Rich Beutel

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GSA aims to make buying SaaS easier through new policy

GSA issued an acquisition letter detailing the certain conditions when contracting officers can buy cloud services with upfront payments.

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AP Photo/Manuel Balce CenetaFILE - In this Feb. 25, 2015 file photo, the Homeland Security Department headquarters in northwest Washington. President Joe Biden has selected two former senior National Security Agency officials for key cyber roles in his administration.  Chris Inglis, a former NSA deputy director, is being nominated as the government's first national cyber director. Jen Easterly, a former deputy for counterterrorism at the NSA, has been tapped to run the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency at the Department of Homeland Security. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File)

DHS’s Correa to retire after 40 years in government

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OMB tells agencies how they can win some of the $1B in the Technology Modernization Fund

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Sen. Rob Portman (R-Ohio) AP Photo/J. Scott ApplewhiteRob Portman

More lawmakers getting on IT modernization bandwagon as House prepares 10th FITARA scorecard

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In 2020, VA CIO finally received oversight over all IT spending despite 2015 law requiring it

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defense spending

Death knell for using LPTA for services and other acquisition highlights in the NDAA

The 2019 Defense Authorization bill includes a host of acquisition changes that impact both DoD and the government more broadly.

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FILE - This Sept. 6, 2012, file photo, shows the Amazon logo in Santa Monica, Calif. Amazon’s cloud-computing service Amazon Web Services experienced problems in its eastern U.S. region, Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2017, causing widespread problems for thousands of websites and apps. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon, File)

Does a new association to promote digital innovation have Amazon’s fingerprints all over it?

The Alliance for Digital Innovation is expected to launch this week with a goal of promoting adoption of commercial technologies in the federal sector.

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Advice to CIOs: ‘Don’t pooh-pooh the IT modernization guidance’

OMB issued the instructions for how agencies can apply for the central fund to move off legacy systems.

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