We are excited to facilitate the first 2025 ALN Roundtable Series focused on Water Utility Assets. This week’s ALN Th@3 pm ET will feature the AIM-USA/ALN Paper on “State Asset Management Initiatives for Public Water Utilities” and will highlight the West Palm Beach County Water Utilities ISO 55001 certification…and recertification…journey. See more below in People, Sources, and Upcoming Events. Register at this link.
Asset Management, and particularly Asset Leadership, is bipartisan. But we see the dramatic change occurring and we don’t want to lose communication with those of you have supported and encouraged Asset Management in the U.S. Federal Government. Please keep in touch.
Keep in touch so you can see programs like this week’s Values and Benefits from Asset Management focused on Energy Generation asset owners and how sharing Asset Management Best Practices across borders is the way we want to work with Australia, Canada, and other countries. Register at this link. And join ALN Th@3 pm ET, which features ALN Board of Directors Member, Jennifer Zach, MentorAPM’s Chief Marketing Officer, talking about an AI tool for asset management assessment. See more below in People and register at this link.
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People
Jennifer Zach is Chief Marketing Officer for the technology-driven MentorAPM and has been an invaluable member of the ALN Board of Directors. As part of MentorAPM’s continual advancement of the Asset Management industry, the company has recently released Asset Lens an AI assisted asset assessment tool that allows anyone to take pictures of asset inventories and assets tags to quickly fill out an asset register and gain initial assessments. This development, as the MentorAPM slogan says, “Kicks Asset Management.” See an overview by registering at this link.
Sources
CMMC
In preparation for our web program on FedRAMP Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification requirements on February 20, 2025, we are sharing our organizational member’s post titled “Expedite Your Path to CMMC Compliance with Kahua.” Kahua has pre-approved qualifications that allows partners and customers to meet more than 65% of CMMC requirements. Register for the web program at this link.
Ideas
Reduce the Federal Footprint
Dan Mathews, former GSA Public Building Service Commissioner and frequent ALN speaker, is quoted in a Washington Post article on converting federal buildings near the National Mall to public uses. Mathews is quoted as saying, “This is truly an unprecedented opportunity to save taxpayer dollars, to improve the federal government’s mission and to greatly improve the economic prospects of the District of Columbia.” Reducing the federal footprint has been a long-term goal. It would be good to see it finally achieved through this and other initiatives. See more about the opportunity at this link.