ExecutiveBiz

AUGUST 30, 2024

Vistra Communications and IT Data Solutions jointly announced combining their capabilities and forming ITDV Solutions, an 8(a) joint venture, with the aim of supporting federal agencies with customized IT solutions designed for the federal sector.

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GovLoop

OCTOBER 16, 2024

To maintain its competitive advantage, the Defense Department must utilize data at the tactical edge. Processing data locally “speeds up the time for decision making, for example when you can run analytics or even AI solutions against the data,” said Dave Hoon, Chief Technology Officer with Norseman Defense Technologies.

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FedScoop

APRIL 17, 2024

The Department of Commerce is requesting information concerning AI-ready open data assets, alongside the development of data dissemination standards. In describing itself as “an authoritative provider of data,” the agency said it is looking to ensure the accuracy and integrity of data as AI intermediaries access and consume data.

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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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FedScoop

OCTOBER 17, 2024

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration component responsible for publicly sharing environmental and weather data and information said it has resumed ingesting data into a majority of its streams after an outage caused by Hurricane Helene. Fortune said in an email to FedScoop that “NCEI maintains 275 data ingest streams.

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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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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.

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GovLoop

MAY 3, 2023

Flash also is much denser, storing the same volume of data in a smaller system. That’s why Pure Storage offers an integrated data platform with an operating system called Purity that manages that complexity. And unlike when buying a whole new system, there’s no need to spend money on data migrations.

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AWS Public Sector

OCTOBER 11, 2024

This post explains how healthcare organizations and partners can use Amazon Web Services (AWS) to build secure and scalable infrastructure for secondary usage of health data in alignment with the European Health Data Space (EHDS). This is the first of two posts describing an AWS reference architecture for EHDS.

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GovCon Wire

JULY 12, 2024

The FBI has awarded NTT DATA a spot on the $8 billion Information Technology Supplies and Support Services 2 blanket purchase agreement. The contract vehicle is meant to be used by all Department of Justice components, including the FBI, to acquire critical IT services, NTT DATA said Thursday.

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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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GovLoop

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Pittsburgh was turned down — it met only four of the program’s 23 required criteria — but rather than walk away, thinking that certification was an impossible dream, the city dusted itself off and worked hard to change its entire data mindset. The city was certified in March 2022. Here’s how officials did it. Find Partners and Learn Together.

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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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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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FedScoop

DECEMBER 15, 2023

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has selected David Nelson, the agency’s chief data officer and chief information officer, as its chief artificial intelligence officer, a spokesperson for the agency told FedScoop. President Joe Biden’s recent executive order on AI requires many federal agencies to name officials to the CAIO position.

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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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FedInsider

MAY 29, 2024

It’s likely to be the largest breach the sector has ever faced, disrupting billions in payments to doctors and hospitals, and potentially exposing the personal data of one-in-three Americans,” Modern Healthcare reported.

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FedInsider

MAY 28, 2024

It’s likely to be the largest breach the sector has ever faced, disrupting billions in payments to doctors and hospitals, and potentially exposing the personal data of one-in-three Americans,” Modern Healthcare reported.

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Government Contract Insights

MARCH 27, 2024

On November 17, 2023, the Department of Defense published its long-awaited proposed revisions to the Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement data rights regulations to implement a Modular Open Systems Approach (MOSA).

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AWS Public Sector

JULY 16, 2024

EVe’s transformation journey Since its inception, EVe recognized the pivotal role of data and has become a data-driven organization. The initial step involved calling up a comprehensive tender to establish a secure, scalable, and flexible data platform.

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FedScoop

MARCH 19, 2024

Furthermore, the quarterly IRS modernization progress reports delivered to Congress have lacked crucial data points, such as historical cost and schedule goals, the GAO stated. Of the nearly $80 billion in Inflation Reduction Act funds appropriated to the tax agency as a whole, $4.8 The tax agency said it spent $3.3

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GovCon Wire

MARCH 6, 2024

Army is currently working to implement its Unified Data Reference Architecture, which is designed to join a data mesh and data fabric in a way that would allow users to easily access data products across different formats and locations.

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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.

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AWS Public Sector

MAY 28, 2024

In May 2022, the European Commission (EC) proposed to set up a European Health Data Space (EHDS). The EHDS will establish a common framework and infrastructure for the use of health data for research, innovation, policy-making, and regulatory activities in the European Union (EU). At AWS, security will always be our top priority.

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GovLoop

MARCH 22, 2023

Data drives decisions — both good and bad. The days of “static data” housed in filing cabinets or resources like encyclopedias are long over. Intelligent data management helps organizations enhance their public-facing services, while improving their backend operations, Breakiron said.

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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. “We

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FedScoop

AUGUST 14, 2024

Few agency workers across the federal government are more closely and publicly associated with their area of expertise than Ted Kaouk is with data. So hopefully it gives a sense of the volume of data that we’re managing.” That data, Kaouk said, is what helps the CFTC oversee market participants. derivatives markets. “So

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GovLoop

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Good leaders are evangelists for making data-based decisions. They don’t need highly technical degrees: They need an appreciation of data’s ability to drive modernization efforts and successful outcomes for the organization and the people they serve. Data literacy is the foundation on which leaders make effective choices.

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FedScoop

JANUARY 4, 2024

The Federal Chief Data Officers Council is looking for information on synthetic data generation as it works to establish best practices, according to a solicitation posted Thursday. President Joe Biden’s October executive order on artificial intelligence listed synthetic data generation as an example of a “privacy-enhancing technology.”

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GovLoop

AUGUST 30, 2024

In fact, in the last five years, some of the largest cybersecurity breaches were tied to cloud permission issues that allowed anyone to access protected data. But the cloud offers protection against downtime, not data deletion. But the cloud offers protection against downtime, not data deletion. In the U.S.,

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FedInsider

JULY 12, 2024

Tuesday, August 20, 2024 | 2:00PM EDT | 1 Hour | 1 CPE As agencies face unprecedented data volumes and velocity, managing the speed and size of the data flow efficiently becomes a significant challenge , especially with the growing use of AI-based analytics. He also serves as a Professor of Data Science at Regis University.

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GovLoop

MAY 12, 2023

Data visibility is just what it sounds like: the ability to see and access information. A data observability pipeline can help solve this issue, protecting organizations from cyber threats, while enabling collaboration and controlling cost. Proper routing makes data available and helps control costs. Favorite

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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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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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GovCon Wire

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Army for the development of an integrated force structure and employment data system. The company said Monday it will further develop the Global Force Information Management system, which handles force structure data, under the five-year, sole million contract from the U.S.

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AWS Public Sector

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

The data challenge and opportunities Whether it’s a new innovative medicine which follows a journey from lab to patient or a generic or medical product which goes from a pharmaceutical manufacturing facility to a patient, ensuring faster discovery, delivery, and availability of medicines is both critical and challenging.

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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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