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Notes from the mission side of technology
Whitepapers, announcements, and lessons from delivering data, AI, and cloud work inside federal programs.
What a million conversations taught us about secure GenAI in government
CDC's internal AI assistant went from pilot to 5,000 users without a single public-model shortcut. The four decisions that made it safe enough to ship.
Read the article →Keeping four petabytes analysis-ready: medallion architecture at CDC scale
Bronze, silver, gold — and the operational discipline underneath that keeps 400+ projects and 3,500+ users from stepping on each other.
Read the article →Forecasting outbreaks on Azure: HPC lessons from CDC's forecasting center
Disease simulations and genomic sequencing don't fit on a laptop. How Azure Batch, Databricks, and Domino carried millions of records per run.
Read the article →When one cloud isn't the answer: running Azure and AWS side by side
Federal programs rarely get to pick a single cloud. What a hybrid Azure/AWS delivery taught us about keeping both auditable, secure, and worth their bills.
Read the article →Navigating the Future with Innovations in Data and AI: Inside EDAV
How CDC's first enterprise-wide cloud analytics platform came to manage 4+ petabytes of public health data — the architecture, the medallion data design, the DevSecOps pipeline, and the secure internal AI assistant now past a million interactions.
JRSS Achieves Triple ISO Certification
ISO 9001, ISO 27001, and ISO 20000-1 — quality, information security, and IT service management, certified together.