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 28, 2024

HHS’s Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC), which released the draft Wednesday, establishes the following four goals: “promote health and wellness, enhance the delivery and experience of care, accelerate research and innovation and connect the health system with health data.”

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Data IT Strategic Planning Electronics 84

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.

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ivalua

OCTOBER 29, 2019

Procurement transparency exists within the public sector because it is required by law. And yet, not all transparency is equally effective. Suppliers need bidding and contract transparency. This encourages more diverse participation and improves the quality of responses – and therefore creates value for the general public.

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GovLoop

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

Generative AI specifically enables agencies to automate complex tasks such as content creation, data analysis and predictive modeling,” said Maria Fahmi, Executive Vice President, Technology & Engineering, with V3Gate, which specializes in providing emerging technology to the public sector. “It

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GovSpend

DECEMBER 18, 2023

With an extensive background in data management, Nate brings a unique skillset to the helm and is well-equipped to lead GovSpend into a new chapter of data delivery and AI technology. Government procurement should be transparent and efficient. At its heart, GovSpend is a data company, and I’m a data wonk.

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Curbing Corruption in Government Contracting

MARCH 6, 2020

Improving transparency in public procurement, that is publishing more and better-quality data, supports accountability by enabling greater scrutiny over processes and outcomes as well as helping to achieve greater competition and better value for money. GTI-R/2020:1, Budapest: Government Transparency Institute.

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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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Data Sustainability Innovation Electronics 72

FedScoop

APRIL 3, 2024

Additionally, NASA has since implemented all three integration offerings from USA Staffing: request processing, new hire and data APIs. Sharpe said that these changes will help those responsible for hiring to have data flow across systems “without duplicative effort and reducing the risk of human error.”

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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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Open Contracting Partnership

MARCH 28, 2024

More often than not, public procurement of technology is viewed as non-transparent, uncompetitive, poorly planned, inefficient, costly, and having high failure rates. From healthcare management and social safety net technology to managing vaccine sign-ups during the pandemic , governments simply need to buy IT better.

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AWS Public Sector

MARCH 8, 2024

To suggest answers, generative AI systems can combine and cross-analyse a diverse range of data in milliseconds to produce a spoken, graphical, or easy-to-understand written summary. Generative AI models are as reliable as the data they’re trained on and can access. What are the limitations or risks of generative AI?

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FedScoop

JUNE 18, 2024

million investment, the FEC is looking to modernize its FECFile Online software, making it cloud-based and web-accessible for filers so that it “improves data quality and enhances security.” With an $8.8 Larry Bafundo, acting TMF executive director, said in a statement that people are “at the heart of every TMF investment.”

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Inter-American Development Bank

FEBRUARY 19, 2023

Digital transformation is changing how government agencies relate to citizens, allowing them to meet their constituents’ needs faster, fairer, and more transparently. TAs must further capitalize on data and automation to improve their services and processes. What is CACAO?

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Inside Government Contracts

AUGUST 21, 2023

Many in the defense industrial base view the bid protest system as providing necessary transparency and accountability in the contracting process, including to ensure that the government follows the law and its own procedures. Section 804 seems to begin from the premise that there is a public interest in deterring bid protests.

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AWS Public Sector

JUNE 24, 2024

The Amazon Web Services (AWS) commitment to safe, transparent, and responsible AI—including generative AI—is reflected in our endorsement of the White House Voluntary AI Commitments , our participation in the UK AI Safety Summit , and our dedication to providing customers with features that address specific challenges in this space.

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The Procurement ClassRoom

JUNE 2, 2024

Quality Requirements : They describe the quality and specifications of the goods , services , or works required. Non-Consulting Services : Bidding Procedures : Instructions to bidders, bid data sheet, evaluation and qualification criteria, bidding forms, and eligible countries.

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American City & Country

AUGUST 28, 2024

The fiscal cliff can lead to a range of negative outcomes that diminish community quality of life, strain household finances and stifle economic growth, including: Reduced services: Local governments may be forced to cut essential services, including public safety, education, transportation and social services.

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AWS Public Sector

MARCH 14, 2024

For the public sector, a transparent and stakeholder-focused sustainability strategy leads to an increased likelihood of citizen behavioural change, with resulting societal benefits. Meath County Council in Ireland is utilising AWS technology for the purposes of gathering public health data to influence behavioural change.

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Open Contracting Partnership

APRIL 1, 2024

million if median internal reference prices were used, to as much as PHP 214 million if the Department of Public Works and Highways construction materials price data were used. Access to data: most documents they needed were available online, but you had to know the contract number, says the team. Source: Kenneth S.

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GovSpend

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Paige emphasized the importance of assessing a vendor’s credibility and reliability using historical data, including which government agencies they’ve worked with and whether they deliver goods and services on time. This revelation motivated him to bring more transparency to government purchasing.

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ivalua

MAY 30, 2022

Consumers also expect transparency – in product origin, quality standards, and how organizations are improving their environmental and sustainability efforts. . These autonomous ecosystems are connected by data that is continuously available to all stakeholders, optimizing information quality and improving decision-making.

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Curbing Corruption in Government Contracting

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

The datasets not only republish structured data gathered from official source websites, but also contain corruption risk red flags developed by the research team. Regarding procurement that uses funds from development aid donors, pressure to ensure accountability and transparency in the allocation of funds has been growing.

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Open Contracting Partnership

MARCH 8, 2024

When given opportunities, these businesses excel in delivering quality and innovation. We focused on the plan, the data, and the purpose of what we want to achieve. Open data solutions such as CREDERE can help these businesses access the financial services they need in order to confidently bid on and deliver government contracts.

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ivalua

JUNE 6, 2019

Everything procurement delivers – from savings to risk mitigation to value – is predicated on having access to clean, trustworthy data. Strong executive mandates bring the management of direct spend within easier reach for procurement than ‘messy’, non-transparent indirect spend. Managing Director, Art of Procurement.

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AWS Public Sector

AUGUST 1, 2024

For fine-tuning the FM, an LLM is trained on a specific task or dataset, using data and computational resources. Data pipeline – Building a data pipeline that can build fine-tuning datasets for LLMs means a repeatable and reproducible process that can keep fine-tuned models current with your organization’s evolving domain knowledge.

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Extract Systems

JANUARY 23, 2024

Our dashboard reports on the day-to-day production and quality assurance workflows for both automated indexing and redaction. Through advanced machine learning algorithms, the system intelligently identifies key data points, allowing government agencies to effortlessly organize their information repositories.

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AWS Public Sector

MARCH 21, 2024

Levy highlighted how AWS is helping customers use generative AI in a responsible and flexible way, providing more options to enable digital sovereignty through the upcoming AWS European Sovereign Cloud , and showing dedication to data protection and privacy, sustainability, and social impact.

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How to Crack a Nut

OCTOBER 18, 2023

The clauses include a few substantive requirements implicit in the allocation of the respective obligations (eg on data or third party licences) but mostly refer to detailed schedules of which there is no default proposal, or to industry standards (and thus have this limitation in common with eg the EU’s model AI clauses).

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Open Contracting Partnership

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

These included ongoing issues such as poor institutional coordination, lack of transparency, high levels of corruption, and murky lines of accountability. The second revolution: increasing independence, data collection and participation These limitations led to a subsequent second wave of reforms.

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GovLoop

MAY 22, 2023

The Problem: Need for reliable, real-time data Agencies often lack reliable, real-time data that would expose the extent of a problem and suggest possible solutions. In addition, the allocation of funding for the Chicago Head Start program has become unclear, and officials might stop compiling Head Start data citywide as a result.

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The Softly Spark

DECEMBER 28, 2023

It is imperative that brands craft a compelling sustainability narrative that is both clear and transparent. The objective is to prohibit deceptive advertising and improve the quality of product information available to consumers so they can make better-informed decisions.

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AWS Public Sector

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Bahmni is designed to improve the quality of patient care in settings with limited bandwidth and infrastructure. She has been influential in promoting the use of technology to make government more transparent, efficient, and accessible, and she continues to advocate for the use of technology to address societal challenges. “It

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FedScoop

APRIL 16, 2024

They also stressed the importance of transparency and continuous feedback and focused on the tangible benefits of eased workloads and enhanced efficiencies. AI-powered search tools within Google Workspace can easily access vast amounts of data to find relevant documents, emails, and files. We aim to break the data silos.

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GovSpend

MARCH 18, 2024

Paige emphasized the importance of assessing a vendor’s credibility and reliability using historical data, including which government agencies they’ve worked with and whether they deliver goods and services on time. This revelation motivated him to bring more transparency to government purchasing.

Procurement 52

Procurement Price Purchasing Bidding 52

ivalua

OCTOBER 18, 2022

The business case for data-driven transparency is not hard to make. In today’s dynamic, complex market, where procurement’s objectives continue to grow, data is the fuel for success. While data quality cannot be perfected and some technological innovations aren’t quite ready for prime time, tremendous improvements are possible.

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Transparency Supply Chain Data Procurement 52

GovLoop

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Will it raise the quality and speed of your output? Her team also manages AI platforms, monitoring who uses them and what data flows through them. They work with agency partners to assess AI tools regarding bias mitigation, fairness, transparency, accountability and privacy. Getting used to AI can be an uncertain journey.

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