Two pieces of legislation with significant Federal IT implications successfully completed the long legislative process in late December, while a third such bill has been sent to the White House and still requires President Biden’s signature before becoming law. […]

The House last week voted to approve a bill that would require agencies to share custom-developed source code with each other in an effort to reduce duplicative software contracts across the Federal government. […]

The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee (HSGAC) today approved two bills related to cybersecurity and software – the Industrial Control Systems Cybersecurity Competition Act and the Source Code Harmonization And Reuse in Information Technology (SHARE IT) Act. […]

New legislation introduced last week by Sens. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, and Gary Peters, D-Mich., would require agencies to share custom-developed source code with each other in an effort to reduce duplicative software contracts across the Federal government. […]