Obama Announces New Management Agenda: On July 8th President Obama announced plans to focus attention on a new management agenda aimed at leveraging innovation and technology to improve government services. The announcement was short on details, but it is expected the Sylvia Burwell, the new OMB Director who is heading this up will begin to formulate ideas in the near future. In the announcement Obama pointed to the effort to consolidate data centers and the open government initiative as examples of innovations from his first term. He also pointed to the development of Healthcare.gov, MyUSA and the new batch of Presidential Innovation Fellows as some of what we can expect to see going forward. More to come and FCW has a story.
DISA to Open Cloud Competition in August: DISA is currently soliciting industry feedback on a draft request for proposals published on June 24th for what is expected to be a $450 million cloud computing project. According to comments from DISA they released the draft RFP to spark a discussion with industry about how to make cloud services available throughout the Department of Defense. The agency will hold a pre-solicitation conference on July 12th and expects to issue the formal RFP on August 26th. Federal Times has more.
GSA’s FedRAMP Seeks to Update Baseline Controls: While we were away, FedRAMP announced a renewed effort to update the baseline security controls associated with the cloud security authorization program, to ensure that the controls are in line with the recently updated NIST Special Publication 800-53, Revision 4, Security and Privacy Controls for Federal Information Systems and Organizations. As part of this process they are soliciting public comments via a survey which can be found here.
Interior Takes Records Management to the Cloud: The Department of Interior is the first cabinet level agency to officially take records management to the cloud through the Email, Enterprise Records and Document Management System (eERDMS). The effort is part of Interior’s IT Transformation Initiative which is expected to save $500 million by 2020. IQ Business Group manages the cloud that will store the agency’s records and documents. FCW covers it here.
Michael Hettinger is VP for the Public Sector Innovation Group (PSIG) at SIIA. Follow his PSIG tweets at @SIIAPSIG. Sign up for the Public Sector Innovation Roundup email newsletter for weekly updates.