OASIS Protest Dropped: US Falcon, one of two companies that had protested the RFP for GSA’s $60 billion OASIS GWAC said this week that the issue on which the protest had been based — essentially how past performance would be evaluated for companies that had changed ownership — had been resolved and the protest withdraw. The other OASIS protest, filed by AAIC, was ordered to move ahead last week under the original schedule, when a GSA official rejected the Office of General Counsel’s motion to dismiss. FCW has a full report.

FedRAMP Adds Akamai Content Delivery to list of approved CSPs: FedRAMP announced this week that it had added another approved CSP to the FedRAMP repository, Akamai Content Delivery Services. This approval brings the number of FedRAMP approved CSPs to eight. Akamai’s globally distributed intelligent platform providing delivery benefits for all content types, including HTML, images, dynamic Web 2.0, SSL, live and on-demand streaming media is now available for agencies to leverage. Knowledge Consulting Group (KCG) acted as the 3PAO. More info.

Amazon to be major player in Interior cloud contract: While Amazon Web Services was not included as a prime contract holder in the recently awarded $10 billion foundation cloud hosting services contract at the Department of Interior they are still expected to be a major player. According to this report in FCW, AWS is part of the proposed contract offerings of no fewer than five of the 10 contract awardees, with two of the awardees — Aquilent and Smartronix — being premier AWS partners.

U.S. to hit debt ceiling in mid-October: The Department of Treasury announced this week that it had exhausted the extraordinary measures it has been using to delay hitting the debt ceiling and said that the Congress will need to increase the borrowing limit by mid-October or risk the U.S. government defaulting on its financial obligations. This sets up an expected fight between Congress and the Obama Administration over spending cuts and the need to increase the borrowing limit and will come quickly on the heels of Congress having to address the annual appropriations bills and/or the need for a Continuing Resolution to keep the government running past September 30th. This is sure to get interesting with Congress only in session for nine legislative days in September. Roll Call has a report.

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.