The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) is charting its next steps with plans over the next two years including a Cloud Center of Excellence (CCoE), refining program budgeting and execution, and undertaking infrastructure upgrades, an NGA tech official said last week.   […]

The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) held a launch event today for its STRATUS program – a suite of government-wide basic ordering agreements (BOAs) to provide rapid access to cloud capabilities – and teased an annual forecasting tool for the program. […]

The Government Accountability Office (GAO) is recommending that six large Federal agencies take action to lessen the impact of restrictions put in place by software vendors that make it more expensive for agencies to run software products in a variety of cloud environments. […]

The U.S. Army is expanding its cloud capabilities by adding new cloud service providers (CSPs) to its lineup and standing up a pilot project aimed at improving communication between the Department of Defense (DoD) and external partners, a senior Army official revealed on Tuesday. […]

The U.S. Air Force this week awarded Accenture Federal Services a task order of up to $1.6 billion to efficiently scale and enhance its multi-cloud Cloud One environment, according to a press release from the IT service management company. […]

When embarking on a digital transformation journey to the cloud, tech experts on Tuesday afternoon recommended that the first step should be migrating all of the data into the cloud environment. […]

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is utilizing cloud technology on its path to digital transformation to help it follow its internal mantra of “Buy vs. Build,” according to Chief Technology Officer (CTO) Mohammed Sohail Chaudhry. […]

The Department of the Navy announced on Tuesday that its Flank Speed cloud service is the first to achieve full compliance with the Department of Defense’s (DoD) zero trust goal by meeting all 91 targeted zero trust capabilities, hitting a major milestone about three years ahead of deadline. […]

The Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) is gearing up for growth in its out-of-the-continental United States (OCONUS) cloud environment, forecasting an expansion of its private and commercial cloud programs. […]

The Cloud Safe Task Force (CSTF) – comprised of four nonprofits: MITRE, the Cloud Security Alliance (CSA), the Advanced Technology Academic Research Center (ATARC), and the IT Acquisition Advisory Council (IT-AAC) – published a new set of recommendations today to establish a National Cyber Feed (NCF). […]

The General Services Administration (GSA) has issued the final draft solicitation for pool one of its Ascend blanket purchase agreement (BPA), which aims to serve as a one-stop shop for agencies to acquire cloud computing products and services. […]

Eighteen of the 24 largest Federal agencies have failed to establish guidance on service level agreements for their cloud providers – ignoring one of the five key requirements put in place by the White House. […]

How did 18 of the 24 largest Federal agencies improve their overall grades on the 18th edition of the FITARA Scorecard issued today? […]

The General Services Administration (GSA) said it is moving “full steam ahead” with its new ASCEND governmentwide cloud computing initiative, as it released two requests for information (RFI) last week that offer additional details about the program. […]

Illumio Government Cloud has achieved Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) Authorization to Operate (ATO) at the Moderate Impact Level under the sponsorship of the Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General, the Zero Trust Segmentation (ZTS) company announced on Sept. 5. […]

The National Security Agency’s (NSA) Hybrid Compute Initiative (HCI) launched in 2021 won praise today from NSA Director Gen. Timothy Haugh who said the program represents the “future model” for the agency because it maximizes NSA’s ability to quickly leverage industry advancements in artificial intelligence (AI) and other technologies.  […]

The Department of the Navy’s Neptune Cloud Management Office (CMO) launched its first mission owner into the new Flank Speed Azure IL6 cloud environment, and they’re already prepping a second mission owner for takeoff, according to an Aug. 22 announcement on LinkedIn. […]

The Department of Defense (DoD) has surpassed the $1 billion milestone on its $9 billion multi-vendor cloud contract, with over 65 task orders distributed to a variety of U.S. defense organizations, the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) announced last week. […]

The General Services Administration’s (GSA) Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) announced this week that it is moving away from defining different tiers of authorizations and toward one designation of “FedRAMP Authorized.” […]

The Pentagon announced Wednesday that it has executed on $969 million in task orders on its Joint Warfighting Cloud Capability (JWCC) cloud services contract vehicle and currently has 75 packages in the process for award. […]

The Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) is preparing to roll out a pilot version of its Olympus managed cloud environment in September, designed to offer advanced management capabilities specifically for Pentagon cloud users. […]

Les Benito, the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) Hosting and Compute Center’s chief of product development and management, told reporters this week that the Joint Warfighter Cloud Capability (JWCC) contract is rapidly gaining momentum, with anticipation of additional task orders in the pipeline. […]

The Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) is gearing up to launch a pilot version of its Olympus managed cloud environment in September which aims to provide advanced management capabilities for Pentagon cloud users, an agency official said today. […]

The Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) on Thursday released its inaugural Vision for the Intelligence Community (IC) Information Environment: An IT Roadmap. […]

The General Services Administration (GSA) today unveiled the roster of its new Technical Advisory Group (TAG) created to “help inform decision-making on the technical, strategic, and operational direction” of GSA’s Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) that evaluates and authorizes cloud products and services used by Federal government agencies. […]

The General Services Administration (GSA) today unveiled the roster of its newly created governing board of the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) that provides a government-wide approach to security assessment, authorization, and continuous monitoring for cloud products and services used by Federal government agencies. […]

A new House bill aims to require the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to begin the process of updating its two legacy IT systems that manage and report on air quality data throughout the country. […]

The General Services Administration (GSA) has named Lawrence Hale chairman of the Federal Secure Cloud Advisory Committee (FSCAC) that it launched in early 2023 to follow through on  legislation approved by Congress in 2022 to codify the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) into law. […]

The Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) reached a new milestone in its classified cloud effort by migrating more than 300,000 Department of Defense (DoD) users into the new secret environment, the agency announced via LinkedIn on April 22. […]

The Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) is currently developing a new cloud service management platform to ease barriers and burdens to services, a top cloud expert at the agency said on Wednesday. […]