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'Unimpressed' GSA gives consulting firms new deadline in quest to terminate contracts

1 week ago | fedscoop.com | Billy Mitchell

The General Services Administration is not happy with the top-10 consulting firms it asked back in February to self-identify contracts that could be terminated to save the federal government money, going as far as to call their efforts under the initiative “insulting.” Josh Gruenbaum, commissioner of GSA’s Federal Acquisition Service, wrote in a letter to those 10 firms, viewed by FedScoop, that GSA and its contracting partners are “unanimously unimpressed” with the cost savings those...
Trump administration set to end IRS’s Direct File program, per source

1 week ago | fedscoop.com | Matt Bracken |Sophia Fox-Sowell

The Trump administration has decided to terminate the IRS’s Direct File program, according to a source familiar with the situation, putting an end to the free electronic filing system that congressional Republicans and the tax preparation industry have had in their crosshairs since its creation. Work on Direct File began during Joe Biden’s presidency, bringing together some of the administration’s top technical and product minds and tapping into funds from the Inflation Reduction Act.
Trump administration launches online public deregulation form

1 week ago | fedscoop.com | Billy Mitchell

The public can now submit ideas for deregulating government through an online form, the General Services Administration announced Wednesday. GSA and the Office of Management and Budget launched the form through Regulations.gov, a website that provides public access to regulatory materials and aims to increase rulemaking participation while improving federal efficiency and effectiveness.
OSTP taps policy scholar Dean Ball as AI, emerging tech advisor

1 week ago | fedscoop.com | Caroline Nihill

Dean Ball, a policy scholar with a focus on the intersection of history, political theory, policy and technology, is joining the Trump administration as a senior policy advisor on artificial intelligence and emerging technology, he announced Tuesday on the social media platform X.
Trump orders tech modernization push for environmental permitting

1 week ago | fedscoop.com | Caroline Nihill

The Trump administration issued an executive order Tuesday directing federal agencies to maximize the use of technology in environmental review and permit processes for infrastructure development projects. President Donald Trump’s executive order aims to streamline processing time for projects, ensure legal departments in agencies have technology to provide enhanced defense of challenged environmental documents and permit decisions, reduce duplicative data submissions and more.
From Silos to Seamless: How an integrated security layer can prepare government for AI-era applications

1 week ago | fedscoop.com | Anish Patel

As government agencies continue to expand their reliance on cloud computing to modernize essential services, enhance citizen experiences, and adopt the latest innovations, they are confronting a new set of application development challenges.
GSA touts new procurement automation tool

1 week ago | fedscoop.com | Caroline Nihill

The CODY bot, a tool used to streamline procurement processes at the General Services Administration, is now ready for use across the federal landscape after three years of buildout. CODY aggregates prerequisite data into a checklist, according to GSA officials familiar with the tool, enabling staffers to see if a vendor has met all representation requirements — ensuring there is no active federal debt against a vendor, and no exclusionary or responsibility cautions to trigger notifications.
GAO says OMB takedown of apportionments website violates federal statutes

2 weeks ago | fedscoop.com | Caroline Nihill

The Trump administration’s removal of a website that posted funds appropriated by Congress is a violation of statutory requirements, the Government Accountability Office said in a letter to the White House this week. The watchdog’s determination followed a letter sent by Office of Management and Budget Director Russell Vought to Rep. Rosa DeLauro, D-Conn., last month.
Bipartisan bill aimed at enhancing NOAA’s AI use reintroduced in House, Senate

2 weeks ago | fedscoop.com | Madison Alder

A bipartisan coalition of lawmakers reintroduced a bill that would require the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to take several actions to support the use of AI forecasting and weather models.
GSA tech arm faces more workforce cuts

2 weeks ago | fedscoop.com | Caroline Nihill

The latest round of General Services Administration cuts is hitting Technology Transformation Services, specifically within the Integrated Award Environment (IAE), Solutions and Office of Regulatory and Oversight Systems (OROS) programs, sources confirmed to FedScoop. Under TTS, the Solutions platforms and services, front office, public experience and accelerators are all affected by the reductions, according to a source with knowledge of the situation.