Welcome to the Fed Mission Success News Round Up brought to you by Makpar. Each week, we will provide a summary of actionable news and insights to help aid in overall mission success for Federal agency IT decision-makers and influencers.
House Passes Stopgap Funding Bill with Key Tech Program Extensions
Last week, the House voted 370-48 to pass a short-term funding bill, avoiding a government shutdown at the end of September and extending key technology programs through Dec. 11, according to MeriTalk.
OMB Issues Anticipated Memo Enforcing Login-Dot-Gov Use
The Office of Management and Budget has officially released a memo directing agencies to expand the use of Login-dot-gov for user identity verification in a push to make it the universal sign-on for public services, according to FedScoop.
Pentagon Adds ChatGPT to GenAI.mil
The Pentagon has added a secure version of ChatGPT to its GenAI.mil platform, giving more than 3 million Defense Department personnel access to the technology for unclassified work including planning, policy, logistics, and administration, according to NextGov.
Top CMS Tech Official Says Agency Is Shifting Focus from AI Usage to Outcomes
As Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services matures its uses of AI, the agency’s top IT official said monitoring how the technology contributes to outcomes is taking precedence over usage metrics alone, according to FedScoop.
OPM Eyes $40M Annual Cost for Governmentwide HR Platform
The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) expects its governmentwide HR platform to eventually cost about $40 million annually, down from more than $2 billion spent each year across existing federal HR systems, according to MeriTalk.
USAi Is No Longer Free for Federal Agencies, Website Update Says
Federal agencies will now have to pay to use the government’s artificial intelligence platform USAi, according to an update posted to the General Services Administration’s website this week, and highlighted by FedScoop.
14 Organizations Are Looking to Join Federal Electronic Health Record Program
More than a dozen U.S. government agencies are in various stages of joining the federal electronic health record modernization program, or FEHRM, which is seeking to make health data exchanges seamless and move to cloud-based infrastructure, according to NextGov.
