Inside Government Contracts

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

These data are consistent with the Board’s policy statement of providing “to the fullest extent practicable” the “informal, expeditious, and inexpensive resolution of disputes.” The Board addressed 78 cases through the ADR process, resolving 67. Separately, the Board provided a breakdown of appeal figures by agency.

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Data Accountability Sustainability Contract Management 287

FedScoop

JANUARY 31, 2024

Immigration and Customs Enforcement has stopped using commercial telemetry data, which can include phone data that reveals a person’s location, an agency spokesperson confirmed to FedScoop. The move comes amid ongoing bipartisan concern about law enforcement agency purchases of peoples’ location data without obtaining a warrant.

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Data Impact Assessment Purchasing Electronics 129

GovLoop

JANUARY 31, 2024

For instance, “If you’re on Windows XP and you’re relying on faxes, those tools are so old that [new] analysis tools can’t read [your data],” Kowalski said. And with an unthinkable amount of data in the world, errors are inevitable with outdated IT.

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Data Quantity Education Budget 105

Government Contracts

MAY 10, 2024

Electronically stored information on cellphones, and in particular text messages, can present unique litigation challenges, and recent court decisions demonstrate that counsel must carefully balance what data should be preserved, collected, reviewed and produced, say attorneys at Sidley.

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Data Balance Electronics 98

GovLoop

APRIL 15, 2024

Artificial intelligence (AI) relies on vast quantities of data to generate accurate outcomes — and that’s an obstacle for many public-sector agencies interested in AI technology. And poor data management can undermine AI innovations. In an AI world, you keep all of your data,” he explained. How will you keep data private?

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Data Ethics Quantity Management 64

GovLoop

OCTOBER 19, 2023

In data transformation, it helps to view things through a different lens. It’s looking at your data like an ecosystem,” said Winston Chang, Chief Technology Officer for the Global Public Sector at Snowflake, a leading data cloud company. Think of the quality data that lives and breathes as an ecosystem.”

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Data Collaboration Quality Import 104

GovLoop

MAY 3, 2024

Governments collect and analyze a lot of data. Collaboration between decisionmakers and the people who work with data can be a challenge. Everyone Is a Data Person One way to facilitate that exchange is by shifting mindsets about who is a “data person.” We all use data in our personal lives. Leventhal-Weiner said.

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Data Evaluation Collaboration Import 52

GovLoop

JUNE 19, 2023

CDC Data Maps Illustrate Threat Impacts It’s often impossible to confine environmental and public health events to a specific jurisdiction, agency or area of responsibility. EJI draws its data from the CDC, Census Bureau, Environmental Protection Agency, and Mine Safety and Health Administration.

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Data Evaluation Education Quality 104

GovLoop

MARCH 22, 2023

Data drives decisions — both good and bad. The days of “static data” housed in filing cabinets or resources like encyclopedias are long over. Intelligent data management helps organizations enhance their public-facing services, while improving their backend operations, Breakiron said.

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Data Management Accountability Integration 105

GovLoop

MAY 1, 2024

Whether you’re planning to use more AI or just want to improve analytics and tighten cybersecurity, good data management must be the foundation for your efforts. In 2024, agencies will need to get their data in shape to make the most of it. The Federal Data Strategy, released in 2018, set high-level goals for using and handling data.

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Data End to End Quality Ethics 52

FedScoop

APRIL 30, 2024

In the ever-expanding realm of data management, federal agencies face a pressing need to rethink their approach to effectively processing, analyzing and leveraging vast amounts of data. That’s why chief information and data officials within federal agencies must recognize the necessity of adopting a different data processing model.

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Data Management Utilities Networking 56

GovLoop

MAY 9, 2024

People often use vague language such as “vast troves” and “growing exponentially” to describe the amount of data at the government’s disposal, but those terms don’t say much. And if you were to download all the data on the internet, it would take you 181 million years. That leads to better decision-making.

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Data Capacity Leadership Innovation 52

GovLoop

MAY 10, 2024

In Part 1 , we told you about some of the ways government agencies are using data to make a difference. But data — collected regularly — helps agencies compete by enabling them to monitor trends and plan. To foster a healthy and productive workforce, effective data analysis : Integrates disparate HR systems and eliminates data silos.

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Data Public Private Partnership Transparency Management 52

Government Contracts

MAY 3, 2024

of violating federal law by submitting inaccurate government mortgage loan data. A Florida federal judge refused to dismiss the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's suit accusing mortgage servicer and lender Freedom Mortgage Corp.

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Data Government Government 94

GovSpend

APRIL 29, 2024

Delving into data is a passion of mine. Whether analyzing financials, customer KPIs, marketing data, or federal spending data, I rely on data for not just monitoring the performance of our business and our government, but for making informed decisions with real-time information.

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Data Contract Price Procurement 52

ExecutiveBiz

MARCH 21, 2024

Bill Downer , vice president of national programs at Seagate Federal , believes “the edge is everywhere,” no matter where the data is collected and stored. He is a strong advocate for defending data at rest, and at Seagate, he leads the company’s delivery of secure data storage products to federal agencies.

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GovLoop

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Good leaders are evangelists for making data-based decisions. They don’t need highly technical degrees: They need an appreciation of data’s ability to drive modernization efforts and successful outcomes for the organization and the people they serve. Data literacy is the foundation on which leaders make effective choices.

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Data Management Government Government 97

FedInsider

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Despite being rich in data, many agencies are lagging in the data modernization needed to support AI – and combining incomplete or inaccurate data with AI can lead to hallucinations , ultimately placing mission delivery at stake.

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Data Government Government Leadership 119

FedInsider

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Alongside that comes understanding the location, nature, and sensitivity of the data within the agency. The two are complementary, since part of digital identity is restricting access to the data a user has the right to touch. Franks is a Director in GAO’s Information Technology and Cybersecurity team. & CIO, Dept.

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Data Networking Utilities Leadership 96

ExecutiveBiz

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Combining data lakes and meshes will enable government agencies to align their data assets more efficiently in compliance with the executive order on artificial intelligence, said Dave Vennergrund, vice president of AI and data insights at General Dynamics Information Technology.

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Data Efficiency Government Government 105

GovLoop

MAY 2, 2024

Through automation, predictive analytics and advanced data analysis, AI is set to enhance operations and service delivery, said Chris Steel, AI Practice Lead at AlphaSix, which provides data management platforms and tools for data analysis. This not only secures critical data, but streamlines operations,” Steel explained.

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Data Innovation Consulting Management 52

GovLoop

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

When data novices find themselves stumped, they often waste no time in calling a data expert. Patent and Trademark Office, recommends that data experts give novices an opportunity to work through problems on their own. You need to understand where a person is in their data journey. Soon enough, the problem is solved.

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Innovation Data IT 115

FedScoop

MAY 8, 2024

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. The post House bill calls on EPA to update IT systems that store air quality data appeared first on FedScoop. Gerry Connolly, D-Va.,

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Quality Data IT Utilities 111

FedInsider

MAY 7, 2024

Wednesday, June 26, 2024 | 2:00PM EDT | 1 Hour | 1 CPE In today’s interconnected digital landscape, application programming interfaces (APIs) play a pivotal role in facilitating seamless communication and data exchange between various applications and systems.

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Data Participation Retail Networking 52

GovLoop

MAY 12, 2023

Data visibility is just what it sounds like: the ability to see and access information. A data observability pipeline can help solve this issue, protecting organizations from cyber threats, while enabling collaboration and controlling cost. Proper routing makes data available and helps control costs. Favorite

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Data Quality Collaboration Import 98

FedScoop

APRIL 11, 2024

A data breach that exposed Medicare information — including social security numbers — provided to consulting firm Greylock McKinnon Associates by the Justice Department doesn’t appear to have resulted in identity theft or fraud yet, according to a statement from the agency. GMA could not be reached for comment.

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Data Consulting Networking IT 107

FedScoop

MARCH 22, 2024

Complaints about the Transportation Security Administration’s PreCheck program, the popular expedited passenger screening system, have more than tripled since 2015, according to newly released data from an organization focused on obtaining government datasets and making them more accessible.

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Data Transportation Transportation Government 89

GovLoop

MARCH 11, 2024

Standards create the basis of security controls on which everyone can rely, said Richard Breakiron, Senior Director for Strategic Initiatives, Federal Sector, with Commvault, which provides agencies with comprehensive, intuitive, enterpriselevel data management solutions. You need to have a copy that is literally immutable.

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Data Networking Import Management 52

Kluwer Arbitration

DECEMBER 10, 2023

In our data-centric economy, disputes related to the safeguarding, access and use of data are on the rise. These disputes implicate personal data protection and privacy rights, which must be addressed with a nuanced understanding of both privacy laws and their intersection with dispute resolution.

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Data Balance Transparency Efficiency 97

AWS Public Sector

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

This common SaaS landscape can lead to data silos where data becomes isolated in disparate systems and difficult to centralize for business insights. Pairing operational metrics from project management systems with human resource (HR) data to streamline internal workforce reporting. Jump to Orchestration section ).

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Data Integration Integrity Efficiency 69

ExecutiveBiz

DECEMBER 28, 2023

RTX landed a potential five-year, $52 million contract to provide data matching services for the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency's Intelligence Community Acquisition Research Center website. The Collection Matching Data Fabric project has an expected performance period of one year, with four 12-month option periods.

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Data Contract 105

FedScoop

APRIL 23, 2024

Oracle has added its name to the short list of cloud vendors approved to handle classified, secret-level data for the federal government. In austere locations with limited communication, and in massive secure data centers, Oracle is bringing our best capabilities to serve the men and women that defend the U.S. and our Allies.”

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Data Government Government Networking 75

FedScoop

APRIL 9, 2024

With the authorizations, agencies across the Department of Defense and the intelligence community can use Google Distributed Cloud Hosted — an air-gapped private cloud service tailored to workloads that demand maximized security requirements — to support some of their most sensitive data and applications.

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Data Distribution Integration Integrity 92

ExecutiveBiz

JANUARY 31, 2024

ICF will modernize the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid’s kidney dialysis data reporting system under a potential three-year, $33 million recompete contract from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

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Data Contract Quality Efficiency 105

GovLoop

AUGUST 3, 2023

As soon as agencies started thinking in terms of enterprise-level data initiatives, their existing data solutions became legacy systems. The problem is the necessary data is scattered across the organization and stored in siloed systems both on premises and in the cloud or, more likely, in a multi-cloud environment.

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Data Efficiency Purchasing Engineering 97

Government Contracts

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Department of Justice’s recent announcement that it will leverage data analytics in Foreign Corrupt Practice Act investigations and prosecutions, companies will need to develop a compliance strategy that likewise implements data analytics to get ahead of enforcement risks, say attorneys at Cozen O'Connor. After the U.S.

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Data Corruption IT 98

GovCon Wire

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Data is the key to unlocking important insights that can inform decisions on and off the battlefield. But in order to glean these insights, organizations must process and analyze vast amounts of data, which can be a significant challenge.

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Data Import IT 96