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Daily Archives: February 12, 2025

USAspending Data Sources and SAM.gov

USAspending.gov links data from many government systems, including agency financial systems and governmentwide award systems. Scroll below to learn more about these systems, as well as the context for this historic initiative to provide federal spending transparency.” Try searching for contracts by vendor name such as AWS, Inc., Space Exploration Technologies Corp., Tesla Laboratories, Inc. #Billionaires [DOGE] earning #billions from federal government contracts while slashing federal employee jobs and associated services, including health, food and nutrition, transportation, financial services, defense, education, labor….and critical foreign aid programs.

See also The System for Award Management (SAM.gov) is an official website of the U.S. Government. There is no cost to use SAM.gov. You can use this site to:

  • Register to do business with the U.S. Government
  • Update, renew, or check the status of your entity registration
  • Search for entity registration and exclusion records
  • Search for assistance listings (formerly CFDA.gov), wage determinations (formerly WDOL.gov), contract opportunities (formerly FBO.gov), and contract data reports (formerly part of FPDS.gov).</
  • View and submit BioPreferred and Service Contract Reports
  • Access publicly available award data via data extracts and system accounts

Essential Vermeer and The William Blake Archive

“The primary goal of the Essential Vermeer website is to harness the extraordinary potential of the internet to provide a comprehensive and organic presentation of Vermeer’s art, life, and cultural milieu. Complex art historical issues are made accessible to casual art lovers while retaining their relevance for scholars and experts. News of Vermeer-related exhibitions, publications,… Continue Reading

Implementing President’s “Department of Government Efficiency” Workforce Optimization Initiative

Josh Marshall: “This new EO signed today appears to create DOGE as a shadow government across the entire federal government. Each agency/dept will be assigned a DOGE minder who will work with the Secry or Director and essentially be in charge of all new hiring and/or firing. People have been saying the Elon is President.… Continue Reading

Elon Musk’s AI Fuelled War on Human Agency

The New Yorker – unpaywalled – “To run his agency [DOGE], Musk brought on a group of tech-company managers and inexperienced twentysomethings whose credentials included internships at SpaceX. We watched as this crew began interrogating federal employees about their jobs, interfering with the system that controls payments at the Treasury Department, and trawling government budgets… Continue Reading

Current Federal Civilian Employment by State and Congressional District

CRS Report – Current Federal Civilian Employment by State and Congressional District, Updated December 20, 2024: “The federal government employs more than 2 million civilians who live and work in every state and U.S. territory. As Congress considers the impact of federal appropriations at the national, state, and local levels, Members may seek information on… Continue Reading

UK – Secure sanitisation and disposal of storage media

How to ensure data cannot be recovered from electronic storage media. In this guidance What is electronic storage media? What is sanitisation? Before you sanitise Preparing ESM for re-use Disposing of ESM This guidance is for organisations who need to ensure that data held on electronic storage media can’t be read by unauthorised parties after… Continue Reading

Forbes America’s Best Mid Sized Employers 2025

“It has never been easy to find a job at an organization that values its employees, provides generous benefits, offers career advancement opportunities and gives staff the chance to produce meaningful work alongside supportive colleagues. But over the past 10 years, Forbes has made it a little bit easier for job seekers to find these… Continue Reading