- Fedramp 20x has drastically cut the time it takes for the US government to approve a service
- Automation and artificial intelligence can take some of the stressed from manual processes
- GSA also makes movements to centralize purchases to get better offers
The US Government’s Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (Fedramp) has already approved 114 Cloud Computing services in the 2025 financial year, more than twice the total number of approved services the year before.
Fedramp 20x must be thanked for boosting the bit-era initiative that lives on under the Trump administration aimed at modernizing cloud permission by cutting down on the necessary documentation, enabling automation and streamlining of decision making.
In 2024, an office for management and budget nota detailed how a “a standardized, reusable approach to security assessments and permits for cloud computing products and services” could speed up the existing process.
Fedramp approves more cloud -contracts than ever
The new process requires machine -readable security indicators that can be analyzed by artificial intelligence even before they reach the human review stage. Currently in pilot phase, phase 1 will focus on low-power services and lower security with phase two-test moderate power offerings.
Consequently, the US government has been able to reduce the time it takes to approve an agreement from over a year to about five weeks, marking a tremendous improvement of the dated system.
“The program sets a new standard for federal IT modernization and confirms GSA’s obligation to deliver smarter, safer services for Americans,” explained GSA -functioning administrator Michael Rigas in a GSA message.
Fedramp -Director Pete Waterman added: “Fedramp 20x has allowed us to consider the entire authorization model and prove that security and speed can coexist in the federal space.”
Trump has also been pushing for consolidated the procurement under General Services Administration (GSA), while on the lookout to acquire government contracts rather than individual departmental contracts, which ultimately leads to huge savings thanks to improved purchasing power.
As a result, we have already seen sky companies and other tech companies offering weighty discounts to the White House – including AWS, giving the US government 1 billion credit for continuing to run its cloud services.
