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Terry Moore Named Innovation & Quality VP at Westat

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Terry Moore, a three-decade health services research and business development leader, will assume the role of vice president of innovation and quality at Rockville, Maryland-based research and professional services provider Westat on Jan.

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Leveraging 5G as a Federal Innovation Enabler

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As the DOD works with industry to adopt 5G networks, prototyping and sandboxing 5G capabilities can bolster adoption and innovation. He has served on the Board of the Wireless Innovation Forum and on the IT Advisory Commission for Arlington County, Virginia. They based this approach on cost, speed and quality.

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From pandemic data to AI, first GAO Innovation Lab director reflects on progress

FedScoop

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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NSF would award millions in AI prizes under bipartisan Senate bill

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Artificial intelligence researchers, entrepreneurs and innovators would compete for $1 million prizes awarded by the National Science Foundation under new legislation from three members of the Senate’s AI caucus. The time has come for a prize program to further encourage innovation in artificial intelligence.” Cory Booker, D-N.J.,

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Senate bill to create NSF-awarded AI challenges gets House companion

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A Senate bill that would task the National Science Foundation with overseeing a multimillion-dollar competition on artificial intelligence innovations now has a House companion from the leaders of the chamber’s AI task force. The AI Grand Challenges Act from Reps. Jay Obernolte, R-Calif., and Ted Lieu, D-Calif., Cory Booker, D-N.J.,

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AWS commits additional $20M to tackle health equity disparities through cloud technology

AWS Public Sector

Since then, 229 organizations have contributed innovations to the program to help address disparities in social determinants of health around the world. Eighty percent of health and quality-of-life outcomes as well as health risks are driven by these factors. Jacaranda Health is looking to help reduce these numbers.

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How the cloud helps scale innovation in K12 and primary education

AWS Public Sector

While there is no shortage of innovation in the K12 sector, the inability to scale innovation stands out as one of the most common roadblocks to transformation across the vast and diverse K12 population—including students, teachers, and administrators. During the panel discussion, the group identified four key themes: 1.