Project Background and Objectives. The City of Austin, d/b/a Austin Energy (AE) on behalf of the IT Planning, Resource Management and Compliance team, has an urgent and critical need to procure a software solution for the upcoming 2019 NERC CIP Audit. The solution, which consists of component software applications NP-View and NP-Live, performs highly specialized cyber security monitoring of critical infrastructure electronic access points (EAPs).
Project Background and Objectives. The Central Texas Regional Mobility Authority, or CTRMA, is an independent government agency created in 2002 to improve the transportation system in Xxxxxxxxxx and Xxxxxx counties. CTRMA’s mission is to implement innovative, multimodal transportation solutions that reduce congestion and create transportation choices that enhance quality of life and economic vitality. CTRMA is seeking to undertake a structured strategic planning process that will allow for in-depth strategic discussions to be held, stakeholders to be engaged, and critical decisions to be made about the focus and direction of the organization for the coming years. Specific goals of this process include: - To engage key stakeholders (including Board members, staff members, partners, and possibly the public) in robust conversations about strategic priorities and direction - To conduct critical analyses of regional transportation needs and input from partners to help make decisions about CTRMA’s strategic direction and priorities - To develop a clear strategic roadmap and plan for CTRMA for the coming several years - To lay the foundation for ongoing operational planning needed to help implement the strategic plan CTRMA has asked Xxxx Xxxxx and his firm Good Works Strategic Advisors to propose a set of facilitation and strategic advisory services that will help CTRMA undertake a planning process and accomplish these objectives. CTRMA intends to dedicate significant amounts of staff time and support to this process, and as such is asking Xx. Xxxxx to play primarily the roles of process designer, independent process facilitator, and strategic advisor to CTRMA leadership and Board. Proposed Approach After initial discussions with CTRMA leadership, and after completion of an initial phase of input gathering via confidential Board member interviews in the fall of 2021, Good Works has a relatively strong understanding of how we would recommend CTRMA approach this engagement, although we would welcome additional conversations to further refine our proposed approach as needed. To help guide engagements like this, Good Works has developed a Strategy Map Methodology, designed to help organizations develop a thoughtful strategy for sustainable, long-term impact, and which we rely upon as a tool for each engagement (see example).
Project Background and Objectives. Evans is one of the fastest growing communities in Northern Colorado. Prior to a major flood in 2013, the City of Xxxxx operated two wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs), referred to as the Evans WWTP and the Hill-N-Park WWTP. As a result of the flood, the Evans WWTP was essentially destroyed and rendered nonoperational. The City determined at that time to replace both WWTPs with a single consolidated plant to be built at the Hill-N-Park location. The consolidated WWTP was designed for a rated hydraulic capacity of 2.88 million gallons per day (MGD), and solids loading capacity of 6,624 pounds per day (ppd) of BOD. The City’s current Wastewater Utility System Master Plan was adopted in 2015 as part of the Project Needs Assessment that led to the design of the consolidated WWTP that was expected to have sufficient capacity to satisfy the City’s needs through 2035. The Consolidated WWTP was constructed and went into operation in early 2018. However, in late 2019, plant operators determined that the new Consolidated WWTP had reached 80 percent of its influent organic loading capacity. The new Wastewater Utility Master Plan to be developed as a result of this procurement process will be the basis for planning treatment capacity expansion, solids handling processes, and collection system improvements both existing and for future growth. The City has just completed an update to its Community Master Plan, including clarification of community vision and values and a proposed future land use map that will be instrumental in the development of this updated Wastewater Utility Master Plan. The City has also completed some preliminary sanitary sewer collection planning for areas of the City in the Urban Growth Areas (UGA) south of the South Platte River. The overall goal of the project is to create a Wastewater Utility Master Plan that the City can use for the planned WWTP expansion and for design and construction of future collections systems to service the planned development throughout Xxxxx but primarily for the undeveloped areas west and south of current growth limits. The key objectives for the updated WWUMP are the following:
Project Background and Objectives. The problem of ‘Unattended baggage’ detection was part of the scope of a previous EU project called Integrated Surveillance of Crowded Areas for Public Security (ISCAPS). As part of this project, a technology road map had been produced which captured the vision for future research and development required for the technology to meet the operational requirements of potential End Users for such a system. The main outcome from the roadmap was a set of basic requirements for a surveillance system such as SUBITO: • Wide area coverage by the cameras, • Potential inclusion of smart sensors, • Day, night, all weather operation, • Person Identification, and • Minimisation of false alarms In addition ISCAPS demonstrated that image processing capabilities exist that can identify and track goods and individuals within a simple scenario, and could be used to detect isolated goods which have been abandoned for a defined period of time. However, the existing approaches had difficulty in complex and cluttered scenes, resulting in high false alarms or missed detections, especially in the case where the owner leaves goods within the vicinity of other people without their knowledge or cooperation. Detection of such threatening situations requires the explicit introduction of the concept of “ownership” and identification of the owner.
Project Background and Objectives. The intent and purpose of this project is to provide a Learning Instruction Improvement System for all schools in the School Board of Sarasota County.
Project Background and Objectives. The Deliverable describes the approach and plans that have been agreed within Work package 6 to promote and assist BUDGET-IT partners to achieve their local regulatory compliance for GDPR and to help the Consortium represent best practice for meeting these requirements. Successful compliance with GDPR relies on the ability for individual partners to understand their requisite data flows as well as agree with other partners the manner of data provision, receipt, and subsequent obligations. For a collaboration across multiple partners within different regulatory jurisdictions, a single statement as to compliance and plan to ensure it across all partners is neither possible or appropriate. Hence, besides DMP, partners are strongly advised to consult: xxxxx://xx.xxxxxx.xx/assets/rtd/ethics-data-protection-decision-tree/index.html DMP has following objectives: • To guarantee the appropriate and safe management of data collected; • To make all the partners aware of the data protection process; • To ensure compliance with the 'ethics requirements' set out and • To ensure that all activities conducted under Budget-It adhere to the highest ethical standards. The DMP will be utilized as input in the following project tasks: ▪ WP2 – (Re)Evaluating GEPs: Task 2.1 Data collection; Task 2.3 Gender Equality Audit and Monitoring (GEAM) Survey; Task 2.4 Training for inclusive GEPs for universities and municipalities;
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