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The Naval Surface Warfare Center Dalhgren Division, like other defense units, seeks to bring new industrial capabilities quickly to benefit the mission. Now it has entered into a new other-transaction-agreement, or OTA, to do just that. OTAs in the right circumstances let agencies speed up acquisitions, often non-competitive ones.
NASA is looking at edge computing as a means to increase autonomy on the International Space Station, in preparation for missions headed further from Earth.
Erv Koehler, the assistant commissioner of the Office of General Supplies and Services in the Federal Acquisition Service at GSA, said upgrades to the pricing tool, the catalog and a pilot around creating a market basket will help improve the schedules program.
Frank Indiviglio, NOAA’s deputy director for High Performance Computing & Communications (HPCC), said conversations are happening about how NOAA can containerize its climate models in order to push the models themselves out to the public to understand, build upon and tweak.
In today's Federal Newscast, the National Institute of Standards and Technology has new guidance for federal agencies that need to reduce privacy risks in giant sets of data.
A late 19th century law called the Chinese Exclusion Act put a 10-year ban on Chinese laborers immigrating to the United States. Subsequent laws limited Chinese immigration until Congress condemned the Exclusion Act in 2012.
Software supply chair risk management isn’t just for DoD and the Intelligence Community anymore. Get a primer on implementing SCRM from CISA’s Bob Costello, OMB’s Chris DeRusha and State’s Zetra Batiste.
The Joint Financial Management Improvement Program (JFMIP) released a new payment integrity report and simulation tool to help agencies think differently about how to combat improper payments.
The chief of diversity, equity, inclusion and accessibility for the intelligence community is focused on hard data and changing culture.
Capt. Kathleen Powell, the force data officer for the Navy Reserve, said the Department of Navy’s data and analytics platform called Jupiter is helping leaders understand and use the data to drive decisions.
The Army wants industry to help it change the way it structures its data. A newly-released request for information is a key first step in building a federated, decentralized model the Army calls the Unified Data Reference Architecture.
Agencies are also considering new FOIA tools that leverage automation and machine learning, while a "FOIA wizard" is in the works.
Understanding what matters most to your citizens will put you in a better position to deliver the most value to them.
Through more intensely looking at data, Labor finds its can “identify things you might not have caught previously,” which can help drive changes in services and programs, CDO Scott Gibbons says.
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