Reporter's Notebook
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Scott Orbach, the founder of EZGSA, died while on vacation in Hawaii.
February 01, 2016 -
NSA's Debora Plunkett has retired after 31 years in government, working in cybersecurity and diversity.
February 01, 2016 -
A draft policy under development by OMB would require agencies to create an inventory of, and buy mobile devices and services only from, GSA's governmentwide contract in order to get better control over $1.2 billion in annual spend.
January 25, 2016 -
GSA awarded six vendors a spot on a blanket purchase agreement to provide integration and implementation services for Salesforce tools.
January 25, 2016 -
The CIO Council is trying to bring the capital planning and investment control (CPIC) process in line with the desire by agencies to use agile development for IT programs.
January 25, 2016 -
The Defending America’s Small Contractors Act of 2016 would make the ability to protest task orders worth more than $10 million permanent.
January 18, 2016 -
The Federal Risk Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) received specific funding for the first year and is conducting pilots try to improve the approval process of cloud service providers.
January 18, 2016 -
OMB will issue two new policies in the coming months. One for enterprise software licensing, which currently is in draft, and another on IT mobile services.
January 18, 2016 -
Greg Garcia is taking over as the new chief information officer at the Army Corps of Engineers. He is one of several new CIOs agencies named over the last month.
January 18, 2016 -
The Senate IT working group is circulating a discussion draft of a cloud bill to improve FedRAMP and create a new fund at GSA to help pay for cloud transitions.
January 11, 2016 -
The annual IT budget guidance doesn't include any new initiatives, but several agency CIOs said they were pleased with OMB's support of their IT budget requests.
January 11, 2016 -
The 4th quarter update on Performance.gov details progress and plans for 2016.
January 11, 2016 -
The most read reporter's notebooks in 2015 had a variety of topics, but cybersecurity and personnel changes seemed to be most popular.
January 11, 2016 -
Two senators are pushing OMB and agencies to rein in spending on software licenses.
December 14, 2015 -
The FCC becomes the latest agency to fully move to the more secure protocol. NIST's scorecard shows agency progress over the last decade.
December 14, 2015