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By: FEDweek StaffAmong bills recently introduced in Congress are:
• S-930, to require OMB, GSA and the CIO Council to issue new minimum requirements for cybersecurity, resiliency, availability, and sustainability of federal data centers and to issue policies requiring agencies to apply those standards to both existing and new centers.
• S-931, to require agencies to create a plan to purchase software in a more cost-effective manner by conducting an independent, comprehensive assessment of their software purchasing practices for use by their CIO officers in managing IT acquisition, with required reporting to the Congress, OMB, and GSA.
• HR-1658, to create a position of VA under secretary for management and consolidate and standardize acquisition and IT functions across the department.
• HR-1659, to require the VA to contract for an independent verification and validation assessment of four of its major IT modernization programs—electronic health records modernization, supply chain modernization, financial management and business transformation, and the veterans’ benefits management system.
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