“In a move sure to send ripples through the federal IT community, FCW has learned that the CIA has agreed to a cloud computing contract with electronic commerce giant Amazon, worth up to $600 million over 10 years. Amazon Web Services will help the intelligence agency build a private cloud infrastructure that helps the agency keep up with emerging technologies like big data in a cost-effective manner not possible under the CIA’s previous cloud efforts, sources told FCW.”
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Daily Archives: March 20, 2013
2010 Manufacturing Energy Consumption Survey (MECS) data
News release: “Total energy consumption in the manufacturing sector decreased by 17 percent from 2002 to 2010, according to data released today by the U.S. Energy Information Administration. Manufacturing gross output decreased by only 3 percent over the same period. Taken together, these data indicate a significant decline in the amount of energy used per… Continue Reading
New GAO Reports – DOE, Entrepreneurial Assistance, Financial Institutions, Puerto Rico, U.S. Assistance to Yemen
Department of Energy – Concerns with Major Construction Projects at the Office of Environmental Management and NNSA, GAO-13-484T, Mar 20, 2013 Entrepreneurial Assistance – Opportunities Exist to Improve Programs’ Collaboration, Data-Tracking, and Performance Management, GAO-13-452T, Mar 20, 2013 Financial Institutions – Causes and Consequences of Recent Failures of Community Banks, GAO-13-476T, Mar 20, 2013 Puerto… Continue Reading
Paper – Visitors and Residents: What Motivates Engagement with the Digital Information Environment?
Connaway, Lynn Silipigni, David White, Donna Lanclos, & Alison Le Cornu. 2013. Visitors and Residents: What Motivates Engagement with the Digital Information Environment? Information Research, 18,1 (paper 556). “The project is an attempt to fill the gap in user behavior studies identified in the JISC Digital Information Seeker Report…Although the project continues through 2014, the… Continue Reading
Federal Reserve Board and Federal Open Market Committee release economic projections from March 2013 FOMC meeting
“Information received since the Federal Open Market Committee met in January suggests a return to moderate economic growth following a pause late last year. Labor market conditions have shown signs of improvement in recent months but the unemployment rate remains elevated. Household spending and business fixed investment advanced, and the housing sector has strengthened further,… Continue Reading
Worldwide Threat Assessment of the US Intelligence Community
Statement for the Record – Worldwide Threat Assessment of the US Intelligence Community, Senate Select Committee on Intelligence. James R. Clapper, Director of National Intelligence, March 12, 2013 “This year, in both content and organization, this statement illustrates how quickly and radically the worldand our threat environmentare changing. This environment is demanding reevaluations of the… Continue Reading
Annual Report of the U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO)
GPO 2012 Annual Report: “The Government Printing Office (GPO) is transforming itself from a traditional ink- on-paper operation to a digital information platform. While producing the official printed products of the Government remains an important part of our business, we are using technology to move away from a print-centric business model and toward a content-centric… Continue Reading
Paper – Endogenous Banks' Networks, Cascades and Systemic Risk
Bluhm, Marcel, Faia, Ester and Krahnen, Jan Pieter, Endogenous Banks’ Networks, Cascades and Systemic Risk (March 1, 2013). SAFE Working Paper No. 12. Available at SSRN. “We develop a dynamic network model whose links are governed by banks’ optmizing decisions and by an endogenous tâtonnement market adjustment. Banks in our model can default and engage… Continue Reading
Forrester – Big Data Predictive Analytics Solutions
The Forrester Wave: Big Data Predictive Analytics Solutions, Q1 2013 “Predictive analytics enables firms to reduce risks, make intelligent decisions, and create differentiated, more personal customer experiences. But predictive analytics is hard to do without the right tools and technologies, given the increasing challenge of storing, processing, and accessing the volume, velocity, and variety of… Continue Reading
Application of FinCEN's Regulations to Persons Administering, Exchanging, or Using Virtual Currencies
“The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (“FinCEN”) is issuing this interpretive guidance to clarify the applicability of the regulations implementing the Bank Secrecy Act (“BSA”) to persons creating, obtaining, distributing, exchanging, accepting, or transmitting virtual currencies. Such persons are referred to in this guidance as “users,” “administrators,” and “exchangers,” all as defined below. A user of… Continue Reading
Tallinn Manual on the International Law Applicable to Cyber Warfare
“The Tallinn Manual on the International Law Applicable to Cyber Warfare, written at the invitation of the Centre by an independent International Group of Experts, is the result of a three-year effort to examine how extant international law norms apply to this new form of warfare. The Tallinn Manual pays particular attention to the jus… Continue Reading
