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Senate leaders to attempt a compromise as shutdown looms
Time for lawmakers to pass a continuing resolution is running short as the fiscal year ends Friday. The Senate rejected the House version of CR Friday, and will take up debate on its version Monday afternoon. In the meantime, cuts to GAO and the E-Government Fund are drawing ire from supporters.
Tags: technology , budget , Congress , House , Senate , Harry Reid , continuing resolution , shutdown , Tom Coburn , Joseph Lieberman , GSA , GAO , OMB , E-Government Fund , Jason Miller , appropriations
NIST, GSA setting up cloud validation process
The goal is for independent third party companies to affirm commercial cloud providers meet the FedRAMP cybersecurity requirements. The agencies will model its approach after the one used to accredit vendors to provide products and services under HSPD-12. FedRAMP will not be ready until the fall.
Tags: technology , cloud computing , Ron Ross , GSA , NIST , FOSE , cybersecurity , FedRAMP , security controls , privacy , Jason Miller
GSA's move to the cloud: no turning back
Tags: In Depth , Francis Rose , cloud computing , GSA , Mary Davie ,
This week in cloud computing
Kundra: Agencies on path for transition to cloud Agencies are on track with their cloud computing strategies. Federal Chief Information Officer Vivek Kundra told those in attendance at the NIST Cloud Computing Forum and Workshop that all agencies have identified the three systems they will move to the cloud as part of the administration’s cloud-first [...]
Tags: cloud computing , cloud-first policy , GSA , NIST , Vivek Kundra
GSA offers advice for cloud vendors
The General Services Administration offered advice to vendors trying to sell cloud services to the government. Dave McClure, GSA’s Associate Administrator in the Office of Citizen Services and Innovative Technologies, told Federal News Radio vendors are definitely the innovators in the cloud space. But, he warns, vendors need to do more than repackage “their old [...]
Tags: cloud computing , GSA , Mary Davie
GSA: Open data is access and accessibility
In open government, dumping information on a website is useless if the users cannot quickly understand what the information means for them.
Tags: Collaboration Center , technology , open government , open data , Sheila Campbell , GSA
GSA revisits improvements to USA.gov search
This is the fourth time GSA has done a major revamping of the capabilities of the government's portal. The agency views the changes to USA.gov as part of how innovations are changing government to solve challenges. Dave McClure proposes new website to bring together all the innovation efforts across government and share best practices.
Tags: management , technology , GSA , Management of Change , USA.gov , search engine , innovation , challenges , Bing , Microsoft , Jason Miller
GSA hires Jefferson Consulting's Conrad
The General Services Administration has hired Kathy Conrad to be its new principal deputy associate administrator in the Office of Citizen Services and Innovative Technologies.
Tags: management , Kathy Conrad , GSA , mobile technology , Jefferson Consulting , Jason Miller
GSA's move to the cloud to be closely watched
The agency will implement e-mail in the cloud using Google Apps for Government under an almost $7 million deal with Unisys. Many agencies are paying attention to how GSA implements this technology. GSA's CIO or Unisys could not confirm whether the datacenter is located in the U.S.
Tags: technology , industry , Casey Coleman , Vivek Kundra , GSA , OMB , PV Puvvada , Unisys , Google , Tempus Nova , Acumen Solutions , e-mail-as-a-service , cloud computing , Jason Miller
The government's newest social experiment
Some lucky Feds and contractors get to take the government's official social network out for spin.
Tags: collaboration , Collaboration Center , FedSpace , GSA , General Service Administration , Gwynne Kostin
