The General Services Administration’s (GSA) Technology Transformation Services (TTS) group announced that Login.gov will now offer facial recognition technology to all of its partners as an identity verification offering.

The General Services Administration’s (GSA) 18F organization – housed within GSA’s Technology Transformation Services (TTS) – recently updated its De-risking Government Technology Guide to help government technology projects avoid common challenges during implementation.

Two years after Login.gov services became available to state and city governments, the General Services Administration (GSA) is touting the success of the program and highlighting a new pricing model intended to keep it affordable for governments.

Four state and local government (SLG) agencies have partnered with the General Services Administration (GSA) to start sending customized text messages for application deadlines, interview reminders, fraud reduction, and other critical service updates to people who opt in as well as their own agency staff.

Following up on efforts that began in May of this year, the General Services Administration (GSA) and Department of Labor (DoL) have expanded their partnership to now offer all states the opportunity to use Login.gov to help improve access, decrease fraud, and increase security in the delivery of unemployment insurance (UI) benefits.

The General Services Administration (GSA) is sponsoring a new campaign for Challenge.gov that aims to expand the pool of higher education-based respondents to Federal challenges by discovering which digital platforms are best – and worst – to promote government competition outreach.

GSA Administrator Robin Carnahan addressed state government leaders at the Aspen Institute Financial Resilience Summit in Washington DC on February 2, 2023, emphasizing her department’s focus on customer experience, shared services and smarter funding and procurement.

The General Services Administration (GSA) has committed to increasing the number of Historically Black Colleges and Universities with Multiple Award Schedule (MAS) contracts in fiscal year (FY) 2022, which ends Sept. 30., according to a press release.

The General Services Administration’s (GSA) Technology Transformation Services (TTS) has selected 14 projects to receive funding from the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 to develop government-wide citizen-facing services to help recover and rebuild from the COVID-19 pandemic.

The cybersecurity threats that have prompted wide-scale action to improve security across the Federal government are posing equal dangers to state and local governments, and officials said at FCW’s CDM Summit virtual event on November 4 that the same solutions being put into place by the Feds also are scalable and adaptable by state and local governments.