Tech inclusion tracker expands its scope
The Tech Inclusion Tracker I wrote about last week has upped its game and the scrutiny it is focusing on the government technology industry.
The tracker started by measuring the number Black and women experts that were speakers at government technology events and comparing those to U.S. population data. The U.S. population is 51 percent women and 13 percent Black.
Now they’ve added trackers for the racial and gender make up of boards of directors of government contracting companies. Also now on the tracker are the makeup of federal government leadership, and the breakdown of the race and gender of guests on the Government Matters TV program.
By Adam Mazmanian
NOTE: This story first appeared on FCW.com.
Leading Democrats on the House Committee on Oversight and Reform are pushing $9 billion in technology refresh money as part of the larger $1.9 trillion pandemic relief and recovery package being pushed by the Biden administration.
In a Jan. 27 letter led by Oversight Chairwoman Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-N.Y.) and Government Operations Subcommittee Chairman Rep. Gerry Connolly (D-Va.), lawmakers stressed the importance of expanding the Technology Modernization Fund – a pot of no-year money that agencies can tap for projects to improve service delivery, to move systems to the cloud and other efforts to cast off expensive and creaky legacy systems.
By Natalie Alms
NOTE: This story first appeared on FCW.com.
The Biden administration tapped former officials to senior slots at the General Services Administration, but the nomination of an administrator is still to come.
Katy Kale, who served as GSA s chief of staff during the Obama administration, was appointed to the post of deputy administrator and will serve as acting head of the agency until a top official is appointed and confirmed. Kale led the new administration s GSA transition team
Sonny Hashmi was tapped to serve as commissioner of the Federal Acquisition Service. He was GSA s CIO and deputy CIO during the Obama administration.
The Pentagon eliminated a class deviation that implemented the president s executive order purging diversity training across federal grants and contracts.
The Defense Department s cloud office is moving to the Defense Information Systems Agency later this month in a move that consolidates DOD s cloud strategy.