FedRAMP

House Oversight members want Login.gov documents outlining $187M modernization award

The chairman and ranking member of a House subcommittee investigating alleged misleading statements about the digital identity site want to know how the site’s project team secured a $187 million modernization grant.

  • By Carten Cordell

Federal procurement is poised for reform—here's what to keep in mind

Increased collaboration between the private and public sectors will help all parties involved understand how best to modernize government systems while minimizing potential disruptions to critical operations.

  • By David Santiago

New funding flexibility could help extend the reach of the Federal Citizen Services Fund

The new pass-the-hat style funding tool could be tapped to fund cross-agency work.

  • By Natalie Alms

The present and future of FedRAMP

The acting director of the General Services Administration's Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) said his team is focusing on a future of automation.

  • By Chris Riotta

NIST's supply chain security guidance tells agencies to look to FedRAMP

The agency has spent years revising guidance for organizations to address vulnerabilities presented by vendors of software and other enterprise suppliers.

  • By Mariam Baksh

What’s next for FedRAMP?

Over the last 18 months, as the COVID-19 pandemic pushed agency networks to the brink, FedRAMP’s role in ensuring secure federal IT systems has become more critical than ever.

  • By Stephen Kovac

Senate inches closer to FedRAMP legislation

Senators expressed concerns over potential conflicts of interest, high costs and inconsistent review processes during a roundtable meeting with federal officials and IT experts overseeing the General Service Administration’s cloud security authorization program.

  • By Chris Riotta

Leveraging OSCAL for FedRAMP authorizations

An automated FedRAMP review process will speed up authorizations, drive continuous improvement and put cloud service providers in the driver's seat.

  • By Sarah Hensley

How to fund security and modernize at the same time

FedRAMP's standards go a long way toward the security goals the White House just set -- but smaller firms must be able to afford the authorization process.

  • By Michael Garland and Gaurav "GP" Pal

Government needs a massive investment in FedRAMP

A well-funded shared service could relieve an authorization bottleneck and bring essential cloud services to the government market.

  • By Michael Garland and Gaurav "GP" Pal

House passes FedRAMP bill

The House today passed a bill aimed at standardizing the processes federal agencies use to onboard cloud computing technologies.

  • By Justin Katz

CMMC reciprocity guidelines are still a work in progress

The Defense Department is hoping to begin rolling its Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification program later this year, but questions remain about how reciprocity with FedRAMP will be handled.

  • By Lauren C. Williams

Secure and rapid modernization takes innovation from all sides

As the past few months have shown, close collaboration and aggressive sharing of lessons learned can pay big dividends.

  • By Patrick Perry

GAO plans review of telework tech

The congressional watchdog plans to examine agency lessons learned from the rapid rollout of telework tools as part of pandemic response.

  • By Mark Rockwell
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Report: FedRAMP must evolve to meet demand, emerging tech

A new report lays out where FedRAMP has gone wrong – and what can be done to fix it.

  • By Derek B. Johnson

Farm credit agency looks to cloud

The small independent agricultural loan regulator wants to go all-in on cloud-based financial reporting.

  • By Mark Rockwell

State looks to the cloud for building management services

The State Department's building administration agency is investigating software-as-a-service solutions for its site managers as an alternative to an existing shared services platform.

  • By Mark Rockwell

More agencies are using FedRAMP, but some are still going rogue

While hundreds of additional government cloud projects are being vetted for cybersecurity every year, a GAO audit makes clear that many agencies are still standing up programs without going through FedRAMP.

  • By Derek B. Johnson

Google Cloud gets FedRAMP High tag

Google's cloud offering earned the highest FedRAMP authorization for cloud services.

  • By Mark Rockwell

How a mature FedRAMP sets the stage for more ambitious cloud projects

Cloud adoption is being driven by broader pressure on agencies and maturation of the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program.

  • By Andrew Williams

Oracle fires back in JEDI lawsuit as court date approaches

Lawyers for Amazon Web Services, the Department of Justice and Oracle are set to deliver oral arguments in the long-running JEDI lawsuit on July 10, while an award from DOD is expected in late August.

  • By Lauren C. Williams and Adam Mazmanian