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Five Ways to Run an Effective Solid Waste Collection Operation

NLC (National League of Cities)

Managing an effective solid waste and recycling operation is essential for the health and well-being of a city and its residents, but it can also represent a significant use of taxpayer dollars.

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How Livingston Parish prepares for natural disasters by improving resiliency in the cloud

AWS Public Sector Blog

After a major flood in 2016 knocked out their 911 system, they decided to use the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud to become resilient against disaster, reducing service interruptions and improving response times. Create a common operating picture for search and rescue at the edge with AWS. When a natural disaster strikes. “In

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AWS Marketplace now available in the AWS Secret Region

AWS Public Sector Blog

First deployed in 2016 , ICMP is a digital catalog with software listings from independent software vendors (ISVs) that makes it easy for customers in the intelligence community (IC) to find, test, buy, and deploy software that runs on AWS.

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AWS Nonprofit Credit Program expands support for nonprofits of all sizes

AWS Public Sector Blog

Nonprofits around the world use cloud technology to improve operational efficiencies, optimize costs, and advance their missions. Promotional credit enables organizations of all sizes to scale their operations, reduce costs, and deliver more impact on their mission and the communities they serve.

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Optimizing the US mortgage market with AWS

AWS Public Sector Blog

CSS built and now operates the largest and most advanced mortgage securitization platform in the US, supporting Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae’s 70 percent market share of the industry with flexibility, scalability, and security at its core. Operational costs were reduced by $10.7 million from launch.

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The Future Is Customer-Centered

GovLoop

Barbara Morton, the VA’s deputy chief veterans experience officer, who joined the office in 2016, has been a leader in that change. One hurdle Morton sees is that government agencies tend to operate by business unit. I wish I’d known back in 2016 that there were others like me. The Obstacles.

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Master planning for solid waste | Creating a VV equivalent for solid waste management and service operating at the metropolitan scale

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

In transportation, it means that private parking resources are usually not addressed in parking planning (" Testimony on parking policy in DC ," 2012), private sector operators aren't addressed in planning for various modes. In solid waste, it means that the agency only plans wrt residential waste pickup for houses of 1-4 units.