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Northwestern University Libraries make research more efficient, accessible with AWS Lambda

AWS Public Sector

When they found a technology standard that could make research more efficient and open, they acted. What motivated us was the opportunity to participate in this open standards community of cultural heritage institutions, all focused on how to best share collections efficiently across the globe.”

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Brain Data Science Platform increases EEG accessibility with open data and research enabled by AWS

AWS Public Sector

The Brain Data Science Platform (BDSP), hosted on Amazon Web Services (AWS), is increasing EEG accessibility through cooperative data sharing and research enabled by the cloud. The cloud increases EEG accessibility by facilitating data sharing and research innovation, making EEGs more accessible for more patients’ medical care plans.

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State Department aims for total of 52 bureau chief data officers in next five years

FedScoop

Nearly two years after launching its bureau chief data officer program, the Department of State is seeing success and aiming to almost quadruple the size of its current cohort, Farakh Khan, director of communications, culture and training at the agency’s Center for Analytics, told FedScoop in a recent interview.

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GSA is cooking up a new, comprehensive procurement data source

Federal News Network

The government both creates and runs on data. Given that agencies spend hundreds of billions of dollars on goods and services the more procurement data it has, the better it can understand trends and ‘manage’ procurement. That’s the idea behind a data source effort known as Hi-Def.

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GDIT AI Exec Dave Vennergrund Discusses Power of Data Lakehouses & Meshes

ExecutiveBiz

Combining data lakes and meshes will enable government agencies to align their data assets more efficiently in compliance with the executive order on artificial intelligence, said Dave Vennergrund, vice president of AI and data insights at General Dynamics Information Technology.

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Improving public health through data exchange

AWS Public Sector

As public health resources shift away from the pandemic response, jurisdictions now seek ways to modernize their public health infrastructure to avoid previous challenges such as data fragmentation, incompleteness of health data, and lack of interoperability.

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ICF Books HHS Contract to Enhance Kidney Dialysis Data Reporting System

ExecutiveBiz

ICF will modernize the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid’s kidney dialysis data reporting system under a potential three-year, $33 million recompete contract from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

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