AWS Public Sector

OCTOBER 23, 2024

A challenge with rideshare demand prediction, however, is that the trip data required to calibrate or train models can be exceptionally large. In this example use case, we explore rideshare data from Chicago. A deployment example can be found in the Big Data Analytics with Amazon EMR and Esri’s ArcGIS GeoAnalytics Engine blog post.

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FedScoop

AUGUST 15, 2024

The reports of devices brought abroad without authorization emphasize the importance of policies and protocols designed to protect government devices before government workers travel. NASA devices used abroad, and their transmission of data across foreign networks, would make especially attractive targets,” he added.

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Tracker Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Fact checked by Eddie Regan, BiP Solutions Principal Procurement Consultant Brexit has dramatically changed the UK’s import and export-dynamic. Pre-Brexit trade predictions estimated a 15% decline in UK imports and exports. Typically, the UK imports more than it exports.

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GovLoop

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

During Wednesday’s online training entitled “Doing More With Less: Delivering Services Efficiently,” GovLoop heard from Howard Spira, Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer for Information Management and Technology at the Export-Import Bank of the United States, and from Willie Hicks, Public Sector Chief Technologist at Dynatrace.

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Import and Trade Remedies

JULY 5, 2024

Cyber and data security issues in connected vehicles The Government has raised the potential for cyber and data security issues in relation to information and communications technology and services in EVs and their infrastructure that is developed, manufactured, or supplied by persons subject to the jurisdiction or direction of China.

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Import and Trade Remedies

APRIL 19, 2024

When importing goods into the UK, traders are required to account for any applicable customs duty and import VAT (collectively “ Duties “) on import unless they can utilise a customs special procedure to delay or reduce payment of these amounts.

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American City & Country

AUGUST 28, 2024

As environmental issues have become more important to governments and administrations within the last few decades, it has gotten easier to identify ways to leverage purchasing to support these goals. This factor might be included as an important score in the overall evaluation rating scale. Matching devices to needs.

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AWS Public Sector

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Forecasting satellite usage has been traditionally challenging due to issues like demand spikes, impact of weather on link conditions, and a lack of data science expertise to build machine learning (ML) models to predict bandwidth needs. A Jupyter notebook automates the data import, predictor, and forecast generation steps.

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Import and Trade Remedies

DECEMBER 14, 2023

On 7 December 2023, the government announced a package of customs simplification measures to simplify export and import processes for traders. The post <strong>United Kingdom: The UK Government Announces Major Package of Customs Simplification Measures</strong> appeared first on Import and Trade Remedies Blog.

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Import and Trade Remedies

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

The CBAM communication template for installations is a data collection template serving to facilitate the communication between operators of operators in third countries and reporting declarants. The template is made of different sheets that contain all the relevant data elements these parties must exchange under the CBAM legislation.

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Import and Trade Remedies

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Such an ecosystem would be built on three pillars: technological capabilities, real time data and trusted relationships. The government estimates that the automation of customs declarations using business documentation, when possible, would reduce customs data collection costs by 40% for industry.

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Import and Trade Remedies

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

114-125 ) to increase the de minimis threshold for imports into the United States from $200 to $800, far exceeding similar thresholds in other countries globally. Rather, de minimis shipments are typically entered using only manifest data, and there is no importer of record as with typical informal and formal entries.

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Government Contracts & Investigations

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

In stark contrast to fast-moving sanctions and export controls, we rarely see updates to the antiboycott regulations or enforcement strategies. Given the newfound enforcement focus of BIS, it is particularly important that Federal contractors ensure their certification under DFARS 252.225-7031 is accurate.

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Import and Trade Remedies

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

The potential of AD and SCM committees – some examples Treatment of goods: captive use and inward processing Take, for instance, the practically important issue of the treatment of captive goods, i.e., goods traded within the same company, or goods imported under the inward processing regime, in anti-dumping investigations.

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AWS Public Sector

AUGUST 22, 2024

The AWS Nitro System prevents even privileged administrators from accessing customer workloads or data. Myth 3: Spending on CSPs results in profits flowing to the United States The myth that investing in cloud service providers (CSPs) sends profits to the US while traditional data centers keep spending within Canada is incorrect.

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Import and Trade Remedies

MARCH 15, 2024

On Tuesday 5 March 2024, the European Council and European Parliament reached a provisional agreement on the EU Forced Labour Regulation (“ Regulation “), which will prohibit the placing and making available on the EU market, or the export from the EU market, of products made, extracted or harvested using forced labour.

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Tracker Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

This emphasises the importance of being on the right framework agreements for suppliers. For suppliers, securing a position on an essential public sector frameworks list is more important than ever. Suppliers are so focused on meeting deadlines that they forget to attach or misplace important documents. In 2023, the U.S.

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The Coalition for Government Procurement

APRIL 17, 2025

Federal Acquisition Leadership Discuss Importance of FAR Reform This week, Nextgov published the following commentary on the importance of the White Houses priority of reforming the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR). pharmaceutical demand, weaponization of pharmaceutical exports, and other related issues. manufacturing, U.S.

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Government Contracts & Investigations

JANUARY 2, 2024

Below we outline the key portions of the Proposed Rule that will be of particular importance to defense contractors. The Assessment/Certification Levels (Levels 1-3) As expected, there will be three assessment levels, requiring progressively higher numbers of security controls to protect progressively more sensitive data.

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Procurement Notes

MARCH 5, 2024

51] NBER data corroborates that low employment is a lagging indicator—showing that in the (12) recessions since 1948, (7) commenced while unemployment was less than 5%. [52] Yet, for 2023, the current data shows that receipts slipped to 16.2%—a 30] , [31] That is significantly less than the high water mark of 5.3% Specifically, U.S.

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FedScoop

MAY 20, 2024

Assistant Secretary Mary Ellen Callahan: Artificial intelligence and generative artificial intelligence is the processing of a lot of different data to try to find novel or new content. The international coordination piece is very important. FedScoop: Can you start by explaining what the threat actually is, here?

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The Coalition for Government Procurement

JANUARY 4, 2024

We welcome everyone back from what we hope was a happy restful holiday season, and we look forward to working with you as we address the aforementioned important business issues that stakeholders face in the government marketplace. To register, click here. Comments on the Draft PWS are due on January 30, 2024, by 4:00 PM (ET).

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FedScoop

OCTOBER 10, 2024

A FedScoop analysis of 29 of those documents found that data readiness and access to quality data, a dearth of knowledge about AI and talent with specific expertise, and finite funding levels were among the most common challenges that agencies reported. Making government AI-ready “comes down to data,” Howard said. “It

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GovCon & Trade

OCTOBER 5, 2023

On a day-to-day basis, restrictions arise most commonly in the context of export controls and economic sanctions. Ultimately, CFIUS exists to identify and address national security risks that cannot be ameliorated through another legal regime such as export controls or Foreign Ownership, Control or Influence (FOCI) mitigation.

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Procurement Notes

MARCH 16, 2023

Therefore, looking at the above data, February 2023 marked at least 23 (possibly 24) months of above-target inflation, which, at least when measured with headline inflation, started in March-April 2021. First , PPI “does not include imports, because imports are by definition not produced by domestic firms.” [10]

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FedScoop

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

It would build on BIS’s long history conducting defense industrial base surveys to inform the American government about emerging risks in the most important U.S. Rozman Kendler, assistant secretary of Commerce for export administration. industries.” This action demonstrates the U.S.

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Procurement Notes

JUNE 13, 2022

36] Creating a meaningful AAP is time-intensive, particularly in gathering the needed data. 36] Creating a meaningful AAP is time-intensive, particularly in gathering the needed data. applicant tracking system (“ATS”) or AAP-customized software) to collate the needed data minimizes that burden. Hence, leveraging technology (e.g.,

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AWS Public Sector

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

These allies want to use each others capabilities, which include data and technologies. To protect sensitive data and promote robust cybersecurity frameworks, organizations must consider one anothers compliance requirements. However, Trusted Secure Enclaves allows national organizations to use the cloud to support ITAR data.

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FedScoop

DECEMBER 2, 2024

However, many face a common stumbling block: How to overcome obstacles that hinder integrating their data. One of those stumbling blocks, according to a new report , is the growing volume of data maintained on agency-operated data management platforms built on Salesforce.

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Import and Trade Remedies

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

These issues include customs declarants, risk management, data processing, import permit exemption, import duty, customs valuation and the customs procedure. USD 80) imported under this customs regime shall be entitled to exemption of physical inspection and import duty (limited to a total value of VND 96 million (approx.

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FedInsider

JANUARY 1, 2025

This week on Feds-At-The Edge we explore ways to improve security through basic controls like software updates and patching, with the conversation quickly turning to the importance of practical strategy. Developing a good data inventory: Full of IoT devices? pharmaceutical supply chain. As a Cyber Leader in the U.S

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Oxford College of Procurement and Supply

MARCH 24, 2025

Aimed primarily at imports from key trading partners, these tariffs are set to significantly affect a wide array of goods, directly highlighting the impact of US tariffs on UK supply chains. As of 2023, the US was the UKs largest single export market, accounting for approximately 21.7% of total UK exports, valued at 186.7

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Open Contracting Partnership

DECEMBER 4, 2024

A new case study we developed together with Transparency International Ukraine (TI Ukraine) examines how Prozorro’s data analytics tools have become an integral part of the work of more than 30,000 people across government, monitoring institutions, the private sector and civil society, even as the country grapples with Russia’s full-scale invasion.

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AWS Public Sector

MARCH 21, 2025

Fair Trade USA collects data from a variety of sources, including their customer relationship management (CRM) tool, audit platform, survey tools, and data from external data providers. million farmers, fishers, and workers in 51 countries; and transaction data for 15,000-plus Fair Trade Certified products.

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Import and Trade Remedies

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

To achieve this the UK CBAM will place a carbon price on goods imported to the UK from the aluminium, cement, fertiliser, hydrogen, iron and steel sectors, with the aim of levelling the playing field and ensuring that imported goods are subject to a carbon price that is comparable to that incurred by manufacturers based in the UK.

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FedScoop

MARCH 31, 2025

Whether working to export state-controlled 5G or AI-enabled technologies or pushing global standards that benefit the CCP and Chinese tech companies, China is aggressively moving to dominate global fora and using diplomacy (among other methods) to do it.

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FedScoop

JANUARY 14, 2025

President Joe Biden signed an executive order Tuesday aimed at shoring up the nations AI infrastructure, including through the operation of data centers, in an effort to ensure that the growing technology will be built and operated in the U.S. by creating jobs, providing economic growth and bolstering U.S. leadership globally.

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