AWS Public Sector Blog

APRIL 29, 2025

Having worked on DPI initiatives during my tenure at Sri Lankas Information and Communication Technology Agency (ICTA), Ive witnessed first-hand the potential of DPI to address critical national challenges. In 2022, Sri Lanka faced its worst economic crisis since independence. million (out of a total of 8.25

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JANUARY 25, 2024

Driven by the need for convenience, real-time conversations, and anywhere, anytime access, electronic messaging has become a go-to means of communication. In fact, instant messaging has become the preferred form of internal workplace communications, including email, according to Gartner’s 2022 Channel Benchmark and other research studies.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Satellite communications (satcom) serve a wide range of industries such as telecommunications, broadcasting, military, aviation and maritime, and emergency services. Satellite operators provide bandwidth allocation to each of these segments. This walkthrough focuses on a maritime shipping use-case.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

Amazon OpenSearch Service is a managed service that makes it easy to deploy, operate, and scale OpenSearch clusters in the AWS Cloud. This information is indexed later. It also offers speaker diarization for multi-speaker content and automatic content redaction for sensitive information. pptx) files.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

MAY 24, 2024

First responders need secure, uninterrupted communication to help them get oriented quickly and support complex coordination efforts. Combined capabilities ATAK is a geospatial infrastructure and situational awareness application that provides a real time common operating picture of people and assets within a map-based view.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Atlas One Austin, TX Atlas One is revolutionizing public safety communications by crowdsourcing anonymous tips, evidence, and information in local neighborhoods and communities, and automating time-consuming back-office tasks. R3 Score Technologies, Inc. Baltimore, MD R3 Score Technologies, Inc.

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State Tech Magazine

MARCH 20, 2024

For frontline workers serving communities across America, the flow of information is crucial for running efficient operations that can expand and contract as demands dictate. That means being able to integrate data and real-time communications efficiently while staying resilient under even the most challenging circumstances.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Whether on land, in air, or at sea, having connectivity and access to information in the field is critical for the US Department of Defense (DoD). Satellite communications systems provide the DoD with critical capabilities—from delivering satellite imagery to enabling communications—that support military users operating around the globe.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

APRIL 29, 2025

million Americans with visual disabilities face barriers accessing critical government information. Equal access to public communications is both a legal requirement and essential service. AWS enables federal agencies to provide accessible communications through automated document-to-speech conversion.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JANUARY 13, 2025

With authority to operate in the AWS Top Secret cloud , Amazon Bedrock is providing U.S. We are delivering capabilities that will reshape how national security organizations process information, make decisions, and support critical missions. Amazon Bedrock is now generally available in the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Top Secret cloud.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

AUGUST 13, 2023

Since its founding in 1990, Tokyo-based JAMSS has been entrusted with the operation of the Japanese Experiment Module (JEM), known as “Kibo,” onboard ISS. TDRS is a network of geosynchronous (GEO) satellites that provide communication relay links for many missions such as the Hubble Space Telescope and the ISS.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

APRIL 15, 2025

In our previous posts about how public sector organizations can secure their Internet of Things (IoT) deployments, we introduced the AWS IoT family of services in Secure your organizations Internet of Things devices using AWS IoT , and we dove deep into IoT communications with 4 common IoT protocols and their security considerations.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

MARCH 21, 2023

A state government optimized operations with Quantiphi Quantiphi is a technology company that solves problems using AI and data science, and a state government’s department recently had one such problem. At times, the documents were incomprehensible, which could result in incorrect information.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

AUGUST 4, 2023

However, this poses significant problems with information sharing and data storage because microscopy slides are fragile, and the dye used to visualize the cell structure fades over time. Any urgent findings are communicated over the phone with the primary team doctors.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

It also helps push the boundaries of what we believe is possible for satellite operations,” said Max Peterson, AWS vice president, worldwide public sector. AWS is committed to eliminating technical challenges associated with operating in space, including high latency and limited-bandwidth networks. Photo courtesy Unibap. “We

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Partnership for Public Service

JUNE 5, 2024

For high-level federal communicators, the ability to understand and use data to communicate effectively is not just beneficial—it’s essential. Federal communicators play a vital role in delivering accurate and meaningful information to the public, stakeholders and decision-makers.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

OCTOBER 4, 2024

In the US, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) regulates the processing, maintenance, and storage of protected health information. NETCCN delivers remote clinical expertise to the point of need during disasters and on the Multi-Domain Operations (MDO) battlefield.

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American City & Country

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

The data deluge: Challenges of managing and analyzing information In the modern law enforcement landscape, the emergence of real-time crime centers has opened possibilities and presented significant challenges. Navigating the information flood. This ensures ease of maintenance and access to critical information.

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Google Public Sector

MARCH 17, 2025

Gemini streamlines team communications by helping users summarize, draft, and find information in their emails, chats, and files. Enhanced collaboration: AI-powered tools facilitate seamless communication and collaboration within and across government agencies.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

Law enforcement agencies can use this hyper-connected environment to bridge previously isolated data siloes and make better-informed decisions to improve emergency response and citizen services. To address community needs, agencies must consider interoperability. How do you get real-time information together?”

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AWS Public Sector Blog

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Department of Defense (DoD) relies on modern military applications that are data-heavy and depend on low latency to enable critical communications and coordination in the field. Customers also have the option to use satellite communications for network connectivity.

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Microsoft Public Sector

MAY 16, 2023

We are excited to announce our latest update to the Teams Emergency Operations Center , Version 2!

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AWS Public Sector Blog

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

In an age where data is the new currency, organizations are constantly seeking ways to harness the power of information to drive productivity and innovation. Then, a generative component, powered by an LLM, processes the retrieved information and generates a coherent and contextually appropriate response.

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American City & Country

OCTOBER 1, 2024

How would police communicate and coordinate without computers? Before that, officers had to rely solely on radio to relay and receive information. This allows visual sensors to relay real-time information to law enforcement agencies, alerting them to a potential crime in progress and providing video of the incident.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

APRIL 30, 2025

Customers operating in austere Edge environments have unique challenges when it comes to deploying a robust, secure collaboration solution. This capability is a streamlined option for customers operating in edge environments, giving them the ability to deploy a robust communications solution quickly without needing to be a Kubernetes expert.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

APRIL 29, 2025

Customers operating in austere Edge environments have unique challenges when it comes to deploying a robust, secure collaboration solution. This capability is a streamlined option for customers operating in edge environments, giving them the ability to deploy a robust communications solution quickly without needing to be a Kubernetes expert.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

As citizens’ expectations evolve and the need for rapid, accurate information becomes more pronounced, state and local governments seek smarter ways to keep pace. To understand how these technologies work together to enhance information retrieval and generation, let’s examine the process flow of an LLM integrated with RAG.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

OCTOBER 3, 2023

If your organization leverages these cloud services, integrating your VMware workload with natively managed AWS services can help you reduce your operational overhead and optimize your total cost of ownership (TCO). From the on-premise datacenter to the VMware Cloud on AWS SDDC 2.

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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. Additionally, the global hardware shortage in 2022 exacerbated the challenges to meet the tight deadline.

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GovLoop

OCTOBER 30, 2024

As part of the “substantive and technical expertise” competency, Foreign Service employees must develop “the ability to read, understand, create, and communicate data as information” and to identify “the strengths and weaknesses of various approaches based on data-driven analysis, as appropriate.” sponsored U.N.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Data Friendly Space is creating a generative AI-powered virtual assistant for humanitarian staff operating in fast-paced, rapidly changing environments. AWS believes that technology—when leveraged strategically—is a powerful force multiplier in solving social and environmental challenges.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

AUGUST 22, 2022

Wickr RAM is DOD compliant and able to transmit controlled unclassified information (CUI), personal health information (PHI), and personally identifiable information (PII) as defined by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). Air Force Special Operations Command. Wickr collaborated with the U.S.

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Open Access Government - Technology News

APRIL 25, 2025

Data for insights and action: Unlocking the power of information Data is the lifeblood of modern organisations, and the public sector is no exception. This helps the public sector make informed decisions, improve policymaking, allocate resources better, and enhance public services. Needed simplicity.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

OCTOBER 22, 2024

With the Internet of Things (IoT), selecting the right communication protocol ensures efficient data exchange and seamless connectivity between devices and the cloud. For AWS IoT Core, the primary method of securing communication is through the use of X.509 for all communications.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Running containerized on-premises or self-managed workloads involves significant overhead to manage operational resources. AWS container services such as Amazon EKS and Amazon ECS are fully managed container orchestration services that can help deploy containerized workloads at scale while offloading the operational burden to AWS.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Giving patients and their families access to the information they need in ways convenient for them is a key focus for one of the UK’s largest National Health Service (NHS) trusts. The Trust provided important information about patient journeys and operational challenges, and coordinated access to internal stakeholders and systems.

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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. This provides accurate location information and rich data within the call handling platform itself.

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