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FedRAMP 20x Reaches 538 Certified Cloud Services on a $10 Million Budget, While Europe Still Has No Common Cloud Certification

Sat, 10 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000

FedRAMP is the US government’s security approval for cloud services. If a federal agency wants to run its work on someone’s cloud, the service generally needs FedRAMP clearance first. In fiscal 2026, which ended on 30 September, the programme issued 92 new certifications, bringing the total to 538 cloud offerings. Agencies issued 760 new authorisations to use them.

It did that with 17 federal employees, 15 contractors and a budget of $10 million, of which it spent just under $9 million.

GSA OneGov AI Deals Move Past $1 Pricing as Federal Procurement Consolidates and the FAR Is Rewritten

Wed, 07 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000

In August 2025 three AI companies offered the US government their enterprise products for almost nothing. OpenAI put ChatGPT Enterprise on the table at $1 per agency for a year. Anthropic offered Claude for $1 across all three branches of government. Google came in at 47 cents for Gemini. All three went through OneGov, a programme the General Services Administration launched in April 2025 to negotiate governmentwide deals directly with big software makers.

EU Cloud and AI Development Act Could Shut US Cloud Providers Out of Sensitive Public Contracts

Sat, 03 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Amazon, Microsoft and Google run most of Europe’s cloud computing. A law now moving through Brussels could decide whether they may keep hosting its most sensitive public data. On 8 September 2026 EU governments went through the key part of the proposed Cloud and AI Development Act, articles 29 to 44, article by article. Those articles set who qualifies to host public-sector data at each level of sensitivity, and they turn on conditions the United States may not meet.

US CLOUD Act vs EU Law: The Data Privacy Framework Survives Its First Court Test as US Cloud Giants Build Sovereign Versions

Fri, 02 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000

American cloud companies run most of Europe’s computing, and American law can reach their data. The CLOUD Act of 2018 lets US authorities require a provider to hand over data it controls, wherever it’s stored. In June 2025 a French Senate inquiry asked Microsoft France’s legal director a simple question. Could he guarantee that data about French citizens held by Microsoft would never be handed to US authorities without French approval? Anton Carniaux answered: “No, I cannot guarantee it.”

GSA's $50 Billion Multiple Award Schedule vs Britain's G-Cloud: Two Ways to Buy Government Technology

Fri, 11 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000

The General Services Administration’s Multiple Award Schedule is the federal government’s biggest catalogue of things it can buy without a full tender. GSA says it moves more than $52 billion a year in products and services. An analysis of GSA data puts fiscal 2025 sales at about $50.6 billion, with about 14,600 contract holders and roughly a third of sales going to small businesses.

It’s in the middle of a shake-up. In fiscal 2025 GSA cut about 1,600 contracts it judged unnecessary. In May 2026 it reorganised its Federal Acquisition Service, putting the schedule in one office alongside its big governmentwide IT contracts. And since March 2025, an executive order has made GSA the central buyer of common goods and services for the whole government.