Government Continuity: A Unified Disaster Response Providing Sustainable Communications and Interoperability

Government continuity is the planning and management for sustaining services and communications by government entities during an emergency, event or incident. It allows a reaction to the situation and provides the necessary emergency response and recovery upon which constituents depend and expect. According to the final report “A Failure of Initiative” by the Select Bipartisan Committee to Investigate the Preparation for and Response to Hurricane Katrina, “Better information would have been an optimal weapon against Katrina. Information sent to the right people at the right place at the right time. Information moved within agencies, across departments, and between jurisdictions of government, as well.” Hurricane Katrina and a number of other major incidents have defined the challenges of providing consistent government services during a time of natural or manmade crisis.

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State of Colorado

Serve the needs of the State of Colorado through a number of subdivisions. The Colorado Judicial, Legislative, and Executive branches form the government for the State of Colorado. "A Career should be about believing in what you do and making a positive impact on your community. That is a career that makes you proud; that is a career with distinction."​- Mary Mullarkey, Chief Justice of the Colorado Supreme Court.

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What System Integrators need to know to address U.S. Federal Government ICT requirements

whitePaper | November 21, 2022

The business of providing information and communications technology (ICT) integrations to the federal government has changed significantly over the past five years. Before the disruptions caused by the pandemic, federal government ICT requirements were well-understood. Most government departments were in the process of either starting or planning for a cloud-centric digital transformation that would enable more efficient operations and a more effective delivery of services to citizens. However, the onset of the pandemic derailed most of those plans when th

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A unified approach to adaptive data and analytics governance

whitePaper | June 13, 2022

Adaptive data and analytics governance enables organizations to manage and organize their data, while also creating processes to maximize collaboration and produce insightful business-driven outcomes. With a world-class adaptive data and analytics governance solution, you can build a truly data intelligent company.

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US–China Strategic Competition The Quest for Global Technological Leadership

whitePaper | November 9, 2019

The underlying driver of the ongoing US–China trade war is a race for global technological dominance. President Trump has raised a number of issues regarding trade with China – including the US’s trade deficit with China and the naming of China as a currency manipulator. But at the heart of the ongoing tariff escalation are China’s policies and practices regarding forced technology transfer, intellectual property theft and non-market distortions.

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Recommendations on Updating the National Artificial Intelligence Research and Development Strategic Plan

whitePaper | March 16, 2022

A long-term commitment to sustained federal research and development (R&D) funding in AI is critical to advance the United States’ leadership in global innovation. The federal government should increase non-defense investment in AI and basic research to strengthen research in critical fields of AI R&D, including healthcare, education, finance, and more, that underpin economic stability and robust growth. Such investment should reflect a multidisciplinary approach, focused on advancing basic and applied R&D, research on AI governance and norm-setting, and supporting research infrastructure with multi-agency collaboration.

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Compliance with Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Publication 1075

whitePaper | June 26, 2022

The United States Internal Revenue Service’s (IRS) goal is to promote taxpayer confidence in the integrity of the tax system by ensuring confidentiality of the tax information provided to the federal, state and local agencies. The IRS 1075 publication provides guidance to agencies, agents, contractors and subcontractors on implementing adequate policies, processes, controls and safeguards to protect Federal tax information (FTI). The IRS 1075 requirements follow the FedRAMP and NIST 800-53 Rev.5 guidelines. Agencies that receive FTI must ensure that they have adequate programs in place to protect the data received in line with IRS 1075 guidelines. VMware Cloud on AWS GovCloud (US) has been authorized against the FedRAMP High baseline controls and therefore can support agencies in meeting the IRS 1075 requirements.

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Augmented government Transforming government services through augmented reality

whitePaper | January 27, 2020

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State of Colorado

Serve the needs of the State of Colorado through a number of subdivisions. The Colorado Judicial, Legislative, and Executive branches form the government for the State of Colorado. "A Career should be about believing in what you do and making a positive impact on your community. That is a career that makes you proud; that is a career with distinction."​- Mary Mullarkey, Chief Justice of the Colorado Supreme Court.

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