Editor’s Note: In a pioneering effort which expanded informed public debate in updating the White House’s policy for managing federal information resources, OMB established a Circular A-130 interactive docket on GitHub. The docket breaks with the static approach to comments by facilitating a public discussion on the public comments submitted to the docket.
From: FCW
By Adam Mazmanian
The A-130 is the foundational document for all federal information policy. So when the Office of Management and Budget put out a draft of the first A-130 revision in 15 years in October, the proposed changes were parsed carefully. Comments filed on GitHub by the Dec. 5 deadline show that cloud vendors and trade groups are worried that the document doesn’t adequately promote the government’s avowed “cloud first” policy, and that it requires redundant levels of approval for agencies seeking to move development, operations, and data to a virtual environment.
Dave Wennergren of the Professional Services Council hoped that a revised A-130 would “more explicitly promote the importance of commercial cloud solutions as a means of replacing aging infrastructure, reducing operating costs, providing greater access to modern applications and improving agency cybersecurity posture.”
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