"A Role for Collaborative Decision Making in Governing the NextGen 4-D Wx Single Authoritative Source (SAS) "

In March 2010, the NextGen Executive Weather Panel (NEWP) tasked the Joint Planning and Development Office (JPDO) with defining the NextGen 4-D Wx Data Cube and the NextGen 4-D Wx Single Authoritative Source (SAS). These tasks were delegated to the JPDO’s Weather Policy Team, with instructions to bound and define a number of policy issues.

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BlackSky

BlackSky is a leading provider of real-time geospatial intelligence. BlackSky delivers on-demand, high frequency imagery, monitoring and analytics of the most critical and strategic locations, economic assets, and events on Earth. BlackSky designs, owns and operates one of the industry’s leading low earth orbit small satellite constellations, optimized to capture imagery cost-efficiently where and when our customers need it. BlackSky's Spectra AI software platform processes data from BlackSky's constellation and from other third- party sensors to develop the critical insights and analytics that our customers require. BlackSky is relied upon by U.S. and International government agencies, commercial businesses, and organizations around the world. BlackSky is headquartered in Herndon, VA and is publicly traded on the New York Stock Exchange as BKSY. To learn more, visit www.blacksky.com and follow us on Twitter.

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The Power of the Engaged Customer: Personalized, Multichannel, Government Experiences

whitePaper | May 1, 2022

Customer experience (CX) in government is about more than any single web form, survey, portal, or online claims submission. CX also considers the perceptions, preferences, and sentiments for an individual, business, or organization as they interact across the various channels of an agency’s program or service.

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The Role of Monopoly in America’s Prescription Drug Crisis

whitePaper | December 10, 2019

The Trump administration, members of Congress from both parties, and many states have introduced proposals to combat high drug prices. Too often missing from these reform efforts, however, is a clear understanding of a root cause of the crisis: the suppression of fair market competition through various forms of monopoly. This white paper examines and proposes solutions for the two main ways that monopoly drives up the costs and lowers the quality of prescription drugs: increasing corporate concentration in the pharmaceutical industry, and the monopoly markets for individual drugs created by a deeply flawed and increasingly abused patent and regulatory system.

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A guide to Zero Trust for government

whitePaper | November 21, 2022

Cyber attacks and data breaches are at the forefront of the national agenda - and the issue isn’t going away. These types of attacks aren’t necessarily new, however the exponential increase in data combined with data ubiquity, the massive increase in Software as a Service (SaaS) applications, and the shift to remote work have expanded our attack surface, while also shifting the network load to the perimeterless internet.

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Modernizing Agriculture Data Infrastructure to Improve Economic and Ecological Outcomes

whitePaper | May 22, 2022

Data innovation is necessary to address a growing number of critical short and long-term food and agricultural issues, including agricultural production, environmental sustainability, nutrition assistance, food waste, supply chain disruptions, and food and farm labor. Though many farmers are already collecting production data about their farms that can help solve these issues, this information remains mostly unavailable to other farmers, policymakers, and USDA due to a number of issues.

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Government Cloud Plus Security Whitepaper

whitePaper | June 16, 2020

Federal, state, and local government organizations, along with government contractors, trust Salesforce to deliver critical business applications, in large part because of Salesforce’s commitment to security and privacy

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Digital Trust

whitePaper | November 1, 2022

Digitalisation offers new approaches to trust. Competitors who do not see eye-to-eye can still transact efficiently because technologies such as privacy-enhancing technologies, distributed ledgers (also called shared ledgers), coupled with good governance in processes now enable these interactions even without parties knowing who they transact with.

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BlackSky

BlackSky is a leading provider of real-time geospatial intelligence. BlackSky delivers on-demand, high frequency imagery, monitoring and analytics of the most critical and strategic locations, economic assets, and events on Earth. BlackSky designs, owns and operates one of the industry’s leading low earth orbit small satellite constellations, optimized to capture imagery cost-efficiently where and when our customers need it. BlackSky's Spectra AI software platform processes data from BlackSky's constellation and from other third- party sensors to develop the critical insights and analytics that our customers require. BlackSky is relied upon by U.S. and International government agencies, commercial businesses, and organizations around the world. BlackSky is headquartered in Herndon, VA and is publicly traded on the New York Stock Exchange as BKSY. To learn more, visit www.blacksky.com and follow us on Twitter.

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