Congressional Budget Office
Complex data. Clearer access. A team ready to take over.
Updates to data analysis software on Amazon Web Services GovCloud, with access based on each person’s job and training for the team taking over.
See how it works.
30 seconds · Silent walkthrough
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Walkthrough of a Research and Engineering Studio environment for the Congressional Budget Office. An administrator reviews projects for each analysis team and the file systems attached to one, then adds an analyst to the Tax Modeling project as a Project Member. The analyst launches a virtual desktop under that project, it provisions and opens in the browser with the project's data mounted, the analyst browses their home directory, and the platform team checks module health on the Environment status page.
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Each analysis team has its own project, with its groups and file systems attached.
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Access is granted by project role: an admin adds an analyst to the team as a Project Member.
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The analyst launches a virtual desktop under their project from an approved software stack.
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The desktop provisions on Amazon Web Services GovCloud and opens in the browser with the project’s data mounted.
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The file browser gives each analyst web access to their home directory.
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The team operating the platform checks module health and infrastructure hosts from the same portal.
Starting point
Analysts needed an easier way to access sensitive records and study the data. The old system made access and getting new analysts started hard to manage.
What we built
We adapted Amazon Web Services Research and Engineering Studio for the Congressional Budget Office and ran it on Amazon Web Services GovCloud. The updates included online workspaces for analysts, data access based on each person’s job, and automatic software updates.
What happened next
50% less analyst onboarding time.
The project produced updated software and a clearer way to manage analyst access.
Ongoing work
The system was designed for the Congressional Budget Office team to take over so it could continue operating and evolving the software independently.
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