AWS Public Sector Blog

OCTOBER 9, 2024

To better support its clients, Acentra Health implemented an intelligent document processing (IDP) solution using AWS services. In this post, learn how Acentra Health’s IDP solution reduced document processing times by more than 50 percent and lowered document processing costs by 40 percent.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JULY 31, 2024

This is often attributed to configuration management, total asset inventory, compliance with agency third-party security tools, and agency authorization documentation. The key to ensuring security and compliance is ensuring proper documentation and securing the baseline template utilized.

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NLC (National League of Cities)

MARCH 4, 2024

Three years after its passage, the impact of the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) on America’s cities, towns and villages cannot be overstated. APRA’s State and Local Fiscal Recovery Fund (SLFRF) provided integral relief for local governments to navigate the COVID-19 pandemic and ensure stability for communities moving forward.

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Peak Proposals

DECEMBER 3, 2022

One of the reasons why USG funding opportunities are so daunting is that you usually need to consult multiple documents located across the funding agency’s website (and sometimes, several websites) to understand how to prepare and submit your application. These are the primary documents we typically consult during an NSF proposal process.

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Peak Proposals

DECEMBER 3, 2022

One of the reasons why USG funding opportunities are so daunting is that you usually need to consult multiple documents located across the funding agency’s website (and sometimes, several websites) to understand how to prepare and submit your application. These are the primary documents we typically consult during an NSF proposal process.

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State Tech Magazine

OCTOBER 14, 2024

Large language models, or LLMs, underpin that state and local governments are looking to achieve with artificial intelligence. While these powerful models help bring generative AI to life, they need to be handled with care to ensure privacy and security, among other considerations.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

Amazon Textract is a machine learning (ML) service that automatically extracts text, handwriting, layout elements, and data from scanned documents. Once Amazon Textract completes its analysis, you can request the extracted text and document structure information using the GetDocumentTextDetection API.

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State Tech Magazine

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

Artificial intelligence is slowly but surely making its way into state and local government operations. Many decision-makers remain concerned about a lack of comprehensive high-level policies governing AI's use, and others have a general sense of unpreparedness to integrate AI into existing workflows.

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FedTech Magazine

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

When items such as personnel records, case files, intelligence documents or travel documents go missing, even for a few minutes, it can cause huge problems for federal employees…

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AWS Public Sector Blog

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Access to key documentation is both a struggle and a necessity for vulnerable and at-risk communities. For the unhoused, being ‘document ready’ is essential to avoid delays or denial of access to benefits and services they need. Without proper documentation, unhoused individuals face overwhelming barriers to stability and opportunity.

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Google Public Sector

APRIL 21, 2023

Government workers and constituents alike are spending exorbitant amounts of time completing and processing documents by hand, which can drive exhaustion and frustration. Document AI for the government empowers organizations to leverage Google machine learning to classify, split, and extract information to speed processing and analysis.

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FedTech Magazine

JUNE 14, 2024

The policies prioritize ethical standards, privacy and innovation through documents that concisely lay out the government’s positions on regulating and using AI in its executive operations.

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FedTech Magazine

AUGUST 7, 2024

Among the major goals listed in the document are recruiting, developing and retaining a talented and diverse workforce across the entirety of the IC. There is strength in diversity; that’s one of the messages delivered in the 2023 National Intelligence Strategy, which provides strategic guidance to the U.S. intelligence community.

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Microsoft Public Sector

MAY 31, 2024

Whether you need to make strategic decisions, solve problems, or answer customer queries, you want to leverage the knowledge that is stored in your documents and databases. In this blog post, we will show you how you can use Azure OpenAI and Cognitive Search to create chat bots that can answer challenging questions from your documents.

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FedTech Magazine

MARCH 19, 2024

Agencies face an uphill battle to scan, convert, tag and secure documents ahead of the National Archives and Records Administration’s deadline for digitizing permanent government records in June.

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NLC (National League of Cities)

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Co-authored by Michelle Lau, Acting Director, San Francisco Financial Justice Project in the Office of the Treasurer & Tax Collector It has been well documented that fines and fees disproportionately burden low-income residents, particularly residents of color.

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State Tech Magazine

JULY 3, 2024

The map documented that citizens often did not understand… But Code for America has found that the petition processes “to clear criminal records in most states is complicated and burdensome.”

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FedTech Magazine

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

Now, the Pentagon is preparing its second version of the document known as the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification 2.0, That’s the thinking behind a lengthy compliance standard the Department of Defense introduced four years ago to ensure that data and meaningful information weren’t slipping into the hands of adversaries.

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McKinsey Public & Social Sector Insights

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Blended and innovative financial solutions, collaboration, clear standard setting, and careful documentation are vital to hasten Asia’s net-zero transformation, says Marisa Drew.

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GovLoop

APRIL 8, 2024

“I’m especially excited about the ability to ask generative AI to answer a question based only on a limited set of documents,” Noveck said. You can feed it with … all the policy documents relating to service X or all the directions relating to how to apply it to service Y, and [it will] provide answers based only on that information.” “The

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State Tech Magazine

MAY 6, 2024

Government employees spend a lot of time writing resolutions and other regulatory documents, but AI could speed up such work for them. “… Speaking Thursday at the Public Technology Institute’s 2024 AI and Cyber Summit in Washington, D.C., Scott Varner, director of IT and management information systems for Frederick County, Va.,

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Google Public Sector

JULY 7, 2023

Their ETH program translates existing service documents. Translating existing documents from English to over 130 different languages used to require a large amount of resources and excessive time and effort for staff to make them fit in the existing format. Forms are already being rolled out in both Spanish and Vietnamese.

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Microsoft Public Sector

JANUARY 22, 2024

Video Flyout: Audio Flyout: What you need to do to prepare: You may consider updating your internal documentation to inform users that the feature is now available for Teams users. What you need to do to prepare: You may consider updating your training and documentation as appropriate.

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FedTech Magazine

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Then you get an alert that someone has commented at the beginning of the document. You’re on a roll in a Google doc with your colleagues, typing away. And you see a profile picture appear, but you don’t recognize it — must be the new guy. Outside the doc, your Slack pings, and it’s a coworker with a suggestion.

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GCN

APRIL 3, 2024

Documents show how federal paperwork delayed the state’s recovery from Hurricane Florence and left low-income renters in the lurch.

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FedTech Magazine

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Techniques for mitigating AI risk remain a small segment of the entire technology market, which is why the AIRC houses NIST’s AI Risk Management Framework and supporting documents authored by the agency and others — as long as they’re in scope.

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Peak Proposals

MARCH 23, 2022

March 23, 2022 Style guides are reference documents that writers and editors use to ensure consistency within and across publications or materials. Additionally, if your reference materials are created as Word documents or PDFs, another challenge is how to point people to the correct files.

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Peak Proposals

MARCH 23, 2022

Style guides are reference documents that writers and editors use to ensure consistency within and across publications or materials. Additionally, if your reference materials are created as Word documents or PDFs, another challenge is how to point people to the correct files. The template is in the form of a PDF download.

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Microsoft Public Sector

APRIL 20, 2023

Microsoft 365 IP and URL Endpoint Updates Documentation - Office 365 IP Address and URL web service March 29, 2023 - GCC March 1, 2023 – GCC High March 1, 2023 - DOD

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Microsoft Public Sector

MAY 24, 2023

Can you reference an any updated documentation or links? Hi @Sergio Cossio and @Paul Meacham , this is a great blog but outdated given the pace of changes in the GCC High environment.

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Microsoft Public Sector

APRIL 4, 2023

Learn more about the Viva Insights app in our documentation. Learn more about the Digest email in our documentation. You’ll soon notice the following: Viva Insights app in Teams – The Viva Insights app will become available through the Teams app store.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Document the necessary steps, including escalation procedures, communication protocols, and the recovery processes. Make sure that teams have access to the documentation, tools, and resources they need to effectively troubleshoot and resolve issues. Continuously improve.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Not all citizens have the same ability to identify and digest the information that’s important to them, so councils have to invest in alternative versions of documents in a format known as Easy Read. An average document of five pages would take two weeks to adapt, and cost £500 ($750).

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FedTech Magazine

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

The need for printed documents is not going away, even as the government debates its property footprint. Yet even as agencies support hybrid and remote workers in many contexts, some constants from before the pandemic remain in place. One is that the federal government still does a lot of printing.

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Microsoft Public Sector

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

While IP comes in many common forms, such as documents and spreadsheets, but images and CAD files pose just as big a risk and are more difficult to protect with traditional security tools. 5 TIPS TO PROTECT CAD FILES IN M365 Protecting CAD files is no different to protecting any other sensitive documents in your care.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Due to a technology called intelligent document processing (IDP), agencies can accomplish their missions faster—even as vacancies mount. IDP automatically captures data from documents and data sources, then quickly analyzes and organizes this information for further processing. Accenture was called in to help speed up the process.

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FedTech Magazine

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

16, the committees are seeking documents and communications between the DOE; the Brookhaven, Argonne and Lawrence Livermore national labs; and any other labs, agencies or contractors affected by the hacking attempts.

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