FedScoop

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

million contract to provide a next-generation travel and expense management service for the federal government. He continued: “ETSNext will further category management objectives by consolidating more than 30 data models used across the ETS2 systems into one centralized model.”

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FedScoop

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Congressional efforts to extend the Chief Data Officer Council past the end of the year got a boost Monday when a bipartisan House bill was introduced as the companion to earlier Senate legislation. 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 23, 2022

Captured credentials remain the most efficient and undetected technique for compromising an enterprise, and well-designed identity and access management (IAM) programs are a critical barrier against these threats.

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FedTech Magazine

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

As technology students consider government careers, there’s this problem to consider: Few of them are equipped with the expertise to manage or provide adequate support to federal data centers.

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Inside Government Contracts

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

These data are consistent with the Board’s policy statement of providing “to the fullest extent practicable” the “informal, expeditious, and inexpensive resolution of disputes.” The Board addressed 78 cases through the ADR process, resolving 67. Separately, the Board provided a breakdown of appeal figures by agency.

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Data Accountability Sustainability Contract Management 287

FedTech Magazine

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Artificial intelligence use cases and the need to establish clear policies to retain data sovereignty were prominent themes at TribalNet 2024.

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Data Management IT 173

FedTech Magazine

APRIL 21, 2023

Data has become an essential part of corporate operations, and with the rise of Big Data, organizations are generating and accumulating massive amounts of data every day. The ability to manage, analyze and extract insights from this data is critical for making informed decisions and gaining a competitive edge.

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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. Strict data governance protocols are typically required. No deep technical expertise required.

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Government Government Accountability Education 98

Federal News Network

MARCH 26, 2025

billion in costs through category management in fiscal 2024, nearly 29% above their goal for the year. When the government first started its modern journey toward category management almost exactly a decade ago, the goal was relatively easy to describe, if hard to achieve: Reduce the amount of complexity in the federal procurement system.

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Category Management Management Purchasing Budget 55

FedTech Magazine

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

Hyperconverged infrastructure offers agencies a chance to bolster their edge computing capabilities by enhancing security, reducing costs and improving management — even in the most unconventional locations. Two years ago, it was primarily used for accumulating data at the edge, often for…

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Demand Data Management IT 278

FedTech Magazine

OCTOBER 21, 2024

A key component is the federal identity credential and access management program created in 2009. FICAM supports modernized security policies and solutions, allowing risk-based decision-making, automating identity and access management processes and moving access protections closer to the data.

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FedTech Magazine

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

A recent report released by software company Splunk found that public sector organizations often lack the cybersecurity intelligence needed to respond effectively, and they struggle more than the private sector in leveraging data to detect and prevent threats.

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Data Management IT 308

FedTech Magazine

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Federal IT managers who move applications to cloud data centers gain a host of benefits, including cost savings — on real estate, utilities, equipment and more. IT managers may have to repatriate applications to their on-premises data centers if they can’t deliver the promised cost savings. Enter FinOps.…

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Utilities Data Management IT 289

FedTech Magazine

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Data is moving increasingly toward the edge. Gartner, for example, predicts that by 2025, more than half of enterprise-managed data will be created and processed outside the data center or cloud. Agencies collect data at the edge, send it to the cloud and then perform predictive analytics.

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End to End Data Management Government 297

FedTech Magazine

AUGUST 14, 2024

To streamline projects, keep track of data and prevent the need for rework, the agency’s teams leverage model-based systems engineering methodology. A subset of digital engineering, MBSE houses the data associated with complex systems within integrated digital models. Any way that we can multiply our workforce using these types of…

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Engineering Budget Integrity Integration 290

AWS Public Sector

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Announced at AWS re:Invent 2024, Satellite Resiliency for AWS Outposts offers a comprehensive, Partner-managed solution for resilient cloud-connected edge computing that extends the reach of Amazon Web Services (AWS) to the most remote and geographically dispersed environments on earth.

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Networking Data Manufacturing Government 132

FedTech Magazine

JULY 3, 2024

While 88 percent of global IT and security leaders feel confident in their organizations’ ability to manage cyber risk, 51 percent report that more than half of their cyber incidents were due to poor cyber hygiene, according to an April study from ExtraHop. For agencies that…

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Networking Data Management IT 321

AWS Public Sector

JANUARY 30, 2025

In an earlier post, Build secure and scalable data platforms for the European Health Data Space (EHDS) with AWS , we discussed a reference architecture for building secure and scalable data platforms for secondary usage of health data in alignment with the European Health Data Space (EHDS) using Amazon Web Services (AWS).

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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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Data Quality Electronics Innovation 132

FedScoop

JUNE 20, 2024

Harada said OFPP, which is housed within the Office of Management and Budget, envisions the new tool dovetailing with the existing RFI process that agencies currently use within the Federal Register. We’re not telling agency CDOs what to do in their data strategy within their agencies,” Wilson said.

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Data Procurement Budget Management 120

FedTech Magazine

MAY 6, 2024

Hyperconverged infrastructure remains the gold standard for federal agencies looking for simpler ways to manage their data centers. Hyperconverged infrastructure is a software-defined approach that unifies key components, including storage, computing, networking and management. But is this approach a viable cloud alternative?

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Networking Management Data IT 259

AWS Public Sector

APRIL 15, 2024

These processes rely heavily on domain-specific data ingestion and processing for batch and continuous data sources. PNNL developed Aether as a reusable framework for sharing data and analytics with sponsors and stakeholders.

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Risk Management Management End to End Data 122

FedTech Magazine

JANUARY 29, 2024

When the Office of Personnel and Management secured $9.9 Because if you tried to do it sequentially — maybe networks first, then data, then identity — it would take too much time.” “Because if you tried to do it sequentially — maybe networks first, then data, then identity — it would take too much time.” That includes…

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FedTech Magazine

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

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… 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.

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Data Budget Management IT 147

FedTech Magazine

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

The Office of Personnel Management and other agencies planning advanced analytics pilots must partner with vendors to tailor solutions to their specific mission needs. Advanced analytics refers to the sophisticated techniques and tools used to interpret complex data sets.

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Data Management IT 264

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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Data Purchasing Quality Inventory 114

FedTech Magazine

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

The Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program must scale to keep pace with growth in the as-a-service offerings agencies are using, according to Eric Mill, senior advisor to the federal CIO.

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Data Management Government Government 298

AWS Public Sector

JUNE 3, 2024

Introduction Amazon SageMaker is a fully managed machine learning (ML) service that provides various capabilities, including Jupyter Notebook instances. However, you can use SageMaker notebook instances with the R kernel to perform data analytics tasks in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. Step 4: Query data from AWS Glue Data Catalog.

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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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VWV

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Specifically, the platform will: Simplify the procurement process for suppliers: Suppliers will only need to enter their information once, which can then be reused across multiple tenders Collect data about procurement Be where all the procurement notices will be published, improving transparency by having them all in one place.

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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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Corruption Data Procurement Public Procurement 113

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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FedScoop

MARCH 14, 2025

Graber comes to government after a long career in the private sector, where his experience includes managing Googles security and privacy technical program for four years and joining Twitter before it became X as an information security manager and then a risk and data analytics senior manager, according to his LinkedIn.

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Risk Management Engineering Management Networking 99

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. Certificates will be e-mailed to registrants.

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Federal News Network

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

Federal Monthly Insights - Contract Management Modernization - 9/24/2024 [link] Download audio The State Department is embarking on a transformation in how it performs acquisition. It’s moving to a category management approach, organizing procurement around the primary categories of spend.

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Category Management Management Procurement End to End 109

FedScoop

AUGUST 9, 2024

The General Services Administration’s robotic process automation (RPA) program is at risk of exposing agency systems and data to bots, and stronger security measures need to be put into place for the program, according to the agency’s inspector general.

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Data Management IT Government 127

FedScoop

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

The National Labor Relations Board is the latest beneficiary of the Technology Modernization Fund, receiving $23 million from the fund to modernize its case management system. The agency hopes the modernization effort will also provide better data analytics and scalability for the system.

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