TMF Stuck at $25M as House Approps Clears FY2021 FSGG Funding Bill Jul 15, 2020 | 5:31 pm Proposed Fiscal Year 2021 funding for the Technology Modernization Fund (TMF) remains stuck at $25 million as the full House Appropriations Committee voted today to approve the FY 2021 Financial Services and General Government (FSGG) appropriations bill that covers a host of executive branch organizations including the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and the Office of Personnel Management (OPM). […]
Deputy Fed CIO Roat Targets TMF, MGT Act Money to Speed Modernization Jul 15, 2020 | 8:58 am Deputy Federal CIO Maria Roat this week shared success stories of accelerated IT modernization during the COVID-19 pandemic at the Small Business Administration (SBA) and across the Federal government, while emphasizing the importance of programs such as the Technology Modernization Fund (TMF) to continue long-term modernization. […]
TMF Funding Boost Hopes Take a Step Back in FY2021 Approps Bill Jul 8, 2020 | 2:02 pm If the Technology Modernization Fund (TMF) is going to see a big boost in funding anytime soon, it may not arrive through the regular annual appropriations process. […]
Big Tech Stumps for $1 Billion TMF Boost Jun 30, 2020 | 10:35 am A collection of trade groups representing the nation’s biggest tech firms is urging Senate leadership to match or exceed the $1 billion in funding for the Technology Modernization Fund (TMF) approved by the House last month as part of the HEROES Act pandemic-relief legislation. […]
Connolly Urges Careful Steps on Workforce, IT Spending Apr 23, 2020 | 4:58 pm Rep. Gerry Connolly, D-Va., today urged the Federal government to proceed with an abundance of caution with its nascent planning to return workers to their office locations amid the coronavirus pandemic, and offered some insider handicapping on the likelihood that Congress will act to provide more funding in the near term for Federal IT modernization. […]
Rep. Connolly Pushing Hard for $3 Billion TMF Bump in Relief Bills Apr 16, 2020 | 4:23 pm Rep. Gerry Connolly, D-Va., said today he is continuing to push hard to include a $3 billion Technology Modernization Fund (TMF) budget increase in future Federal government COVID-19 relief legislation. […]
My Cup of IT: TMF Boost Can Break Modernization Logjam Mar 30, 2020 | 9:49 am What does Covid-relief legislation mean for Fed IT? So far, not nothing, but in the big picture, not enough to move the needle on any large-scale modernization push. […]
House Version of COVID Relief Bill Features $3 Billion TMF Item Mar 24, 2020 | 3:15 pm A House version of COVID-19 relief legislation being prepared as an alternative to the separate relief/stimulus bill being considered by the Senate on March 24 features a stunning proposed increase in funding for the Technology Modernization Fund (TMF) that serves as a repayable source of capital for Federal agency IT modernization projects. […]
President’s FY21 Budget Offers TMF $150 Million Feb 10, 2020 | 4:25 pm The White House Fiscal Year 2021 budget proposal allocated $150 million to the Technology Modernization Fund (TMF) to continue its modernization initiatives. […]
USDA, HUD, Energy Are First Agencies to Pay Back TMF Jan 13, 2020 | 1:42 pm The Departments of Agriculture (USDA), Housing and Urban Development (HUD), and Energy are the first three agencies to begin paying back Technology Modernization Fund (TMF) grants, representatives from each agency confirmed to MeriTalk. […]
TMF Gets $25M in FY2020 Budget Compromise Bill Dec 17, 2019 | 8:32 am A compromise budget agreement between House and Senate negotiators has allocated $25 million for the Technology Modernization Fund in Fiscal Year 2020. […]
OMB, GSA Must Improve TMF Fee Processes, GAO Says Dec 16, 2019 | 10:52 am The General Services Administration (GSA) and the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) are having problems with Technology Modernization Fund (TMF) fee collection and project cost estimations, according to a Dec. 12 Government Accountability Office (GAO) report. […]
House, Senate Negotiators Agree to FY2020 Spending Deal Dec 12, 2019 | 4:42 pm House and Senate negotiators have agreed to a bipartisan compromise deal to ensure funding for the Federal government through the end of Fiscal Year 2020, according to reports from multiple media outlets today. […]
GSA to Keep Pushing on IT Modernization in FY2020 Nov 25, 2019 | 9:45 am The General Services Administration (GSA) made strides in IT transformation throughout Fiscal Year 2019 and plans to continue to prioritize modernization in FY2020, according to its FY2019 Agency Financial Report released on Nov. 21. […]
Fed CIOs Tell Agencies to Consider ‘Repeatability’ in TMF Proposals Nov 20, 2019 | 3:47 pm The Technology Modernization Fund (TMF) received praise from top Federal CIOs at ATARC’s TMF event on Nov. 20 but for agencies looking to score a grant, board members recommended proposing projects with government-wide significance. […]
TMF Makes New Awards to USDA and EEOC Oct 21, 2019 | 3:37 pm The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) announced the award of $12 million total from the Technology Modernization Fund (TMF) for two new projects at the Department of Agriculture (USDA) and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC). […]
Senate Offers $0 for TMF. Now What? Oct 3, 2019 | 10:47 am After all the negotiations were said and done in the Senate Appropriations Committee, the Technology Modernization Fund (TMF) ended up with zero dollars for fiscal year 2020 from the upper chamber of Congress. […]
Senate Subcommittee Zeros Out TMF Funding for FY2020 Sep 17, 2019 | 5:46 pm The Senate Subcommittee on Financial Services and General Government today approved the FY2020 Financial Services and General Government Funding bill that zeros out funding for the Technology Modernization Fund (TMF) for FY2020, a source with knowledge confirmed. […]
Rep. Connolly: Fed IT is Modernizing, but Expect More Nudges Jul 24, 2019 | 11:02 am Federal IT is on the right path and is making progress on modernization, but Congress will continue to push agencies to modernize faster and address slowdowns in processes, including FedRAMP, said Representative Gerry Connolly, D-Va. […]
Data Strategy Feedback Hits Common Theme of Culture Change Jul 9, 2019 | 9:43 am While comments from stakeholders in academia and industry on the Federal Data Strategy hit a wide range of topics, an overriding theme emerged about the need for culture change around the use of data in government. […]
FITARA Shifts Scoring Criteria, Most Agencies Weather Storm Jul 1, 2019 | 3:12 pm Most Federal agencies earned stable scores in the latest FITARA (Federal Information Technology Acquisition Reform Act) Scorecard issued by the House Oversight and Reform Committee, but two big shifts in the way the committee reached those grades could portend significant changes going forward. […]
Connolly Amendment Seeks To Boost FY2020 TMF Funding Jun 25, 2019 | 2:02 pm Rep. Gerry Connolly, D-Va., is offering an amendment to the Financial Services and General Government Appropriations Act (HR 3351) that would boost the FY2020 budget for the Technology Modernization Fund by $15 million, to a total of $50 million. […]
Draft Budget Places Pressure on EIS Transition Jun 11, 2019 | 1:42 pm The House Appropriations Committee is putting pressure on the General Services Administration (GSA) to get agencies migrated over to the Enterprise Infrastructure Solutions (EIS) Contract, including a provision to push agencies to adopt the contract, as well as other IT oversight items for GSA. […]
House Only Offers $35 Million for TMF in Draft Budget Jun 3, 2019 | 5:52 pm The draft Financial Service and General Government budget released by the House Appropriations Committee on Sunday, June 2, only includes $35 million for the Technology Modernization Fund (TMF), putting funding below the White House budget request of $150 million and more in line with the $25 million allocated in fiscal year 2019. […]
Speeding the Path to Hybrid Cloud Infrastructure Apr 18, 2019 | 11:10 am Suppose that mid-way along the long, complex road to Federal IT modernization, an agency IT manager jotted down a wish-list for the most important big-picture elements of what the promised land should look like? […]
GSA Administrator Murphy Discusses TMF, IT, Shared Services at House Hearing Mar 13, 2019 | 12:47 pm Emily Murphy, administrator of the General Services Administration (GSA), explained the agency’s extensive portfolio of IT modernization work at a GSA oversight hearing held today by the House Appropriations Committee’s Subcommittee on Financial Services and General Government. […]
President’s FY2020 Budget Offers $150 Million for TMF, Okays MGT WCFs Mar 11, 2019 | 12:15 pm President Trump’s FY2020 budget released today includes $150 million for the Technology Modernization Fund (TMF) and proposes necessary authorities for agencies to establish IT working capital funds under the Modernizing Government Technology (MGT) Act. […]
TMF Website Shows Small Project Spend Thus Far Feb 18, 2019 | 9:17 am The Technology Modernization Fund’s (TMF) website shows minimal or no spend thus far on the projects for which $89 million of funding has been awarded. […]
Government Funding Bill Features Modernization, TMF, MGT Feb 14, 2019 | 1:15 pm The Consolidated Appropriations Act–the bill negotiated by Democrats and Republicans in Congress that could fully fund several Federal agencies and avert another partial government shutdown–features a variety of funding for IT modernization projects at multiple agencies, according to the joint explanatory statement released with the bill: […]
TMF Announces $20.7 Million Award for Payroll Shared-Services Feb 11, 2019 | 3:20 pm The Technology Modernization Fund (TMF) board announced $20.7 million in funding for a Federal-wide project for commercial payroll and scheduling software-as-a-service (SaaS) to be managed by the General Services Administration (GSA). […]