DOD aiming for 30-day approval for mobile devices: The Department of Defense announced this week that it is overhauling its process for approving mobile phones, tablets and apps aiming to get new technologies in the hands of personnel quicker. Under the new policy, DOD hopes to be able to approve new technologies within 30 days. To speed the process DOD is working with industry to ensure that devices are built to DOD standards. This action follows the awarding of a mobile device management contract in June. DOD expects the process to be fully operational by April. Federal Times has a report.
DHS adds 18 to EAGLE II: DHS announced this week it has added 18 new companies to the EAGLE II contract, 11 for business and technical management and 7 for service delivery. Each EAGLE II contract comes with a 5 year base period of performance with 2 options years. Overall EAGLE II is expected to be worth approximately $22 billion over the life of the contract. See GovConWire for more.
OASIS RFP Protested: In procurement news, there have been two protests related to the release of the GSA OASIS RFP a couple of weeks ago, one filed with GAO challenging the terms of the solicitation and another filed at the agency level challenging the evaluation criteria. GAO said it will rule on the protest by October 18th and under the FAR agency-level protests must be dealt with in 35 days. Questions on the RFP are due August 20th and responses due September 17th. FedNewsRadio reports.
DHS awards continuous monitoring BPA: DHS award 17 companies a spot on the new continuous monitoring and diagnostics contract, which could be worth up to $6 billion. Under the terms of the award companies can provide tools, hardware and software, designed to implement continuous monitoring as a service (CMaaS) at civilian agencies. See FedNewsRadio for more, including a list of BPA winners.
MyUSA.gov moving forward: MyUSA.gov, a personalized web services portal for citizen interaction with government moved closer to reality as GSA released a notice in the Federal Register seeking comments regarding information collection related to the program. The program itself is being developed by the Presidential Innovation Fellows Program and was included in a July 8th speech by President Obama announcing his plans for a new management agenda, designed to leverage technology to drive government innovation. See the Federal Register Notice 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.