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This year the GSA’s cloud authorization program has vowed to continue improvements and forge ahead with the transformation it kicked off in 2016. 

For public sector IT leaders on the go — and who need to be in the know — here’s a roundup of the best blogs offering federal technology news and analysis.

There were several major developments in federal technology this year, including IT modernization, data center optimization, efforts to move to the cloud — and, of course, cybersecurity.

Agencies are seeing the cybersecurity benefits of moving resources to the cloud, but some say that even with FedRAMP cloud adoption is hampered by culture issues.

The time is ripe for agencies to start moving aging infrastructure to the cloud, and some agencies, like USCIS and the FCC, have already done so. 

Innovative approaches may be the key to meeting the needs of agencies that receive less attention and funding.

Fully 85 percent of federal cloud adopters say their agency will increase spending on cloud computing in 2017, according to a MeriTalk survey.

The GSA’s FedRAMP Accelerated program approved the Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online program for federal use in 15 weeks, six times faster than its previous authorization.

At the BEP, mission-specific applications are being moved to the cloud following successful migrations of other apps.

IT leaders at the nation’s service branches also argued that Software as a Service offerings give agencies the biggest return on investment.