FedTech Magazine

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Fact: Government Agencies Struggle with Siloed Data Siloed data is a major obstacle for government agencies. Information collected over decades includes isolated and duplicate data that limits visibility across agencies, many of which operate under their own policies.

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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. This kind of documentation is supposed to be released when agencies deploy a technology that could involve someone’s personal information. Relatedly, Sens. Ron Wyden, D-Ore.,

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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.

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Great Government Through Technology

JANUARY 14, 2025

These systems provide a wealth of data and insights for tackling environmental challenges, driving scientific discovery, and supporting informed decision-making across numerous sectors. Ground-based sensor networks: Gathering real-time data on factors like air quality, soil moisture, and weather patterns.

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WashngtonExec

MARCH 26, 2025

Robert Linger, Leidos Leidos has promoted Robert Linger to vice president for information advantage, and appointed Tim Gilday as vice president for enterprise digital experience. Gilday also has over 20 years of experience in enterprise information technology solutions.

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AWS Public Sector

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

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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FedTech Magazine

MAY 31, 2023

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has no shortage of data to crunch as it seeks to understand and monitor global environmental conditions. Its challenge, rather, involves tying all that together and getting disparate data pipelines to feed into a single system. “We

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FedScoop

AUGUST 23, 2024

Customs and Border Protection confirmed in a privacy review published earlier this month that it was no longer collecting telemetry data, or smartphone location data, provided by commercial firms. In January, FedScoop reported that Immigration and Customs Enforcement had stopped using smart phone location data.

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FedTech Magazine

DECEMBER 23, 2024

Predictive AI can strengthen agencies cybersecurity resilience and will likely become more important than generative AI because larger data sets will be at its disposal to anticipate attacks and trends, said Defense Information Systems Agency CTO Stephen Wallace at the 2024 Rubrik Public Sector Summit in October.

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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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FedTech Magazine

JULY 30, 2024

Using digital signage to display public information in prime locations adds immense value to federal government services. Doing so effectively requires the use of scheduled or dynamically updated messaging via secure software that can handle keeping users and agency office staff aware of mission-critical data.

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FedScoop

OCTOBER 8, 2024

The request for information , published last week, is part of an overarching goal to implement AI across the VA. Some of the outcomes that the VA is looking to foster include an established AI management framework, efficient AI use case management, data integrity, enhanced service delivery, improved services for veterans and more.

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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. A key component is the federal identity credential and access management program created in 2009.

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VWV

DECEMBER 18, 2024

One of the more anticipated notes - Central Digital Platform and the Publication of Information - has now been published. Supplier information Suppliers will need to act promptly once the platform is live. While the Act mandates transparency, it does not override data protection obligations. Economic and financial standing.

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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

JANUARY 19, 2023

The best way to ensure electronic health record systems can share data interoperably is for industry to adopt the Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources standard, or FHIR, say federal officials. FHIR application programming interfaces streamline health information exchange by standardizing data and eliminating the need for sharing…

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FedScoop

APRIL 11, 2024

A data breach that exposed Medicare information — including social security numbers — provided to consulting firm Greylock McKinnon Associates by the Justice Department doesn’t appear to have resulted in identity theft or fraud yet, according to a statement from the agency. GMA could not be reached for comment.

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FedTech Magazine

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

While scientists lead the way in these initiatives, their success is highly dependent on support from the agency’s Office of the Chief Information Officer. The NCI’s IT division, where Janelle Cortner is director of the Data Management and Analysis Program, is responsible for managing and securing much of the…

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FedInsider

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Data and AI-driven tools can increase visibility into, and lessons learned from hiring, onboarding, and turnover, but understanding the significance of those findings and their impact on the workforce and overall mission success is key to realizing the full potential of HR modernization. Certificates will be e-mailed to registrants.

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FedScoop

AUGUST 19, 2024

Collecting data from inside a hurricane can feel like sticking toothpicks in a donut. For decades, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has used small tubular devices with parachutes attached, known as dropsondes, to gather information about the storms. But that day is coming.

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FedScoop

JUNE 20, 2024

A new procurement tool launched by the White House and the General Services Administration will streamline market research for federal agencies and act as a “complement” to the current request for information process, an Office of Federal Procurement Policy official said in an interview Thursday.

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FedInsider

MARCH 14, 2024

Wednesday, April 3, 2024 | 2:00PM EDT | 1 Hour | 1 CPE In today’s interconnected digital landscape, application programming interfaces (APIs) play a pivotal role in facilitating seamless communication and data exchange between various applications and systems.

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FedTech Magazine

AUGUST 8, 2024

Agencies are increasingly turning to next-generation security information and event management systems because the success of their cyber workflows relies on holistic visibility of their IT environments. In short, next-gen SIEM offers agencies…

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FedInsider

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Despite being rich in data, many agencies are lagging in the data modernization needed to support AI – and combining incomplete or inaccurate data with AI can lead to hallucinations , ultimately placing mission delivery at stake. In accordance with the standards of the National Registry of CPE Sponsors, 50 minutes equals 1 CPE.

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FedScoop

OCTOBER 1, 2024

The General Services Administration is not fully compliant with a key piece of the Federal Aviation Administration Reauthorization Act that governs processes related to geospatial data, a new watchdog report found. Notwithstanding these corrective actions, we identified deficiencies in GSA’s compliance with the” Geospatial Data Act. .

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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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AWS Public Sector

OCTOBER 12, 2023

That’s why Netsmart, an industry leader in electronic health records (EHRs) for human services and post-acute care, and Amazon Web Services (AWS) joined forces to advance artificial intelligence (AI) for community-based care providers, through the development of an AI Data Lab.

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FedTech Magazine

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Some, such as the Department of Homeland Security, want to automate data collection from PDFs, processing tens of thousands with generative AI to sort them into groups. No longer do agency decision-makers need to peruse dozens of documents via an internal Microsoft…

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FedScoop

APRIL 9, 2024

With the authorizations, agencies across the Department of Defense and the intelligence community can use Google Distributed Cloud Hosted — an air-gapped private cloud service tailored to workloads that demand maximized security requirements — to support some of their most sensitive data and applications.

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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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AWS Public Sector

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Successful adoption of generative AI, especially within the public sector, requires organizations to enable systematic experimentation and exploration, with their own data, for their workforce and constituents. Protecting the privacy and security of this information when using generative AI can be a significant challenge.

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ExecutiveBiz

MAY 28, 2024

Air Force to provide information technology services in support of a tactical data exchange system used on airborne platforms. Science Applications International Corp. has received a $29.3 million requirements contract from the U.S.

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FedScoop

APRIL 12, 2024

A bill to improve the Congressional Research Service’s access to federal data was one of two bipartisan pieces of legislation advanced Thursday at the first-ever markup by the Committee on House Administration’s newest subcommittee. While CRS’s work is held up by bureaucratic processes and procedures, our work is held up. said at the markup.

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FedTech Magazine

OCTOBER 19, 2022

To see the impact of the Federal Information Technology Acquisition Reform Act, all you need to do is look at the numbers — and the letters. FITARA’s semiannual assessment ranks agencies on how well they meet the requirements outlined in the law, including data center optimization, enhancing CIO authority, cybersecurity and more.

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AWS Public Sector

JUNE 3, 2024

However, you can use SageMaker notebook instances with the R kernel to perform data analytics tasks in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. In this post, we’ll walk through the steps to create a notebook instance with the R kernel and demonstrate how to query data stored in an AWS Glue Data Catalog repository using R.

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FedInsider

AUGUST 30, 2024

Monday, September 30, 2024 | 2:00PM EDT | 1 Hour | 1 CPE In today’s rapidly evolving public sector landscape, the ability to make informed, data-driven decisions is more critical than ever. The government’s Federal Data Strategy identifies the practices that lead to leveraging data to create value.

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AWS Public Sector

MAY 22, 2024

The COVID-tracking and health data system built for the district during the COVID-19 pandemic had become clunky, difficult to customize, and expensive to maintain. Because the district’s data contained sensitive student health information and images, the data had to be encrypted during transit and migrated securely.

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