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Google Public Sector announces Board of Directors

Google Public Sector

military sensors, platforms, commanders, and operators in order to increase battle readiness and responsiveness. He most recently served as the 11th Commander of United States Special Operations Command, where he led the coordinated efforts of the special operations forces across all military branches.

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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.

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WMATA and MWCOG announce new joint transit initiative | Could a regional "transport association" be on the horizon, or just a transit bailout?

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

According to Twitter and other news sources (" WMATA and MWCOG announce new joint transit initiative ," DC News Now) WMATA the operator of regional subway and bus services, and the Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments, are going to start working together. If it wasn't forthcoming, only then cut service.

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Pittsburgh Learns How to Govern Its Data

GovLoop

In the same month that What Works Cities publicly certified Pittsburgh, Norman’s team formed and held an inaugural meeting of a data governance committee with data coordinators from every city department. Insights from Heidi Norman, Chief Information Officer and Director of the Department of Innovation & Performance, city of Pittsburgh.

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Forrester study commissioned by AWS estimates an ROI of 33% from data integration

AWS Public Sector Blog

The resulting data illustrates notable quantified benefits for the public sector including process and operational efficiencies amounting to more than $15 million in savings over five years. The application of data integration can save lives in addition to money. In Virginia, data integration helped battle opioid addiction.

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What's Happening with the Fire Service?

Eric Holdeman's Disaster Zone Podcast

Adam also served as Director of the Philadelphia Office of Emergency Management from 2019-2022. In that role, Adam helped provide strategic direction, policy advice, management oversight, and operational coordination for eleven agencies with an overall budget of more than $3.1B and 30,000 employees. and 30,000 employees.

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Managing Emergencies: The Challenges of the Future

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

In some instances, notably the Manchester Arena bombing and the Grenfell Tower fire (both in 2017), the shortcomings have been nothing less than scandalous (Kerslake 2018, Moore-Bick 2019). It lacks a national emergency operations centre. In The Hague there is a compact but technologically advanced operations centre.