Over the last few years, the federal government has begun realizing the promise of Big Data to enhance mission-effectiveness. Now, several prominent initiatives are pressing federal agencies to further invest in Big Data.
Cyber break-ins are affecting the private and public sectors at an alarming rate. In fact, intrusions in the federal systems alone saw a 1,121% increase from 2006 to 2014. To address this issue, we partnered with the Partnership for Public Service to publish “Cyber In-Security: Closing the Federal Gap.” This new report outlines the challenges faced by the federal government in building an enterprise-wide, first-class cybersecurity workforce and offers recommendations for a total workforce solution.
Booz Allen Hamilton uses its Cloud Analytics Reference Architecture to build technology infrastructures that can withstand the weight of massive datasets – and deliver the deep insights organizations need to drive innovation.
Compliance: The Digital Imperative in Financial ServicesAppian
If you think financial services compliance is already too costly, brace yourself. It’s going to get worse…much worse. Regulatory compliance, the demands of KYC (Know Your Customer) and EDD (Enhanced Due Diligence) all continue to be top of mind for every financial service executive, and for good reason.
Learn more about how to meet these challenges while advancing your digital transformation efforts in this Executive Perspective: http://ap.pn/2ekWDnO
The Accenture Security Index, based on Accenture's High Performance Security research, assesses performance across 33 cybersecurity capabilities within the Banking industry. It is intended to help banking leaders understand the effectiveness of their security measures. To learn more about Banking results, read our blog series: https://accntu.re/2vj59KC
The Exploring Consumer Attitudes & Actions on Key Tech Policy Issues 2014 study reveals a majority of respondents (59 percent) said either privacy or security had the biggest potential impact on their personal lives. This concern has led as many respondents (59 percent) to say they would take action related to security and privacy issues.
Conducted by Edelman Berland, the survey polled more than 1,000 U.S. consumers over the age of 18 to better understand their attitudes about major technology policy issues and their willingness to take action and engage in the political process on these issues.
Learn more: http://edl.mn/UGx2Ho
Cyber break-ins are affecting the private and public sectors at an alarming rate. In fact, intrusions in the federal systems alone saw a 1,121% increase from 2006 to 2014. To address this issue, we partnered with the Partnership for Public Service to publish “Cyber In-Security: Closing the Federal Gap.” This new report outlines the challenges faced by the federal government in building an enterprise-wide, first-class cybersecurity workforce and offers recommendations for a total workforce solution.
Booz Allen Hamilton uses its Cloud Analytics Reference Architecture to build technology infrastructures that can withstand the weight of massive datasets – and deliver the deep insights organizations need to drive innovation.
Compliance: The Digital Imperative in Financial ServicesAppian
If you think financial services compliance is already too costly, brace yourself. It’s going to get worse…much worse. Regulatory compliance, the demands of KYC (Know Your Customer) and EDD (Enhanced Due Diligence) all continue to be top of mind for every financial service executive, and for good reason.
Learn more about how to meet these challenges while advancing your digital transformation efforts in this Executive Perspective: http://ap.pn/2ekWDnO
The Accenture Security Index, based on Accenture's High Performance Security research, assesses performance across 33 cybersecurity capabilities within the Banking industry. It is intended to help banking leaders understand the effectiveness of their security measures. To learn more about Banking results, read our blog series: https://accntu.re/2vj59KC
The Exploring Consumer Attitudes & Actions on Key Tech Policy Issues 2014 study reveals a majority of respondents (59 percent) said either privacy or security had the biggest potential impact on their personal lives. This concern has led as many respondents (59 percent) to say they would take action related to security and privacy issues.
Conducted by Edelman Berland, the survey polled more than 1,000 U.S. consumers over the age of 18 to better understand their attitudes about major technology policy issues and their willingness to take action and engage in the political process on these issues.
Learn more: http://edl.mn/UGx2Ho
Reach the Edge of the Joint Information EnvironmentGov BizCouncil
To better understand how Department of Defense employees perceive the benefits of and challenges to the Joint Information Environment and mobility, Government Business Council and Verizon Wireless undertook an in-depth research study of over 300 senior DoD employees.
Industry experts from health care and informatics ponder the future of electronic health records during the implementation of "meaningful use" and beyond.
Read more: http://www.chcf.org/publications/2012/02/whats-ahead-ehrs#ixzz1mTJUcSev
Republished with permission from the California HealthCare Foundation
Accenture’s research into collecting employee data can help organizations get the most out of their employees and decode their organizational DNA. Learn more.
How can companies respond to these challenges and implement big data security changes?
Some IT security managers said that remote work will become the top issue that needs to be resolved in cybersecurity work in 2021.
What big data security challenges will companies face in 2021?
How can companies implement big data security changes to solve these challenges?
A "Data Security Survey Report 2020" was released recently, which is the largest data security survey. 83 IT security department managers participated in this survey. Among other things, the report also predicted the biggest challenge to big data security in 2021. So how do companies respond to these challenges and implement big data security changes?
Big data and analytics are held in high regard by agencies worldwide, but implementing government programs remains challenging. Bloomberg Businessweek Research Services and SAP launched a global survey in summer 2013 to analyze the views of public sector executives on the use and benefits of analytics.
iHT2 Health IT Summit Boston 2013 – Scott Lundstrom, Group Vice President Presentation, IDC Health Insights "IT Strategies for an Uncertain Future - Embracing Change and Innovation"
Presentation "IT Strategies for an Uncertain Future - Embracing Change and Innovation"
The widespread changes demanded by reform continue to create angst and opportunities for healthcare providers. Quality, cost and compliance initiatives, changing business models, and new care delivery technologies are all demanding our attention. Uncertainty is high, but the call to action is strong, and there is tremendous pressure to show broadly based progress across the technology portfolio. How can IT and the business move forward on a common plan in these uncertain times? Leading organizations are already building a platform for the future. By focusing on reducing costs, improving quality, and supporting business innovation technology, significant progress can be made to support a broad range of possible post reform business models. By focusing on a core group of enabling technologies health organizations can become better prepared to survive in the post reform market. What are the core key enabling technologies required by any health organization in the future? Where should resource constrained organizations focus their attention?
Though now nascent, quantum science could have significant implications for national security. By taking simple pragmatic steps today, government leaders can prepare their organizations for the coming quantum future.
Accenture Digital Health Technology Vision 2018accenture
Explore Accenture's Digital Health Tech Vision 2018 report, showcasing five health IT trends that are going to redefine how intelligent enterprises of the future will work.
Future Ready: A Playbook for 2020 And BeyondDustin Haisler
The magnitude and speed of technological, economic and societal change is accelerating at an exponential pace. Your primary challenge is to anticipate the future – and then build it, being careful to optimize the upside while minimizing the effects of the shocks and stresses. Public leaders need more than just a new way of thinking – but a new way of executing supported by the right technological and cultural foundation. Future Ready focuses on what matters and why, what potential issues should be on your radar and the adaptive, actionable takeaways that you can work on today to prepare for 2020 and beyond
Maryland Builds Human Services Platform Starting with Data IntegrationAmazon Web Services
Many U.S. states are hampered by traditional technology silos and data barriers between agencies. Starting in 2017, the Maryland Department of Human Services initiated a cloud-based data repository and application platform for delivering social services to its residents – known as MD THINK. Using services including Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS), and Amazon Relational Database Services (RDS), agencies requiring application modernization to support mission-critical operations can migrate quickly and share data more seamlessly. In this session, we’ll hear from Maryland’s Chief Information Security Officer, John Evans, about how the state designed for security, scalability, and data integration and built a platform that already serves a third of Maryland residents (with bigger plans ahead!).
Accenture's Applied Customer Engagement (ACE) is a proven approach to re-thinking and revitalizing contact center operations for the digital era. Read more.
A New Network Acquisition Model for the Federal GovernmentGov BizCouncil
More than two thirds of federal IT spending goes to legacy system maintenance. How can agencies reduce this cost while meeting demands for more agile operations? The answer may lie in reassessing their network acquisition model.
Learn about blockchain for enterprise applications: https://ap.pn/2LgSYma
Blockchain has the potential to transform money, business, government and society. But exactly what is it? Get the details on blockchain for financial services.
Watch our webinar on blockchain for enterprise: https://ap.pn/2LgSYma
Three Strategies to Improve the Citizen ExperienceGov BizCouncil
After a difficult 2014, federal agencies are looking to pivot toward modernizing their customer service infrastructures to better serve an increasingly digital-savvy public. Agencies are well on their way to making technological improvements, but without the corresponding cultural shifts agencies will continue to fall short of their goals. Drawing on recent studies from the Government Accountability Office (GAO) and the American Customer Satisfaction Index (ACSI), this issue brief lays out a roadmap to help your agency achieve a more citizen-centric mindset.
Download this GBC Issue Brief to learn:
How federal customer satisfaction with public services currently stacks up against the private sector,
What steps the federal government is taking to modernize its customer service infrastructure and what more it could be doing, and
Three strategies that can help your agency better engage with those it serves as well as improve its overall public perception.
Hivos, a Dutch development organization, in cooperation with IDRC, Adept Systems and Triodos Facet, is pleased to invite you to a seminar on open source Management Information Systems and ICT trends in Microfinance, on 25th and 26th November 2010 in Tanzania.
Speaker: Michael Wakahe, Director, Shujaa Solutions Ltd
Date: 25th - 26th Nov 2010
Venue: Protea Court Yard Hotel, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
My book: "Virtual Social Networks and Open Innovation: Questioning the RBV"Google Inc.
Today open source philosophy points the way to innovations arising from the adoption of new models for distributing know-how and exploiting intellectual capital. Growing interest in knowledge management has led to increased attention being paid to social network analysis as a tool for mapping the structure and nature of shared information. However, despite the knowledge-intensive nature of resource-based view (RBV), social network analyses of the R&D function remain relatively rare. This paper discusses the role of networks in the development, exchange and dissemination of knowledge exploitable by companies in search of innovation. An empirical study using social network analysis is presented to give evidence to theoretical models. This takes into account both static and dynamic network variables, and debates motivational drivers behind members' commitment to social networking. The implications for business world are clear: companies have to rethink traditional approach to innovation, revising their model to knowledge creation, and learn to wisely leverage networked intellectual capital and spare time commoditization.
An interactive workshop that guides you through the many relationships that exist in an agile team, with a business value emphasis. Team members gain empathy, discover expectations of others and the importance of these agile team relationships.
Reach the Edge of the Joint Information EnvironmentGov BizCouncil
To better understand how Department of Defense employees perceive the benefits of and challenges to the Joint Information Environment and mobility, Government Business Council and Verizon Wireless undertook an in-depth research study of over 300 senior DoD employees.
Industry experts from health care and informatics ponder the future of electronic health records during the implementation of "meaningful use" and beyond.
Read more: http://www.chcf.org/publications/2012/02/whats-ahead-ehrs#ixzz1mTJUcSev
Republished with permission from the California HealthCare Foundation
Accenture’s research into collecting employee data can help organizations get the most out of their employees and decode their organizational DNA. Learn more.
How can companies respond to these challenges and implement big data security changes?
Some IT security managers said that remote work will become the top issue that needs to be resolved in cybersecurity work in 2021.
What big data security challenges will companies face in 2021?
How can companies implement big data security changes to solve these challenges?
A "Data Security Survey Report 2020" was released recently, which is the largest data security survey. 83 IT security department managers participated in this survey. Among other things, the report also predicted the biggest challenge to big data security in 2021. So how do companies respond to these challenges and implement big data security changes?
Big data and analytics are held in high regard by agencies worldwide, but implementing government programs remains challenging. Bloomberg Businessweek Research Services and SAP launched a global survey in summer 2013 to analyze the views of public sector executives on the use and benefits of analytics.
iHT2 Health IT Summit Boston 2013 – Scott Lundstrom, Group Vice President Presentation, IDC Health Insights "IT Strategies for an Uncertain Future - Embracing Change and Innovation"
Presentation "IT Strategies for an Uncertain Future - Embracing Change and Innovation"
The widespread changes demanded by reform continue to create angst and opportunities for healthcare providers. Quality, cost and compliance initiatives, changing business models, and new care delivery technologies are all demanding our attention. Uncertainty is high, but the call to action is strong, and there is tremendous pressure to show broadly based progress across the technology portfolio. How can IT and the business move forward on a common plan in these uncertain times? Leading organizations are already building a platform for the future. By focusing on reducing costs, improving quality, and supporting business innovation technology, significant progress can be made to support a broad range of possible post reform business models. By focusing on a core group of enabling technologies health organizations can become better prepared to survive in the post reform market. What are the core key enabling technologies required by any health organization in the future? Where should resource constrained organizations focus their attention?
Though now nascent, quantum science could have significant implications for national security. By taking simple pragmatic steps today, government leaders can prepare their organizations for the coming quantum future.
Accenture Digital Health Technology Vision 2018accenture
Explore Accenture's Digital Health Tech Vision 2018 report, showcasing five health IT trends that are going to redefine how intelligent enterprises of the future will work.
Future Ready: A Playbook for 2020 And BeyondDustin Haisler
The magnitude and speed of technological, economic and societal change is accelerating at an exponential pace. Your primary challenge is to anticipate the future – and then build it, being careful to optimize the upside while minimizing the effects of the shocks and stresses. Public leaders need more than just a new way of thinking – but a new way of executing supported by the right technological and cultural foundation. Future Ready focuses on what matters and why, what potential issues should be on your radar and the adaptive, actionable takeaways that you can work on today to prepare for 2020 and beyond
Maryland Builds Human Services Platform Starting with Data IntegrationAmazon Web Services
Many U.S. states are hampered by traditional technology silos and data barriers between agencies. Starting in 2017, the Maryland Department of Human Services initiated a cloud-based data repository and application platform for delivering social services to its residents – known as MD THINK. Using services including Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS), and Amazon Relational Database Services (RDS), agencies requiring application modernization to support mission-critical operations can migrate quickly and share data more seamlessly. In this session, we’ll hear from Maryland’s Chief Information Security Officer, John Evans, about how the state designed for security, scalability, and data integration and built a platform that already serves a third of Maryland residents (with bigger plans ahead!).
Accenture's Applied Customer Engagement (ACE) is a proven approach to re-thinking and revitalizing contact center operations for the digital era. Read more.
A New Network Acquisition Model for the Federal GovernmentGov BizCouncil
More than two thirds of federal IT spending goes to legacy system maintenance. How can agencies reduce this cost while meeting demands for more agile operations? The answer may lie in reassessing their network acquisition model.
Learn about blockchain for enterprise applications: https://ap.pn/2LgSYma
Blockchain has the potential to transform money, business, government and society. But exactly what is it? Get the details on blockchain for financial services.
Watch our webinar on blockchain for enterprise: https://ap.pn/2LgSYma
Three Strategies to Improve the Citizen ExperienceGov BizCouncil
After a difficult 2014, federal agencies are looking to pivot toward modernizing their customer service infrastructures to better serve an increasingly digital-savvy public. Agencies are well on their way to making technological improvements, but without the corresponding cultural shifts agencies will continue to fall short of their goals. Drawing on recent studies from the Government Accountability Office (GAO) and the American Customer Satisfaction Index (ACSI), this issue brief lays out a roadmap to help your agency achieve a more citizen-centric mindset.
Download this GBC Issue Brief to learn:
How federal customer satisfaction with public services currently stacks up against the private sector,
What steps the federal government is taking to modernize its customer service infrastructure and what more it could be doing, and
Three strategies that can help your agency better engage with those it serves as well as improve its overall public perception.
Hivos, a Dutch development organization, in cooperation with IDRC, Adept Systems and Triodos Facet, is pleased to invite you to a seminar on open source Management Information Systems and ICT trends in Microfinance, on 25th and 26th November 2010 in Tanzania.
Speaker: Michael Wakahe, Director, Shujaa Solutions Ltd
Date: 25th - 26th Nov 2010
Venue: Protea Court Yard Hotel, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
My book: "Virtual Social Networks and Open Innovation: Questioning the RBV"Google Inc.
Today open source philosophy points the way to innovations arising from the adoption of new models for distributing know-how and exploiting intellectual capital. Growing interest in knowledge management has led to increased attention being paid to social network analysis as a tool for mapping the structure and nature of shared information. However, despite the knowledge-intensive nature of resource-based view (RBV), social network analyses of the R&D function remain relatively rare. This paper discusses the role of networks in the development, exchange and dissemination of knowledge exploitable by companies in search of innovation. An empirical study using social network analysis is presented to give evidence to theoretical models. This takes into account both static and dynamic network variables, and debates motivational drivers behind members' commitment to social networking. The implications for business world are clear: companies have to rethink traditional approach to innovation, revising their model to knowledge creation, and learn to wisely leverage networked intellectual capital and spare time commoditization.
An interactive workshop that guides you through the many relationships that exist in an agile team, with a business value emphasis. Team members gain empathy, discover expectations of others and the importance of these agile team relationships.
Global consumers want similar things when it comes to personal data. In this slideshow, we explore the sentiments about data privacy expressed by people across countries, industries, and data types.
For more information, please check out the BCG report, "The Trust Advantage" (http://on.bcg.com/1gr9j5P) and visit the "Big Data and Beyond" section of bcg.perspectives (http://on.bcg.com/1g7tpgc).
In August 2016, Booz Allen partnered with Market Connections to conduct a survey of National Security Leaders and the General Public to understand their perspectives on the current threats. Fifteen years after the September 11 attacks, we wanted to know what keeps them up at night today, and what they will be worried about in 15 years. This infographic provides the high-level results of our survey and we will be releasing a more detailed report later in the month of September – so stay tuned. #NationalSecurity2031
We looked at the data. Here’s a breakdown of some key statistics about the nation’s incoming presidents’ addresses, how long they spoke, how well, and more.
Booz Allen Hamilton created the Field Guide to Data Science to help organizations and missions understand how to make use of data as a resource. The Second Edition of the Field Guide, updated with new features and content, delivers our latest insights in a fast-changing field. http://bit.ly/1O78U42
Nuclear Promise: Reducing Cost While Improving PerformanceBooz Allen Hamilton
To remain competitive, nuclear operators must take aim at all addressable costs, ensuring maintenance is optimized, taking proactive steps to minimize unplanned outages and, where possible, reducing administrative and other overhead costs. There are multiple opportunities to reduce capital and operational spending, while improving safety and reliability.
BCG's Holger Rubel describes how urbanization is changing the world and explores how five sectors in "smart cities" are evolving: energy, transport, water and waste, social initiatives, and buildings.
Our Military Spouse Forum built a roadmap to help you navigate your career between deployments, moves, and the unpredictable. Interested in how Booz Allen can help you navigate your career? Check out our opportunities at www.boozallen.com/careers
Booz Allen Hamilton and Market Connections: C4ISR Survey ReportBooz Allen Hamilton
Booz Allen Hamilton partnered with government market research firm Market Connections, Inc. to conduct the survey of military decision-makers. The research examined the main features of Integrated C4ISR through Enterprise Integration: engineering, operations and acquisition. Two-thirds of respondents (65 percent) agree agile incremental delivery of modular systems with integrated capabilities can enable rapid insertion of new technologies.
You Can Hack That: How to Use Hackathons to Solve Your Toughest ChallengesBooz Allen Hamilton
“Hackathon” has become a trendy word in today’s business vernacular, and for good reason. The word “hackathon” comes from both “hack” and “marathon.” If you think of a “hack” as a creative solution and “marathon” as a continuous, often competitive event, you’re at the heart of what a hackathon is about. Hackathons enable creative problem solving through an innovative and often competitive structure that engages stakeholders to come up with unconventional solutions to pressing challenges. Hackathons can be used to develop new processes, products, ways of thinking, or ways of engaging stakeholders and partners, with benefits ranging from solving tough problems to broader cultural and organizational improvements.
This playbook was designed to make hackathons accessible to everyone. That means not only can all kinds of organizations benefit from hackathons, but that all kinds of employees inside those groups—executives, project managers, designers, or engineers—should participate and can benefit, too. Use this playbook as a reference and allow the best practices we outline to guide you in designing a hackathon structure that works for you and enables your organization to achieve its desired outcomes. Give yourself anywhere from six weeks to a few months to plan your hackathon, depending on the components, approach, number of participants, and desired outcomes.
Contact Director Brian MacCarthy at MacCarthy_Brian2@bah.com for more information about Booz Allen’s hackathon offering.
Today’s leaders are poorly served by conventional management theories and practices. Instead of helping executives manage the growing complexity of business, the supposed solutions only seem to make things worse. A new book from BCG outlines a better approach to managing complexity. The approach is called smart simplicity, and it hinges on six simple rules.
Alumni, you have contributed to making BCG the great institution that it is today, and your legacy remains at the core of BCG and continues to shape our aspirations. We hope that you can join us at your local WWAD to celebrate!
Even if China's GDP growth slows to 5.5%, personal consumption is projected to increase by about half to $6.5 trillion, by 2020. But growth is only a part of the story: demographic, social, and technological forces will transform China's consumer economy.
Whitepaper - The need self service data tools, not scientistsJosh Howard
The federal government is one of the organizations most in need of data scientists, but hiring freezes, slashed training budgets and a lack of qualified candidates have all hampered the ability to recruit these types of professionals. Faced with such obstacles, agencies have been developing creative solutions to fill the hiring gap. Learn how to overcome these challenges with big data analytic tools.
4 Digital Health Trends Affecting Your Revenue CycleMeduit
The emerging digital trends impacting the healthcare industry are as varied as the new technologies being developed, but there are four trends that are having a more significant impact on the revenue cycle. Find out what they are in this Meduit Innovation Lab guide!
This report explores the road to big data adoption in Asia-Pacific. Asia-Pacific firms report limited success so far in implementing big data practices, however there is a strong appetite for an increased use of data analytics within their companies. Download full report on http://bit.ly/18Gzl0N
Vanson Bourne Research Report: Big DataVanson Bourne
For most organisations, big data is now the reality of doing business. Technological and social innovations are resulting in huge flows of new data every day. As we enter this undeniable era of big data where more information will be captured in ever-finer detail from more sources than ever before does that mean our decision-making is bound to improve?
This white paper: Analyzes the big data revolution and the potential it offers organizations. Explores the critical talent needs and emerging talent gaps related to big data. Offers examples of organizations that are meeting this challenge head on. Recommends four steps HR and talent management professionals can take to bridge the talent gap.
Infographic | Quality of Data & Cost of Bad Data | Sapience AnalyticsSapience Analytics
As the quality of data becomes more and more crucial to the success of an organization, the cost of bad data goes staggeringly high.
Read this Infographic and understand the dependence of organizations on data in terms of:
Importance of data
Quality of data
Cost of bad data
Reasons for bad data quality
FIMA's latest whitepaper evaluates how financial services companies are managing the challenges posed by data quality management. By analyzing which data types and data characteristics businesses are struggling with, it uncovers the true business costs associated with data quality. It will also gauge how data governance programs are maturing and how they are being measured. Finally, it assesses how data is being managed within financial institutions.
Key findings include:
Data quality has never been more important for financial institutions, but most of those companies feel their data is only mediocre: Quality data serves a myriad of central business goals, from risk reduction to increased productivity. Unfortunately, many businesses continue to struggle with data quality, despite the fact that four-fifths of them have it ranked as a top priority.
The top two business functions impacted by poor data quality are regulatory compliance and risk management: Because these concerns tend to be the most important drivers of data quality, many financial institutions see data governance as a “must-do,” rather than a ROI-boosting activity. Furthermore, the vast majority of financial services companies can not quantify the business cost of poor data quality.
Financial institutions vary greatly in the maturity of their data governance programs: Data governance cannot be overlooked – unsurprisingly, businesses with formalized data governance programs reported that their data was higher quality than most other groups.
Data quality management requires close collaboration between business and IT leaders: That collaboration already exists for 83% of respondents in this study, who say that IT and business leaders work together to manage data quality in their organizations. However, the tools these businesses use to manage their data are not all equal, leading to an uneven allocation of resources.
Booz Allen's U.S. Commercial Leader and Executive Vice President, Bill Phelps, recently released his list of 10 Cyber Priorities for Boards of Directors. As we peer into how business, technology, regulatory, and cyber threat realities are evolving in the coming year, here is a reference guide for board members to use in validating their company's cybersecurity approach.
Booz Allen convened some of the smartest minds to explore making healthcare more accessible. This report shares the latest healthcare payment trends and what policy experts discovered when planning for different health reform scenarios.
An immersive environment allows students to be completely “immersed” in a self-contained simulated or artificial environment while experiencing it as real. With immersive learning, you can show realistic visual and training environments to teach complex tasks and concepts.
General Motors and Lyft; Target and Walmart; Netflix and Amazon - we call these “frenemies”. A strange trend is emerging as unlikely partner companies join forces, and they’re transforming industries around the world. Understanding what's driving the frenemies trend, knowing what options best fit your needs, and making yourself an effective partner are all critical to success.
Threats to industrial control systems are on the rise. This briefing explores potential threats and vulnerabilities as well as what organizations can do to guard against them.
Modern C4ISR Integrates, Innovates and Secures Military NetworksBooz Allen Hamilton
A majority of the military believe Integrated C4ISR through Enterprise Integration would provide utility to their organization. Check out other key findings from our study in this infographic http://bit.ly/1OZOjG2
Agile and Open C4ISR Systems - Helping the Military Integrate, Innovate and S...Booz Allen Hamilton
Integrated C4ISR is a force multiplier that significantly improves situational awareness and decision making to give warfighters a decisive battlefield advantage. This advantage stems from Booz Allen Hamilton’s Enterprise Integration approach http://bit.ly/25nDBRg: bringing together three disciplines and their communities—engineering, operations, and acquisition.
C4ISR systems are vital in delivering critical intelligence to military decision makers and operators for mission success. If the U.S. maintains current C4ISR investment levels, spending will reach $74.3 billion in 2024, according to a recent forecast report by Strategic Defense Intelligence. Unfortunately, many legacy C4ISR systems were built in stovepipes to fulfill a single mission requirement, leading to interoperability gaps in today’s technical, user-centric, and secure operational environments. Improvements need to be made when developing and fielding C4ISR systems.
The pace and scale of change across high-tech manufacturing is a once-in-a-century transformation. The resulting convergence and disruption—affecting every corner of the manufacturing sector—is profoundly, permanently altering the industrial landscape. The old rules are changing: New competitors are emerging, consumer expectations are shifting, and market share is up for grabs.
Progress has been made in the evolution of ISR systems over the past half-century from standalone stovepipes in the direction of a common enterprise with secure interoperability.
From startups to enterprises, business leaders almost universally recognize the importance of learning from failure. But what are the right take-away lessons from failing fast? This infographic encapsulates those lessons and more.
Bridging Mission and Management: A Survey of Government Chief Operating OfficersBooz Allen Hamilton
What role do COOs play in agencies? What are their top priorities and challenges? What is the state of management in federal agencies? Those are the questions the Partnership for Public Service and Booz Allen Hamilton set out to understand in this inaugural report, “Bridging Mission and Management: A Survey of Government Chief Operating Officers.”
This report is intended to be the first in a series on the state of federal management from the perspective of those senior officials most accountable for results: the government’s chief operating officers and other equivalent top management officials. The goal of this series is to document the state of federal management from the perspectives of the leaders ultimately in charge—
the agency COOs.
Booz Allen’s TalentInSight experts have a rich history in serving our clients as an essential partner to innovate around unique challenges, and promote sustainable growth. That’s why we know organizations are not protected by technology alone. A strong cyber workforce is critical to effectively mitigating and responding to the next threat.
Adjusting primitives for graph : SHORT REPORT / NOTESSubhajit Sahu
Graph algorithms, like PageRank Compressed Sparse Row (CSR) is an adjacency-list based graph representation that is
Multiply with different modes (map)
1. Performance of sequential execution based vs OpenMP based vector multiply.
2. Comparing various launch configs for CUDA based vector multiply.
Sum with different storage types (reduce)
1. Performance of vector element sum using float vs bfloat16 as the storage type.
Sum with different modes (reduce)
1. Performance of sequential execution based vs OpenMP based vector element sum.
2. Performance of memcpy vs in-place based CUDA based vector element sum.
3. Comparing various launch configs for CUDA based vector element sum (memcpy).
4. Comparing various launch configs for CUDA based vector element sum (in-place).
Sum with in-place strategies of CUDA mode (reduce)
1. Comparing various launch configs for CUDA based vector element sum (in-place).
Adjusting OpenMP PageRank : SHORT REPORT / NOTESSubhajit Sahu
For massive graphs that fit in RAM, but not in GPU memory, it is possible to take
advantage of a shared memory system with multiple CPUs, each with multiple cores, to
accelerate pagerank computation. If the NUMA architecture of the system is properly taken
into account with good vertex partitioning, the speedup can be significant. To take steps in
this direction, experiments are conducted to implement pagerank in OpenMP using two
different approaches, uniform and hybrid. The uniform approach runs all primitives required
for pagerank in OpenMP mode (with multiple threads). On the other hand, the hybrid
approach runs certain primitives in sequential mode (i.e., sumAt, multiply).
The Building Blocks of QuestDB, a Time Series Databasejavier ramirez
Talk Delivered at Valencia Codes Meetup 2024-06.
Traditionally, databases have treated timestamps just as another data type. However, when performing real-time analytics, timestamps should be first class citizens and we need rich time semantics to get the most out of our data. We also need to deal with ever growing datasets while keeping performant, which is as fun as it sounds.
It is no wonder time-series databases are now more popular than ever before. Join me in this session to learn about the internal architecture and building blocks of QuestDB, an open source time-series database designed for speed. We will also review a history of some of the changes we have gone over the past two years to deal with late and unordered data, non-blocking writes, read-replicas, or faster batch ingestion.
06-04-2024 - NYC Tech Week - Discussion on Vector Databases, Unstructured Data and AI
Round table discussion of vector databases, unstructured data, ai, big data, real-time, robots and Milvus.
A lively discussion with NJ Gen AI Meetup Lead, Prasad and Procure.FYI's Co-Found
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agencies lack professional
capabilities
42% indicate their agencies
need domain experts
40% indicate the lack
of standardized data
is a challenge
31% indicate the lack
of a data analytics
support system is
a challenge
Lack of understanding
of supporting technologies
Many officials remain reluctant to embrace
the cloud because they lack understanding
of the value data analytics can bring to
their organizations. This is a very serious
challenge requiring as much education and
demonstration as technology.
Tim Andrews, Vice President Booz Allen Hamilton
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”
No one particular transaction, no one particular piece of data, is sufficient,
but by putting them all together, you can begin to spot patterns earlier.
, Vice President, Booz Allen Hamilton
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Improved cyber threat modeling Greater tax compliance
The CDC’s BioSense program improves
health threat forecasting and readiness
by using cloud computing to enhance
data sharing and collection across
levels of government
BioSense data was used to enhance
detection of dengue fever in Florida
and Hawaii in 2012
782% increase in cyber breaches
reported by federal agencies from
2006-2012
Using vast amounts of data, agencies
can model the progression of a cyber
attack to better understand and
prevent breaches
is lost from taxpayer underreporting
BIG DATA COULD YIELD MAJOR BENEFITS FOR 3 AREAS IN PARTICULAR:
EXECUTIVE
ORDER 13636
FEDERAL INFORMATION
SECURITY MANAGEMENT ACT
OPEN GOVERNMENT
DIRECTIVE CONTINUOUS
MONITORING
MANDATES
AFFORDABLE CARE ACT
Streamline
data collection
Train personnel
in analytics
Invest
in analytics
2006 2012
782%
LOCAL
STATE
NATL
Automated information matching
programs powered by Big Data
return 6x more revenue than audits
and are 20x less expensive
SOURCES
CDC, “BioSense: Public Health
Surveillance Through Collaboration”
GAO, GAO-13-187
Nextgov, “Op-Ed: This is the Year
Agencies will Turn to Big Data to Fend
Off Cyber Threats”
IRS, “IRS Releases New Tax Gap
Estimates”
Intuit Accountants, “Big Data: How the
IRS Uses Information Statement for
Compliance”
GBC, “Empowering Smart Decision-
Making Through Smart Data”
Enhanced bio-surveillance