General Services Administration
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Rob Cook, a former Pixar software executive, will take over as the head of the Technology Transformation Service on Oct. 31.
October 27, 2016 -
Accessibility for all promotes open government and transparency, but it can also be a burden on agencies' Freedom of Information offices. That's where the U.S. Access Board, and a pending final rule, can help.
October 25, 2016 -
The General Services Administration pushed back its decision to March on which of the three properties under consideration would be the future home of the FBI.
October 25, 2016 -
The General Services Administration’s inspector general released a new report highlighting a host of problems for the digital services office, including losing tens of millions of dollars a year and hiring more people than it had work for.
October 24, 2016 -
Bill Gormley, president of The Gormley Group, joins host Roger Waldron for a quarterly update on current procurement policy and program trends. October 18, 2016
October 24, 2016 -
The General Services Administration highlighted its progress since April around a series of initiatives designed to make schedule contracting more streamlined and efficient.
October 24, 2016 George Young, senior director of Federal at Elastic, joins host John Gilroy to discuss data analytics and how his company can help your agency moved to the cloud. October 18, 2016
October 17, 2016-
The General Services Administration’s 18F organization is reviewing bids of a solicitation to provide identity proofing and fraud detection for its Login.gov portal. But RFQ already is raising some concerns about the initiative.
October 17, 2016 -
New preliminary data from Deltek’s GovWin shows agencies spent only $120 million on cloud computing in 2016 despite it being six years since OMB’s cloud-first policy.
October 17, 2016 -
Federal Chief Information Officer Tony Scott shared a few more clues about the guidance and metrics of the administration's plan to modernize the government's aging IT infrastructure.
October 13, 2016 -
The Office of Federal Procurement Policy issued a draft circular to institutionalize category management, but some experts question whether the initiative needs more time before putting into policy.
October 11, 2016 -
Aaron Snow, the executive director of 18F and deputy commissioner of GSA’s Technology Transformation Service, will step down on Oct. 13 and serve as an advisor to the incoming commissioner of the new service.
October 07, 2016 -
The General Services Administration is starting an interagency community on AI, to help agencies and private industry work together for civilian services.
October 04, 2016 -
The Office of Management and Budget's cross-agency team of mobility experts will soon publish its ideas for an enterprise-wide mobile strategy. The team's work is the result of a final memo OMB published in August, which pushes agencies to cut back and consolidate their mobile service agreements and contracts.
October 04, 2016 -
The transactional data rule is something the General Services Administration has instituted to try and move away from the price reduction clause some day. But it's turning out to be a slow and expensive system to get up and running. Larry Allen, president of Allen Federal Business Partners. tells Federal Drive with Tom Temin he's wondering who's going to pay?
October 03, 2016