General Services Administration
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The Biden administration developed a supplier base dashboard and a procurement equity tool to help agencies identify potential new small businesses to contract with as part of its equity in procurement initiative.
February 17, 2023 -
The General Services Administration's inspector general has found that the agency's Federal Acquisition Service does not follow its own policies.
February 14, 2023 -
National Industries for the Blind and two other groups are asking a federal court to make GSA rescind its commercial platform solicitation and comply with the JWOD Act law.
February 14, 2023 -
A panel of federal and industry experts describe each of their approaches to achieving a zero trust architecture to improve the security of systems and data.
February 13, 2023 -
Jeff Koses, GSA’s senior procurement executive, issued a new memo after a request the Polaris program office to bring the Transactional Data Reporting (TDR) program to governmentwide acquisition contracts.
February 09, 2023 -
The Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program, known as FedRAMP, is supposed to make it easier for agencies to use commercial cloud computing. FedRAMP, as policy, has been around for a dozen years, but only became law at the end of last year.
February 09, 2023 -
The new directive carves out some exceptions, but tells agencies they should mostly be on the DotGov or DotMil domain.
February 08, 2023 -
A bill before the House would create a new cadre of people to help the government in case of a serious cyber attack. The National Digital Reserve Corps would be managed by the General Services Administration.
February 06, 2023 -
Overall, OASIS has been a good news story for the government and for GSA as the program’s managing agency.
February 03, 2023 -
The Biden administration is giving agencies several common targets to improve customer experience in government.
February 02, 2023 -
FEMA brings back a familiar face to be its new CIO while HHS, the Navy and GSA fill key technology leadership roles.
February 01, 2023 -
The General Services Administration unveiled its Workplace Innovation Lab at its headquarters in Washington, D.C. with five furniture vendors to demonstrate what the office space of the future could look like.
January 27, 2023 -
The Department of Veterans Affairs is more than halfway to meeting its hiring goal for health care workers this fiscal year, and ahead of schedule to achieve its workforce goals this fall.
January 26, 2023 -
The Federal Drive with Tom Temin is getting two points of view on the telework. He spoke with a retired federal sales executive, who made the case for a generalized return to the office and, here, with Mika Cross, a former federal manager who specializes professionally in workplace issues, for a different point of view, championing the need for better collaboration tools for a largely remote or teleworking workforce.
January 20, 2023 -
Alan Thomas, the former commissioner of the Federal Acquisition Service at the General Services Administration and an operating advisor to Enlightenment Capital, explains how agencies can get out from under a growing mound of technical debt.
January 20, 2023