American City & Country

MAY 21, 2025

Related: California mayors speak out on ‘unconscionable’ lack of homelessness aid in proposed state budget Unlike traditional approaches that rely on static spreadsheets and outdated accounting practices, strategic budgeting connects funding directly to results. Doing so ensures accountability and better tracking of progress.

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ICMA

JUNE 23, 2025

New, Reduced Membership Dues A new, reduced dues rate is available for CAOs/ACAOs, along with additional discounts for those in smaller communities, has been implemented. We’re searching for interesting and insightful stories that can help others learn a memorable takeaway to serve their communities better.

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American City & Country

JUNE 13, 2025

Federal laws like the Safe Drinking Water Act and Clean Water Act set the baseline, but states — especially in places like New Jersey — often implement even more rigorous standards in advance of the EPA regulations. This is where communication becomes a cornerstone of success. Communicate with transparency.

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Barrett & Greene

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

A Performance Reader’s Guide Continued: Shelley Metzenbaum, Demetra Smith Nightingale and Batia Katz, Communicating Evidence , Urban Institute, September 22 Ken Miller, We Don’t Make Widgets: Overcoming the Myths that Keep Government from Radically Improvement , Governing Books, 2006 Theodore H. Manoharan. Brian Elms with J.B.

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American City & Country

APRIL 9, 2025

Yet, the journey through cloud ERP implementation isn't without its challenges, and many CIOs are tasked with balancing innovation and budget constraints while maintaining security and regulatory compliance. A cloud ERP implementation offers on-demand computing power, unlike traditional systems that demand constant hardware upkeep.

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ICMA

JULY 18, 2025

New, Reduced Membership Dues A new, reduced dues rate is available for CAOs/ACAOs, along with additional discounts for those in smaller communities, has been implemented. We’re searching for interesting and insightful stories that can help others learn a memorable takeaway to serve their communities better.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JUNE 25, 2025

Agricultural operations can now efficiently update fleets of autonomous tractors to accommodate seasonal changes and implement new farming techniques. For more information on autonomous systems, please email your AWS account team or Shield AI representative. In the commercial sector, the benefits extend across multiple industries.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JULY 15, 2025

This exercise encouraged us to build our initial frameworks for automation and procedures and helped identify where we needed to apply additional focus—leading us to our overall networking and account strategy. Lastly, we pinpointed where to apply resources in future iterations.

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Peak Proposals

JULY 20, 2025

Good Work Does Not Speak for Itself As the majority of USAID programs were frozen and ultimately canceled earlier this year, those in the USAID sphere quickly realized that the general public was unaware of what USAID did or what it meant to work for a USAID implementing organization. Resources: Create and Launch!

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Grant Writing Made Easy

JULY 7, 2025

This includes multi-year commitments, grantee feedback loops, and shared accountability frameworks. But it also means showing up with integrity, transparency, and consistent communication. This could be a one-page mutual expectations document outlining how you’ll communicate, report impact, and share feedback over time.

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McKinsey Public & Social Sector Insights

JULY 10, 2025

Implementing key decarbonization levers, including electrification, energy efficiency, green hydrogen, and new feedstocks and processes, could achieve a reduction of 10 to 13 Mtpa CO 2 by 2030. CO 2 capture typically accounts for 60 to 70 percent of the total costs along the value chain. In the PNIEC, the government reported that 67.9

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McKinsey Public & Social Sector Insights

JUNE 13, 2025

Gen AI has extended the reach of traditional AI in three breakthrough areas: information synthesis, content generation, and communication in human language. What accounts for this imbalance? McKinsey estimates that the technology has the potential to unlock $2.6 trillion to $4.4

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JUNE 12, 2025

These requirements often drive SaaS providers to rethink their architectures: how they manage their hosting, how they store and process data, and how they implement access control and security. This could require providers to implement sovereign control planes rather than a global control plane or adopt specific encryption methods.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Customers with highly-regulated workloads and complex compliance requirements can use the LZA to better manage and govern their multi-account environment. Important account considerations for connected VPC First, decide the account you will use for the virtual private cloud (VPC) that is connected to the VMware SDDC during SDDC deployment.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

MARCH 22, 2024

In this blog post we show how Pearson PLC , an AWS education technology (EdTech) customer, successfully implemented resilient architectures through chaos engineering using AWS Fault Injection Service (FIS). This required the implementation of safeguarding techniques, well-defined risk tolerance levels, and robust rollback mechanisms.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

APRIL 12, 2023

Satellite communications (satcom) networks typically offer a rich set of performance metrics, such as signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) and bandwidth delivered by remote terminals on land, sea, or air. Network layout for a typical satellite communications service with analytics applied.

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GovLoop

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Andrew Buss, Deputy Chief Information Officer (CIO) for Innovation Management, and Innovation Manager Tara Woody offered their wisdom about how to implement innovations and keep momentum going. Outside vendors may be involved, and you’ll have to account for their processes. You do need those designated people,” said Busser. “We

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JULY 15, 2024

Amazon Web Services ( AWS) Ground Station is a cloud-based service that provides you with an opportunity to perform communication sessions with your satellite without spending a fortune on your own ground station infrastructure. You can also get JPSS-1 onboarded to your account for the CPE public beta.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

AUGUST 4, 2023

In a joint research initiative with INFINITT, SMC piloted a cloud-native picture archiving and communication system (PACS) in its pathology department in 2019. Any urgent findings are communicated over the phone with the primary team doctors. The cloud-based DPS immediately improved communication in multidisciplinary oncology teams.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

These services communicate via a well-defined interface using lightweight APIs. Reference architecture for implementing a modern application on AWS GovCloud (US). The static content of the SPA is hosted in an Amazon Simple Storage Service ( Amazon S3 ) bucket in an AWS account in the AWS GovCloud (US-West) Region.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Users can deploy the proof-of-concept in their own AWS accounts, and use it as a baseline for the implementation of ground segment architectures to communicate with their own satellites. The CloudFormation template provided for this proof-of-concept implements the performance tuning for metal.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Develop an implementation strategy – If your organization needs an implementation approach, consider a Cloud Center of Excellence (CCoE). Contact your account team if you are interested in learning more about a Working Backwards workshop. Consider the functionality required to manage tasks.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

MARCH 11, 2024

These templates are deployed across AWS workload accounts, the security account (capture memory, artifacts), and the forensic account (investigate and analyze). Analyze – Securely snapshot and share the volumes associated with the Amazon EC2 instance for investigation in the forensic account.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

OCTOBER 25, 2024

East-west traffic describes communication within the cloud environment, such as between different applications or services in various subnets or VPCs. East-west traffic can also include communication between the AWS Cloud and on-premises data centers connected via AWS Direct Connect or other private connectivity solutions.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

MARCH 9, 2023

These tasks include processing daily banking transactions, managing accounts, and updating financial records. Digital banking By implementing digital banking solutions, credit unions benefit from the performance increases and scalability that the cloud offers. These solutions also help credit unions implement single sign-on solutions.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

AUGUST 23, 2023

GraphQL implementation options on AWS There are two ways to run GraphQL implementations on AWS. An AWS GovCloud (US) Create a GovCloud account if you do not already have one and log in. Note: An AWS GovCloud (US) account is recommended to follow along with the sample solution in this blog post.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JUNE 22, 2024

Amazon Web Services (AWS) GovCloud (US) operates within the United States, offering government customers and their partners the freedom to design and implement secure cloud solutions adhering to various compliance standards. This approach entails implementing an edge solution using AWS MDC. Deploy edge solutions using AWS MDC Figure 1.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JUNE 12, 2025

To achieve enhanced resilience and operational excellence in cloud-based supervisory systems, supervisory authorities can implement the shared responsibility model with their cloud service provider (CSP). This delineates security and operational accountabilities between both parties.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JULY 25, 2024

Fachklinikum Mainschleife manages around 30 critical applications, including electronic health records (EHRs), health information systems (HIS), picture archiving and communication systems (PACS), and practice management systems. AWS Organizations facilitates governance and control across multiple AWS accounts.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

MARCH 19, 2024

However, we recognize public sector work holds unique obligations around accountability, accuracy, and equitable outcomes that must guide any technology changes. This cost-free resource aims to support leaders as they grapple with implementation challenges.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

In addition to the risk to life and biodiversity, wildfires can destroy and disrupt property, essential infrastructure, communications, air quality, and more. For those looking to deploy this type of use case, make sure to incorporate additional data in your model training that accounts for the context in how the imagery is generated.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

MARCH 8, 2024

Carbyne APEX transitioned the call center from analog to a digital interface that is smartphone-friendly and allows operators to communicate with callers via live video. For more information, please visit the AWS Cloud for Justice and Public Safety homepage , contact your AWS account manager, or reach out to the AWS Public Sector team.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JULY 18, 2023

Blackbaud Raiser’s Edge NXT® is a leading customer relationship management (CRM) software used by nonprofits to communicate with donors and drive fundraising programs. With improved data insights, nonprofits can personalize communications with constituents, strengthen donor relationships, enhance operational efficiencies, and more.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

DECEMBER 15, 2022

With this mental model in mind, here are the three steps to implement it in practice, starting with an existing asset: your incident management runbook. Collaborate with right teams – Use chat channels to streamline communication during incidents. 1) Place current incident management runbook as documents in AWS Systems Manager.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JUNE 24, 2024

The Canadian government’s Information and Communications Technology Council (ICTC) program Beyond the Cloud trains people and upskills employees for essential roles such as cloud architects, engineers, and administrators. This helps leaders to make adjustments to keep activity on track.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

For the UI layer, the platform has a UI component that communicates and integrates with the other systems (e.g., To communicate with the platform, an interface layer uses private API Gateways to allow internal platforms, such as a protected data lake, to move the curated datasets to the raw bucket.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Public safety agencies are deploying reliable and responsive applications for communication, resource allocation, and coordination—all essential in times of emergencies and disasters. Blueprints also helps you implement the relevant security controls needed to operate workloads from multiple teams in the same cluster.

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