GSA

An organization formed by the General Services Administration to spur robotic process automation adoption at federal agencies has seen automations grow by 110% across government agencies from 2019 to 2020.

Federal cyber leaders are drilling down on IT supply chain security, signaling a major new trend in federal cybersecurity following the December 2020 SolarWinds hack.

• DevSecOps

Agile requires longstanding culture shifts and decisions rooted in data.

• Digital Services

A new prioritization model for the Technology Modernization Fund ensures government has flexibility to modernize quickly.

• Artificial Intelligence

Federal AI adoption emphasizes collaboration and efforts to develop objective data models.

• GovCast
• Data

Procurement innovation and access to digital services are some of the agency's immediate priorities.

The implementation of 5G networks across federal agencies is allowing for a new phase of government modernization, especially in allowing quicker sharing of data to power a new range of technologies and draw a greater wealth of insights from available information.

The agency is driving adoption of emerging technologies through innovative IT contract vehicles.

The pandemic increased the need for secure, modernized and evolved solutions to expedite federal response efforts.

The General Services Administration has received $1 billion for the Technology Modernization Fund from the $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan that President Biden signed into law last week.

Federal agencies are all looking to ramp up artificial intelligence capabilities, and while it takes the right workforce, data, ethics, governance and development to successfully deploy them, federal officials also highlight the importance of collaboration.

Top cyber officials are calling on federal agencies to pay particular attention this year to TIC 3.0, the new Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) standards and supply chain security to significantly reduce cyber risk.