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Don’t Migrate to the Cloud Without Running Automated Application Assessments

FedTech Magazine

A 2019 Office of Management and Budget governmentwide analysis of app maintenance found that 10 particularly large apps required about $340 million annually to remain operational. Agencies that attempt a simple lift and shift may find themselves moving apps back on-premises, due to a lack of performance improvements or cost savings.

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Why another shutdown would be bad for the U.S. military

Partnership for Public Service

25, 2019—shows that when our government closes up shop, both the economy and the ability of agencies to serve the public suffers. During the 2018-2019 shutdown, 42,000 members of the Coast Guard worked without pay —a first for active-duty service members—because the Department of Homeland Security’s appropriation lapsed.

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Master planning for solid waste | Creating a VV equivalent for solid waste management and service operating at the metropolitan scale

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

In transportation, it means that private parking resources are usually not addressed in parking planning (" Testimony on parking policy in DC ," 2012), private sector operators aren't addressed in planning for various modes. In solid waste, it means that the agency only plans wrt residential waste pickup for houses of 1-4 units.

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Building a statewide rail passenger program for Ilinois

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

I have written about how Pennsylvania with SEPTA, Massachusetts with MBTA, and Maryland with MARC (" A "Transformational Projects Action Plan" for a statewide passenger railroad program in Maryland ," 2019) could use their regional railroad commuter systems as the foundation to develop statewide railroad passenger programs.

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Community radio as an element of local cultural planning

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

million, and evidently that was too much, and the station wasn't able to successfully compete for donations for operations as well as loan payments, as they faced KUER-FM, the NPR affiliate owned by the University of Utah. Also see " A comprehensive list of funding sources for arts and culture ," 2019. But for $3.5

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Google Public Sector announces Board of Directors

Google Public Sector

military sensors, platforms, commanders, and operators in order to increase battle readiness and responsiveness. He most recently served as the 11th Commander of United States Special Operations Command, where he led the coordinated efforts of the special operations forces across all military branches. AmeriCares, and others.

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

Partnership for Public Service

These stopgap measures hinder innovations in technology, operations and staffing that our government needs to deliver services more effectively, forcing agencies to live with a fiscal uncertainty that prevents them from making long-term, strategic decisions. Shutdowns are bad for the public and federal employees.