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US government agencies can communicate, collaborate securely with AWS Wickr

AWS Public Sector Blog

In fact, instant messaging has become the preferred form of internal workplace communications, including email, according to Gartner’s 2022 Channel Benchmark and other research studies. Consumer-grade platforms are not built to meet the security, privacy, or data retention requirements of the US government, and they pose a significant risk.

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4 Strategies for Attracting and Retaining Software Development Talent

GovLoop

With the unemployment rate for software developers at a near-record low, government agencies find themselves competing with the private sector for sought-after tech talent. It’s where popular programming languages and tools that make it easier for developers to create code and produce high-quality work are born.

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Booz Allen speeds migration and reduces costs for a US government agency with the AWS Migration Acceleration Program (MAP)

AWS Public Sector Blog

Moving sensitive US government data to the cloud requires the meticulous application of a proven migration methodology, skilled resources, a robust solution, and a mature logistics model. Booz Allen launched the project in Spring 2022. This was the first time the government agency and Booz Allen used MAP.

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I wonder if Mayor Fenty hadn't dissolved the Anacostia Waterfront Initiative in 2007, merging it into another city agency, if development would have happened faster?

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

The Washington Post reports on a press conference in Anacostia, the most economically lagging area in DC, where the Mayor discussed improvements in the area, in association with a new building for the Department of Housing and Community Development, which was already there, in a not so old building (" After decades of disinvestment, D.C.’s

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Improving software security in the public sector

Open Access Government - Technology News

Cybersecurity has been at the top of the government agenda for a few years already. The UK government is a good example of a state actor recognising the need for imminent action in its cybersecurity. The UK government is a good example of a state actor recognising the need for imminent action in its cybersecurity.

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Mapping the Cyber Threat Landscape

GovLoop

A High-Level View According to the 2022 (ISC)2 Cybersecurity Workforce Study, the global cyber workforce has reached 4.7 As Fortune points out, these shortages are good news for cyber wages — and bad news for government agencies competing for talent. 20, 2022, with the Russian invasion of Ukraine seen as imminent, New York Gov.

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Automate document processing with Document AI for government

Google Public Sector

The Challenge Many government agencies remained overwhelmed with paper, even as the pandemic drove digitization and modernization. As a result, government agencies continue to look for better ways to streamline manual processes that overwhelm their workers and take focus from higher value initiatives.