Government Technology Insider

DECEMBER 11, 2024

The bipartisan legislation, currently making its way through Congress, aims to reauthorize and strengthen the Technology Modernization Fund (TMF), which has enabled agencies to modernize legacy systems , enhance cybersecurity and improve service delivery to citizens, through 2031.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

MAY 17, 2023

When disaster strikes, you will likely be running low on budget, time, and people. In addition to the partner’s technical or consulting competencies, consider your historical context and legislative restrictions. Resources are constrained in crisis Prioritize what needs to be saved first or fastest.

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GovLoop

APRIL 18, 2024

For example, a system upgrade can slow employees’ computers if they’re dated and need reconfiguring and budget constraints have prevented an agency from replacing older equipment. What is Change Management? 6 Steps to Success But great rewards are possible with effective change management.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JULY 31, 2024

Key topics covered include addressing concerns around data sovereignty, security, lock-in risks and budget control while highlighting AWS capabilities and commitments in these areas. Additionally, the post discusses presence of and investments by AWS in Canada that facilitate partnerships in the national interest.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

MARCH 4, 2024

4 For those who have closely followed the housing finance industry for a long time, this should evoke memories of the efforts to reform Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac (F&F) in the years before the Great Financial Crisis (GFC), and how their management teams also responded so aggressively to counter them. the legislation establishing them).

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GovLoop

APRIL 22, 2024

GAO, in a 2023 report about the Internal Revenue Service’s modernization efforts, describes it this way: “In an era of constrained budgets, the high costs of maintaining legacy systems could limit an agency’s ability to modernize and develop new or replacement systems.” This is called technical debt.

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Partnership for Public Service

MARCH 22, 2023

Read our blog posts, “ Seating third parties at the risk table “ and “ How agencies can use enterprise risk management to implement new legislation ,” for recaps of the previous two working sessions in this series. Integrate the Statement of Assurance process with risk management. Align with the agency’s larger strategy.

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Andy Feldman's Gov Innovator podcast

JULY 22, 2016

in terms of evidence-based policymaking and budgeting. That includes: A requirement from the Governor’s budget office that agencies seeking new funding provide evidence of program efficiency and effectiveness and, for new programs, describe their program evaluation strategy. Utah is one of the top states in the U.S.

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Microsoft Public Sector

AUGUST 11, 2022

Budgets and personnel resources are not easy to come by for mitigation efforts; thus, one avenue worth exploring is simplification and unification of data governance. The service scans for necessary patches, poorly configured settings, excessive permissions for users, and other baseline management functions.

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GovLoop

OCTOBER 11, 2022

For Bill Zielinski, CIO for the city of Dallas, the impact of the federal budget process on the ability of an organization to deliver services was most confounding. Not only are there priorities that are set, but legislative initiatives [can] reshape what [an agency] does.” Are we going to have fewer people?”. The acronyms!”

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Super Library Marketing

AUGUST 15, 2022

And they share that data to prove their value to their community, donors, legislators, and whoever controls their budget. They can justify more budget for things you need to reach your audience. Leslie Marinelli is Communications Manager at Forsyth County Public Library. They’ve used those numbers to win awards.

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Partnership for Public Service

OCTOBER 4, 2023

However, Congress has yet again missed the deadline to pass any of the spending bills that set the overall annual budget for most federal agencies and determine which new or existing programs get funded. This nearly resulted in a government shutdown, which would have harmed the public, our economy and federal employees.

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Barrett & Greene

JANUARY 29, 2024

A notable one is an element of New York City legislation called the “How Many Stops Act”, which would require New York police officers to report on every single police street stop and investigative encounter, including demographic information about the person stopped and the reason for the encounter. But there are exceptions.

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Policy Chats

JUNE 4, 2021

Finlayson joined OGE in 2006, initially serving in roles related to OGE’s legislative affairs and budget programs. Finlayson was honored to be selected as a Brookings LEGIS Fellow, through which she served with the Oversight of Government Management Subcommittee of the Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee.

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Policy Chats

JUNE 4, 2021

Finlayson joined OGE in 2006, initially serving in roles related to OGE’s legislative affairs and budget programs. Finlayson was honored to be selected as a Brookings LEGIS Fellow, through which she served with the Oversight of Government Management Subcommittee of the Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee.

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Policy Chats

JUNE 4, 2021

Finlayson joined OGE in 2006, initially serving in roles related to OGE’s legislative affairs and budget programs. Finlayson was honored to be selected as a Brookings LEGIS Fellow, through which she served with the Oversight of Government Management Subcommittee of the Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee.

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GovLoop

AUGUST 4, 2022

Address budgeting silos. We’re typically budgeted by business line, so that provides incentives for focusing on your own organization and line item, rather than thinking horizontally across the department from the [constituents’] perspective,” observed Morton. Overcome These Obstacles. But agencies also need to stick to their mission.

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Partnership for Public Service

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

While agencies play a key role in retaining their employees, Congress has the unique ability to pass legislation and provide oversight to foster retention. Congress should provide effective oversight and pass legislation that allows for workplace flexibility in alignment with mission needs.

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GovLoop

MARCH 21, 2023

Many agencies undertaking transformation initiatives are dealing with common problems: a lack of agility, increasing “surprise” costs, problems with security and compliance, overly complex management issues and an overall lack of collaboration across the IT environment.

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Barrett & Greene

MARCH 8, 2023

Office of Management and Budget require that auditors adhere to Government Auditing Standards, including those standards pertaining to independence. Independence is a foundational requirement and is embedded in professional auditing standards. In addition, Uniform Guidance (2 CFR Part 200) requirements prescribed by the U.S.

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GovLoop

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Imagine a budgeting request. Manage Compliance in Procurement. You need to manage the contract from the request for proposal through renewal or expiration. This is a case for contract lifecycle management, Eldridge said. Contracts may also need to be updated to conform with new legislation or policy.

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Partnership for Public Service

JULY 16, 2024

When Congress passes and the President signs major legislation, federal agencies must translate it into practical action to ensure its goals are realized. We learned from implementors that strong technical assistance programs are key in helping state and local governments, and communities, apply for and manage federal funding.

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Government Technology Insider

AUGUST 6, 2024

As a program serving a diverse group of constituents, UI programs must be able to adapt to changes in constituent demands, changes in legislation, and changes in economic conditions, without requiring a disruptive system overhaul.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

JANUARY 22, 2025

Planners are tasked with considering the future and dealing with it, not trying to prevent change necessarily, but instead working to manage it and mitigate and limit negative effects, in ways that are good for the city in general and neighborhoods specifically, simultaneously. At the same time, there is a different cleavage.

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Open Access Government - Technology News

MAY 30, 2023

In addition, budget constraints make cybersecurity even more of a challenge. However, these remain just guidelines, unsupported by legislation or mandatory regulations. New demands on public sector IT environments require increased cybersecurity maturity.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

MARCH 11, 2024

In response to that growing criticism plus how much has changed in markets, legislation, and regulation during the 90-plus years of the FHLBanks’ existence, its regulator – the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) – announced in 2022 that it would undertake a review of the entire System. billion for fiscal 2024.

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Center for Community Progress

MAY 2, 2023

laughs) I don’t think I’ve fully arrived, yet, but one challenge is the translation jump across state policy, legislation, and even philosophy of approach. When I started out, there was no line-item in the budget for acquiring properties. What have been some of your biggest challenges in running a land bank so far?

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Partnership for Public Service

JANUARY 12, 2023

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. At the Partnership, we bolster how agencies interact with customers by issuing data-driven recommendations, convening customer experience experts and championing legislative reform.

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Open Access Government - Technology News

JULY 22, 2022

At Osirium, we focus on the privilege access management (PAM) space. There have been some big names like Kaysera and SolarWinds who have gone public about how they were attacked and what they managed to recover. I’ve been with the company for just about three and a half years now. to ‘how should I do PAM?’. That may change.

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Participatory Budgeting initiatives. DC recently passed legislation to allow non-citizens to participate in local elections, including running for office. They also have a small grant program for friends of parks groups. I think that's reasonable. Residents who are not citizens still have a stake in local matters.

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Public Policy Blog

AUGUST 1, 2013

The city’s pension boards have accused Emergency Manager Orr’s team of failing to negotiate in good faith over changes to retiree pensions (NPR) which I feel will be the single largest hang-up and possibility for a bailout scenario that Detroit has in order to salvage retiree benefits and incomes.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

AUGUST 31, 2023

The bottom-up approach assumes that the local government or K12 entity will procure, manage, and report on their implementation and security posture at a pre-defined time—not unlike the system many states use today. In a top-down approach , an executive sponsor agency at the state level takes the lead in procuring security control solutions.

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GovLoop

DECEMBER 20, 2024

You need to craft data-driven narratives that connect with the intended audience, whether government officials, legislators or constituents. For many agencies, the challenge is learning to communicate those insights effectively. Its not enough to dig up good data. Five such reports will be available by years end.

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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.

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Barrett & Greene

JULY 25, 2023

To sum up, in the words of Shayne Kavanagh, senior manager of research at GFOA’s Research and Consulting Center, “There is compelling evidence that these things are often not effective.” Increasingly, governments – both in legislative and executive branches – are demanding evidence that new programs work before they fund them.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JANUARY 21, 2025

Were under no illusion that all tribal communities are the same; each, we know, contains its own unique government, tribal council, civic departments and public infrastructure, local policy requirements, and overall views on wider Federal legislation, says Mark McCallister, a Pre-Sales Engineer at Sterling.

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Poverty & Policy

MAY 1, 2017

Trump’s Office of Management and Budget Director made the same point. Rather than again redirecting payroll taxes money from the retirement trust account, thus accelerating its shortfall, we might see one or more of them or some combination on the legislative agenda. And not only they.

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