FedTech Magazine

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Agencies looking to establish hybrid data centers need comprehensive security strategies that set realistic time frames and are mapped to their respective budgets. A hybrid data center relies on cloud, software-defined networking and virtualization technologies to distribute applications across physical and multicloud environments.

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FedTech Magazine

JULY 31, 2023

In 2023, the admonition to back up your data might seem as obvious as being told to lock your door or fasten your seatbelt. While the cloud is well designed and resilient, it’s a fact that cloud providers usually shift the burden of data backups to customers that use their services.

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FedTech Magazine

AUGUST 4, 2022

Turn back the clock a decade or so, and you would see a far different data center landscape in the federal space than exists today. For one, there would be more data centers —many more, in fact —and they would be largely running applications on bare-metal servers. Those efforts have been so successful that data center closures…

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FedScoop

APRIL 3, 2025

The Environmental Protection Agency lacks a complete and accurate inventory of its information systems and software asset management data, according to the agencys Office of Inspector General. The agency software asset management tool doesnt contain complete and accurate software license data to comply with both NIST and agency requirements.

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FedTech Magazine

MARCH 1, 2023

Determining who is eligible for certain programs involves complicated, often redundant processes, worsened by the struggle of many government agencies to share data effectively. Legal issues, capacity constraints, fragmented data systems and privacy concerns all pose…

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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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FedTech Magazine

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Unlocking this data requires significant work due to the requirements for data entry, validation, and proper routing and categorization of the information. The wealth of information available to government agencies is often locked in these forms due to a lack of manpower to process and analyze them for correlations and relationships.

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FedTech Magazine

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Data Center as a Service is gaining traction with agencies seeking the flexibility to gradually adopt cloud services while maintaining control over critical data and infrastructure. The DCaaS market is projected to hit nearly $290 billion by 2031, marking an 18.3% increase over 2024 numbers, according to Coherent Market Insights.

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FedTech Magazine

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Artificial intelligence use cases and the need to establish clear policies to retain data sovereignty were prominent themes at TribalNet 2024.

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FedTech Magazine

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Damaging cyberattacks — many by sophisticated adversaries ranging from organized crime groups to rival nations — continuously bombard federal agencies.

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FedTech Magazine

JANUARY 22, 2025

Critical gaps in guidance persist for chief data officers, particularly with regard to data governance for artificial intelligence, despite making progress on data maturity and mission goals. The overlap between the roles of CDOs and other IT leaders,

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FedScoop

AUGUST 23, 2024

Customs and Border Protection confirmed in a privacy review published earlier this month that it was no longer collecting telemetry data, or smartphone location data, provided by commercial firms. In January, FedScoop reported that Immigration and Customs Enforcement had stopped using smart phone location data.

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USFCR

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

General Services Administration (GSA) is Transactional Data Reporting (TDR). Federal contractors know that staying compliant is a top priority. One such compliance requirement from the U.S.

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FedTech Magazine

AUGUST 16, 2023

What the public sees when they use government services: updates on their packages’ travels through the mail system, the latest weather alerts, first responders jumping into hazardous situations without hesitation.

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GovCon Wire

APRIL 16, 2025

Jeff Haberman revealed on LinkedIn Tuesday that he has been appointed vice president of growth at Integrated Data Services, an Arlington Capital Partners portfolio company.

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FedTech Magazine

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Defense agencies’ protocols on how to collect and use data are evolving as they realize just how much they can capture, how difficult it can be to protect in transit and that the edge might not be the place to analyze data after all. Information is combat power.

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FedTech Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2024

Machine learning and artificial intelligence are making their way to the public sector, whether agencies are ready or not. Generative AI made waves last year with ChatGPT boasting the fastest-growing user base in history.

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ExecutiveBiz

APRIL 16, 2025

Voltron Data, a company specializing in large-scale data analytics and artificial intelligence workloads, has partnered with Carahsoft Technology to bring advanced data infrastructure technology to the public sector. Carahsoft said Tuesday it will provide federal agencies access to Voltron Datas Theseus.

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AWS Public Sector

JANUARY 30, 2025

In an earlier post, Build secure and scalable data platforms for the European Health Data Space (EHDS) with AWS , we discussed a reference architecture for building secure and scalable data platforms for secondary usage of health data in alignment with the European Health Data Space (EHDS) using Amazon Web Services (AWS).

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FedTech Magazine

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Fact: Government Agencies Struggle with Siloed Data Siloed data is a major obstacle for government agencies. Information collected over decades includes isolated and duplicate data that limits visibility across agencies, many of which operate under their own policies.

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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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VWV

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Specifically, the platform will: Simplify the procurement process for suppliers: Suppliers will only need to enter their information once, which can then be reused across multiple tenders Collect data about procurement Be where all the procurement notices will be published, improving transparency by having them all in one place.

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ExecutiveBiz

APRIL 4, 2025

NTT DATA has appointed Jack Nichols as operations director of defense networks and cyber integrations, bringing over three decades of leadership experience gained while serving with the U.S. The new […]

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FedTech Magazine

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

A recent report released by software company Splunk found that public sector organizations often lack the cybersecurity intelligence needed to respond effectively, and they struggle more than the private sector in leveraging data to detect and prevent threats.

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FedTech Magazine

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Data is moving increasingly toward the edge. Gartner, for example, predicts that by 2025, more than half of enterprise-managed data will be created and processed outside the data center or cloud. Agencies collect data at the edge, send it to the cloud and then perform predictive analytics.

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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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ExecutiveBiz

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Orion Space Solutions, an Arcfield subsidiary, has received a contract to provide real-time atmospheric modeling data to the Space Systems Commands Space Domain Awareness Tools Applications and Processing, or SDA TAP, Lab Accelerator in Colorado.

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FedTech Magazine

APRIL 10, 2025

The National Science Foundation leads the National Artificial Intelligence Research Resource pilot, a two-year effort to better understand researchers' computing, data, modeling, software and user support needs in order to accelerate AI innovation. dominance in the AI space.

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FedScoop

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Jonathan McKernan spoke positively about Rohit Chopras rule-making targeting data brokers during a Senate Banking Committee nomination hearing.

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FedTech Magazine

AUGUST 14, 2024

To streamline projects, keep track of data and prevent the need for rework, the agency’s teams leverage model-based systems engineering methodology. A subset of digital engineering, MBSE houses the data associated with complex systems within integrated digital models.

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FedTech Magazine

JULY 24, 2024

Of the 150 decisionmakers surveyed between March and April, 91 percent cited operational challenges — data compatibility and downtime issues, in particular — with hindering strategic hybrid cloud adoption.

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FedTech Magazine

JULY 5, 2024

As data volumes continue to increase, federal IT leaders are considering cluster computing as a way to avoid spending money on maintaining storage infrastructure or public cloud.

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FedTech Magazine

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Federal IT managers who move applications to cloud data centers gain a host of benefits, including cost savings — on real estate, utilities, equipment and more. IT managers may have to repatriate applications to their on-premises data centers if they can’t deliver the promised cost savings. Enter FinOps.…

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FedTech Magazine

MAY 31, 2023

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has no shortage of data to crunch as it seeks to understand and monitor global environmental conditions. Its challenge, rather, involves tying all that together and getting disparate data pipelines to feed into a single system. “We

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FedTech Magazine

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

The evolving demands of data management and processing at the edge have more agencies looking to HCI, particularly as technologies such as artificial intelligence and machine learning become more prevalent. Two years ago, it was primarily used for accumulating data at the edge, often for…

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AWS Public Sector

DECEMBER 2, 2024

When terrestrial network connectivity between an Outpost and its parent AWS Region is unavailable, this solution routes traffic back to the parent Region over a Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite connection, supporting business continuity and data residency requirements.

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FedTech Magazine

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

OPM revealed that it is building components of an enterprise data and analytics platform and piloting new data products in the data strategy it released in March, and most agencies lack the expertise to develop such a platform completely in-house. Traditionally, agencies starting pilots assemble tiger teams consisting of…

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