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AWS Public Sector

MARCH 13, 2024

Throughout the development, deployment, and operation of the CSP, the AWS account team and CSS collaborated in weekly operations calls, increasing in cadence during critical milestones. Modernization journey The CSP launch culminated several years of application development to build a cloud-native platform for mortgage securitization.

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Federal News Network

JANUARY 2, 2024

Acquisition is the primary way where the government gets access to the products and services that it needs to deliver on the mission, and it’s data driven process. 100% of acquisition, the heart of the smart modern acquisition is data. And we’ve done significant work over the last few years to get our data position strong.

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Government Contracts & Investigations

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

In stark contrast to the EU, which through the soon to be enacted AI Act is focused primarily on regulating uses of AI that are unacceptable or high risk, the Executive Order focuses primarily on the developers, the data they use and the tools they create.

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ivalua

JANUARY 29, 2021

PWC has been publishing the annual procurement survey since 2015, capturing many of the trends in procurement that we now see in organisations, such as the focus on supplier risk management.

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The Coalition for Government Procurement

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Harwood, and Ashley Powers; Miller & Chevalier Chartered The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) released a new memorandum at the beginning of October, “Advancing the Responsible Acquisition of Artificial Intelligence in Government” ( M-24-18 ) (the Memo), intended to help “agencies harness the power of AI.”

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ivalua

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Ivalua, a global leader in spend management, today announced that it has been selected by Swedish steel manufacturer SSAB to further improve the efficiency of its procurement processes and uphold and strengthen supply chain risk management thanks to Ivalua’s Source-to-Contract (S2C) solution.

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Public Contracting Institute

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

(see “neural network” narrative below) Foundation Models – an emerging class of models, often transformers trained by self-supervision on large-scale broad data, that can be easily adapted to perform a wide range of downstream tasks. natural language processing tasks, conversations: chats, GPT-3, Google Bard, etc.) references.

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Great Government Through Technology

APRIL 29, 2024

Contracting officers should consider cybersecurity, supply chain risk management, data governance and other standards and guidelines just as they would with other IT procurements. Manage and Protect Data. You’ll also find a searchable data dashboard to give information about recent AI-related contract actions.

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ivalua

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Originally published on Risk Management Monitor. A better way of looking at those relationships is as partnerships—albeit ones that require management and alignment of objectives first and foremost, but ultimately mutually beneficial relationships.

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The Coalition for Government Procurement

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Zero Trust Guidance for Federal Agencies Fedscoop reports that the Federal Chief Data Officers and Federal Chief Information Security Officers councils have jointly released the Federal Zero Trust Data Security Guide. He added that several small businesses that work with the Army “were at least partially at risk” to cyber threats.

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Logistics E-procurement Supply Chain Procurement 52

ivalua

AUGUST 5, 2020

With both the supplier and the AP needing to match the same information, it’s in everyone’s interest to automate the payment process through the introduction of collaboration and agility within the payables journey. Touchlessly matches Invoices to suppliers to master data. Enables non-PO Invoices be matched to Contracts.

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ivalua

JANUARY 8, 2023

The new set of regulations add an additional layer of compliance and risk management to the procurement process. These extra steps may require additional resources and expertise, and more sophisticated technologies and tools to better manage the process. The post What does the German Supply Chain Act Mean for Procurement?

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FedInsider

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

In those roles, she optimized NSA’s IT strategy for the CIO Inspector General and Policy, IT Accessibility, Chief Information Security Officer, and Chief Data Officer portfolios. Jones managed the oversight for IT investments and acquisition programs, ensuring the secure and keen use of IT across NSA. Throughout her career, Ms.

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ivalua

JANUARY 20, 2016

The world of manufacturing is quickly evolving, driven by production modernization, materials innovation, big data, and a new type of workforce. Improving sourcing cycle time is critical, as is having the right information in place to navigate around roadblocks and mitigate risk. It’s time to add some data experts to your teams.

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FedInsider

OCTOBER 15, 2024

He has over 25 years of industry experience in IT networking, cyber security, and data center design and implementation. Mr. Perez has deep industry expertise around cyber security, Managed Security Service Provider (MSSP), multi-tenant data centers, complex IT networks, and infrastructure management solutions.

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The Coalition for Government Procurement

JULY 18, 2024

For more information, please contact Heather Tarpley at htarpley@thecgp.org. GSA to Expand Transaction Data Reporting in MAS Refresh 22 The General Services Administration (GSA) announced that it will release Multiple Award Schedule (MAS) Solicitation Refresh 22 and an associated mass modification to all existing contractors in August.

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