McKinsey Public & Social Sector Insights

JANUARY 17, 2025

Companies that develop and implement effective management strategies for natural capital can secure lasting advantages through both enhanced resilience and access to nature-related opportunities.

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FedTech Magazine

AUGUST 13, 2024

Money is starting to flow to help agencies implement President Biden’s October 2023 executive order on artificial intelligence. The department will develop generative AI communications, train personnel and modernize processes to integrate the new capabilities seamlessly. In May, the U.S.

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American City & Country

AUGUST 22, 2024

As a certified project management professional (PMP), Aguilar has led large system development, technical infrastructure, and system modernization projects in over a dozen states. He is well-versed in system planning and development efforts for child support enforcement, child welfare, SNAP and TANF programs and Medicaid projects.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

MAY 11, 2023

Learn more about the agile approach for developing government services. In a more traditional strategy, teams may create organizational constructs where everything must be tightly controlled by a centralized team, restricting innovative developments for one team’s needs.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

AUGUST 6, 2024

University students will compete in a tournament-style challenge as either model developer teams or red teams to enhance the AI user experience, prevent misuse, and enable users to build more secure code. Model developer teams will create code-generating models to enhance security, identify threats, and prevent unintended behavior.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

APRIL 15, 2024

Characterizing disaster risk and developing strategies for resilience and response to natural event hazards is core to the mission of the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL). PNNL developed Aether as a reusable framework for sharing data and analytics with sponsors and stakeholders.

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Open Access Government - Technology News

JUNE 25, 2024

Implementing highly secure technology and using robust building management systems (over 60%) is key, particularly as these are highly vulnerable to hacking. Transparent access, open source, and collaboration will be the cornerstone for future development and implementation in this area.

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FedTech Magazine

DECEMBER 21, 2023

The advent of DevOps processes created an entirely new paradigm for application development by integrating the work of software developers and IT operations professionals. While the merger greatly improved the speed and quality of the software development life cycle, DevOps is not without its challenges.

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American City & Country

OCTOBER 24, 2024

To transcend these challenges, we need to follow the examples of several AI-driven solutions available now that have been identified and implemented with promising results. Automated document processing systems, as those implemented in Tarrant County, Texas , and Palm Beach County, Fla.,

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FedTech Magazine

DECEMBER 4, 2023

DevSecOps helps software factories develop and implement new digital capabilities more rapidly. The Air Force’s Platform One, for example, is the first DOD-approved DevSecOps managed service, providing a secure centralized software development and delivery platform, a suite of tools and training.

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State Tech Magazine

JANUARY 23, 2023

A key step in many of those efforts has been the development of formal, statewide broadband expansion plans, often at the behest of state legislatures or as a strategic component of states’ broadband programs. These plans use data and stakeholder input to identify and refine goals, recommend activities and detail implementation strategies.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

APRIL 8, 2024

In response, Amazon Web Services (AWS) helped Educause develop a Higher Education Generative AI Readiness Assessment grounded in responsible use. Educause is a nonprofit membership association committed to advancing the strategic use of technology and data to further the promise of higher education.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JUNE 26, 2024

Credit issuance determinations will be based on a variety of factors, including but not limited to the customer’s experience developing new technology solutions, the maturity of the project idea, evidence of future solution adoption, and the customer’s breadth of generative AI skills.

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NLC (National League of Cities)

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Parking reform encompasses a set of policy changes related to parking mandates, which specify the amount of parking that developers must provide for new or repurposed properties.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JANUARY 6, 2025

Helping government agencies adopt AI and ML technologies Precise works closely with AWS to offer end-to-end cloud services such as enterprise cloud strategy, infrastructure design, cloud-native application development, modern data warehouses and data lakes, AI and ML, cloud migration, and operational support.

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Microsoft Public Sector

OCTOBER 29, 2024

Introduction This white paper explores the philosophy and implementation strategy of the Federal Responsible and Secure Artificial Intelligence (AI) Sandbox, an initiative aimed at promoting responsible and secure AI practices within federal government agencies. Specific sectors have additional regulatory requirements.

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Open Access Government - Technology News

JANUARY 9, 2024

From the early large-scale implementations of virtual agents to alleviate demands on overwhelmed call centres, agencies experienced massive gains in their ability to serve citizens in need. The experiment phase focuses on developing prototypes and assessing their impact.

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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. For example, regardless of project details, you may already know which staff members will be involved in implementing the project.

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McKinsey Public & Social Sector Insights

JUNE 4, 2024

We examined best practices from around the world to identify proven ways to implement e-health successfully. These insights could help other countries unlock their own e-health potential.

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American City & Country

OCTOBER 11, 2024

Implementing robust controls Segregation of duties, management oversight, review and approvals, reconciliations—you have heard these terms repeatedly, but are you designing and implementing these controls effectively to mitigate risks? Are these controls being performed and operating as intended to detect or prevent the risk?

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Open Access Government - Technology News

JANUARY 19, 2023

Leaders concluded that they need to prioritise enhancing system resilience and developing plans to stop ransomware actors in their tracks. CISOs and business leaders must start by implementing a multi-layered security strategy. This involves far more than regular software updates and bug fixes – that is just basic security etiquette.

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Open Access Government - Technology News

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

Developers love open source software, and businesses value the innovation that it supports. The big reason why developers like using open source is that they can get started easier and faster. This speed and agility helps developers work on problems faster. Why is open source at risk? This means money.

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American City & Country

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

The lack of workforce development programs and a shortage of technicians trained to service EVs represent a critical challenge.” Implement fleet management and telematics systems. Focus on workforce development. “Traditional fleet maintenance shops and technicians are predominantly trained and equipped to handle ICE vehicles.

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Microsoft Public Sector

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

To assist in this, Microsoft and CISA will also be providing the Microsoft Expanded Cloud Log Implementation Playbook which will provide an in-depth look at each of the new log events and how they can be used to support hunting and incident response operations at your organization.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

MARCH 4, 2024

Department of Housing and Urban Development. TMF is a call for proposals to help federal agencies implement President Biden’s Executive Order on the safe, secure, and trustworthy development and use of AI in the federal government. Elizabeth Kelly and Michael Greenwald on stage during their fireside chat.

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Open Access Government - Technology News

JUNE 5, 2023

The roundtable focused on three main topics: Investigating the benefits and drawbacks of AI technologies and putting in place the necessary protections for ethical and safe AI implementation. Examining non-regulatory measures to promote development and innovation in the UK’s AI sector.

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American City & Country

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

It also includes the supplemental cost of implementation, training, ongoing support and system maintenance.” Witt says government agencies need to examine and evaluate the entire buying process from purchase to implementation. According to Witt, governments must also consider the total cost of ownership of the new system.

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FedTech Magazine

JUNE 28, 2024

Recent developments in artificial intelligence require federal IT leaders to implement significant change management practices to keep pace while identifying opportunities and threats to their individual missions.

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American City & Country

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

“If a city or county is starting from scratch on their vision or plan for digital transformation , then we recommend identifying a trusted partner who can help guide the development of the vision. For example, how much does the vendor spend on development? Sprague notes that no technology solution is perfect.

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The City Fix

APRIL 13, 2022

I made my first pilgrimage in 2000, when Bogotá was implementing its bus rapid transit system, Transmilenio, and returned twice after that. I recently had the pleasure of re-visiting Curitiba, Brazil, thanks to an invitation from the Smart Cities Expo. Continue reading on TheCityFix.com.

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American City & Country

OCTOBER 8, 2024

Teamwork is essential when cities and counties plan to buy new systems and equipment, says Gary Mitchell , director of SLED (state, local and education) business development at Iron Mountain Government Solutions , a company that provides secure management of data and assets; it works to protect, connect and activate high-value customer data.

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DH Leonard Consulting & Grant Writing Services

MARCH 22, 2024

Dear Experienced Grant Writer: I’ve been developing my grant writing business for about a year and a half. Implementing a structured follow-up protocol further reinforces accountability and helps maintain momentum toward meeting deadlines. You seem like someone who has worked out a solution for this. Thanks so much!

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Peak Proposals

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

The list includes some software tools you can use, but most of the tips are free to implement and only require your time. Microsoft’s built-in grammar and spellchecker tool has gotten increasingly robust and is a good option as well, particularly because it is easy to implement as part of Microsoft Word. Take a break.

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GovLoop

DECEMBER 31, 2024

Our online training line-up in January is full of both personal and professional development, with tips on goal setting, handling changes, enhancing your cybersecurity and more. A new year means a fresh start, and what better way to kick things off than by learning about hot topics in government? Join us online Wednesday, Jan.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Implement robust monitoring and alerting systems for both on premises and AWS environments. Develop comprehensive incident response plans and procedures to handle potential outages or incidents during the holidays. Conduct continuous analysis through threat hunting and monitoring. Prepare for incidents.

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DH Leonard Consulting & Grant Writing Services

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

If you don’t already have a scorecard or dashboard for yourself that helps you track more than the number of grants awarded and/or the dollar amount of the grants awarded, take some time to develop one (basic is great, no need to be flashy!) Go look at the new exhibit at the museum you helped secure a matching grant for.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

AUGUST 6, 2024

We also provide tips for accelerating procurement and maintaining visibility over rapidly implemented workloads. The DHHS took an innovative approach to implement a solution rapidly. The team chose to develop the new Encounter Processing System (EPS) internally and deploy it in the cloud.

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