AWS Public Sector

JANUARY 18, 2024

This blog post outlines how credit unions can use AWS to evaluate their compliance with Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council (FFIEC) and National Credit Union Administration (NCUA) requirements. Figure 1 features a high-level architecture for evaluating workloads for FFIEC and NCUA compliance.

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GovCon Wire

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

As the Department of Defense pursues next-generation capabilities and technological dominance on the battlefield, speed and agility in the research, development, testing and evaluation process has become a top priority.

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AWS Public Sector

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Skills and capability gaps – Public sector organizations often lack the in-house artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) expertise required to effectively evaluate, deploy, and maintain generative AI systems. Customize security, data privacy controls, and Amazon Bedrock guardrails to align with your organization’s policies.

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The Procurement ClassRoom

NOVEMBER 23, 2024

To succeed, governments must embrace innovation, integrate cutting-edge tools like artificial intelligence (AI) and blockchain, and empower procurement teams to lead the way. Governments worldwide control vast budgets through procurement, giving them the power to: Drive innovation by demanding advanced solutions from vendors.

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AWS Public Sector

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Education institutions, though, face slightly different decision-making contexts when evaluating which cloud provider to use to host these applications. The value of data and innovation Three of Educause’s 2023 Top 10 IT issues (“ #4: Smooth Sailing for the Student Experience” , ” #7.

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AWS Public Sector

APRIL 17, 2024

The University of Pittsburgh , the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), the University of California Davis Health Cloud Innovation Center (UCDH CIC)—powered by Amazon Web Services (AWS)—and the AWS Digital Innovation (DI) team have seized on Dr. Fauci’s call-to-action to “flood the system with correct information.”

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GovCon & Trade

OCTOBER 19, 2023

We recently authored an article for Reuters examining Commercial Solutions Openings, a contracting mechanism through the Department of Defense (DoD), which seeks innovative commercial technologies or services. We defined CSOs as “another pathway for nontraditional technology companies to provide goods and services to the federal government.

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GovCon Wire

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Amentum, an advanced engineering and innovative technology provider, has secured a $105 million contract from the Naval Surface Warfare Center Crane Airborne Electronic Attack Systems Division to develop its next generation ectronic warfare and intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance systems.

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FedScoop

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

Over the past five years, the Government Accountability Office’s inaugural Innovation Lab director, Taka Ariga, treated the component as something of a startup organization. We had to crack the sort of secret sauce when it comes to ‘how do we actually innovate within an oversight community like GAO?’” Ariga said.

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GovCon Wire

JANUARY 22, 2025

MTSI said Wednesday the ARCWERX Research, Test, Evaluation, Modernization and Innovation Support, or ARTEMIS, task order was awarded under the General Services Administration’s One Acquisition for Integrated Services, Modern Technology Solutions Inc.

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FedScoop

JULY 25, 2024

A bill that would require the National Institute of Standards and Technology to create detailed guidance for third-party evaluators that work with artificial intelligence providers was officially introduced Wednesday night in the Senate, now with bipartisan sponsorship. The legislation from Sen. John Hickenlooper, D-Colo.,

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Tendersinfo

APRIL 8, 2021

The factors on which tenders are evaluated in MEAT assessment are Quality Cost-effectiveness approach Technology Aesthetic and functional characteristics Accessibility Social characteristics Environmental characteristics Innovative characteristics After-sales service and technical assistance Delivery date, process, and period.

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AWS Public Sector

JUNE 26, 2024

Generative AI Innovation Center expertise : Ideate, identify, and implement generative AI solutions securely with guidance from the Generative AI Innovation Center. Today, Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced the AWS Public Sector Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) Impact Initiative.

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FedInsider

JUNE 5, 2024

The plan targets five industries – agriculture, energy, life sciences, manufacturing, and robotics/technology – all of which will rely on investments to upgrade and innovate systems and technologies currently in place. REGISTER NOW The post Vision 2024: Technology & Innovation in Government – Pennsylvania first appeared on FedInsider.

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GovLoop

APRIL 5, 2023

There are two ways to approach innovation. But design-led innovation looks for information that’s more personal and profound. In other words, start with real user needs, earn trust with every interaction, embrace accessibility, promote continuity, and listen and evaluate. Demographic and other considerations often get ignored.

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AWS Public Sector

MAY 30, 2024

Within the Food and Drug Administration’s Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, the Division of Medication Error Prevention and Analysis (DMEPA) plays a critical role. The innovative tool has the potential to expedite and enhance the process of drug labeling reviews.

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Oxford College of Procurement and Supply

JANUARY 14, 2025

In order to evaluate whether suppliers offers are giving a business the optimum value, benchmarking is required. Compliance Cycle times Defects ESG Innovation KPI performance Lead times Quality And of course . Procurement is all about achieving value for money.

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AWS Public Sector

JUNE 7, 2024

This innovative prototype allows citizens to discover the stories behind Singapore’s iconic landmarks from their devices at any time. Their innovative and immersive AR web app delivers content on demand over the internet, using a mobile or tablet, with no need to download another native mobile app.

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Federal News Network

AUGUST 21, 2024

SBA is also contemplating eliminating the HUBZone price evaluation preference to HUBZone joint ventures formed under the Mentor-Protégé Program. Second, the HUBZone price evaluation preference is a critical tool that helps HUBZone businesses compete on a level playing field with larger firms. But that’s not all.

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ExecutiveBiz

JUNE 19, 2024

Army, sees it as a “happy medium” that could reduce prototyping costs and evaluation timelines and is “critical to defining the future” of Army […] Digital engineering is a method of product development that uses digital modeling to inform the final version of a technology.

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How to Crack a Nut

JANUARY 13, 2025

The plan sets out the following: Pilot - rapidly developing prototypes or fast light-touch procurement to spin up pilots in high-impact areas, robust evaluation and publishing results. Innovative AI suppliers from the UK and around the world should be engaged to support demand and encourage investment. performance evaluations).

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Federal News Network

JANUARY 29, 2024

The Procurement Innovation Lab at the Department of Homeland Security is entering phase three of its lifecycle. Scott Simpson, the digital transformation lead for the Procurement Innovation Lab at DHS, said the next chapter is all about improving the “big A” acquisition process.

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FedScoop

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

The AI Research, Innovation and Accountability Act of 2023 , introduced Wednesday by Sens. Companies deploying “critical-impact” AI would have to perform risk assessments consistent with NIST’s existing AI Risk Management Framework, and these evaluations would then have to be submitted to the Commerce Department. John Thune, R-S.D.,

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AWS Public Sector

APRIL 12, 2024

In addition, a majority of education employers (57 percent) envision generative AI driving innovation and creativity within their organization, and 38 percent expect to use generative AI tools significantly in the next five years. Learn more about AWS’s no-cost AI training and access the full Accelerating AI Skills study today.

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AWS Public Sector

JANUARY 24, 2025

To navigate this complex landscape, healthcare organizations are turning to scalable, affordable, and highly available cloud infrastructures such as Amazon Web Services (AWS) to build resilient, secure, and innovative solutions. The health platform is the modern integrated, data-driven ecosystem that fuels innovation.

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AWS Public Sector

JULY 23, 2024

A former instructor himself, Ritter saw that AI could be used to offer teachers private feedback on the qualities they were typically evaluated on—which had been largely subjective in the past. We immediately realized that AI offered a great way to obtain coaching or feedback,” said Ritter.

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WashngtonExec

MARCH 20, 2025

They are also prioritizing rapid innovation and results evaluation (vs. The real magic of delivering innovative products that drive immediate impacts happens when you build high performing teams with the right aptitude, attitude and the creative freedom to break the status-quo with cutting-edge technology, Kalaria said.

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WashngtonExec

MARCH 11, 2025

Denise Johnson, Battelle Denise Johnson Vice President of Health Research and Analytics, Battelle Denise Johnson spearheads a team committed to advancing scientific endeavors that improve health outcomes, support quality patient care, and drive groundbreaking innovations in health and biomedical research.

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FedScoop

MAY 2, 2024

Similarly, NIST would only have 30 days after the enactment of this legislation to initiate a “multi-stakeholder process” to evaluate if the consensus standards for vulnerability reporting accommodate AI security vulnerabilities.

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How to Crack a Nut

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

The UK Government has recently published its official response (the ‘response’) to the public consultation of March 2023 on its ‘ pro-innovation approach ’ to AI regulation (for an initial discussion, see here ). The government is also using the procurement power of the public sector to drive responsible and safe AI innovation.

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American City & Country

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Whether it’s navigating compliance requirements, evaluating supplier performance, or ensuring that security and staffing solutions are up to the task, OMNIA Partners can guide you through the process to ensure your event is a success.

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FedScoop

APRIL 5, 2024

The idea here is that we can allow for our CDC staff to practice innovation and gen AI safely, within CDC boundaries, rather than going out to third-party sites,” Sim said. We’re still learning, but we’re trying our best to be innovative, responsive, and obviously sharing as we learn with our partners,” he said.

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AWS Public Sector

MAY 31, 2024

Adopt an extensible platform to easily swap AI services as new innovations emerge. The modular architecture thus allows for quick experimentation with each module to evaluate the performance of new features while holding all other variables constant. Plug in different vector stores to balance cost, performance, and accuracy.

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FedScoop

JUNE 5, 2024

Four FBI technology officials who spoke at a GDIT event in Washington detailed the agency’s focus on promoting AI innovations where those tools are merited — such as in its tip line — and ensuring uses could ultimately meet the law enforcement agency’s need to have technology that could later be defended legally.

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GovLoop

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

This can lead to the implementation of a more diverse workforce as well, which leads to improved collaboration, more creativity and greater innovation in our work environment. We can help influence others to freely share their opinions and, consequently, be open to other opinions. Overall, doesn’t it just feel good to feel understood?

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FedScoop

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

However, innovation in potentially disruptive technologies like artificial intelligence won’t pause for the election. As such, it is crucial that federal agencies quickly and effectively respond to new developments in AI, allowing for responsible private-sector innovation while mitigating risks.


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Federal News Network

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

The court’s ruling forced GSA to rethink the solicitation for OASIS+ and bring price back as an evaluation factor at the main contract level. We’re trying to transition small business research and development from labs and garages to innovate equipment in the field.

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