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House bill calls on EPA to update IT systems that store air quality data

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The Environmental Protection Agency would be required to update the legacy IT platform it uses to store air quality data systems under new legislation in the House. pushes the EPA to update the IT system for storing AirNow and the Air Quality System (AQS). The “ Clean Air in the Cloud Act ,” introduced Tuesday by Rep.

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Commerce requests information about AI, open data assets, data dissemination

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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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Commerce looking to publish AI-ready data guidance in coming months

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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

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CFTC wants to transform enforcement work through AI and data ‘marathon’

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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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Improving public health through data exchange

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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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GSA isn’t fully compliant with geospatial data requirements, watchdog finds

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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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Quality Data Key to AI Effectiveness, cBEYONData’s Bryan Eckle Says

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Artificial intelligence systems can be beneficial to the organizations that use them if they are trained on high-quality data, according to Bryan Eckle, the chief technology officer of cBEYONData.

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