FedTech Magazine

JUNE 6, 2023

Several federal agencies have embraced artificial intelligence, machine learning, robotic process automation and digital process automation to streamline processes and optimize efficiency, but few have put all of the pieces together to adopt hyperautomation. “In the commercial world, there’s a lot of interest and investment in hyperautomation for the returns that it can provide,” says Jason Payne, CTO for Microsoft Federal.

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GovLoop

JUNE 9, 2023

Discussions about the value of an enterprise approach to data governance often miss an important point: The difference it actually makes to anyone outside the IT department or the chief data officer’s (CDO) team. That is, how do issues like data quality, data maturity, compliance monitoring and so on actually contribute to the well-being of a community or improve service to constituents?

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Art of Procurement

JUNE 8, 2023

“Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art. Making money is art and working is art and. The post Artistic Revolutions: Comparing the Impact of Photography and Generative AI appeared first on Art of Procurement.

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Public Procurement Intl

JUNE 3, 2023

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Speaker: Jeff Dickinson - President and CEO of Railgistixs Transport, Supply Chain and Logistics Thought Leader

Despite the ongoing transformation of the supply chain and logistics landscape, the steadfast importance of carrier safety remains a core principle. From prioritizing preventative maintenance to optimizing fleet utilization, the fundamentals persist. If you’re overlooking and neglecting essential safety precautions today, this could result in expensive repairs and potential safety hazards in the future. 🚧 Join Jeff Dickinson for a conversation on how to mitigate risk, enforce compliance,

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FedTech Magazine

JUNE 7, 2023

The Department of Justice is using advanced data analytics to discover suspicious healthcare activity, enabling the agency to crack down on healthcare fraud. Through analytics, 16 people in Michigan and Ohio — including 12 physicians — were sentenced last year for their roles in submitting more than $250 million in false claims and illegally distributing more than 6.6 million opioid pills.

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GovLoop

JUNE 8, 2023

Agencies need true cyber resilience: the ability to bounce back from any type of cyber event — from malicious attacks to network outages — without missing a beat. A modernized backup and recovery approach enables agencies to recover quickly and empowers them to not just keep systems running, but to also effectively support the business processes at the heart of an organization.

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Extract Systems

JUNE 6, 2023

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has emerged as a transformative technology with immense potential to revolutionize various sectors of society. However, as with any powerful tool, responsible development and deployment are crucial to ensure that AI benefits society as a whole. Recognizing this imperative, the White House recently released a fact sheet outlining its commitment to advancing responsible research, development, and deployment of AI.

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FedTech Magazine

JUNE 8, 2023

Federal IT and cybersecurity leaders have a little more than a year to meet specific goals laid out in a 2021 executive order that established a zero-trust strategy for the federal government. The plan they need to follow is even clearer now, thanks to an updated roadmap released by the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency in April 2023.

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GovLoop

JUNE 9, 2023

Robotic process automation (RPA) has become necessary for agencies to perform their missions efficiently, and there’s multiple levels of automation that your organization can choose to utilize. What are the types of automation, and how can they assist your agency?

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Government Contract Insights

JUNE 5, 2023

On June 1, 2023, the Supreme Court issued a decision in United States ex rel. Schutte v. SuperValu, Inc., clarifying when a defendant “knowingly” submits a false claim for payment under the False Claims Act (FCA).

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Art of Procurement

JUNE 6, 2023

Next week, Art of Procurement is hosting our first-ever event dedicated to direct spend. Direct spend is an area I’m. The post The Power of Direct Spend appeared first on Art of Procurement.

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FedTech Magazine

JUNE 5, 2023

Instead of housing resources solely in an onsite data center, many federal agencies now provide access to information and applications via both on-premises and commercial cloud systems. The hybrid approach to data distribution can potentially offer several notable benefits, including enhanced fieldwork capabilities that allow employees to engage with and submit information from a variety of locations.

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GovLoop

JUNE 5, 2023

One of government’s core responsibilities is to help people in need. That’s why officials in Fairfax County, Virginia found a way to ensure that local emergency response never wavers. 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 program relies on geospatial information systems (GIS) technology, which identifies relationships between and among computer-readable datasets and produces

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The Softly Spark

JUNE 4, 2023

On Father’s Day I want to give a sustainable gift to the special Dads in my life. But on Father’s Day, and most other holidays, I struggle with the same question: what to get my relatives who really don’t need anything. This is particularly true when it comes to my parents. How can I give them something that conveys the appreciation and love that I feel, without saddling them and the planet with more stuff that they really don’t need?

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How to Crack a Nut

JUNE 5, 2023

Keeping up with developments in digital technologies and their regulation is exhausting. Whenever a technology becomes mainstream (looking at you, ChatGPT, but also looking at blockchain in the rear mirror, and web 2.0 slightly behind… etc) there is a (seemingly) steep learning curve for researchers interested in regulation to climb — sometimes to find little novelty in the regulatory challenges they pose.

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FedTech Magazine

JUNE 9, 2023

CDW expanded the digital velocity services it can offer federal agencies with its acquisition on Tuesday of Enquizit, an Amazon Web Services cloud solutions provider. The acquisition adds extensive experience designing, developing and managing mission-critical applications as well as SkyMap, an artificial intelligence–powered cloud migration accelerator, to CDW’s offerings.

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GovLoop

JUNE 9, 2023

Change is hard, but as a leader, you can make transition easier for your team. In the latest edition of Management Minutes With Mika, government workforce expert Mika Cross joins Lou Kerestesy, owner of Louis Coaching & Consulting, LLC, to share advice on creating a workplace culture that’s prepared for anything. When asked how leaders could create a team culture that’s ready for change, Kerestesy explained that first, you must decide what culture is.

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Federal Construction Contracting

JUNE 5, 2023

A contractor recently learned the hard way that if you open an email from an agency regarding a debriefing, you must read it closely and in its entirety, or you may face the consequence of missing the time to protest the agency’s action. In the Matter of Infotrend, Inc. ( Infotrend ), the Department of Health and Human Services, National Institutes of Health (NIH) issued a request for proposal for the award of multiple indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity government-wide acquisition contra

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Art of Procurement

JUNE 4, 2023

“The decision abyss is where the supply chain planning organization does not have visibility and a tool to collaborate with. The post [Pod] Bridging the Decision Abyss with Decision Intelligence w/ Keith Hartley and Lance Younger appeared first on Art of Procurement.

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Key Solutions

JUNE 7, 2023

Are you the incumbent on a re-compete? Avoid the pitfalls of incumbentitis with these steps and tools, to increase your chances of a winning proposal.

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GovLoop

JUNE 9, 2023

Have you heard? GovLoop is accepting new applications for its Featured Contributor program — an opportunity for current and former government employees and industry representatives to write on topics about which they’re passionate. It’s a chance to share your knowledge with — and be recognized by — GovLoop’s community of 300,000+ public sector employees, industry partners, and knowledge experts.

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Government Contracts Advisor

JUNE 5, 2023

Join Dentons for our second program in our 2023 Dentons Government Contracts Academy series on Thursday, June 22nd at Noon-1pm […]

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Discussions & Clarifications

JUNE 7, 2023

Foreign direct investment (FDI) plays a crucial role in the global economy, and the United States has long been an attractive destination for international investors. To accurately gauge the impact and trends of FDI, the US government conducts the Benchmark Survey of Foreign Direct Investment every five years. In general, any US company that had covered foreign ownership in 2022 is required to submit a survey response.

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GovLoop

JUNE 9, 2023

The National Park Service (NPS) fields more than two dozen citizen science projects, both park-specific and multi-park. From Denali in Alaska to Saguaro in Arizona, volunteers collect data, upload it and share in the scientific achievement. At Great Smoky Mountains National Park (GSMNP), which spans the North Carolina/Tennessee border, volunteers record flora, fauna and fungi using an app that geotags their photos and attaches other information about where the photos were taken.

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GovLoop

JUNE 8, 2023

The Problem The most important work for child welfare employees happens in the relationships with families and children. But too often, caseworkers experienced interruptions and impediments from building trust because of a paper-based system. The often-cited problems with paper-based, manual processes were all too familiar to caseworkers in Erie County, Pennsylvania.

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GovLoop

JUNE 8, 2023

A whole-of-state cybersecurity approach brings together agencies at the city, county and state levels to create a brain trust, using their collective knowledge and experiences to subvert malicious attacks. How can your agency kickstart a whole-of-state approach? Advocate: The National Association of State Chief Information Officers state that “tight collaboration provides greater security across the state,” but because it’s a newer concept, IT leaders will need to articulate and evangelize

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GovLoop

JUNE 8, 2023

When it comes to digital services, many agencies are under pressure, as constituents expect the responsiveness of the public sector to mirror their private-sector experiences. The challenge? Agencies lack observability — actionable insight into how critical applications and systems are performing, especially as digital services move to the cloud.

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GovLoop

JUNE 6, 2023

Debates about homelessness often lack one key voice: that of unsheltered residents themselves. But in Los Angeles, which struggles to manage its many homeless encampments, officials devised an innovative way to hear from those folks — and faster than previously possible and regarding regulations and other concerns that call for quick action. The city sends mobile phone surveys directly to its homeless constituents.

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GovLoop

JUNE 5, 2023

Cybersecurity is a perpetual battle. As soon as agencies shore up their defenses, a new type of attack arises. But the 2021 Executive Order on Improving the Nation’s Cybersecurity has done much to give the good guys an edge. In addition to making “prevention, detection, assessment, and remediation of cyber incidents…a top priority and essential to national and economic security,” the order calls for specific actions, including implementing zero-trust architectures, removing barriers to thr

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Discussions & Clarifications

JUNE 5, 2023

On June 2, the Federal Acquisition Regulatory Council published an interim final rule ("IFR") to ban the use of a ByteDance Covered Application (i.e., TikTok) in government contracting. This rule is effective June 2, 2023 and "prohibits contractors from having or using a covered application on any information technology owned or managed by the Government, or on any information technology used or provided by the contractor under a contract, including equipment provided by the contractor's employe

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GovLoop

JUNE 7, 2023

When the Biden administration released its eagerly awaited National Cybersecurity Strategy (NCS) in March 2023, the big news was its requirements for potentially increased regulatory oversight and for the private sector to step up. One major goal of the strategy is to shift responsibility for security away from individuals and small organizations — including state, local, tribal and territorial governments — to those “most capable and best- positioned…to make our digital ecosystem secure a

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