Almost a year into its efforts to transform the way the Agriculture Department does business by standing up five Centers of Excellence (CoEs), the General Services Administration says it's gearing up to start the process up all over again at a second agency.
Joanne Collins Smee, the director of the Technology Transformation Service and deputy commissioner of the Federal Acquisition Service at the General Services Administration, is leaving at the end of August.
In today's Federal Newscast, new analysis shows significant regulatory activity has fallen 74 percent since the new team took office.
USDA and GSA want a quick turnaround for responses from industry for five of the six solicitations by Aug. 10 under the Centers of Excellence effort.
GSA and USDA ask for vendor feedback on initial plans for phase 2 of the IT modernization centers of excellence strategy.
GSA is starting to look for other agencies to begin creating and working with their own CoEs for 2019 and beyond.
GSA to hold cloud reverse industry training day to help further educate federal acquisition and IT executives about buying, using these services.
The administration wanted it to be harder to achieve a good grade on the FITARA scorecard, because it wants to focus agencies on certain tangible actions.
Federal CIO Suzette Kent says a White House summit with tech leaders this week touched on ways to get the most out of the federal government's huge stores of data.
The Trump administration has big plans to improve the government's customer service, but Margaret Weichert, the deputy director for management at OMB, says getting there means more than just modernizing IT.
A long-time career fed says he's excited by the prospect of modernizing and security not only IT but also service delivery.
In the omnibus spending bill passed last month, Congress gave the TMF $100 million for the rest of fiscal 2018, falling short of the $228 million the Trump administration asked for in its budget proposal.
The General Services Administration has chosen five companies for the first phase of its Centers of Excellence IT modernization initiative at USDA.
USDA, working with GSA and the Office of American Innovation, will soon take another step towards standing up a major part of the Trump administration's IT modernization strategy.
In today's Federal Newscast, a new policy from the National Science Foundation will require grant recipients to report the findings of any sexual harassment investigation against a researcher.