The government funding package passed by Congress late December gave the General Services Administration’s Federal Citizen Services Fund a new, pass-the-hat style funding tool to allow agencies to turn over money to GSA for multi-agency or governmentwide tech work.
That new authority, which experts say could help the agency fund existing programs like FedRAMP as well as cross-agency customer experience work, also comes with oversight measures and $200 million in spending authority – up from $150 million in fiscal year 2022. Congress also raised its annual appropriation to the fund – to $90 million up from $55 million…
The fund also contributes to GSA’s Technology Transformation Services, which itself houses programs including digital consulting office 18F and solutions including the government-wide cybersecurity certification and risk management program for cloud services, the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program. FedRAMP could be another beneficiary of the pass-the-hat funding, the source told FCW… Read the full article here.