#public-private-partnerships

#public-private-partnerships

The United States Tech Force, announced Monday, is meant to source the artificial intelligence talent the government needs to win the global AI race and modernize the government, the administration says. The goal is to recruit an initial cohort of around 1,000 technologists who will be placed in agencies for two-year stints, potentially as soon as March. "We need you," said Scott Kupor, the director of the Office of Personnel Management.

Bailey Baumbick traded a career as a national security consultant to build tech solutions for the challenges she saw at the Pentagon. Elias Rosenfeld left a job in social impact consulting to start a career aimed at revitalizing America's industrial base. Lee Kantowski spent eight years in the Army before switching to defense tech, where he hopes to fix the military's outdated tools.

"All people are by nature free and independent and have inalienable rights. Among these are enjoying and defending life and liberty, acquiring, possessing, and protecting property, and pursuing and obtaining safety, happiness, and privacy." The prescience of this section is hard to overstate, especially as those inalienable rights have been attacked. Specifically, the right to privacy has progressively eroded in San Francisco thanks to partnerships between the police and private companies.

Recent lawsuits involving Trump have been settled with Paramount for $16m, Meta for $25m and ABC for $15m with money going toward the president's library in the future. Oliver said that this has become the preferred vehicle for what I'm apparently legally not allowed to call shakedowns or extortion attempts but Trump is merely laying bare a system that's actually been problematic all along.

In their gold rush to build cloud and AI tools, Big Tech is also enabling unprecedented government surveillance. Thanks to reporting from The Guardian, +972 Magazine, Local Call, and The Intercept, we have insights into the murky deals between the Israeli Government and Big Tech firms. Designed to insulate governments from scrutiny and accountability, these deals bode a dark future for humanity, one that is built using the same tools that once promised a bright, positive world.

My father, a proud Naval Academy graduate, served two tours in Vietnam, flying A-4s off aircraft carriers. He raised me with a strong sense of patriotism, a commitment to service, and a belief in community - a community that includes everyone: rich and poor, black and white, gay and straight, left and right, young and old, Jews, Muslims, Christians, and everyone in between.

Ministers have handed firms 6m in contracts to help devise plans to build a network of new NHS clinics using private capital, despite fears the move could turn into a PFI-style disaster. The Department of Health and Social Care has awarded contracts worth 3m each to the management consultants Deloitte and the lawyers Addleshaw Goddard. They are advising the DHSC on whether to use public-private partnerships (PPPs) to help build dozens of the promised neighbourhood health centres in England.

Combined with the creation of the Department of Government Efficiency, there's renewed pressure for government to operate more like the private sector. In theory, that might sound reasonable. But in practice, the comparison is not only unhelpful; it's often misleading. It ignores the fundamental difference between the two sectors: government missions are defined by mandates, not markets. To meet current mandates, the government and its industry partners need to reevaluate and redefine their partnerships.

The remarks were made at the second White House Task Force on Artificial Intelligence Education meeting and were accompanied by pledges from government agencies and the private sector to advance AI education, as mandated by the order. "We are here today to talk about our future in the most real sense imaginable: how America's children can be prepared to build our country tomorrow with the cutting edge tools of today," White House Office of Science and Technology Policy Director Michael Kratsios said during the meeting.

Twenty years ago this August, Hurricane Katrina devastated the Gulf Coast. More than 1,300 lives were lost. It destroyed homes, displaced families, and overwhelmed many of the institutions that undergird civil society. It was also a wake-up call that reshaped how the country responds to natural disasters. Over the past two decades, we've made real progress. Government agencies, nonprofits, businesses, and community organizations have built stronger systems to prepare before disaster strikes.

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This puts CISPE at odds with other sectors that are also competing for limited water resources.

In this new world, there's a simple truth: the public sector can't do it alone. Mobilizing private capital is no longer an option; it's essential.

At the time, the FBI recognized there was a significant need to shift their hiring practices to really focus on people with cyber skill sets, because it wasn't just about cybercrime, but also terrorism, counter intelligence and criminal investigations. We needed agents who had more of a technical discipline to help with that.