The new office will establish service contracts agencies can buy technology and services off of and be staffed by 40 to 50 federal employees across four divisions.

GSA awarded 12 spots on the COMET blanket purchase agreement to eight large and four small businesses, one of the latter being national security contractor Sevatec, according to an agency spokesperson.

The next system must meet Defense Digital Service security standards.

The government can experiment with how emerging technology will affect its cloud architecture.

Rubio wrote a letter to national security adviser John Bolton saying he worries the single-award contract will "result in wasted taxpayer dollars and fail to provide our warfighters with the best technology solutions."

There were widespread problems with how the agency priced products and services under IT Schedule 70, but the FSA has fully addressed them, the GSA Office of the Inspector General says.