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AN OPEN LETTER TO ELECTED OFFICIALS

Barrett & Greene

Good day, Last week we were talking to an inquisitive person who is rising in the local public sector world. The conversation turned to performance management (one of our favorite topics) and the question was posed to us: “What do you think are the biggest impediments to more widespread use of that discipline?

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21 August 2017 | Partisan Alignment and Delegation to the U.S. Bureaucracy, By Christine Palus & Susan Webb Yackee*

PMRA (Public Management Research Association)

As we all know, the legal authority of public bureaucrats to make decisions resides in the delegation of discretion from elected legislators and executives, such as the president or state governors, to administrative agents.

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USAID uses Amazon Transcribe to publish speeches in minutes

AWS Public Sector Blog

The AWS Cloud environment and USAID’s integrated cloud platform support compliance requirements for the Privacy Act, the Freedom of Information Security Management Act ( FISMA ), the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program ( FedRAMP ), the Federal Records Act, the Trade Secrets Act, and the Rehabilitation Act.