centers of excellence

Rick Hill, senior vice president with Human Touch, makes the case for why agencies should create a cloud center of excellence and program management office to oversee the transition to a new infrastructure.

Irv Dennis, the CFO of the Department of Housing and Urban Development, said the data analytics portion of the Centers of Excellence effort is helping to transform the agency’s financial management processes and technologies.

GSA has issued a request for information to begin modernization of legacy mainframe hardware at the Office of Personnel Management. The RFI is part of GSA’s Centers of Excellence initiative, which both agencies have agreed to use to advance the merger.

Under the IDEA Act, agency officials see a clearer path forward on making .gov websites more user-friendly.

In today’s Federal Newscast, the Merit Systems Protection Board finds between 1999 and 2016, only about 7 for ever 1000 new supervisors faced consequences for failing their probationary period.

The Office of Personnel Management will begin using the General Services Administration’s Centers of Excellence initiative in attempt to modernize OPM’s legacy IT systems — and advance pieces of the Trump administration’s proposed reorganization.

GSA rescinded awards to 81 small businesses after a Court of Federal Claims decision showed the agency erred in its evaluations of proposals.

The General Services Administration has released a request for quotation for Phase One of its Center of Excellence discovery services, laying the groundwork for GSA to set up CoEs at new partner agencies.

In today’s Federal Newscast, an internal email to staff at the National Park Service explained the effect the partial government shutdown had on the agency.

Agencies impacted and not impacted by the partial government shutdown released up to eight times more RFPs, RFIs and awards on FedBizOpps.gov last week as compared to the same weeks in previous years.