The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) recently launched a program that it hopes will help improve its management of software licenses – an issue that has drawn recent scrutiny from the Government Accountability Office (GAO). […]

Federal Chief Information Officer (CIO) Greg Barbaccia is tasking all Federal agency CIOs with compiling by April 2 a list of their existing software licenses with nine of the largest government software providers, and delivering by April 30 a comprehensive list of all of their software licenses and contracts. […]

The General Services Administration (GSA) announced a major update on June 13 to its Multiple Award Schedule (MAS) that will allow Federal agencies to make upfront payments when purchasing software licenses. […]

The Government Accountability Office (GAO) is calling on the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) to prioritize better managing of its software license inventories to find ways to cut costs and better inform investment decision-making. […]

The Federal government has thousands of software license agreements with vendors, but a new Government Accountability Office (GAO) report revealed that Federal agencies need better data on these software licenses to maximize cost savings and not over-purchase licenses. […]

The Biden-Harris administration unveiled a new plan on Wednesday that aims to generate contract savings while improving the performance of Federal contracts, including those for common enterprise-wide software licenses. […]

The Department of Defense (DoD) awarded a $2.5 billion 5-year blanket purchasing agreement to Dell to provide the U.S. Navy with enterprise software licenses, DoD announced June 4. The contract details that the technology company will provide user-based subscription licenses for Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Azure products. […]