GovLoop

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

The concept of digital twins, which has been around for years, is gaining traction as agencies gather better data and vendors develop better tools. Government Accountability Office defines a digital twin as a virtual representation of a physical object, process or system.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

OCTOBER 17, 2022

However, despite having access to new data sources provided by these technologies, 76% of nonprofits still report that they need to develop a data strategy for their organization. During the development of this offering, AWS and Salesforce.org talked to nonprofit customers to understand their challenges and needs.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Part 1 of this two-part blog post series, Unlock third-party data with API driven data pipelines on AWS , outlined considerations for developing API pipelines on Amazon Web Services (AWS) to extract data from third-party SaaS tools with APIs. Note that deploying these resources into your AWS account incurs charges. Select Create.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JANUARY 25, 2024

In one case, a messaging app with more than 40 million customers notified users that their accounts were potentially revealed to hackers who breached one of their gateway providers. The best part is that it is easy to use, convenient for personnel and teams, and simple to access and download.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Successful EdTechs balance innovation (for example, new features or technology, like generative artificial intelligence (AI) ) with managing costs – both of product development and of operating costs for customer environments. Use the preceding inputs to refine and develop your forecasting model. Enhance your forecasting model.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

MAY 1, 2023

Many of these formats were designed in a pre-cloud world for users to download whole files for analysis on a local machine. As the complexity and size of geospatial datasets continue to grow, it is more time- and cost-efficient to leave the files in one place, virtually query the data, and download only the subset that is needed locally.

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GovLoop

JANUARY 30, 2024

Just behind that, at 70%, was having access to professional development and career planning. Onboarding and Daily Work We also asked respondents about their hiring, onboarding, daily work and professional development or career-planning experiences. Here’s a summary of the survey results.

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zencity

JULY 12, 2023

If you have an existing Instagram account, your username is reserved for you, but if you don’t, get on it sooner rather than later. To do this, either download Threads from your app store OR go to your Instagram account and find Threads in the ‘three lines’ menu on your profile to get started. Develop a basic Threads strategy.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

APRIL 14, 2023

This is guest post written by Jennings Anderson, research scientist at Meta, with Mike Jeffe, a technical business development manager on the Open Data Team at Amazon Web Services (AWS). However, not every contribution is compatible with the specific use cases of some companies, which is why the maps team at Meta developed Daylight Map.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

MARCH 1, 2023

Solution overview: Setting up Lightsail for Research with RStudio In this walkthrough, we use RStudio, a popular data analysis and machine learning (ML) integrated development environment, to analyze global weather data using the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) Global Surface Summary of the Day dataset.

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Peak Proposals

JUNE 1, 2023

Before we discuss each tool, we want to give a quick overview of what a reference manager is and why you may want to add one to your proposal development toolbox. There’s also something called the Mendeley Web Importer that allows you to import references into your Mendeley account as you browse the web. What Is a Reference Manager?

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GovLoop

OCTOBER 30, 2024

With that in mind, DHS developed the Unified Cybersecurity Maturity Model (UCMM), a framework that “allows us to tie the investment dollars to the cybersecurity of a [high-priority] program and its component systems,” Baidwan said. ” To learn more about how agencies are improving their cybersecurity skills, download it here.

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GovLoop

MAY 5, 2023

Although system intrusion, usually by well-organized cybercrime networks or state actors, has become much more frequent in the past two years, mistakes such as falling for a phishing attack, misconfiguring resources, sending data to the wrong recipient and losing devices account for most employee-caused breaches. And finally, make it fun.

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GovLoop

MAY 25, 2023

In February 2023, for example, the Defense Department’s inspector general found that “DoD personnel are downloading mobile applications to their DoD mobile devices that could pose operational and cybersecurity risks to DoD information and information systems.” But recent media reports suggest the deadline might be elusive.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JANUARY 31, 2024

Prerequisites For this solution, make sure you have completed the following prerequisites: Access to an AWS account with appropriate permissions to access below services using the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) role. Download the transportation dataset to your local machine. Access to an Amazon SageMaker Canvas subscription.

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GovLoop

JUNE 30, 2023

A Government Accountability Office report issued in June 2021 noted that most of the federal government’s $100 billion fiscal year spending on IT went to maintaining and operating existing technology, including old, unsupported systems with known vulnerabilities. Get the report Favorite

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GovLoop

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

Sterling Thomas, Chief Scientist at the Government Accountability Office (GAO) and a trained geneticist, first used quantum computers about five years ago to explore how the technology might accelerate computations of things such as genetic mutations. I think it’s just a matter of us developing technology that is safe within this new realm.

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Open Access Government - Technology News

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

97% of people around the globe cannot identify a phishing email, and 74% would download a potentially malicious file because they lack the cybersecurity awareness to spot and prevent it. Phishing emails sent to these accounts can be extremely convincing. These attacks are easily preventable. What are the types of attacks? DDoS Attack.

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Peak Proposals

MARCH 23, 2022

We published a short post several years ago about developing a style sheet and what types of information to include. In practice, this means that staff and teams within an organization might be able to access a style guide developed in Word and easily update it. The template is in the form of a PDF download.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

IT professionals develop a list of needed equipment and get a cost estimate for that equipment. A contract—typically in the form of a purchase order—is issued, the equipment is ordered and shipped, and once the IT department confirmed receipt, the invoice is paid by accounts payable. With cloud, the model is different. Vendor Insights.

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GovLoop

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Building our own case management system will provide more transparency, more accountability, and more access and a cheaper cost,” said Holthoff, who has worked in court IT for 30 years. “No He also sought to create an organization that was more team-based than hierarchical to allow experienced staff to develop solutions and lead.

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GovLoop

MAY 8, 2023

In fact, according to one estimate per the Government Accountability Office, the federal government made nearly $281 billion in erroneous payments in fiscal 2021 that it cannot retrieve. For more about how agencies are using data in practical ways, download the guide here: Get the guide Image by Yan Wong from Pixabay Favorite

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

APRIL 3, 2025

Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to calculate success rates for housing choice voucher recipients. In fact, PHAs typically spend the entirety of their voucher funds by basing the number of vouchers they can issue to account for the estimated share of recipients who won’t successfully use their vouchers.

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Microsoft Public Sector

MAY 31, 2024

If you need help building out your knowledge management chatbot reach out to your Microsoft Account Team and/or Microsoft Partner to help get started. Since the DIB uses Microsoft’s GCCH platform, we will share how to build this in GCCH.

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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). That’s proving to be a costly assumption as those systems remain in place.

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Peak Proposals

APRIL 3, 2023

Unless the proposal requires a very simple budget that must be embedded into the narrative as a small table, it works best to develop the budget in Excel or a similar spreadsheet tool, such as Google Sheets. Either way, a poorly developed budget affects the project’s implementation.

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GovLoop

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Nearly 76% of senior federal executives are white, nearly 12% are Black and barely 5% are Hispanic, although Hispanics account for almost 19% of the total population. For more insights from the C-suite, download it here: Get the guide Image by Gerd Altmann from Pixabay Favorite population. But senior ranks are a different matter.

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GovLoop

JANUARY 13, 2023

Taka Ariga, the Government Accountability Office’s (GAO) Chief Data Scientist and Director of its Innovation Lab, has many thoughts on these topics. For example, a person must understand a dataset in order to develop a narrative around it that makes the information more digestible to a broader audience. “If Get the guide. Favorite.

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Peak Proposals

MARCH 23, 2022

We published a short post several years ago about developing a style sheet and what types of information to include. In practice, this means that staff and teams within an organization might be able to access a style guide developed in Word and easily update it. The template is in the form of a PDF download.

Housing 130

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Government Technology Insider

MAY 16, 2024

When state and local agencies dive into the world of application development, they’re not merely coding – they’re crafting constituent experiences. Low code training empowers employees without a background in development to help test and deploy applications while saving time and money.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

APRIL 12, 2023

You can use the AWS CloudFormation templates to provision any of these pipelines in your own AWS account, connecting your data sources to the entry point. To deploy this solution in your own AWS account, select “ Create stack (with new resources) ” in the CloudFormation console.

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GovLoop

DECEMBER 20, 2022

When it comes to making sure your employees understand their part to play, continual meetings with each employee should occur throughout the year to outline what’s expected of them, with a back-and-forth dialogue so everyone has accountability and can participate in their own development. Favorite.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JULY 31, 2024

Granular personalization also becomes achievable – AI algorithms can develop customized health alerts by assessing lifestyle factors of individuals. Public sector workers can use the AWS Artifact service to download the latest Canadian Centre for Cyber Security (CCCS) assessment summary report for AWS. The AWS Cloud is 3.6 What’s next?

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Government Technology Insider

OCTOBER 22, 2024

I also introduced a revolutionary framework called Results-Based Accountability (RBA), which offers organizations a practical roadmap to improve societal outcomes by aligning their efforts with shared results and specific, data-driven indicators. If they have never had to do it, why change?

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AWS Public Sector Blog

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Cloud technologies can help government agencies develop a seamless solution, accessible via smartphones, through which citizens can take a picture of an issue like damaged public property on a mobile website and then route the appropriate identifying information and location data to the right government officials that can solve the issue.

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GovLoop

JANUARY 9, 2024

Building our own case management system will provide more transparency, more accountability, and more access and a cheaper cost,” said Holthoff, who has worked in court IT for 30 years. “No He also sought to create an organization that was more team-based than hierarchical to allow experienced staff to develop solutions and lead.

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GovLoop

MAY 1, 2024

Since then, agencies including the Department of Defense (DoD) have developed their own policies to implement those goals. Collective data stewardship Ensure accountability throughout the data life cycle. In 2024, agencies will need to get their data in shape to make the most of it. Here are ways to carry out each principle.

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