Modernization
GSA’s $50B Telecom Contract Is Now Truly Open for Business
More than two years after awards were announced, agencies can now issue task orders to all nine vendors on the Enterprise Infrastructure Solutions contract.
Modernization
DOT harnesses machine learning for regulations
The Department of Transportation is leveraging a machine learning-based dashboard to help agency employees navigate its ocean of rules and regulations.
Modernization
Microsoft Gets Temporary Authority to Host Secret Classified Defense Data
A Defense agency has granted Microsoft a temporary provisional authority to host data at Impact Level 6 for the next 90 days.
Modernization
DOD preps new spectrum strategy
The Defense Department is combining electromagnetic spectrum and electronic warfare into a single strategy for 2020.
Modernization
App Rationalization Is Not About 'Low-Hanging Fruit'
While agencies often look for quick wins on new administration policies, the application rationalization process is not one of those areas, an official said.
Modernization
A More Automated FedRAMP is One Step Closer
The program office seeks public comments on updates to its automation plans.
Modernization
Greenlight for JEDI spending included in DOD funding bill
Appropriators gave the okay to JEDI spending and pushed for the completion of the Fourth Estate cloud migration by the end of fiscal year 2020.
Ideas
Legacy IT Is Not the Problem
Digital transformation requires architecting an IT organization around something more fundamental to IT organizations than technology: complexity.
Digital Government
The Governmentwide Tech Guide to the 2020 Spending Deals
The 2020 appropriations package includes billions for tech upgrades at some agencies, as well as funding for governmentwide modernization projects. In some cases, that money comes with strings attached.
Modernization
USAID looks to tech, automation for HR service delivery
The agency's chief human capital officer explains how necessity drove the adoption of a more automated HR workflow to serve its far-flung employees.
Modernization
Congress agrees on $425 million in election grants to states
The funding deal ditches stronger mandates from the House version in favor of broader language that gives states wide latitude on how to spend the funds.
Digital Government
Agencies Can Start Prepping Systems for DUNS Transition
The government will need to prepare for next year’s transition or risk the federal contracting version of Y2K.
Modernization
Army Applications Laboratory: How problems get solved
Porter Orr, director of the capabilities accelerator team with Lab, explains how the Army connects with nontraditional problem solvers to close capability gaps and speed modernization.
Modernization
Refresh market research to find top tech
In a rapidly changing environment, expecting overworked acquisition staff to become experts in every emerging technology is unrealistic.
Modernization
TMF Program Office Won’t Recoup Current Costs Until 2025, Watchdog Says
Officials pushed back strongly against the report.
Modernization
More agencies are using FedRAMP, but some are still going rogue
While hundreds of additional government cloud projects are being vetted for cybersecurity every year, a GAO audit makes clear that many agencies are still standing up programs without going through FedRAMP.
Modernization
GAO frets about TMF payback, fees
The Technology Modernization Fund – the $125 million pool of no-year money appropriated to fast-track technology upgrades – has some potential operational problems, according to an oversight report.
Modernization
Audit: Cloud Use Up But Agencies Skirting FedRAMP
More than 60% of federal agencies audited by the Government Accountability Office did not always use FedRAMP to authorize their cloud solutions.
Ideas