American City & Country

AUGUST 16, 2024

As localities continue to face the impacts of climate change and stricter regulations from the Environmental Protection Agency regarding “forever chemicals,” drinking water quality is becoming an increasing concern for American cities and counties. Power, a data analytics and consumer intelligence company. Power stated. “By

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ExecutiveBiz

JANUARY 31, 2024

ICF will modernize the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid’s kidney dialysis data reporting system under a potential three-year, $33 million recompete contract from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

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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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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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Data Management Quality Supply Chain 69

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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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

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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GovCon Wire

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

According to an award notice published Friday in the Federal Procurement Data System, DOI’s Bureau of Indian Affairs received 14 offers for the IT Support Services indefinite-quality/indefinite-quantity contract. Work on the multiple-award

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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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GovLoop

MAY 1, 2024

Whether you’re planning to use more AI or just want to improve analytics and tighten cybersecurity, good data management must be the foundation for your efforts. In 2024, agencies will need to get their data in shape to make the most of it. The Federal Data Strategy, released in 2018, set high-level goals for using and handling data.

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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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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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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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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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ExecutiveBiz

JULY 19, 2024

ICF has secured a potential five-year, $88 million subcontract to continue modernizing the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ Quality Payment Program by providing cloud data migration services.

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Extract Systems

MARCH 12, 2024

The National Association of State Chief Information Officers (NASCIO) has declared it an imperative that state government staffs have a “command of data management and an understanding that data is a critical state government asset.” Certain roles, like the CIO’s, have and will always require a focus on data quality.

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GovLoop

JUNE 5, 2023

It’s called RescueVision , and it’s an application that gives the Fire and Rescue Department’s 911 dispatch center real-time data on what’s happening where. The new system has notably improved the county’s ability to serve its residents and demonstrates the government’s belief in data-informed decision- making, county officials said.

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AWS Public Sector

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

Across all aspects of healthcare, from diagnostics and imaging to genomics and personalized healthcare, the demands for healthcare data availability, storage, compute, and artificial intelligence (AI) tools are rapidly accelerating. Use a risk-based classification framework with granular examples and guidance.

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Data Government Government Procurement 69

FedInsider

AUGUST 26, 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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Leadership Data Participation Quality 52

FedScoop

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Federal agencies have increasingly looked to RPA “bots” to offload basic but cumbersome processes to free humans up to focus on higher-quality work. The IRS is looking to shore up the staffing of its robotic processing automation arm, as the program aims to develop and deploy 35 to 50 automations annually for the tax agency.

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IT Electronics Quality Engineering 95

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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Open Contracting Partnership

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

Her passion for helping others understand government contracting led her to join forces with data scientist Marcelo Blanco and establish B2Gov. The system works by collecting public procurement data and structuring it in the Open Contracting Data Standard (OCDS) format. Diegues says.

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The Coalition for Government Procurement

JUNE 21, 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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ExecutiveBiz

APRIL 17, 2024

Carahsoft Technology will start distributing a Transformed Medicaid Statistical Information System data quality product to the public sector.

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Data Quality Distribution Procurement 40

FedScoop

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Notably, CGI has worked with the EPA on a variety of other technology programs, including the Central Data Exchange, a key part of the agency’s electronic data reporting system. For example, the Government Accountability Office recently flagged that the agency’s air quality tracking systems require major updates.

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ivalua

JUNE 6, 2022

Every year, the International Association for Data Quality Governance and Analytics (or IADQGA) runs their Data Quality and Governance study. Among the most valuable topics we addressed was a deceptively complex question: what is quality data? Supply chains are in a battle for data supremacy.

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GovLoop

MAY 9, 2023

The Problem The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) had an abundance of satellite data that government and commercial organizations could use to understand and predict changes in climate, weather, oceans and coasts, but it was scattered across multiple offices. Cloud was in the forecast. “To

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FedInsider

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

Leveraging today’s rapidly evolving technology and available tools, government agencies can better distill large amounts of data to derive holistic insights, promptly identify areas for improvement, and drive innovative initiatives to enhance service delivery and implementation. DLA is the U.S.

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Data Logistics Management Sustainability 59

AWS Public Sector

JUNE 3, 2024

million Thai citizens seeking treatment for pollution-related illnesses at the start of 2024 ( up 23 percent from 2023, according to data from the country’s National Economic and Social Development Council). Mechai Bamboo School in rural Thailand has an unconventional approach to help alleviate poverty and give back to the community.

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GovLoop

JUNE 16, 2023

Having worked in Texas state government for more than 15 years, Chief Data Officer Neil Cooke understands firsthand the difference that data can make. During his seven years there, he and his team looked at how to use data to measure various programs’ performance. One key concern is data lineage: Where did the data come from?

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GovLoop

JANUARY 13, 2023

Government agencies often espouse the need for data-driven decision-making, but where should the data come from? Taka Ariga, the Government Accountability Office’s (GAO) Chief Data Scientist and Director of its Innovation Lab, has many thoughts on these topics. Who should determine how it’s used? The Obstacles.

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GovLoop

JANUARY 26, 2023

Using various data points such as bank account numbers, location coordinates, equipment types and names, analysts can derive a cohesive “story” from the data that aids the mission. To do this, traditionally, analysts combed through data from various sources — spreadsheets, databases, cloud storage, etc. — Data is similar.

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AWS Public Sector

OCTOBER 9, 2024

As one of only two Beneficiary and Family Centered Care-Quality Improvement Organizations (BFCC-QIO) in the US, the company helps more than 140 million Medicare beneficiaries access and protect their Medicare rights to improve quality of care.

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AWS Public Sector

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

This is a guest post by Suzanne Wait with the Health Policy Partnership and Dipak Kalra, from the European Institute for Innovation in Health Data The health sector holds approximately one third of the world’s total volume of data. When it comes to addressing the social determinants of health, we tend to underuse technology.

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GovLoop

MAY 8, 2024

During WCH’s transition over to new technology, including adopting a modernized data platform, it discovered three ways to make the overall path to change go more smoothly: 1. Treat data as code and use infrastructure as code in development environments and quality assurances phases, in addition to production.

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AWS Public Sector

OCTOBER 24, 2023

A lack of available water quality data makes it difficult to provide decision support in water-related sectors such as food production, energy security, health, economic development, and climate change resilience. Data is key to addressing current water challenges.

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ExecutiveBiz

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Marine Corps improve financial reporting and achieve audit readiness through the adoption of intelligent automation and data analytics tools.

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