- Fedramp 20x has considerably reduced the time that the US government has approved a service
- Automation and artificial intelligence can eliminate some of the manual stress processes
- GSA also makes movements to centralize purchases to get better offers
The Federal Risk Management and Authorization Program of the US Government (Fedramp) has already approved 114 cloud computing services during the 2025 financial year, more than double the total number of approved services the previous year.
Fedramp 20x must be thanked for the Boost – an initiative of the Biden era which lives under the Trump administration, which aims to modernize the authorization of the cloud by reducing the quantity of documentation required, allowing the automation and rationalization of decision -making.
In 2024, a management and budget management office explained how a “standardized and reusable approach to safety assessments and authorizations for cloud computing products” could accelerate the existing process.
Fedramp approves more cloud contracts than ever
The new process requires machine -readable safety indicators which can be analyzed by artificial intelligence even before reaching the stage of the human journal. Currently in the pilot phase, phase 1 will focus on low impact and low -security services with moderate two -time phase tests.
Consequently, the US government has been able to reduce the time necessary to approve an agreement from more than a year to around five weeks, marking a colossal improvement in the dated system.
“The program establishes a new standard for federal IT modernization and the reaffirmation of GSA’s engagement to provide smarter and safer services for the Americans,” said GSA interim administrator Michael Rigas, in a GSA announcement.
The director of Fedramp, Pete Waterman, added: “Fedramp 20X allowed us to rethink the entire authorization model and prove that safety and speed can coexist in the federal space.”
Trump also put pressure on to consolidate IT purchases under the General Services Administration (GSA) while simultaneously seeking to acquire government contracts rather than individual department contracts, which has finally led to enormous savings thanks to an improvement in purchasing power.
Consequently, we have already seen cloud companies and other technological companies offer weight discounts to the White House – including AWS, which grants the US government to $ 1 billion to continue managing its cloud services.
