Anil K. Sharma, MS, MBA, CEA, PMP

#BoozAllen is helping agencies meet zero trust mandates. Hear Imran Umar on the CyberWire Daily podcast discuss DISA’s Thunderdome solution, built by #BoozAllen. Listen to the podcast: https://lnkd.in/emdYyZmj

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Many customers in the Federal space have complex disparate data across focus areas. Decisions are driven based on combining data sources, and making those decisions at the data level can help drive faster and more accurate answers for downstream applications and LLMs. In this blog post, Seth M. explores how "data gravity"—the increasing difficulty and cost of moving large datasets—exacerbates challenges, where applying complex business rules often leads to latency and infrastructure strain. To counter this, the Seth highlights an integrated approach using Corticon.js for decision authoring and MarkLogic as a data hub. Corticon.js empowers business analysts to build decision logic via intuitive tools like Corticon.js Studio: defining vocabularies from schemas, crafting rulesheets for conditional logic, sequencing via ruleflows, and validating with ruletests. This compiles into portable JavaScript for seamless deployment. MarkLogic complements this by ingesting data through Flux and triggering inline evaluations on document arrival, enriching records with decisions, audit messages, and traces—without any data movement. This preserves lineage, boosts throughput, and ensures a single source of truth. Key benefits include transparent, auditable decisions for compliance; reduced costs from eliminating data transfers; and enhanced efficiency for sectors like public programs (e.g., automating eligibility and claims). For LLMs and apps, an explainability dashboard visualizes policies and traces, while an AI-in-the-loop chatbot leverages Retrieval-Augmented Generation from MarkLogic to deliver grounded, context-rich responses. Check out the blog post here: https://lnkd.in/eEkHUZ7K #DataGravity #DecisionIntelligence #FederalIT #DataManagement #MarkLogic #Corticon #BusinessRules #GovTech #DataHub #RAG #AIinGovernment #Compliance #LowCode #PublicSector

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Proud to share this new strategic agreement between Elastic and GSA, which establishes government-wide pricing for Elastic’s full suite of solutions — both self-managed and cloud. Agencies can now access volume discounts of up to 60%, eliminating the inefficiencies of fragmented, one-off procurements. The agreement is a win-win for the government: simplifying the acquisition and procurement processes while modernizing legacy IT systems. See more information here: https://gag.gl/K0Q7qd

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Archimedes says, "Give me a place to stand and a long enough lever, and I will move the Earth." I say, "Give me a GitLab and CLI commands for the following three things, and I will create a CICD pipeline for your DevOps and automate 99% of it." Those three things are: 1. User authentication on the target instance server 2. Retrieval of metadata/files from the target instance server 3. Deployment/upload of metadata/files to the target instance server (I don't need the above three for Salesforce) Let the technology be whatever it may be. 😊😊 #gitlab #cicdpipeline #cicd #devops #automation #bashscripting

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Lock down your Tiger Data services, without the overhead of a VPC. Here’s a quick walkthrough of using IP Allow Lists to control access to just trusted networks.

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Milestone moment: GDIT enabled CMS to become the first federal agency to realize cloud cost savings through OneGov ─ delivering value for taxpayers and supporting digital modernization: https://lnkd.in/echp58SC

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Milestone moment: GDIT enabled CMS to become the first federal agency to realize cloud cost savings through OneGov ─ delivering value for taxpayers and supporting digital modernization: https://lnkd.in/epR7UzT8

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