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.

Impact Assessment 140

Impact Assessment Data Evaluation IT 140

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.

Data 132

Data Quality Electronics Innovation 132

FedScoop

JANUARY 31, 2024

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is weighing the use of so-called “model cards” to detail key information about generative AI models it deploys, an agency data official said. The post CDC eyeing ‘model cards’ to detail generative AI tool information appeared first on FedScoop.

Engineering 121

Engineering Balance Risk Management Evaluation 121

FedScoop

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Guidance from the Department of Commerce aimed at establishing a first-of-its-kind framework for using the agency’s public federal data with artificial intelligence tools could come in the next several months. That initial search was an effort to see what was already out there in terms of AI-ready data guidance, according to Houed. “We

Data 128

Data Quality Integration Integrity 128

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.

Data 134

Data Accountability IT Government 134

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.

Data 130

Data Consulting Networking IT 130

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.

Data 119

Data Participation Networking Leadership 119

FedScoop

MARCH 28, 2024

HHS’s Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC), which released the draft Wednesday, establishes the following four goals: “promote health and wellness, enhance the delivery and experience of care, accelerate research and innovation and connect the health system with health data.”

Data 125

Data IT Strategic Planning Electronics 125

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.

Data 124

Data Procurement Budget Management 124

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.

Data 130

Data Import Evaluation Balance 130

FedScoop

AUGUST 1, 2024

Atlanta and New York City and co-sponsored by Microsoft and OpenAI, was part of the agency’s efforts to get the federal government to open up authoritative data and set it up for usability, GSA Administrator Robin Carnahan told reporters in D.C. Protecting data and privacy were top priorities, Shive said.

Data 136

Data Participation Inventory Transparency 136

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. .

Data 119

Data Purchasing Quality Inventory 119

Federal News Network

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

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. Tom Temin: Right.

Data 104

Data Procurement Price Efficiency 104

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.

Data 126

Data Collaboration Efficiency Accountability 126

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.

Data 128

Data Distribution Integration Integrity 128

FedScoop

MARCH 22, 2024

Complaints about the Transportation Security Administration’s PreCheck program, the popular expedited passenger screening system, have more than tripled since 2015, according to newly released data from an organization focused on obtaining government datasets and making them more accessible.

Data 122

Data Transportation Transportation Government 122

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.

Data 128

Data Government Government IT 128

FedScoop

JULY 5, 2024

Now armed with a robust artificial intelligence use case inventory and a splashy new data-tracking tool , SSA’s technology leaders feel especially bullish about where they stand in their digital journey. For a “data rich” agency like SSA, Brown said it made sense to O’Malley to give website users the ability to “see that granular data.”

Data 128

Data IT Budget Leadership 128

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.

Data 108

Data Contract IT 108

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.

Data 119

Data Management Accountability Integration 119

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.

Data 126

Data Education Collaboration Price 126

Federal News Network

MAY 7, 2024

Lawmakers contend that is an incomplete picture of the data. To do that, the Army Program Executive Office for Enterprise Information Systems is developing a new contract to support the Army Accessions Information Environment (AIE). Award categories also include innovation, data and technology, and category management.

Data 119

Data Transportation Transportation Category Management 119

AWS Public Sector

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

However, the data surrounding these procurement processes has traditionally been fragmented and difficult to access. Only about 20 percent of the total procurement data is readily available and searchable at the EU level through the Tenders Electronic Daily (TED) portal.

Public Procurement 69

Public Procurement Data Procurement Quality 69

AWS Public Sector

APRIL 12, 2024

UK Biobank is the world’s most comprehensive source of health data used for research. It houses a vast, continuously growing dataset of biological, health, and lifestyle information. Health data for the public interest The altruism of research participants is at the heart of UK Biobank’s existence.

Data 126

Data Participation Leadership Quantity 126

FedScoop

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

CISA partially attributed that drop to an “incoming federal partner” that stopped sharing information due to “unspecified security concerns with transferring information from its current system to AIS.” CISA, which launched AIS in 2016, finished updates to the 2.0 version of the system in March 2022.

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Participation Quality Data Evaluation 126

FedScoop

AUGUST 20, 2024

Those recommendations include ensuring FedRAMP usage in agencies, releasing guidance for agencies’ implementation of transparent data requirements, modernizing legacy systems to avoid higher costs for maintenance, avoiding cybersecurity pitfalls and updating procedures for electronic information system functionalities for recordkeeping systems.

Electronics 134

Electronics Inventory Data Transparency 134

FedScoop

JANUARY 23, 2024

The Office of Personnel Management and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence do not have adequate data for assessing government security clearances and other vetting processes, the Government Accountability Office said in a report released Monday. ODNI did not provide formal comments on the recommendations, according to GAO.

Risk Management 124

Risk Management Data Accountability Management 124

FedScoop

MAY 2, 2024

According to a consumer data breach notice filed with the Maine attorney general’s office, the attack was described as an “external system breach” and “hacking” that impacted more than 6,000 people. The extent to which different types of information were released is unclear. The firm declined to discuss their work on the topic.

IT 121

IT Data Accountability Transparency 121

FedScoop

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Candice Ling, senior vice president of Microsoft’s federal government business, announced the launch in a Tuesday blog post , highlighting the data safety measures of the service and its potential uses for productivity and innovation. This includes ensuring that prompts and proprietary data aren’t used to further train the model,” Ling wrote.

Government 131

Government Government Data Utilities 131

FedScoop

APRIL 2, 2024

Kelly Fletcher, State’s chief information officer, said during a speech Tuesday at Palo Alto Networks’s Public Sector Ignite event that the creation of a generative AI chatbot is something that the agency’s workforce is asking for as publicly available tools like ChatGPT become more popular.

Inventory 138

Inventory Data Networking IT 138

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.

Supplier 52

Supplier Data Procurement Tender 52

FedScoop

MAY 6, 2024

The Department of Education’s Federal Student Aid office is looking to advance cloud capabilities through its Next Generation Data Center, a follow-on contract for the office’s Next Generation Cloud.

Education 122

Education Data Contract IT 122

FedScoop

APRIL 9, 2024

A review by the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration found that IRS had no documentation to support the underlying data, analysis, or assumptions used for Direct File cost estimates. Information collected during the pilot, Werfel added, “will allow us to develop an accurate baseline for this novel government service.”

Accountability 126

Accountability Price Electronics Data 126

FedScoop

APRIL 5, 2024

An artificial intelligence service deployed within the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is being put to the test for things like modernizing its websites and capturing information on school closures, the agency’s top data official said. That process tends to be “tedious” and “manual,” Sim said.

Efficiency 139

Efficiency Data Innovation Media 139

FedScoop

OCTOBER 18, 2024

Now, it’s seeking more information from vendors about their biometric capabilities as it tries to pursue that goal. Overall, the database constitutes one of the world’s largest repositories of biometric data, with more than 260 million logged in the system. It also asks them to address biometric identity standards.

IT 119

IT Data Management Engineering 119

Inside Government Contracts

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Section 1704 of the Senate bill would require DoD to modernize its “cyber red teams” by utilizing cyber threat intelligence and threat modeling, automation, artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning capabilities, and data collection and correlation. Modernize DoD Information Network Boundary and Cross-Domain Defense.

Networking 173

Networking Data Evaluation Government Contracts 173

FedScoop

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Driven in part by the 21st Century Integrated Digital Experience Act (IDEA) and shifting public expectations, agencies face growing pressure to adopt advanced technology platforms while safeguarding critical data, according to a recent e-book by Own Company. As agencies adopt AI tools, robust data strategies become even more essential.

Efficiency 125

Efficiency Data Balance Integration 125