GSA challenges developers to speed up end-user license agreement reviews

The solicitation comes just days after GSA announced it is canceling its $15 billion Alliant 2 Small Business governmentwide IT contract after it was plagued with protests.

With IT personnel struggling to support projects, the agency wanted to ensure any employee could manage them.

GSA says it is "planning a new approach" for small business IT governmentwide acquisition contracts after "the federal government's requirements have evolved."

There are still necessary opportunities to improve things like "authentication and identity management as we interface with our citizens," said Roat.

Standardization will let the agency build applications once and move them anywhere in the environment, but more resources are needed.

The Trusted Internet Connections program has begun working with agencies on such architectures, but it's only one step toward modernization.

Going forward, organizations will need to define the "new normal," said USPS's CISO. Every company will have to decide if it still needs employees working side-by-side.

"With this crisis, the importance of hybrid cloud and AI has not changed," Arvind Krishna said at IBM's Think Gov digital event. "What has changed is the pace at which they are being adopted."

AWS's Aerospace and Satellite Solutions business will be headed by reitred Air Force Maj. Gen. Clint Crosier, former director of planning for the U.S. Space Force.

The $10 million task order comes a little more than a year after the telecom company won the first under the EIS contract.