General Services Administration (GSA) Deputy Assistant Commissioner Larry Hale on Dec. 6 ran down the latest developments on several forthcoming governmentwide acquisition contracts (GWACs), including the Polaris GWAC – which is aimed at small businesses – earning a best-in-class (BIC) designation. […]
The General Services Administration’s (GSA) Acquisition Policy Federal Advisory Committee (GAP FAC) held its first meeting today after tapping 14 new members and turning to new areas of focus including artificial intelligence, cloud computing, and cybersecurity. […]
The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) announced on Tuesday that it is the first Federal agency to submit its Open Security Assessment Language (OSCAL) format System Security Plan (SSP) to the General Services Administration (GSA) – far ahead of the White House’s July 2026 deadline to do so. […]
The General Services Administration (GSA) announced on Wednesday that it has selected IBM for a 15-year contract to provide a travel and expense (T&E) technology-managed service for the next generation of the E-Gov Travel Service (ETS). […]
The Trump-Vance transition team signed a key memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the Biden-Harris White House on Tuesday to ease the transition between the two administrations. […]
The General Services Administration (GSA) has once again extended the deadline for vendors to submit their proposals for the Alliant 3 Governmentwide Acquisition Contract (GWAC) from Jan. 10, 2025 to Feb. 3, 2025. […]
The White House announced a slew of new initiatives and partnerships on Wednesday that back up its continuing push toward expanding the Federal workforce while reducing barriers to hiring people without college degrees. […]
The General Services Administration (GSA) announced today that Ann Lewis, the agency’s Technology Transformation Services (TTS) director and deputy commissioner of the Federal Acquisition Service (FAS), will be stepping down on Nov. 22. […]
The General Services Administration’s (GSA) Technology Modernization Fund (TMF) Board has appointed two new members and one additional alternate who will bring “fresh perspectives” in how the Federal government funds IT projects, GSA said in an Oct. 29 blog post. […]
The General Services Administration (GSA) is looking to establish a multi-agency contract as it moves into its latest initiative under the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program, a top GSA Federal official said on Tuesday. […]
The General Services Administration’s (GSA) Technology Modernization Fund (TMF) announced today its latest round of investments, totaling $50.2 million, aimed at modernizing critical customer experience services across two Federal agencies. […]
The General Services Administration’s (GSA) Federal Acquisition Service (FAS) is exploring rulemaking around the possibility of publicly posting certain contractor performance metrics to GSA eCommerce and digital platforms like GSA Advantage!. […]
Nearly half of the major Federal government agencies that use Login.gov have reported challenges involving technical issues such as not having visibility into authentications, high failure rates, and lack of fraud controls, a new report from the Government Accountability Office (GAO) says. […]
The General Services Administration’s (GSA) Technology Transformation Services (TTS) group announced that Login.gov will now offer facial recognition technology to all of its partners as an identity verification offering. […]
The General Services Administration (GSA) has issued the final draft solicitation for pool one of its Ascend blanket purchase agreement (BPA), which aims to serve as a one-stop shop for agencies to acquire cloud computing products and services. […]
The General Services Administration (GSA) is seeking innovative technology solutions for the sixth U.S. Open Government National Action Plan (NAP). […]
The General Services Administration (GSA) is sharing the first draft of its CIO Modernization and Enterprise Transformation II (COMET II) Performance Work Statement (PWS) with industry after posting a request for quotes (RFQ) to the agency’s eBuy program. […]
The General Services Administration (GSA) has named Dovarius Peoples deputy chief information officer (CIO), a GSA spokesperson confirmed to MeriTalk on Sept. 27. […]
The General Services Administration (GSA) has developed an emerging technology “radar” process to help it track the trajectory of emerging technologies from initial research and development to government experiments, according to the Assistant Commissioner of GSA’s Office of Information Technology Category (ITC) Laura Stanton. […]
The General Services Administration (GSA) said it is moving “full steam ahead” with its new ASCEND governmentwide cloud computing initiative, as it released two requests for information (RFI) last week that offer additional details about the program. […]
The General Services Administration (GSA) has extended the deadline for vendors to submit their proposals for the Alliant 3 Governmentwide Acquisition Contract (GWAC) from Oct. 28 of this year to Jan. 10, 2025. […]
The General Services Administration’s (GSA) Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) has appointed Pete Waterman as the program’s new director. […]
Top tech officials at the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and the General Services Administration (GSA) on Thursday called for more public feedback on a proposed set of metrics that would measure the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) authorization experience, which they say will drive “major decisions” in shaping the program going forward. […]
Federal officials this week said that new phishing preventative pilot programs, quantum-resistant cryptography, and other identity authentication measures need to be further implemented and standardized across Federal agencies. […]
The General Services Administration’s (GSA) Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) announced this week that it is moving away from defining different tiers of authorizations and toward one designation of “FedRAMP Authorized.” […]
The General Services Administration (GSA) welcomed a group of 70 new fellows to the U.S. Digital Corps (USDC) on Tuesday after receiving a record-breaking 2,000 applications. […]
The General Services Administration’s (GSA) robotic process automation (RPA) program has helped the agency to reduce repetitive administrative tasks, but a new report from the GSA Office of Inspector General (OIG) finds that the security of the program needs significant improvement. […]
The General Services Administration’s (GSA) Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) is looking for public feedback on a proposed set of metrics that would measure the end-to-end FedRAMP authorization experience. […]
The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) wants to expand its use of authentication services that employ the Login.gov sign-on service developed by the General Services Administration (GSA), but the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration (TIGTA) said in a July 23 report that IRS is facing security hurdles in that process. […]
The White House’s Office of Management and Budget (OMB) released long-awaited guidance today to overhaul the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP), replacing the existing policy created for the program when it began in 2011. […]