Reporter's Notebook
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Mia Jordan, the CIO at the Agriculture Department’s Rural Development bureau, is leaving after 10 years to become the CIO at the Education Department’s Federal Student Aid Office.
August 25, 2020 -
The Office of Federal Procurement Policy, GSA, NASA and NITAAC are working together to launch a new office in October that will use acquisition intelligence to help agencies make better IT buying decisions.
August 25, 2020 -
SBA and GSA are defending their decision to limit the period of performance under the 8(a) STARS II governmentwide acquisition contract as part of raising the ceiling by $7 billion, saying more than 500 of the 700 small businesses have graduated from the socioeconomic program.
August 24, 2020 -
Five of 10 agencies responded to Sen. Maggie Hassan’s (D-N.H.) request for details and plans for how they will modernize outdated systems and what Congress can do to help.
August 18, 2020 -
The Small Business Administration’s inspector general found the four-year effort to develop a single platform, Certify.SBA.gov, for small businesses to apply for socioeconomic contracting programs fell well short of its goals.
August 17, 2020 -
A panel of former federal technology executives offered the House Oversight and Reform Subcommittee on Government Operations suggestions for improving the Federal IT Acquisition Reform Act (FITARA) scorecard after five years.
August 10, 2020 -
The CIO Council released a new guide developed by the Federal Technology Investment Management community of practice and the General Services Administration’s Office of Governmentwide Policy, called Meeting IT Priorities with Technology Business Management.
August 10, 2020 -
The IT-AAC and the CMMC board signed a memorandum of understanding to create a center of excellence where the two non-profits will work together to promote the standards, train industry and work with NATO partners to adopt the requirements.
August 05, 2020 -
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency detailed the concept of trust zones under the final TIC 3.0 implementation guidance released last week.
August 04, 2020 -
House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) suggested giving the IRS $2 billion under the Technology Modernization Fund and then letting agencies use the savings from the tax agency for other projects.
August 03, 2020 -
The federal fourth quarter spending spree is in full swing with agencies expected to spend more money during the last three months of 2020 than they have spent in the previous five years during the final quarter of the fiscal year.
July 14, 2020 -
The General Services Administration says it’s creating more visibility into the transition to the Enterprise Infrastructure Solutions (EIS) program through meetings with deputy secretaries, letters to agency CIOs and agency transition managers and briefings with smaller agencies.
July 13, 2020 -
The General Services Administration is taking corrective action under its $5.5 billion 2GIT contract by changing the self-scoring evaluation approach.
July 08, 2020 -
Sens. Rob Portman (R-Ohio) and Maggie Hassan (D-N.H.) introduced a bill to codify the IT modernization Centers of Excellence initiative as part of a growing acknowledgement on Capitol Hill that agencies need more resources to move off legacy technology.
July 06, 2020 -
Federal News Network asked 10 members of the federal IT community to offer comments and insights about the impact Federal CIO Suzette Kent has had on the government over the last two-plus years.
June 29, 2020