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How State and Local IT Agencies Can Best Prepare for Natural Disasters

State Tech Magazine

The National Centers for Environmental Information recently released the final update to its 2022 Billion-Dollar Weather and Climate Disasters report. Last year tied 2017 and 2011 for the third-highest number of billion-dollar disasters in the U.S., with the cost of 18 weather events totaling more than $175 billion.

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How America’s Airports Defend Against Cyberthreats

State Tech Magazine

In 2017, the widely used Saber booking platform was hacked, leading to the crash of reservations for 20 airlines. The breach included the loss of customers’ credit card data and personal information. No one expects it to stay that way. Recent incursions have focused on airline reservation systems.

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Mapping the Cyber Threat Landscape

GovLoop

In February 2023, for example, the Defense Department’s inspector general found that “DoD personnel are downloading mobile applications to their DoD mobile devices that could pose operational and cybersecurity risks to DoD information and information systems.” 25, the day after Russian invaded Ukraine, Texas Gov.

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Digital ad screens in NYC Subway stations display weekend service closure maps

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Previously, NYC Subway used posters to present this information, which had to be printed and put up. For example, at night, the display of a digital bus system map could be limited to the night time bus route network. This is another example of the positive opportunities offered by digital display screens for transit system maps.

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Nurturing the Delaware Innovation Space

First State Insights

Topics covered include the 2017 creation of the Innovation Space at the DuPont Experimental Station; aspirations for and early successes resulting from the Delaware Innovation Space; and how the ongoing dynamics of government, industry, and higher education collaborations set the tone for innovation ecosystems in Delaware and elsewhere.

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Disaster response and risk management using PNNL’s Aether framework on AWS

AWS Public Sector Blog

Comprehensive knowledge of critical infrastructure and real-time updates to assets and critical end-use loads drives the need for an agile data model capable of integrating disparate data types and maintaining an evergreen information baseline.

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UC Davis, VALID AI and Google Cloud collaborate to overcome SDOH Challenges with generative AI

Google Public Sector

Extracting SDOH information from Electronic Medical Records (EMR) presents significant challenges because data represented in the medical record is often unstructured. Google Cloud’s support of the SDOH Challenge is just the latest in a long standing collaboration with the University of California, which dates back to 2017.

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