FedTech Magazine

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Agencies looking to establish hybrid data centers need comprehensive security strategies that set realistic time frames and are mapped to their respective budgets. A hybrid data center relies on cloud, software-defined networking and virtualization technologies to distribute applications across physical and multicloud environments.

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Open Contracting Partnership

JANUARY 9, 2025

But until recently, like many governments, New York City relied on antiquated systems and lacked the tools to take full advantage of its procurement data. Part of being accountable to taxpayers is putting the good, the bad and the ugly about our data out into the public sphere. states or indeed many countries.

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FedTech Magazine

AUGUST 4, 2022

Turn back the clock a decade or so, and you would see a far different data center landscape in the federal space than exists today. For one, there would be more data centers —many more, in fact —and they would be largely running applications on bare-metal servers. Those efforts have been so successful that data center closures…

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FedTech Magazine

OCTOBER 28, 2022

Women make up only 37 percent of the top ranks of the federal government, known as the Senior Executive Service. This is according to Office of Personnel Management data shared earlier this year as part of the agency’s Executive Women in Motion: Pathways to the Senior Executive Service Toolkit.

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FedTech Magazine

MARCH 1, 2023

Government benefits help millions of citizens pay for food, housing, health care and other basic living expenses. Determining who is eligible for certain programs involves complicated, often redundant processes, worsened by the struggle of many government agencies to share data effectively.

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American City & Country

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

The company is a licensed independent CPA firm providing tax and business consulting services to their clients, which includes governments. Local governments have been a unique entity in the cyber-security landscape because of their lack of ability to pay ransomware,” Mahna explains. What’s more, local governments remain vulnerable.

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FedTech Magazine

JANUARY 2, 2024

While states and local communities are in charge of the technology and data needed to run an election, federal agencies play a key role in helping to ensure the integrity of a process that is fundamental to democracy. From foreign meddling to disinformation campaigns, election officials and their cyber teams have security top of mind.

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Federal News Network

APRIL 2, 2025

The government has rights to certain intellectual property by challenging so-called markings such as notes on who can do what with images, drawings and technical data. But there are certain categories of data that the government reserves broader, in this case, unrestricted rights to use the data.

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FedScoop

APRIL 3, 2025

The Environmental Protection Agency lacks a complete and accurate inventory of its information systems and software asset management data, according to the agencys Office of Inspector General. The agency software asset management tool doesnt contain complete and accurate software license data to comply with both NIST and agency requirements.

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FedTech Magazine

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Data Center as a Service is gaining traction with agencies seeking the flexibility to gradually adopt cloud services while maintaining control over critical data and infrastructure. There are two primary DCaaS models for agencies to choose from: seller-owned or government-owned, says…

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FedTech Magazine

JANUARY 22, 2025

Critical gaps in guidance persist for chief data officers, particularly with regard to data governance for artificial intelligence, despite making progress on data maturity and mission goals. The overlap between the roles of CDOs and other IT leaders,

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Inside Government Contracts

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

These data are consistent with the Board’s policy statement of providing “to the fullest extent practicable” the “informal, expeditious, and inexpensive resolution of disputes.” The Board addressed 78 cases through the ADR process, resolving 67. Separately, the Board provided a breakdown of appeal figures by agency.

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GovLoop

DECEMBER 3, 2024

AI is changing the way government does business. Through automation, predictive analytics and advanced data analysis, AI is set to enhance operations and service delivery, said Chris Steel AI Practice Lead at AlphaSix, which provides data management platforms and tools for data analysis.

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FedTech Magazine

JULY 3, 2023

Transformer deep learning models — which learn context, and thereby meaning, by tracking relationships in sequential data like words in a sentence — are producing increasingly sophisticated AI.…

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FedTech Magazine

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

A breach of the MOVEit file transfer service in June is just one of several recent cyber incidents that victimized federal organizations, such as the Department of Energy, but external threats aren’t the only source of government cyber risk. Insiders remain a perennial weak link, a vulnerability often overlooked by agencies.

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FedTech Magazine

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Many government agencies lag in adoption of cloud computing and cite various obstacles as a deterrent. Fact: Government Agencies Struggle with Siloed Data Siloed data is a major obstacle for government agencies. Therefore, fragmented data sharing — or no data sharing — among agencies can result in redundant data…

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FedTech Magazine

APRIL 11, 2024

Federal IT leaders want to make it easier for agencies to incorporate artificial intelligence such as chatbots and image and code generators into daily workflows, as well as compliance tools that help protect sensitive data and users’ personal information.

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FedTech Magazine

AUGUST 16, 2023

What the public sees when they use government services: updates on their packages’ travels through the mail system, the latest weather alerts, first responders jumping into hazardous situations without hesitation. Federal agencies are relying on more and more advanced technologies to keep the business of government operating…

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ExecutiveBiz

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

ECS, an information technology systems integrator specializing in data and artificial intelligence, cybersecurity and enterprise transformation, has been selected by the General Services Administration as a prime contractor on a 10-year, $60 billion contract for consulting and enterprise transformation services.

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AWS Public Sector

DECEMBER 2, 2024

When terrestrial network connectivity between an Outpost and its parent AWS Region is unavailable, this solution routes traffic back to the parent Region over a Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite connection, supporting business continuity and data residency requirements.

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USFCR

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

General Services Administration (GSA) is Transactional Data Reporting (TDR). TDR may initially sound intimidating, but it’s an essential aspect of doing business with the federal government—and can even work to your advantage once you understand it. Federal contractors know that staying compliant is a top priority.

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FedScoop

JANUARY 31, 2024

Immigration and Customs Enforcement has stopped using commercial telemetry data, which can include phone data that reveals a person’s location, an agency spokesperson confirmed to FedScoop. The move comes amid ongoing bipartisan concern about law enforcement agency purchases of peoples’ location data without obtaining a warrant.

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FedScoop

APRIL 15, 2024

Back in January, Immigration and Customs Enforcement said it had stopped using commercial telemetry data that government agencies buy from private companies. The move comes as civil rights advocates have raised repeated concerns about the use of commercial telemetry data. Within DHS, the use of this data has raised alarm bells.

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FedTech Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2024

Meanwhile, Microsoft launched a generative AI service for the government in June, the Department of Defense announced a generative AI taskforce in August, and more initiatives are sure to come. Machine learning and artificial intelligence are making their way to the public sector, whether agencies are ready or not.

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FedInsider

OCTOBER 27, 2023

As Forbes describes it, “Traditional AI systems are primarily used to analyze data and make predictions, while generative AI goes a step further by creating new data similar to its training data.” What’s the difference? He has twice been awarded Jessie H.

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AWS Public Sector

JANUARY 30, 2025

In an earlier post, Build secure and scalable data platforms for the European Health Data Space (EHDS) with AWS , we discussed a reference architecture for building secure and scalable data platforms for secondary usage of health data in alignment with the European Health Data Space (EHDS) using Amazon Web Services (AWS).

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FedTech Magazine

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Data is moving increasingly toward the edge. Gartner, for example, predicts that by 2025, more than half of enterprise-managed data will be created and processed outside the data center or cloud. Agencies collect data at the edge, send it to the cloud and then perform predictive analytics.

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ExecutiveBiz

AUGUST 20, 2024

In today’s intelligence landscape, data is the key to decision advantage. Intelligence Community is placing a heavy emphasis on getting its data strategies and processes right. That’s why the U.S.

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FedTech Magazine

OCTOBER 21, 2024

With the most recent Federal Information Security Modernization Act report cataloging 11 major incidents among government agencies in fiscal 2023, there is a clear need to continue improving overall cybersecurity. This unique federal government approach to identity, credential and access management is…

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FedTech Magazine

MARCH 25, 2024

In the wake of escalating cyberthreats — including the Play ransomware gang’s 300-plus attacks on public entities across North America, South America, Europe and Asia, and the breach of two federal agencies — it is clear that malicious cyber actors are increasingly targeting government through encrypted attacks. In addition, the…

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FedTech Magazine

DECEMBER 23, 2024

Government interest in predictive artificial intelligence for zero-trust security has increased along with the number of vulnerabilities identified on federal networks.

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Select GCR

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Want to start selling to governments but dont know where to begin? This guide breaks down the crucial steps: identifying contracting opportunities, understanding procurement processes, and building relationships with government buyers. Dive in to learn strategies that can help you secure lucrative government contracts.

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ExecutiveBiz

APRIL 16, 2025

Voltron Data, a company specializing in large-scale data analytics and artificial intelligence workloads, has partnered with Carahsoft Technology to bring advanced data infrastructure technology to the public sector. Carahsoft said Tuesday it will provide federal agencies access to Voltron Datas Theseus.

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FedTech Magazine

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Agencies must ensure their IT infrastructure is up to the task of transforming how data is processed before they can begin leveraging high-performance computing (HPC) and artificial intelligence.

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FedTech Magazine

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Zach Whitman, the General Services Administration’s chief AI officer and data scientist, reminds his colleagues that the GSA was one of the first agencies to adopt email and internet access for the government workplace.

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FedScoop

JULY 25, 2024

The Department of Health and Human Services announced a reshuffle of its technology, data, AI and cybersecurity responsibilities Thursday, mainly moving portfolios from the Assistant Secretary for Administration to other components. The CTO role has been unfilled since Ed Simcox departed in 2020.

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FedTech Magazine

AUGUST 15, 2024

The federal government is no exception. As agencies lay the groundwork to make the most out of these newfound capabilities, IT and data-focused teams are limited only by their imaginations when it comes to achieving this next, perhaps most…

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