- Fedramp 20x has drastically reduced the time it takes to the United States government to approve a service
- Automation and artificial intelligence can remove part from the stress of manual processes
- The GSA is also making movements to centralize the acquisition to obtain better offers.
The Federal Risk Management and Authorization Program of the US Government.
Fedramp 20x is appreciated for the impulse, an Biden era initiative that lives under the Trump administration, which aims to modernize the authorization of the cloud by reducing the necessary amount of documentation, allowing automation and optimizing decision making.
In 2024, a budget administration and memory office explained how “a standardized and reusable approach for safety evaluations and authorizations for cloud computing products and services” could accelerate the existing process.
Fedramp is approving more cloud contracts than ever
The new process requires machine legible safety indicators that can be analyzed by artificial intelligence even before they reach the human review stage. Currently in a pilot phase, phase one will focus on low -impact and lower security services with phase two that prove moderate impact agreements.
Consequently, the United States government has been able to reduce the time it has been approved by an agreement of more than a year to about five weeks, marking a colossal improvement in the outdated system.
“The program is establishing a new standard for the Federal Modernization of IT and reaffirming GSA’s commitment to provide more intelligent and safe services for Americans,” explained the interim administrator of Gsa Michael Rigas in a GSA announcement.
The director of Fedramp, Pete Waterman, added: “Fedramp 20x has allowed us to rethink the entire authorization model and demonstrate that security and speed can coexist in the federal space.”
Trump has also pressed for the acquisition of IT consolidated under the administration of General Services (GSA) while seeking to acquire contracts from the entire government instead of individual department contracts, which finally leads to great savings thanks to a better purchasing power.
As a result, we have already seen companies in the cloud and other technology companies offer heavy discounts to the White House, including AWS, which gives the United States government $ 1 billion of credit to continue managing their services in the cloud.
