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Shutdowns and continuing resolutions aren’t the answer of effective government

Partnership for Public Service

This funding typically makes up only approximately one-third of the federal budget, with a majority of spending going toward Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid and mandatory programs that fall outside the purview of annual appropriations. The way forward Several legislative reforms would help put a stop to these troubling developments.

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Find the Right Path to Digital Transformation

GovLoop

Many agencies undertaking transformation initiatives are dealing with common problems: a lack of agility, increasing “surprise” costs, problems with security and compliance, overly complex management issues and an overall lack of collaboration across the IT environment. There isn’t one.

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Green technology: A world of opportunity for better EPC ratings

Open Access Government - Technology News

How can we provide renewable technology solutions to help companies meet the 2050 net zero deadlines and have improved EPC rating legislation? Changes in commercial EPC rating legislation An EPC rating is a document used to indicate a property’s level of energy efficiency. Businesses are provided with a commercial EPC.

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Decision Intelligence: Data Privacy

GovLoop

Government agencies have masses of personally identifiable information (PII), such as Social Security numbers, health records and financial details, at their disposal, and they need effective ways to gather, manage, store and secure it. Congress has considered, but not enacted, broader privacy legislation.

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Manufactured Housing Is a Good Source of Unsubsidized Affordable Housing - Except When It’s Not: Q&A on Eight Key Policy Topics (Part 2)

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

loans secured only by the MH structure, excluding the underlying land); and second, look to the states to override what is characterized as unjustified and unfair zoning and other land use rules that restrict MH structures generally and MH communities (MHCs) more specifically. percent per year.

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USAID uses Amazon Transcribe to publish speeches in minutes

AWS Public Sector Blog

In the past, these speeches, covering topics from pressing national security issues to USAID’s evolving development mission, took a day or more to transcribe and verify manually. In designing the Amazon Transcribe solution, the CloudShape team prioritized security first.