Two of the General Services Administration's top technology leaders have resigned. Anil Cheriyan, head of the Technology Transformation Services, will leave GSA July 17, the agency announced Tuesday. And Bob DeLuca, executive director of the IT modernization Centers of Excellence within TTS, left GSA earlier in June. The news comes just days after Federal CIO Suzette Kent announced she is leaving government in July, making this the third such announcement this month — nearly four months shy of the November election and the start of a potential presidential transition. Dave Nyczepir has the story.

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AWS's newest line of business

During its virtual public sector summit on Tuesday, Amazon Web Services announced a new space-focused line of business led by retired Air Force Maj. Gen. Clint Crosier, the former director of planning for the U.S. Space Force. The new division represents a major investment in the sector, which is embracing modernized, cloud-based IT as NASA pushes to bring humans back to the moon by 2024 and the military organizes its newest, space-focused branch. “The Earth- and space-based systems we build now will inform nearly every decision we make in the years to come,” Teresa Carlson, vice president of worldwide public sector for AWS, said during Tuesday's summit. “We want to bring all those AWS tools to bear to help our customers succeed in space.” Billy Mitchell has this one.

CenturyLink gets another EIS task order

Speaking of space, NASA recently awarded a task order to CenturyLink under the $50 billion governmentwide Enterprise Infrastructure Solutions contract. Under the $10 million contract, CenturyLink will modernize the voice and network services supporting its space exploration programs. It marks the second task order from the space agency under the EIS contract. The first one also went to CenturyLink in April 2019. More from Dave.

Navy's beats goal in move to cloud

When the Navy began migrating its Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) program to the cloud, it thought it would take 18 months. To the leadership's delight, though, it took less than half of that. According to Edward Quick, the Navy’s program manager for enterprise business solutions, the service cut its migration in half by reducing the number of external reviews and check-ins, having the financial resources and political backing from top leadership, and using edge-cloud systems to handle the migration of terabytes of data, helping the program office move to Amazon Web Service servers in just over half a year. Jackson Barnett has the scoop.

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It’s hard to ignore the clamor inside and outside of government circles to harness data more effectively — which has been underscored by the ongoing pandemic and the challenge to obtain current, reliable data in roughly real-time for informed public policy decisions. TIBCO’s Mark Palmer discusses the need for agencies to manage and develop more cohesive data governance strategies — so that analysts, program managers or agency executives can get the information they need. Read more from Mark Palmer.