Congress
Senate inches closer to FedRAMP legislation
Federal officials met with lawmakers on the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee on Tuesday to discuss deficiencies within the General Services Administration’s Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program, or FedRAMP, ahead of an upcoming vote to codify the program agencies use to adopt cloud services.
Committee Chairman Sen. Gary Peters (D-Mich.), cosponsor of a bipartisan bill called the Federal Secure Cloud Improvement and Jobs Act of 2021, convened the meeting to hear from officials and vendors for possible tweaks to the legislation.
The bill, similar to bipartisan legislation that passed in the House of Representatives, would codify the FedRAMP program and establish the Federal Secure Cloud Advisory Committee to measure the effectiveness of the program, particularly when it comes to reuse of FedRAMP authorizations. The measure also authorizes $20 million for FedRAMP operations annually.
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