AWS Public Sector Blog

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

To accomplish this, Intelsat utilized their AWS account team and AWS Enterprise Support ’s cloud domain expertise to identify the AWS resources that required a DNS change and establish a migration strategy for each AWS resource type.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

OCTOBER 23, 2023

While budget-conscious K12 organizations might be reluctant to invest in new initiatives, the cloud allows the chance to experiment—and even expand—successful programs. There were many variables to account for—language, culture, urban versus rural—as they approached potential new locations.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

However, as HolonIQ reports in its 2024 Global Education Outlook , funding sources slowed across the board in 2023, dropping 59% from 2022 levels. At AWS, we believe that optimizing IT costs (including cloud) helps unlock budget to invest in more innovation.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

My eCISO includes recommendations from popular cyber frameworks such as the Center for Internet Security (CIS), Criminal Justice Information Services (CJIS), the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), and more. This is due to the flexibility and power of the natural language capabilities of the AI tool.

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Government Technology Insider

DECEMBER 11, 2024

It also means they can scale funding as project needs evolve, to make the right resources available when it counts, not just when the budget is set. As of May 2023, the legacy systems at the Department of Transportation and the Office of Personnel Management were languishing in antiquity, with no modernization plans developed.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

APRIL 6, 2023

Finally, budgeting for something that has a variable operating cost complicates the process of building annual budgets. It is simple for finance leaders to focus on capital expenses, which sit in a separate budget, when thinking about the yearly cost of computing on premises compared to in the cloud.

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AccessE11

JANUARY 2, 2024

This article will highlight some of the major changes that have began throughout 2023, with notable technology and policy leading the way. It’s crucial to ensure transparency and accountability in AI deployments. A key trend in 2023 has been the emphasis on modular and scalable smart city solutions.

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Open Access Government - Technology News

MAY 12, 2023

In England and Wales, cyber-related fraud incidents accounted for 61% of all fraud cases last year. Imagine your accounts team gets hacked and, after scanning through their previously sent emails, the hackers know how to word an email to convince you it is really them. trillion for the global economy by 2025.

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American City & Country

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

Each Hub was given a particular theme, such as “strategic operations and innovation,” “accountability and compliance” or “community engagement and experience,” to name a few. Members hold each other accountable, according to Earp. “I Earp speaks at a Fourth of July event in Hutto in 2023. ‘I

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GovLoop

APRIL 22, 2024

“Agencies have had difficulty finding employees with such knowledge and may have to pay a premium for specialized staff or contractors,” according to a recent report on modernization from the Government Accountability Office (GAO). This is called technical debt. That’s proving to be a costly assumption as those systems remain in place.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

MARCH 19, 2024

On-premises models over-provision to account for spikes and growth, risking underutilized capacity. We have a limited budget. If you would like to learn more about Cloud Economics, please contact your AWS account team or the AWS Public Sector team directly. Nous avons un budget limité. Why can’t we just focus on price?

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zencity

AUGUST 6, 2023

We’re now more than halfway through 2023, and the cost of living crisis shows no sign of abating. The reality of the situation continuing to face families and communities across the UK is stark: in May, food prices were 18.3% higher compared to a year before, only slightly down from the 45-year high of 19.1% And whilst inflation fell to 7.9%

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GovLoop

JANUARY 31, 2024

The further behind your technology is, the more financially difficult modernization becomes because agencies must anticipate their budgets years in advance — often before the tools they need fully exist, Kowalski said. “Not only are you not benefiting from what these tools can provide, … you also can’t contribute anything,” she added.

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The Whistle Post

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

As appeared in the CT Post on February 16th, 2023, written by Joe Carbone For decades, the American workforce system has addressed challenges that served as barriers to career attainment. By some accounts, Connecticut is a whopping 85,000 units short of workforce housing. Billions of federal dollars have been allocated to address them.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JANUARY 26, 2024

Although, understandably with larger federal grants, there are a lot of provisions wrt accountability, bidding, etc., They also demanded financial information that Parkin said would require 350 Colorado to overhaul its accounting and reporting procedures. That's the kind of assistance that often needs to be provided.

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Open Access Government - Technology News

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

As 2023 unfolds, the UK’s public sector still finds itself in the midst of an extended, difficult winter – but how can local councils overcome this? A critical shortage of workers across the finance and accounting sector is likely to impact the provision of services by local councils in the months ahead.

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Social Pinpoint

JANUARY 8, 2023

One example is online participatory budgets , which enable citizens to vote for how they would like public spending to be allocated toward an initiative. Why is participatory democracy on the rise? As a result, participatory democracy has gained momentum, fueled by a promise to innovate and instill a new way of making collective decisions.

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Grant Central USA

JULY 12, 2023

With tight budgets, limited resources, and an uncertain future, it’s important to find ways to maximize the potential of your business. You'll learn how to research potential funders, create an appropriate budget and write persuasive descriptions of your project goals. Why Should Small Businesses Consider Grant Writing Classes ?

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GovLoop

APRIL 10, 2023

Engineers must account for differences in regional costs for labor and materials, plus factors such as weather and crew sizes. “At The ability to apply predictive analysis for forecasting future project costs is critical in government, given the long procurement cycles and budget processes, he said.

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Partnership for Public Service

JANUARY 23, 2023

A 2019 Government Accountability Office report found that 13 of 16 agencies reviewed had saved $291 million by transitioning to the cloud. Cloud migration projects, like any complex IT initiatives, are susceptible to running over budget and behind schedule. One commonly touted benefit of moving operations to the cloud is savings.

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Barrett & Greene

MARCH 8, 2023

Here is the bulk of his letter: March 8, 2023 To Whom It May Concern: As President of the National State Auditors Association, I, and other independent state auditors from around the country are writing to express our concerns with Iowa Senate File 478. Geragosian wrote the following letter in response.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

MARCH 4, 2024

7 Additionally, GSE subsidies and privileges are crafted to largely avoid showing up as a federal budget expenditure, thus avoiding competing with other priorities for scarce tax dollars. The two companies have no lobbyists or lobbying budget and make no political donations of any kind.

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Partnership for Public Service

JANUARY 12, 2023

It’s 2023, a new year, and with a new year comes opportunity to reflect, recharge and recommit. Our government maintains an annual budget of more than $6 trillion to provide benefits and services to the more than 330 million people who live in our country. What’s at stake?

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

APRIL 22, 2024

. -- " National Community Planning Month: Schools as neighborhood anchors " (2022) -- " School closure and consolidation planning needs to focus on integration planning at the outset as a separate process " (2023) Civic Agriculture and community food systems. More places are "allowing" citizens to deliver recreation programming.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

MARCH 11, 2024

Today, agency MBS outstanding is about $9 trillion, two-thirds of all first-lien mortgage dollars, while bank-held mortgage loans only account for $2.6 18 It is worth noting that the Congressional Budget Office (CBO), from time to time, estimates the value of the subsidies to the FHLB system. billion for fiscal 2024. See [link]. [21]

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Death and Taxes

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Blog post by Whitney Afonso, Zach Mohr, and Scott Powell Questions for Practitioners: When (as in time of year) should you engage citizens in budget simulations? Can I expect trust in our government to increase if we engage citizens in budget simulations?

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JUNE 24, 2024

The 2023 Executive Order on the Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Development and Use of Artificial Intelligence (EO 14110) aims to promote the responsible use of AI while mitigating potential risks and ensuring the protection of civil rights and liberties.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

JUNE 10, 2024

In Part 1 of this series, it was estimated that total closing costs for both buyer and seller accounted for at least 7 to 11 percent of the purchase price of a typical home, surpassing the average 6 to 7 percent down payment made by first-time homebuyers (FTHBs). 11 Open Secrets reported that the NAR spent over $52 million in 2023.

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Death and Taxes

JULY 21, 2021

Collaborating with the Florida League of Cities (FLC), we endeavored to provide a simple and practical revenue forecasting strategy to help cities in Florida plan and prepare for the potential impacts of the COVID 19 pandemic on their budgets. His scholarship focuses on state and local public finance, budgeting and financial management.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

to fix bad practices, make them democratic instead of just eliminating them ," (2012) (also discusses participatory budgeting) Note that the network concept applies to parks and libraries friends groups, and school PTAs as well. Louis: what would I recommend for a comprehensive revitalization program? Even neighborhood associations.

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Microsoft Public Sector

JUNE 22, 2022

Today, we are sharing some of our more recent learnings and practices relevant to President Biden’s Executive Order (EO) 14028 and cybersecurity fact sheet, as well as our readiness to help agencies meet requirements implemented in March by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB). Release News. SharePoint / OneDrive for Business.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

MARCH 10, 2023

budget calculations but intentionally set things up so that the broader financial marketplace believed the government had an obligation to never let the two companies default on their debt; 15 this allowed the marketplace to largely ignore measures of GSE financial strength, in particular their capital ratios. percent to 0.49 Also, the 0.10

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The CIO Council

DECEMBER 10, 2023

In October 2023, President Biden signed the landmark Executive Order 14110: Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Development and Use of Artificial Intelligence. A key action identified in the EO is for the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to issue guidance on the Federal Government’s use of AI, positioning the U.S.

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Poverty & Policy

MAY 1, 2017

Trump’s Office of Management and Budget Director made the same point. But the SSDI Trust Fund will probably run out of money toward the end of 2023. The Post followed up with an editorial calling for reforms, while suggesting, as did the NPR reporter, that many SSDI recipients aren’t all that disabled. And not only they.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

APRIL 24, 2025

Select 2023.csv Under Data source , change the following: For Data source location , leave as This AWS account. Its recommended to set up a Cost Explorer budget or alarm to watch your costs. csv and 2023.csv Scroll to the bottom of the page and choose Next. Keep choosing Next until you reach the last page of data.

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Super Library Marketing

JANUARY 6, 2025

An academic library marketer said, The university marketing department has completely shut down the library social media accounts and we cannot send mass emails. 2: Budget Im not surprised that this came up as a frequent problem this year. Thats an increase of 5 percentage points from 2023. Great idea! #2:

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AWS Public Sector Blog

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

In the fall of 2023, Pariveda was brought on as an AWS technology partner to build on this foundation with a codeveloped vision for a Suicide Intelligence Platform, or SIP. To optimize for SSS’s budget and modest data volume, we’ve developed a custom AWS Lambda image capable of running Apache Spark within the runtime.

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