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The Future Is Customer-Centered

GovLoop

Agencies had their rules, and constituents had to navigate them to get the services they needed. Barbara Morton, the VA’s deputy chief veterans experience officer, who joined the office in 2016, has been a leader in that change. I wish I’d known back in 2016 that there were others like me. The Vision.

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How Livingston Parish prepares for natural disasters by improving resiliency in the cloud

AWS Public Sector Blog

After a major flood in 2016 knocked out their 911 system, they decided to use the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud to become resilient against disaster, reducing service interruptions and improving response times. Do you have any questions about how to use AWS or AWS Partners to support your teams and constituents? Connect with us.

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Rethinking how to hire and retain cloud talent in the public sector

AWS Public Sector Blog

In the 2021 Global Knowledge IT Skills and Salary Report , one of the largest studies of industry salaries, certifications, and skills, 76% of IT decision-makers reported an IT skills gap, up from 31% in 2016. So how can public sector organizations help address this skills gap? I think there’s two aspects to [digital equity].

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FEDERAL TORTS CLAIMS ACT: Feres Doctrine Cracked? Opening of Pandora's Box or Further Encasement in Stone?

NLRG (National Legal Research Group)

2019) (marine private fell to his death over a stairwell during basic training at Parris Island, South Carolina, in 2016). However, Congress could also act again in a future NDAA, with enough pressure from constituents. App'x 484 (6th Cir.

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Current GSE Guarantee Fees Are Too Low to Be Consistent with Regulatory Capital: Does This Mean a Large Increase Is Coming?

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

trillion in 2016, which at the time was almost twice the size of the Federal Reserve’s balance sheet and became the largest source of GSE profits. In this case, that means that primary market lenders, a very important constituency in the U.S. The two portfolios together peaked at over $1.5

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The Social Media President – @POTUS final #SOTU

Public Policy Blog

The Chief Digital Officer Jason Goldman for the Obama administration published to his Medium account “[the] American people will see a multi-platform streaming and social broadcast of the State of the Union that reflects the ways people experience live events in 2016. We’ll be reaching people where they are?—?and No small feat.