August 2016

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GSA Economic Catalyst Spotlight - Baltimore

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The U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) recently partnered with Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake and Nate Loewentheil, head of the President’s Task Force for Baltimore and senior advisor on the White House National Economic Council,…

Sign up for the Technology Industry Day

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The General Services Administration (GSA) is known for managing federal real estate and leveraging the government’s buying power to get the best deal for taxpayers, but it also drives and leads technology and innovation within the federal government…

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Employee outreach program connects agency work to community impact

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GSA’s impact is broad and deep across the country. It’s so broad that sometimes it’s difficult to connect the dots and to understand how exactly the agency and the work of our nearly 12,000 employees are making a difference all across…

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FedRAMP JAB Prioritization: Help Us Shape Who Works with the JAB

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When building any program, a key focus in initial growth is to ensure that you have a broad selection of services or products customers can use. This is exactly how the Program Management Office (PMO) and the Joint Authorization Board (JAB) teams have…

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GSA receives Federal Green Challenge awards from EPA

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GSA’s Greater Southwest Region continues to succeed in our efforts to become a more sustainable and energy efficient government. In fact, I recently participated in the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) awards ceremony for this…

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New FedRAMP Marketplace Dashboard

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We’re incredibly excited to announce the launch of the new FedRAMP Marketplace dashboard! It’s loaded with all sorts of ways for you to see how everyone is participating with FedRAMP! …

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Serving the Public and Transforming Federal IT Through Cross-Collaboration

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The federal government conducts such a wide range of activities and is so vast that it might be hard to see how the work of one particular agency actually makes a difference. Even though it's not always obvious, the work done by federal agencies supports…

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A fresh approach to optimizing federal data centers

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Last week, we announced that GSA’s Office of Government-wide Policy will serve as the Managing Partner for OMB’s Data Center Optimization Initiative to help federal agencies implement the data center provisions of the Federal Information…

The next step in getting vendors into FedRAMP

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As part of the FedRAMP Accelerated process, GSA is releasing the FedRAMP Readiness Assessment Report (RAR) Template, which is essentially a pre-audit, enabling cloud providers to demonstrate their readiness to achieve a FedRAMP authorization. This allows…

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