"Missions vary widely across federal agencies, but one factor underpins everything: federal employees increasingly need modern software that powers speed, efficiency and effectiveness. While these tools are flourishing in the commercial ecosystem, they remain mostly out of reach for mission owners who are caught in a lengthy and expensive maze of compliance juxtaposed against modernization mandates. The General Services Administration aims to untangle bureaucratic knots with efforts like the FedRAMP 20x modernization initiative."
"In addition to streamlining compliance while improving cloud security and risk management, the future of FedRAMP requires a fundamental shift that will remove bottlenecks and open the floodgates of commercial innovation to government agencies that need them. There are some hurdles to overcome. Strategic tension: custom clouds vs. universal trust Enabling all federal agencies to access modern commercial software-as-a-service (SaaS) and cloud platforms requires a single, codified and inheritable standard that streamlines complexity and delivery."
Federal agencies require modern commercial software to improve speed, efficiency, and mission effectiveness, yet procurement and compliance barriers block access. FedRAMP modernization efforts, such as FedRAMP 20x, aim to simplify accreditation but face obstacles including absent measurable standards, misaligned AI adoption mandates versus technical implementation, and the emergence of bespoke agency-specific cloud environments. A single, codified, inheritable security standard that meets the highest common denominator could enable broad SaaS and cloud platform access. Without that standard, agencies build isolated mission-specific clouds, creating fragmentation that increases cost, slows adoption, and limits commercial innovation.
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