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. Organizations want to enhance service resiliency to address this challenge.

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Networking Data Manufacturing Government 132

FedTech Magazine

OCTOBER 5, 2022

As federal agencies increasingly rely on cloud services and data analytics, speed and uptime is more important than ever. Edge computing enables federal agencies to process data faster and tap advanced capabilities like artificial intelligence to make better decisions.

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Data Import Management IT 232

FedTech Magazine

JUNE 18, 2024

Embracing app assessments is critical with only 27 percent of organizations modernizing mission-critical apps and related data and systems, despite 83 percent of IT leaders acknowledging the importance of these efforts,…

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Import Data IT 223

AWS Public Sector

JULY 9, 2024

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. However, in current practice, EEGs are not always part of a diagnostic plan, even when they could provide important information.

Data 126

Data Collaboration Efficiency Innovation 126

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. Its important for us to be accountable to them and understand they are the end user and beneficiary of our procurement. This is an enormous amount of spending, more than most U.S.

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Participation Government Contracts Government Government 104

FedScoop

AUGUST 19, 2024

Collecting data from inside a hurricane can feel like sticking toothpicks in a donut. Each of those devices is dropped from one of the agency’s “Hurricane Hunter” aircrafts, falling through the storm like a toothpick piercing a donut and collecting data about temperature, air pressure, humidity, and wind speed on its downward path.

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Data Import Evaluation Balance 124

Open Contracting Partnership

MARCH 28, 2024

Bridging the digital divide: Implementing open procurement for effective digital transformation Digital transformation is arguably the most important administrative undertaking of governments around the world. This involves breaking down larger projects into smaller, more manageable components and using iterative development processes.

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Procurement Framework Agreement IT Public Private Partnership 138

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

American City & Country

OCTOBER 8, 2024

Teamwork is essential when cities and counties plan to buy new systems and equipment, says Gary Mitchell , director of SLED (state, local and education) business development at Iron Mountain Government Solutions , a company that provides secure management of data and assets; it works to protect, connect and activate high-value customer data.

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Import Competitive Bidding Price Change Management 110

GovLoop

JUNE 19, 2023

CDC Data Maps Illustrate Threat Impacts It’s often impossible to confine environmental and public health events to a specific jurisdiction, agency or area of responsibility. EJI draws its data from the CDC, Census Bureau, Environmental Protection Agency, and Mine Safety and Health Administration.

Data 104

Data Evaluation Education Quality 104

GovLoop

MAY 26, 2023

By definition, data ethics refers to the norms of behavior that promote appropriate judgments and accountability when acquiring, managing or using data. But AI’s expansive use has made data ethics increasingly important. 4 Basic Principles of Data Ethics Ownership: Individuals own their data or their information.

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Ethics Data Public Goods Transparency 98

FedScoop

AUGUST 12, 2024

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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Data Collaboration Efficiency Accountability 118

VWV

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Specifically, the platform will: Simplify the procurement process for suppliers: Suppliers will only need to enter their information once, which can then be reused across multiple tenders Collect data about procurement Be where all the procurement notices will be published, improving transparency by having them all in one place.

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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. But Heather T.

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Data Quantity Education Budget 105

FedScoop

APRIL 25, 2024

As a former refugee officer who used to travel all over the world to determine which refugee officers can receive protection in the United States, I am keenly aware of the life-and-death importance of that mission.” DHS CIO Eric Hysen currently serves as the agency’s chief AI officer. Digital Service.

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IT Inventory Budget Engineering 120

Open Contracting Partnership

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Enter Data Club This is where our work at the Mongolian Data Club comes in. We designed a data analysis project to show how public open datasets can be used to uncover important issues and bring public attention to who is supplying what, for how much and whether there are any links between suppliers and high-ranking public officials.

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Data Corruption Supplier Public Procurement 123

Open Contracting Partnership

JUNE 26, 2024

A publicly available tool, ACT Ai aggregates data on over 31 million public procurement projects, linking them with company registration data to detect potential fraud and corruption. For example, Thailand’s procurement data could be improved by releasing planning data and ensuring a more timely publication.

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Corruption Data Procurement Collusion 113

Open Contracting Partnership

DECEMBER 19, 2023

So it was important to set the bar high and to ensure our vision of procurement as a modern, digital open data-driven public service was strongly reflected. We are pleased to see “equitable” used to describe the tendering processes which implies moving beyond lowest price to foster economic inclusion.

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Public Procurement Procurement E-procurement IT 140

GovLoop

JUNE 9, 2023

Discussions about the value of an enterprise approach to data governance often miss an important point: The difference it actually makes to anyone outside the IT department or the chief data officer’s (CDO) team. I thought about that while listening to a recent GovLoop virtual event on data virtualization.

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Data Education Quality Budget 105

Federal News Network

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

The intent of this program is to redefine the moving experience of our military personnel and their families, and to deploy an IT backbone with intelligence to retain data and knowledge that allows for optimization and importantly, accountability. So in short, a delay of one year. But we think we’ll be successful.”

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Integration Integrity IT Contract 141

Federal News Network

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Two data points help us understand some important facets of federal contracting. It is important to note that a significant number of protests filed with our Office do not reach a decision on the merits because agencies voluntarily take corrective action in response to the protest rather than defend the protest on the merits. “It

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Thresholds E-procurement Accountability Procurement 104

Federal News Network

JUNE 24, 2024

Data management tools, like pricing algorithms and artificial intelligence (AI), are playing an ever-larger role in Federal procurement as agencies look to streamline processes, increase efficiency, and improve contract outcomes. Coalition members generally support the use of these new data management technologies.

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Transparency Data Procurement Management 98

GovLoop

MAY 6, 2024

With the rise of remote work and the explosion of the Internet of Things (IoT) generating large volumes of data in the field, agencies want to provide staff the ability to analyze and use that data in the field as well. But there’s a catch: They also need to secure that data. This is the concept of edge computing. The solution?

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Data Distribution Management Efficiency 97

GovCon Wire

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Data is the key to unlocking important insights that can inform decisions on and off the battlefield. But in order to glean these insights, organizations must process and analyze vast amounts of data, which can be a significant challenge.

Data 96

Data Import IT 96

FedScoop

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

What has gone less noticed, however, is the emergence of a new generation of scalable, high-performance microprocessors featuring built-in accelerators to improve memory, data streaming, balance database and security. Data Streaming – capable of speeding up data movement across memory caches, storage and network devices.

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Data Engineering Demand Balance 106

AWS Public Sector

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Generative AI is critical to future of public service The overwhelming majority of respondents (89 percent) think it’s important for their organization to adopt generative AI , with a quarter reporting that they believe it’s critical—and we agree, the future of public service requires the power generative AI brings to the table.

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Education Innovation Efficiency Import 119

FedScoop

JUNE 20, 2024

The Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health will use Palantir’s AI and data software to support its data infrastructure and track the progress of its research programs under a $19 million contract being announced Thursday. And so a lot of that comes from data.” Thomson said.

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Data Contract Innovation Integration 96

AWS Public Sector

JULY 2, 2024

Data sovereignty refers to a concept where individuals, organizations, or governments have control over their own data and infrastructure, ensuring independence, privacy, and security. This post walks through how data sovereignty can be achieved leveraging edge AI with Amazon Web Services (AWS).

Data 81

Data Networking Efficiency Import 81

SmallGovCon

OCTOBER 31, 2023

For Mentor-Protégé Agreements entered into after December 23, 2022, the Mentor actually has deadlines to submit data on those items. It is important to note that these are proposed changes, not final. Just in the past week, the DoD released the newest proposed changes to its program. So, there is still a period for comments.

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IT Participation Manufacturing Government Contracts 113

GovCon Wire

MAY 23, 2024

Data is the new gold, according to GovCon industry executives and leaders. And as organizations see more and more data, the need to process, understand and leverage it becomes increasingly important.

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Import Data Government Government 115

Federal News Network

JULY 11, 2024

Keith Jordan, the product manager for Tactical Cyber and NetOps, in the Army’s Program Executive Office Command Control Communications-Tactical (PEO-C3T) said will bring efficiency, ease of use and, most importantly, meet the needs of commanders more readily. There’s a time component of how long it takes to make the network operate.

Networking 105

Networking IT Product Management Efficiency 105

AWS Public Sector

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

In the intricate web of government agencies, the smooth exchange of data is paramount to provide citizens seamless access to digital services. However, this exchange poses significant challenges, particularly concerning citizen-centric data. Inter-agency data exchange patterns.

Data 75

Data Government Government Demand 75

AWS Public Sector

JANUARY 25, 2024

Data is key to a higher education institution’s ability to expose insights and improve student performance and outcomes. Helping institutions understand how data can be used and how it can propel institutions toward a brighter future is a priority for Amazon Web Services (AWS). What does a data journey entail?

Education 83

Education Data Capacity Integration 83

FedInsider

OCTOBER 11, 2024

Harnessing AI is a useful way to advance modernization goals, but AI governance—including ethical considerations, data security, and compliance with federal regulations—must remain a top priority. And increased AI implementation demand that organizations rethink how they staff, develop, and run their day-to-day operations.

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IT Ethics Participation Networking 97

Federal News Network

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

Sometimes, quality, delivery, innovation, or other benefits are more important than price. To avoid the PRC and its complicated tracking scheme, GSA mercifully created Transaction Data Reporting (TDR), where companies report data on transactions at the order level, which alleviates the requirement to comply with the PRC.

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Price Innovation Quality Contract 60

AWS Public Sector

MARCH 15, 2024

But it’s important not to confuse ease of use with effortless deployment. Business considerations: Appoint a cross-functional team A cross-functional team will be best able to balance AI skills with knowledge of the target business process(es) and considerations around the source data and what happens to it.

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Data Import Efficiency Balance 134

Federal News Network

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

And this is especially important right now when the like you mentioned, they are facing a shortage. Jared Serbu And one thing that’s always struck me as a little bit unusual about the Coast Guard is they tend to have a much lower portion of their total workforce in the civilian area.

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IT Data Efficiency Accountability 111