AWS Public Sector Blog

JUNE 1, 2023

Innovating in advance Throughout the year, AWS Disaster Response develops and tests new innovations that utilize cloud technology to enable more efficient disaster response capabilities for our customers and relief organizations. Pictured: A customized AWS Disaster Response Jeep in a field test exercise.

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GovLoop

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

In that vein, a public/private partnership in Orlando has developed a digital twin of the region that can be used to test new transit routes, plan for the effects of climate change or improve disaster response and recovery plans.

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Disaster Zone blog

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

The Twilight Zone and kabuki theater disaster response.

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GCN

MARCH 6, 2023

Conducting a disaster response training program can be costly and time-consuming, but a virtual reality simulation can train multiple employees at once and provide performance assessments.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Disaster response teams can use the cloud to create wildfire detection workflows that automatically deploy rapid notifications to fire incident response teams, so disaster response teams are alerted to the first signs of wildfire formation.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

OCTOBER 13, 2022

AWS also backs researchers through the Network of Earth Observation Laboratories for Disaster Risk Reduction (RedLABOT). RedLABOT was developed in collaboration with NASA Disaster Response Latin America, Esri , and AmeriGeo to address the gaps and challenges in disaster risk reduction in Latin America and the Caribbean.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

To learn more about how AWS helps respond to hurricanes and other global events, read our Hurricane Tech Series blog or check out the AWS Disaster Response page for more information.

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GCN

JUNE 21, 2023

COMMENTARY | Two disaster response experts mapped thousands of FEMA buyouts and found distance and race play a role.

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GCN

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Earthquake prediction technology is still a farfetched idea that, if ever realized, may even complicate disaster response plans.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JUNE 22, 2023

Learn more about disaster response with AWS The AWS Disaster Preparedness and Response Team helps organizations focus on mission-critical functions, while AWS provisions critical data and applications, transports hardware to the base of operations, and implements deployable infrastructure based on customer need.

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First State Insights

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

At DEMA, Erin is the State Public Assistance Officer and the lead coordinator for Individual Assistance programs, and she also acts as the State Voluntary Agency Liaison. Opening and closing music: "I Dunno" by Grapes, used under Creative Commons 3.0

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JUNE 7, 2023

Plus, learn more about getting support from AWS Public Safety and Disaster Response Competency Partners and the Justice and Public Safety Solutions in AWS Marketplace , trusted technology providers, and consulting experts that offer law enforcement, emergency services, and criminal justice agencies a wide variety of cloud-based solutions.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

The United States Agency for International Development ( USAID ) is a federal government agency responsible for extending civilian foreign aid and development assistance, such as for countries that need disaster response and recovery resources, are trying to escape poverty, and are engaging in democratic reforms.

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GovCast

AUGUST 20, 2020

As FEMA maintains an important position for the nation's disaster response efforts, Hutchinson is ensuring its IT capabilities are supporting the agency's data analytics, supply chain, infrastructure and security services during the pandemic and beyond.

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VDEM (Virgina Department of Emergency Management)

MARCH 22, 2023

The Virginia Department of Emergency Management (VDEM) Region 4 team and response partners received the Response Program of the Year award at the 2023 Virginia Emergency Management Symposium (VEMS).

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GovLoop

JUNE 19, 2023

EJI and similar resources can help agencies with disaster response and guide them during normal operations when they’re designing future projects, evaluating risks or speaking with a community.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JUNE 2, 2023

Don’t miss the fully upfitted AWS Disaster Response “rolling lab”—a purpose-built Jeep 4xe Wrangler parked at the L Street Bridge.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Plus, learn more about getting support from AWS Public Safety and Disaster Response Competency Partners and the justice and public safety solutions in AWS Marketplace , trusted technology providers, and consulting experts that offer law enforcement, emergency services, and criminal justice agencies a wide variety of cloud-based solutions.

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Partnership for Public Service

JUNE 7, 2023

As they participated in the program, many participants had to simultaneously support disaster response efforts as part of their job responsibilities. See the big picture and have empathy.

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Google Public Sector

JUNE 7, 2023

HDOT deployed Google Climate Insights for natural resources and Google Climate Insights for infrastructure to gather data that is now used to improve response time to climate disasters, make more accurate predictions, and implement disaster response plans with greater confidence.

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Center for Community Progress

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Natural Disaster Response and Mitigation: No expenditure limits. If your community plans to engage in activities under the expanded CDBG-eligible use category, work closely with your local CDBG compliance officer. What are the expenditure limits? Capital expenditures exceeding $1 million are required to submit a Written Justification.

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Google Public Sector

MARCH 21, 2023

Use Vision AI to optimize natural disaster response, analyze infectious diseases, or detect fraud. Additionally, governments around the world can benefit in the following ways: Analyze and translate sensitive documents containing personal identifiable information (PII) using our optical character recognition (OCR) service.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Customers use this space data for initiatives like global climate monitoring, wildlife protection, disaster response, food security, and broadband accessibility. At AWS, we help customers innovate and reimagine how they use space data today to make life on Earth better.

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Google Public Sector

JUNE 23, 2022

With these data-driven insights, public sector agencies and researchers can improve their response time to climate disasters, make more accurate predictions, and implement disaster-response plans with greater confidence.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Also scope out the AWS Disaster Response Rolling Lab at the Caesars Forum Plaza. Be sure to pick up the official re:Invent SWAG in person, check out the Public Sector Pavilion in the Expo to meet AWS Partners and experts, and join bootcamps to deepen your confidence with AWS services and prep for AWS Certification.

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Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

FEBRUARY 21, 2021

Let us replace major incident by 'major emergency' and 'disaster'. Where emergency and disaster responses are overcentralised, they fail. Let us replace doctrine by 'plans' and 'procedures'. Let us modernise the culture of civil protection.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

JULY 8, 2022

Amazon SageMaker Ground Truth can generate labeled synthetic data on your behalf so that you can use synthetic data with real-world data to train ML models across a wide range of computer vision use cases, including edge cases that might be difficult to find and replicate in real-world data, like disaster response scenarios.

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Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

The year 1980 was something of a watershed in the field of disaster risk reduction (or disaster management as it was then known). The incessant, cumulative hammer-blow effect of disasters of all kinds on modern society had begun to stimulate a consistent demand for greater safety and security.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

APRIL 14, 2023

It is highly relevant for organizations such as the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT), which depends on timely and updated OSM data to support their global humanitarian and disaster response mapping charters, as well as organizations that provide value-added services and maps built from OSM data.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Natural disasters are devastating, often resulting in loss of life and massive property damage. This is a guest post by Tommy Alderman, partner at TailorBuilt Solutions, LLC.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2022

A changing climate is impacting the risks facing American properties, communities, and businesses as perils like flood, fire, heat, and drought become more common and more severe.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Citizens expect governments to continue to operate despite floods or heat waves endangering data centers, malicious actions taken against IT infrastructure, or power grid failures.

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Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

JUNE 9, 2019

Another reason is that disaster response has undergone a long-drawn-out process of civilianisation. The principal answer is that we would be biting off more than we can chew. The need to include military strategy and the strategic politics of defence in our studies would unbalance them.

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Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

JUNE 2, 2023

Hurricanes. Earthquakes. Ice storms. Infectious disease outbreaks. Industrial accidents. Chemical spills. Structural collapse. Transportation accidents. Grid failure. Water contamination. Large-scale layoffs. Factory closures. Hyperinflation. Civil unrest. Mob violence. Mass shootings.

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AWS Public Sector Blog

OCTOBER 13, 2022

The AWS Open Data Sponsorship Program makes high-value, cloud-optimized datasets publicly available on Amazon Web Services (AWS).

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Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

AUGUST 19, 2023

But the failures with FEMA and disaster response after Hurricane Katrina and under Trump with Puerto Rico and Houston are a good example. But I don't know if the failure of the Army Corps of Engineers and levees was about capital shallowing or just politics, failure to adequately address risk, budget shortfalls, etc.

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