ExecutiveBiz

AUGUST 20, 2024

In today’s intelligence landscape, data is the key to decision advantage. Intelligence Community is placing a heavy emphasis on getting its data strategies and processes right. That’s why the U.S.

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FedTech Magazine

OCTOBER 10, 2024

diplomats and data held by the department, spanning more than 260 locations in 170 countries around the world. The State Department’s law enforcement arm, the Bureau of Diplomatic Security, defends the department and the foreign affairs community by applying cybersecurity, technology security and law enforcement expertise to help advance U.S.

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AWS Public Sector

JUNE 3, 2024

However, you can use SageMaker notebook instances with the R kernel to perform data analytics tasks in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. In this post, we’ll walk through the steps to create a notebook instance with the R kernel and demonstrate how to query data stored in an AWS Glue Data Catalog repository using R.

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Open Contracting Partnership

JUNE 26, 2024

A publicly available tool, ACT Ai aggregates data on over 31 million public procurement projects, linking them with company registration data to detect potential fraud and corruption. For example, Thailand’s procurement data could be improved by releasing planning data and ensuring a more timely publication.

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AWS Public Sector

MAY 22, 2024

The COVID-tracking and health data system built for the district during the COVID-19 pandemic had become clunky, difficult to customize, and expensive to maintain. Because the district’s data contained sensitive student health information and images, the data had to be encrypted during transit and migrated securely.

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FedScoop

AUGUST 1, 2024

Atlanta and New York City and co-sponsored by Microsoft and OpenAI, was part of the agency’s efforts to get the federal government to open up authoritative data and set it up for usability, GSA Administrator Robin Carnahan told reporters in D.C. Protecting data and privacy were top priorities, Shive said. “We

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GovCon Wire

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Digital consulting firm Raft has named Steve Morgan as vice president of data. Morgan, who announced his latest career development on a LinkedIn post on Sunday, most recently served as the company’s chief data engineer. According to the executive, Raft provided him the opportunity to work on the data architecture of the U.S.

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FedInsider

AUGUST 30, 2024

Monday, September 30, 2024 | 2:00PM EDT | 1 Hour | 1 CPE In today’s rapidly evolving public sector landscape, the ability to make informed, data-driven decisions is more critical than ever. The government’s Federal Data Strategy identifies the practices that lead to leveraging data to create value.

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ExecutiveBiz

JUNE 3, 2024

Brian Vanderhoof, formerly vice president of growth and strategy at LCG, has assumed the role of VP of public sector sales at NTT Data Services, the executive announced on LinkedIn Friday. In his new position, he will be responsible for growing the company’s federal health and civilian business.

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ExecutiveBiz

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

The IDIQ contract will allow for the delivery of video data link technologies like the ROVER 6S and Tactical Network ROVER 2 handheld transceivers, L3Harris said Monday. L3Harris Technologies received a $182 million indefinite-delivery / indefinite-quantity contract from the U.S.

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FedScoop

JULY 25, 2024

The Department of Health and Human Services announced a reshuffle of its technology, data, AI and cybersecurity responsibilities Thursday, mainly moving portfolios from the Assistant Secretary for Administration to other components. The CTO role has been unfilled since Ed Simcox departed in 2020.

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FedScoop

AUGUST 19, 2024

Collecting data from inside a hurricane can feel like sticking toothpicks in a donut. Each of those devices is dropped from one of the agency’s “Hurricane Hunter” aircrafts, falling through the storm like a toothpick piercing a donut and collecting data about temperature, air pressure, humidity, and wind speed on its downward path.

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GovCon Wire

JUNE 20, 2024

billion Defense Enterprise HR Applications and Data Services blanket purchase agreement awarded by the Defense Manpower Data Center. The company said Wednesday the DEHRADS BPA covers support for DMDC in 25 task areas, including software development and sustainment, application rationalization and cloud migration and data management

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ExecutiveBiz

MAY 28, 2024

Air Force to provide information technology services in support of a tactical data exchange system used on airborne platforms. Science Applications International Corp. has received a $29.3 million requirements contract from the U.S.

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ExecutiveBiz

AUGUST 29, 2024

Though AI could be a game changer for intelligence organizations, the IC is still building the data-centric foundation these technologies require. Artificial intelligence is a top priority for agencies across the U.S. government, and the Intelligence Community is all-in on AI-driven transformation. 19, a panel discussion […]

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FedScoop

OCTOBER 17, 2024

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration component responsible for publicly sharing environmental and weather data and information said it has resumed ingesting data into a majority of its streams after an outage caused by Hurricane Helene. Fortune said in an email to FedScoop that “NCEI maintains 275 data ingest streams.

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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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FedScoop

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Guidance from the Department of Commerce aimed at establishing a first-of-its-kind framework for using the agency’s public federal data with artificial intelligence tools could come in the next several months. That initial search was an effort to see what was already out there in terms of AI-ready data guidance, according to Houed. “We

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FedScoop

OCTOBER 18, 2024

One of the country’s leading generative AI startups is urging congressional leadership to take action on a trio of safety, data and definitional priorities for the emerging technology before the end of the year. The second priority involves the creation of AI-ready data requirements for every federal agency.

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ExecutiveBiz

DECEMBER 13, 2024

Arcfield said Thursday Orion will assess how NOAA can enhance access to large-scale data gathered by the agency from multiple satellite sources. […]

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Federal News Network

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

The government both creates and runs on data. Given that agencies spend hundreds of billions of dollars on goods and services the more procurement data it has, the better it can understand trends and ‘manage’ procurement. That’s the idea behind a data source effort known as Hi-Def. Charlotte Phelan: Exactly.

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FedScoop

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Congressional efforts to extend the Chief Data Officer Council past the end of the year got a boost Monday when a bipartisan House bill was introduced as the companion to earlier Senate legislation. The Modernizing Data Practices to Improve Government Act ( H.R. 10151 ), introduced by Reps. Summer Lee, D-Pa., and Nancy Mace, R-S.C.,

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ExecutiveBiz

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Center for HIV, Hepatitis, STD and TB Prevention has selected digital services integrator Fearless and professional services company Deloitte to enhance how the agency tracks, analyzes and gains insight from data to help prevent the spread of human immunodeficiency virus.

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GovLoop

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Census Bureau offers up an abundance of data that state and local agencies can use to gain insights into the shifting demographics of their constituencies, and to shape policies and programs accordingly. Its not enough to dig up good data. For many agencies, the challenge is learning to communicate those insights effectively.

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FedTech Magazine

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Agencies must prepare for potential breaches with a cyber resilience plan to leverage robust data backup and recovery strategies, which enable speedy restoration of systems and data.

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Government Contracts

JANUARY 13, 2025

A Florida federal court has authorized the release of certain information related to 3M's $6 billion multidistrict litigation settlement ending claims over allegedly faulty combat earplugsto a London arbitral tribunal, which was convened to determine if insurer AIG Europe Ltd. is refusing to pay its share of the deal.

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AWS Public Sector

APRIL 12, 2024

UK Biobank is the world’s most comprehensive source of health data used for research. Today, UK Biobank has about 10,000 variables per volunteer, from simple lifestyle information to physical measures, electronic health records (EHRs), genetic sequencing, biomarker data, and full body scan images.

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Inside Government Contracts

JANUARY 16, 2024

The Civilian Board of Contract Appeals has published its annual report for FY 2023 , providing data regarding the number of appeals and contractor success rates at the Board. The data illustrated a number of noteworthy points — and a few welcome trends — for the contracting community. That data was added last year.

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Art of Procurement

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Anyone who spends their day working with data will tell you that data alone is never enough. It needs to. The post The Power of Visualization in Freight Optimization and Resilience appeared first on Art of Procurement.

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AWS Public Sector

MARCH 15, 2024

Business considerations: Appoint a cross-functional team A cross-functional team will be best able to balance AI skills with knowledge of the target business process(es) and considerations around the source data and what happens to it. If your use case means you need to train a bespoke machine learning (ML) model, then you’ll need data.

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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.

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FedTech Magazine

OCTOBER 17, 2024

guarding against a potential loss of data related to its history, language and culture is a huge priority. That means protecting tribal history at CPN’s Cultural Heritage Center museum and data in the Tribal Rolls Department, which handles membership, including tribal enrollment, burial insurance and tribal ID cards.

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AWS Public Sector

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Successful adoption of generative AI, especially within the public sector, requires organizations to enable systematic experimentation and exploration, with their own data, for their workforce and constituents. Strict data governance protocols are typically required.

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AWS Public Sector

AUGUST 26, 2024

Log ingestion and processing – The General Transit Feed Specification (GTFS) data is read from the Amazon Timestream database by an AWS Lambda function for processing and sent to an Amazon Location Service Tracker. The processed data is also stored as a.csv file in Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3 ) for future use.

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AWS Public Sector

APRIL 15, 2024

These processes rely heavily on domain-specific data ingestion and processing for batch and continuous data sources. PNNL developed Aether as a reusable framework for sharing data and analytics with sponsors and stakeholders. Lambda functions are at the core of the computational workload.

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GovCon Wire

MAY 23, 2024

Data is the new gold, according to GovCon industry executives and leaders. And as organizations see more and more data, the need to process, understand and leverage it becomes increasingly important.

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Inside Government Contracts

DECEMBER 14, 2023

The Report is notable for several reasons, but most striking is its sharp criticism of DOE’s apparent reluctance to fully accede to the OIG’s request for vast quantities of agency and contractor data in connection with preventative fraud detection efforts. frequent flyer numbers), and even Social Security numbers.

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