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Google Public Sector and Battelle NEON expand data access to advance ecological research

Google Public Sector

Operated by applied science and technology development company Battelle since 2016, NEON was designed and fully funded by the U.S. To address these challenges and to further its mission, Battelle NEON collaborated with Google Public Sector to deploy their data on Google Cloud Storage and Compute Engine.

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34 new or updated datasets on the Registry of Open Data: New data for land use, Alzheimer’s Disease, and more

AWS Public Sector Blog

10m Annual Land Use Land Cover (9-class) is a global map of land use/land cover (LULC) derived from the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Sentinel-2 satellite imagery at 10m resolution for the years 2017-2021. Climate and weather: A Global Drought and Flood Catalogue from 1950 to 2016 from National University of Singapore.

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Accelerating economic research at UBC with high performance computing using RONIN and AWS

AWS Public Sector Blog

When Leyton-Brown and Newman began research into the computationally complex auction theory behind the 2016 United States wireless spectrum auction, their ML models required significantly more computing power than their on-premises infrastructure could provide.

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Building resilience: Using technology to prepare for, respond to, and recover from the unexpected

AWS Public Sector Blog

After a similar experience in Mexico in 2016, I wanted to find a way to help developing countries implement affordable solutions to help predict and prepare for earthquakes, which is why I founded Grillo.”. Looking ahead: Holistic disaster response for the public sector. At the time, some 300,000 people were injured , and 1.5

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Why Washington County, Wis. Chose to Pursue Priority Based Budgeting

PBB Center for Priority Based Budgeting

Regionalization of services and public-private partnership (“P3’s”) are among the greatest sources of opportunity for PBB communities (at the 2016 PBB Conference, the PBB data-mine demonstrated $409million in opportunities among PBB communities alone in 2016). About 100 public-sector organizations in the U.S.

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Microsoft Collaboration Framework for the US Defense Industrial Base

Microsoft Public Sector

However, not all the features have been available to organizations that deploy into the US Sovereign Cloud when introduced in 2016. For example, in late 2017, Hurricane Harvey wreaked havoc across Texas. The US Sovereign cloud was designed to protect US Government data from ending up in foreign adversary hands.