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Acquisition Policy

GSA aims to make buying SaaS easier through new policy

GSA issued an acquisition letter detailing the certain conditions when contracting officers can buy cloud services with upfront payments.

IT Modernization

House shows love for some IT modernization funds, but not all of them

Reporter's Notebook

Cyber, customer experience will continue to drive major federal technology changes

People

Exclusive DHS’s Correa to retire after 40 years in government

IT Modernization

OMB relaxes repayment requirement in new TMF guidance

Reporter's Notebook

More lawmakers getting on IT modernization bandwagon as House prepares 10th FITARA scorecard

Reporter's Notebook

In 2020, VA CIO finally received oversight over all IT spending despite 2015 law requiring it

Richard-Beutel
Commentary

How will COVID-19 impact long term trends in contracting?

Capitol Hill IT
Reporter's Notebook

Congress expected to play bigger role in federal IT in 2019

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Reporter's Notebook

Why federal IT hit a crescendo in 2018

Rod Turk, the outgoing acting CIO at the Commerce Department, said FITARA is having a clear impact on the agency.
Reporter's Notebook

On FITARA’s 4th anniversary, CIOs flexing more oversight muscles

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Reporter's Notebook

Death knell for using LPTA for services and other acquisition highlights in the NDAA

FILE - This Sept. 6, 2012, file photo, shows the Amazon logo in Santa Monica, Calif. Amazon’s cloud-computing service Amazon Web Services experienced problems in its eastern U.S. region, Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2017, causing widespread problems for thousands of websites and apps. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon, File)
Reporter's Notebook

Exclusive Does a new association to promote digital innovation have Amazon’s fingerprints all over it?

Office of Management and Budget Director Mick Mulvaney, speaks to reporters about a possible government shutdown, during a briefing in the Brady press briefing room at the White House, in Washington, Friday, Jan. 19, 2018. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)
Reporter's Notebook

Advice to CIOs: ‘Don’t pooh-pooh the IT modernization guidance’

Richard-Beutel
Commentary

The case for innovation: Let’s broaden Other Transaction Authority

Jerry Moran
Reporter's Notebook

Modernizing Government Technology Act to get second path to passage in Senate NDAA

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Rep. Will Hurd (R-Texas)
Reporter's Notebook

Convincing Senate appropriators may be the last major hurdle for IT modernization bill

Searching For The Right Piece
Reporter's Notebook

Time to evolve FITARA oversight?

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Rep. Will Hurd (R-Texas)
Reporter's Notebook

Senate concerns slow down IT modernization compromise bill

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Rep. Will Hurd (R-Texas)/AP/Cliff Owen
Reporter's Notebook

Rep. Hurd answers OMB’s IT challenge, proposes alternative strategy

FILE - In this Feb. 27, 2013, file photo, hands type on a computer keyboard in Los Angeles. News that Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg's rarely used Twitter, LinkedIn and Pinterest accounts were briefly compromised should serve as a reminder that we’re all susceptible to hacking. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes, File)
Reporter's Notebook

Expectations on the rise for USDS, GSA’s 18F

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Commentary

Making the grade! The congressional FITARA scorecard as a catalyst for change

House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer, D-Md. speaks during a commemoration ceremony for the 150th anniversary of the ratification of the 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution which abolished slavery in the United States, Wednesday, Dec. 9, 2015, in Emancipation Hall on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)
House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer (D-Md.)/AP-Andrew Harnik
Reporter's Notebook

$3.1B IT modernization effort gets some legs to go with its buzz