The General Services Administration’s (GSA) Technology Modernization Fund (TMF) Board has appointed two new members and one additional alternate who will bring “fresh perspectives” in how the Federal government funds IT projects, GSA said in an Oct. 29 blog post. […]

The General Services Administration’s (GSA) Technology Modernization Fund (TMF) announced today its latest round of investments, totaling $50.2 million, aimed at modernizing critical customer experience services across two Federal agencies. […]

The Selective Service System (SSS) – an independent Federal agency in charge of maintaining a database millions of American men for possible military conscription – said it is on track to complete in 2025 a project to improve database security that is being funded in part by a 2022 award from the Technology Modernization Fund totaling $5.9 million.   […]

The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) is receiving a $23 million investment from the Technology Modernization Fund (TMF) to modernize its case management system.   […]

As Federal agencies are working to move toward zero trust security architectures, the head of the Technology Modernization Fund (TMF) urged agencies this week to submit proposals for TMF funding to help accelerate their zero trust efforts. […]

The Senate Appropriations Committee voted on Thursday to approve fiscal year (FY) 2025 spending legislation that includes $25 million in funding for the Technology Modernization Fund (TMF). […]

The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee (HSGAC) passed a House-led bill on Wednesday that would reauthorize the Technology Modernization Fund (TMF) through 2030. […]

The Technology Modernization Fund (TMF) said today it approved funding awards totaling $13.8 million to the Commerce Department and the Energy Department for projects aimed at furthering the Federal government’s ongoing AI safety push, and improving existing  nuclear emergency response infrastructure. […]

Rep. Gerry Connolly, D.-Va., said today that he’s eager to see Federal agencies – including the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and the General Services Administration (GSA) – make more progress on implementing the FedRAMP Authorization Act approved by Congress late in 2022. […]

The General Services Administration (GSA) has named Larry Bafundo to serve as the permanent executive director for its Technology Modernization Fund (TMF). […]

The General Services Administration’s (GSA) Technology Modernization Fund (TMF) announced three new funding awards today totaling $31 million to three Federal agencies, and the agency said that TMF is on track to soon exhaust the $1 billion of funding provided to it by Congress under the 2021 American Rescue Plan Act. […]

Further funding for the Technology Modernization Fund (TMF) has fallen completely off the radar of House appropriators, who did not include any mention of the program in their fiscal year (FY) 2025 Financial Services and General Government (FSGG) appropriations bill approved today by the House Appropriations Financial Services and General Government Subcommittee. […]

The Technology Modernization Fund (TMF) announced its latest round of awards today, which includes $18.2 million for the State Department to leverage generative AI technology to streamline data processing. […]

Nearly three years ago, the General Services Administration (GSA) embarked on its official journey towards zero trust architecture (ZTA), helped by a $29.8 million Technology Modernization Fund (TMF) award. GSA’s Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) Bo Berlas – who is spearheading the agency’s ZTA journey with the CIO shop – told MeriTalk in an exclusive interview that the Federal procurement agency has notched significant progress for ZTA in its initial three areas of focus: users; devices; and networks. […]

Federal CIO Clare Martorana forecasted this week that the hundreds of millions of dollars of investments that the Technology Modernization Fund (TMF) has made in recent years to jumpstart Federal agency security improvements will be bearing fruit within the next 12 months. […]

Two members of the Technology Modernization Fund (TMF) Board said today that the group is prioritizing shareable playbooks so all of the Federal government can benefit from agencies’ modernization projects. […]

The Technology Modernization Fund (TMF) announced two new investments today totaling over $47 million that will help NASA and the Department of Labor (DoL) address security vulnerabilities and update legacy technology. […]

Despite Congress recently rescinding $100 million in funding for the Technology Modernization Fund (TMF), a top TMF official today shared that none of the fund’s current projects are at risk from that move, and that the TMF Board plans to soon announce awards for  several additional AI-driven projects. […]

The fiscal year (FY) 2024 Financial Services and General Government (FSGG) appropriations bill released by the House and Senate Appropriations Committees today aims to rescind $100 million in funding for the Technology Modernization Fund (TMF) that Congress approved in 2021 as part of a $1 billion infusion into the fund. […]

President Joe Biden released his budget proposal for fiscal year (FY) 2025 today, allocating $13 billion in cybersecurity funding across the Federal government. This request includes an additional $103 million for the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA). The March 11 document for FY2025 comes as Congress continues to work to pass spending bills for […]

The Technology Modernization Fund (TMF) today announced a call for project proposals centered around the use of artificial intelligence technologies and in support of President Biden’s AI executive order (EO) issued last October. […]

The Technology Modernization Fund (TMF) announced three investments today totaling over $71 million to help the Department of Justice (DoJ), General Services Administration (GSA), and Armed Forces Retirement Home (AFRH) address security vulnerabilities and deliver better customer experience (CX) to the American public. […]

Jonathan Finch, acting director for digital experience in the Office of Management and Budget’s (OMB) Federal CIO office, said today that OMB is evaluating the utility of artificial intelligence technologies as it looks to execute on multiple directives to improve how the government provides digital services to citizens. […]

The Technology Modernization Fund (TMF) – administered by the General Services Administration (GSA) – has issued its fiscal year (FY) 2023 Impact Report, offering a detailed look into the fund’s investments over the past year and a look ahead to what’s in store for 2024. […]

The Government Accountability Office (GAO) said in a new report this week that cost savings generated by Federal agency IT projects funded by the Technology Modernization Fund (TMF) have been relatively small thus far, but could grow much larger as some of those projects proceed further. […]

The Technology Modernization Fund (TMF) announced a new investment today at the Department of Labor (DoL) totaling nearly $3.5 million that will help American employees find their lost retirement benefits and savings. […]

Raylene Yung is stepping down as the General Services Administration (GSA) Technology Modernization Fund (TMF) executive director, with today being her last day on the job. […]

The Technology Modernization Fund (TMF) announced two new investments today totaling over $9 million that will help the Department of Transportation (DoT) and Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to improve consumer protection systems. […]

Sheena Burrell, chief information officer at the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) and a voting board member of the Technology Modernization Fund (TMF) run by the General Services Administration (GSA), said today that the fund is seeing a lot of interest from Federal agencies in zero trust security-related projects. […]

A bill that would reauthorize the Technology Modernization Fund (TMF) through 2030 drew wide bipartisan support today at a House Oversight and Accountability markup session, passing unanimously by a vote of 43-0. […]