Federal News Network

MARCH 12, 2024

We do everything from food service, custodial work grounds, facilities management and maintenance to information technology work and business administrative support for the federal government and commercial entities. They’re trying to ramp back up, but the money is not there and there’s no stable budget to allow for that.

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FedInsider

DECEMBER 12, 2023

In the face of new and growing threats many federal, state and local IT budgets stay the same, however. The challenge becomes how to plan and implement a zero trust environment within budgets that are slow to increase. Creating a zero trust environment holds a lot of promise to provide significantly improved cybersecurity.

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Federal News Network

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

Federal Monthly Insights - Contract Management Modernization - 9/24/2024 [link] Download audio The State Department is embarking on a transformation in how it performs acquisition. It’s moving to a category management approach, organizing procurement around the primary categories of spend.

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FedScoop

OCTOBER 6, 2023

The concepts called out in the CISA-NSA guidance fall under the broader framework of identity and access management, a critical component of zero-trust security and a pillar of the government’s efforts in that space.

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AWS Public Sector

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Amazon Web Services (AWS) employs project management principles to deliver public sector cloud outcomes. This blog post highlights project management tools, references, and AWS Management Console tips that give public sector customers better project visibility, automate task management, and help accelerate project outcomes.

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FedTech Magazine

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Some of the most aggressive innovation happening at the federal level is centered on digital asset tracking and management, far beyond the supply chain environments you might expect to see in production facilities, warehouses and distribution centers.

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The Procurement ClassRoom

MAY 11, 2024

The interplay between these principles ensures the responsible and transparent management of public funds, crucial for meeting community needs while optimizing economic benefits. The post Effectiveness and Efficiency in Public Procurement: Key Pillars for Optimal Resource Management appeared first on The Procurement ClassRoom.

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FedScoop

APRIL 22, 2024

Between the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, the National Institute of Standards and Technology and the Office of Management and Budget, 49 of the 55 requirements in President Joe Biden’s order aimed at safeguarding federal IT systems from cyberattacks have been fully completed.

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GovCon Wire

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

In order to try and organize and set up parameters for its use, the Office of Management and Budget issued a memo requiring agencies to put governance plans in place

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FedScoop

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

Federal agencies across the government have posted their plans to comply with an Office of Management and Budget memo on artificial intelligence governance, providing a window into what risk management and reporting practices will look like in the executive branch. 1 deadline. The post U.S.

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FedTech Magazine

JANUARY 29, 2024

When the Office of Personnel and Management secured $9.9 Office of Management and Budget Memo M-22-09 requires them to meet zero-trust objectives by the end of fiscal year 2024. million from the Technology Modernization Fund to support its zero-trust security efforts, the agency was thinking big. “We That includes…

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FedScoop

JANUARY 9, 2024

As a result, the GAO made two recommendations for the Office of Management and Budget related to improving the metrics. IGs reported various causes for the ineffective programs, including management accountability issues and gaps in standards and quality control.

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FedScoop

JUNE 20, 2024

Harada said OFPP, which is housed within the Office of Management and Budget, envisions the new tool dovetailing with the existing RFI process that agencies currently use within the Federal Register. “But But I think there’s also a really great benefit for companies as well.”

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AWS Public Sector

MARCH 8, 2024

In 2021, the Indiana Department of Correction (IDOC) awarded a contract to Mi-Case , an Amazon Web Services (AWS) Partner, to replace its legacy systems managing case data across the state’s corrections facilities. Mi-Case provides live, fully integrated case management software that replaced IDOC’s legacy systems.

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FedScoop

MAY 1, 2024

But the agency is working on a strategy to also onboard commercial services and looking to ensure that information it provides is fresh so people will want to regularly return, Steve Krauss, a senior advisor for OPM’s HR Quality Services Management Office, or QSMO, told FedScoop.

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FedInsider

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Thursday, October 19, 2023 | 2:00PM EDT | 1 Hour | 1 CPE The central premise of Office of Management and Budget Memo 22-09 laying out the Federal Zero Trust Strategy is that no actor, system, network, or service operating outside or within the security perimeter is trusted. Controlling access is everything.

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FedScoop

MAY 29, 2024

But they also noted that the Office of Management and Budget required agencies to designate CAIOs at the executive level in an effort to improve accountability for AI issues. He will continue in his role as National Coordinator for Health IT during the search for a permanent Chief AI Officer.”

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Federal News Network

OCTOBER 3, 2024

Jason Miller is the deputy director for management at the Office of Management and Budget. The third bucket OMB is asking agencies to focus on is managing their business and acquisition processes. Miller said this means creating a “tight loop” between leaders inside the agency and across the government.

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FedScoop

APRIL 18, 2024

When it comes to work on the technology within agencies, Martorana said establishing governance, managing risk and continuing to innovate are “the three layers of that AI cake…. The risks are significant and we don’t know them all yet. We haven’t identified this whole ecosystem yet.”

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FedScoop

JANUARY 26, 2024

The White House Office of Management and Budget is looking for input on how federal agency privacy impact assessments could more effectively mitigate risks as technologies, such as artificial intelligence, become more advanced.

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FedTech Magazine

AUGUST 1, 2024

A few months later, the Office of Management and Budget released a memorandum directing agencies in the areas of AI governance, innovation and risk management. Such discussions, in fact, are now mandatory: Last October, the White House issued an executive order on the federal government’s role in the development and use of AI.

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American City & Country

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Technologies once relied on to manage this process and reduce knowledge loss are no longer able to do so in an efficient, transparent way—skyrocketing costs, zapping institutional knowledge and worse. There are an estimated 20.3 Thankfully, the advent of artificial intelligence (AI) in the public sector is here to help.

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FedScoop

JANUARY 19, 2024

The watchdog acknowledged that OMB and the FedRAMP program management office within GSA have efforts underway to address some of the issues, including proposed guidance from OMB aimed at modernizing the program and FIPS guidance. According to the report, GSA agreed with its recommendation and OMB didn’t comment on its recommendations.

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FedScoop

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

The contracted project manager is expected to assist the agency in finding what it would need to build a strategic plan. “We The NRC had released an AI strategic plan in the spring of 2023 , but is now working to release another strategic plan in compliance with Office of Management and Budget guidance.

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FedScoop

MAY 21, 2024

Officials from the General Services Administration, the Department of Homeland Security, the Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services and other agencies will serve as inaugural members in a new advisory group to the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program.

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FedScoop

APRIL 10, 2024

The VA is inching toward awarding contracts for its upcoming modernization of a supply chain management system, officials shared during a House Veterans’ Affairs Subcommittee hearing.

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FedScoop

JULY 12, 2024

As the federal government awaits final guidance from the Office of Management and Budget meant to modernize and reform the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program, one of Capitol Hill’s top federal IT modernization advocates believes that the program is “undeniably” in a state of limbo until that guidance is issued.

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FedScoop

MAY 22, 2024

Similar efforts include an announcement from the Office of Management and Budget last year that detailed an analytics tool to track customer experience performance across agency sites. Web Design System — an open-source tool that is free for agencies to use — as a shared system and tool that “makes a huge difference.”

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AWS Public Sector

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

At the end of 2022, Will Thompson, lead computational research consultant at Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management , had a decision to make. The new data collection needed to be budget-friendly—both to install and maintain. User experience – Thompson didn’t want the user experience to change dramatically.

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FedScoop

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Legislation to improve federal agency oversight and management of software purchases passed the House on Wednesday, keeping top IT and software trade groups’ hopes alive that the bill will get through the Senate and become law before this congressional term is up. The Strengthening Agency Management and Oversight of Software Assets Act ( H.R.1695

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FedScoop

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

Meeting procurement requirements laid out in 2019 Office of Management and Budget guidance on cloud strategy has been a mixed bag for federal agencies, a new congressional watchdog report found.

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Government Contract Insights

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Office of Management and Budget (OMB) has issued a policy memorandum with a goal of promoting small business participation under multiple-award indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity contracts (MACs).

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FedScoop

OCTOBER 3, 2024

Bauer said 25% of his team’s budget goes towards cybersecurity — primarily remediation — but they have faced a 28% cut in modernization funds. For folks who are not seeing that budget line item increase for their own shop, again, the TMF is still an option around that.” The squeeze is on, but there’s no relief in sight,” Bauer said.

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FedScoop

AUGUST 20, 2024

In a report made public Monday , the Government Accountability Office outlined 37 total priority recommendations to improve how the Office of Management and Budget encourages adequate technology-related practices across the federal landscape. Fortunately, the [Chief Data Officer] Council does exist right now,” Sager said.

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FedScoop

AUGUST 5, 2024

Laura Gerhardt, director of technology modernization and data at the Office of Management and Budget, said during an Advanced Technology Academic Research Center event last week that the prioritization of threat assessments is part of an overarching strategy to position FedRAMP and its updated guidance as “a security-first program.”

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FedScoop

JANUARY 2, 2024

Mill will be responsible for managing the GSA’s cloud security strategy and “help lead the implementation of government-wide technology initiatives,” according to a news release from the agency.

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FedScoop

DECEMBER 5, 2024

The IoT Cybersecurity Improvement Act of 2020 required the National Institute of Standards and Technology and the Office of Management and Budget to develop guidance for securely procuring IoT — networked technology and devices typically connected to physical objects like buildings, vehicles and other infrastructure.

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