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‘That’s where we get the leg up’: How former government officials boost Amazon’s cloud computing unit
Amazon Web Services is snapping up former government officials who can help them gain access to lucrative federal contracts.
Amazon employs more than 1 million people overall, after adding 500,000 new jobs last year alone. | Steven Senne/AP Photo
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Amazon’s massive cloud-computing unit is aggressively recruiting U.S. government officials as it pushes to make itself essential to branches such as the military and the intelligence community, a POLITICO analysis has found.
Since 2018, Amazon Web Services has hired at least 66 former government officials with acquisition, procurement or technology adoption experience, most hired directly away from government posts and more than half of them from the Defense Department. That’s a small portion of AWS’ tens of thousands of employees, but a particularly key group to its federal business. Other AWS hires
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NegOr brgy officials take lead in managing COVID-19 in communities
Philippine Information Agency
03 Jun 2021, 22:38 GMT+10
DUMAGUETE CITY, June 3 (PIA) Barangay officials in Negros Oriental will have a bigger role to play in managing the COVID-19 situation in their communities.
This after Negros Oriental Gov. and Provincial Inter-Agency Task Force-Emerging Infectious Disease (IATF-EID) Chairperson Roel Degamo issued Executive Order No. 16 yesterday directing barangay officials through the Barangay Health Emergency Response Teams (BHERTs) to take the I lead in implementing laws, ordinances, and issuances related to COVID-19 and ensuring that their constituents follow the said policies and prescribed health protocols.
One example of this is the adoption of Zoning Containment Strategies or granular lockdowns to prevent the spread of the virus.
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Commander of Strategic Command RUSI conference speech
General Sir Patrick Sanders, Commander of Strategic Command’s speech at the RUSI Strategic Command Conference: Sharpening the UK Defence’s edge in the 2020’s.
From:
26 May 2021 (Transcript of the speech, exactly as it was delivered)
Thank you, Secretary of State and let me add my own welcome to our second annual conference. Fifteen months have passed since we gathered at RUSI on Whitehall for the inaugural Strategic Command conference and it has since been a seminal period for Defence, and for Strategic Command in particular. None of us could have imagined what those 15 months had in store. COVID 19 dominated every aspect of our lives, and Defence was no exception. We’re going to spend most of today focused on the future, but it would be wrong not to dwell briefly on the pandemic and call out the remarkable work that sometimes goes unsung in Strategic Command.