Disaster Zone blog

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Understand that insurance companies are "for profit.

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State Tech Magazine

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Municipalities generate vast volumes of data, and digitally enabled smart cities go even further. They leverage the Internet of Things to gather information about traffic flows, population trends, water, sanitation and a range of other indicators. What if you could pull all that together to make a virtual model of the whole city, with its many interconnected parts and pieces?

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Disaster Zone blog

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Pets have become family members.

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FedTech Magazine

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

The cybersecurity landscape is more complex for federal agencies than for just about any other sector. Federal IT leaders face security challenges from every direction while having to deal with compliance mandates and protect their widespread operations from the most persistent and sophisticated threats in the world. The truth is that federal agencies bear the burden of an overwhelming security challenge.

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McKinsey Public & Social Sector Insights

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

High long-term demand for recycled content in packaging could lead to shortages of recycled packaging materials. We explore three ways to boost rPET availability in the US market.

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Partnership for Public Service

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

For the past two years, Nicholas di Mauro has worked as an IT cybersecurity specialist in the Office of the Chief Information Officer at the Department of Health and Human Services. He came to this role through the Cybersecurity Talent Initiative , a Partnership for Public Service program that places recent college graduates in two-year fellowships at federal agencies.

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Center for Community Progress

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

By Kat Guillaume-Delemar When many people look at vacancy, abandonment, and deterioration—or what we call “VAD” at the Center for Community Progress—they see a “ blighted ” structure. They see the building that’s falling apart. The vacant lot where a house once stood. But when I look at vacant properties, I see my mother. I grew up in the 80s and 90s as a Haitian-American in Brooklyn, New York in a neighborhood that was filled with violence, drug use, and other atrocities.

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McKinsey Public & Social Sector Insights

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

McKinsey estimates that reducing G20 emissions by half by the end of the decade, in line with the 2015 Paris Agreement, will require its members to invest $35 trillion towards closing the net-zero investment gap, over and above current spending, write Rajat Dhawan and Anu Madgavkar in Mint.

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GovCast

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

The leader behind Defense Department programs like “Hacking for Defense” returns to GovCast to break down the principles behind how large organizations can innovate at speed. This speed is often cited as being the critical pace needed at the Pentagon to stay ahead of the adversary across key issues in cybersecurity, IT modernization, data sharing and more.

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McKinsey Public & Social Sector Insights

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Sharpen your problem-solving skills the McKinsey way, with our weekly crossword. Each puzzle is created with the McKinsey audience in mind, and includes a subtle (and sometimes not-so-subtle) business theme for you to find. Answers that are directionally correct may not cut it if you’re looking for a quick win.

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Microsoft Public Sector

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Thanks for the feedback! NC Protect is an add-on to Microsoft 365, however the dynamic watermarking and CUI designation indicator labelling capabilities are part of the base functionality of the product.

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Grant Writing Made Easy

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Dr. Julie Ann Ward The decision-making process The decision-making process was a long one for me. I had invested years into getting a PhD and felt like I’d won the lottery when I landed a tenure-track position at an R1 university near my family. The great fortune of getting a great job offer when there were very, very few available made it difficult to consider whether it was what I wanted.

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Microsoft Public Sector

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Female IT employee in conversation with female coworker. The IT employee is standing over workstation, pointing to desktop monitor, and providing explanation.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

This week, September 6 to be exact, marks the fifteenth anniversary of Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae – the two government-sponsored enterprises (GSEs) - being placed into conservatorship by the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA). [1] This occurred at the very height of the Great Financial Crisis (GFC), when market confidence in the value of mortgage assets and more generally in the liquidity of large financial institutions was collapsing.

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