The marketplace is meant to help "small, innovative companies that, frankly, don't either have the resources or the sophistication in terms of the contacts to reach sources of capital."

The so-called “Amazon for government” plan included calls for a system to allow federal agencies to purchase directly from e-commerce retailers.

The bill sets the "presumption" that government data should be presented as open and machine-readable data.

A new addition to Pentagon leadership created by the fiscal 2017 National Defense Authorization Act could change the way the department's chief information officer handles the job.