The memos underscore the Trump administration’s skepticism with agency performance data requirements, but now it’s to the Biden administration to decide how agencies gather and use this information.
Use our tracker, which will be updated as information becomes available, to see who is leading federal agencies in the early days of the Biden administration - from Senate-confirmed Cabinet members to acting officials.
NIST will finalize new publication NISTIR 8276 that will include eight key principles for protecting IT supply chains and release the draft to update SP 800-161, which will includes specific steps for agencies.
The Biden Administration has underscored a Buy American policy for federal procurement. It establishes an overseer at the Office of Management and Budget and clamps down on content in what agencies buy.
The new program is working with four companies to build a program to look for changes on the earth’s surface.
Job Order Contracting is an indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity contract that utilizes unit price data as the basis of pricing and a fairly well-defined process for collaborative development of scope.
The new secretary of defense, Lloyd Austin, is giving his senior leaders two weeks to send in reports on sexual assault prevention programs in the military.
The IRS estimates it will need $4 billion in multi-year funding over the next five years to meet the goals of the 2019 Taxpayer First Act and its IT modernization plan.
