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Federal agencies continue to face challenges in consolidating data centers, GAO says
Of the six agencies that had success, most had executive leadership buy-in and a communications plan prioritizing closures, according to the Government Accountability Office.
CDM — a pilot for a central IT modernization fund?
The Department of Homeland Security’s governmentwide Continuous Diagnostics and Mitigation cybersecurity task orders can serve as pilots to show the effects a centralized IT fund could have on bolstering agencies’ modernization efforts, officials working on the program said.
GSA’s $50B Alliant 2 ready to go after protests denied
Four companies protested the contract for a variety of reasons that the GAO found invalid and denied.
FedRAMP authorizes three AWS services under high baseline
Three of Amazon Web Services' cloud services received high baseline authorizations to work with federal clients last week.
Effort to codify Presidential Innovation Fellows program is back in House
House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy has reintroduced a bill that would make sure the program — an Obama administration project — sticks around.
Spy agencies: We can’t judge impact of hacking on election
U.S. intelligence agencies have no way of measuring the impact of Russian hacking on the recent election result, the nation’s top spy told senators Thursday.