Open Contracting Partnership

AUGUST 28, 2024

Data-driven monitoring enables citizens to submit high-quality complaints to authorities. Formal guidelines have been introduced in several regions to ensure data-driven audits are conducted to a high standard. Results: The reform has led to significant improvements, particularly in audits triggered by public complaints.

Corruption 90

Corruption Data E-procurement Procurement 90

FedScoop

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

A National Science Foundation demonstration project aimed at improving data infrastructure within the U.S. If it’s proven to be feasible, the hope is that someday it could answer a variety of user queries about public data. People don’t have a way to learn about data options based on their topics of interest,” Boivin said. “If

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FedScoop

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

When federal officials gathered at the Chief Data Officers Council symposium Thursday, it didn’t draw protesters outside the building with signs calling for more data and evidence in government. Unlike other challenges, such as conservation issues, data and statistics don’t have large bases that can be activated to speak up.

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FedScoop

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

. — A clearer trajectory for data professionals in government could address the issue of the data field being a temporary career stop, said Rob King, the vice chair of the Chief Data Officers Council. Specifically, he pointed to limitations of the existing data-related job series — occupational groups within the U.S.

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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.

Data 108

Data Contract IT 108

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 108

Data Quality Integration Integrity 108

FedScoop

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

Legislation from a bipartisan pair of House lawmakers that would extend the Chief Data Officers Council past the end of the year passed out of committee Wednesday after being introduced Monday. The Modernizing Data Practices to Improve Government Act ( H.R. 10151 ), introduced by Reps. Summer Lee, D-Pa., and Nancy Mace, R-S.C.,

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FedTech Magazine

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

The Intelligence Community just signed and will soon release a data reference architecture intended to help its 18 elements connect siloed data across their distributed ecosystem, according to Chief Data Officer Lori Wade. The reference architecture was a deliverable of the IC Data Strategy published in 2023, and its release…

Data 102

Data Distribution IT 102

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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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 90

Data Procurement Price Efficiency 90

FedScoop

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

A week before a deadline for federal agencies to submit to the White House their updated zero-trust implementation plans , a coalition of government IT leaders released a guide intended to strengthen data security practices.

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Data Education Budget Collaboration 116

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.

Data 52

Data IT Collaboration 52

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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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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Data IT Capacity Integration 93

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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Impact Assessment Data Evaluation IT 135

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. The cloud increases EEG accessibility by facilitating data sharing and research innovation, making EEGs more accessible for more patients’ medical care plans.

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Data Collaboration Efficiency Innovation 126

GovLoop

OCTOBER 16, 2024

“The integration of AI within government operations will redefine our interaction between citizens and government,” said Chris Steel, AI Practice Lead with AlphaSix, which provides data management platforms and data analysis tools. “It But the foundation of AI is data — high-quality, accessible and secure.

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Data Management Integration Integrity 59

GovLoop

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

As agencies step up their efforts to leverage artificial intelligence (AI) and AI-based tools, they are quickly realizing they need to focus on the data that will drive those solutions. The challenge is not gathering enough data.

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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

JULY 5, 2024

As data volumes continue to increase, federal IT leaders are considering cluster computing as a way to avoid spending money on maintaining storage infrastructure or public cloud.

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IT Data Networking 102

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 107

Data Purchasing Quality Inventory 107

GovCon Wire

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

Blake Nelson, a 25-year industry veteran with vast experience in cloud technology, has been appointed vice president of the cloud and data center practice area at Leidos. He will leverage his extensive

Data 97

Data IT 97

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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Data Impact Assessment Purchasing Electronics 140

GovLoop

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Foreign Service employees’ performance to reflect data’s growing usefulness — in all aspects of department work. The change came shortly after State released its enterprise data strategy, titled “ Empowering Data-Informed Policy.” Data on how a particular country voted on U.S.-sponsored sponsored U.N.

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Data Evaluation Media IT 64

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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Data IT Contract Purchasing 59

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

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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Data IT Strategic Planning Education 106

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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Data IT Government Government 59

FedScoop

OCTOBER 29, 2024

The Federal Trade Commission expects to make its first artificial intelligence use case inventory public before 2025, according to Mark Gray, the agency’s chief information, AI and data officer. Additionally, Gray said the FTC is moving to apply its existing data governance structure to AI governance.

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Inventory IT Data Budget 109

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

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

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.

Data 141

Data Impact Assessment Purchasing Electronics 141

GovLoop

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

AI can help the IRS to analyze all that data to identify patterns and red flags that point to possible tax fraud, then have IRS employees focus resources on high-risk cases. AI can also play an important role in selecting audits by analyzing risk factors and historical data, and then identifying high-risk cases with greater accuracy.

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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).

Data 71

Data Innovation IT 71

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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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.

Data 84

Data Total Cost of Ownership Distribution Transportation 84

FedScoop

OCTOBER 18, 2024

The request for information was published by the agency’s Office of Procurement Operations on behalf of the Office of Biometric Identity Management, which manages biometric identity profiles — including iris and facial data — for DHS components. It also asks them to address biometric identity standards.

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