In its continued efforts to get federal agencies better to buy into the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program, the General Services Administration launched a new blog to better communicate its updates.

The blog, called Focus on FEDRamp, is designed to give the agencies a better idea of what new projects the program has in the works, while better communicating the value the cloud acquisition platform.

FEDRamp was designed to help agencies better manage their cloud IT acquisitions by standardizing the process for which cloud vendors selling those services are accredited.

But agency leaders have been slow to adopt the program. A May 2016 poll from MeriTalk showed that out of 150 federal IT managers, 79 percent felt that FEDRamp was "a compliance exercise" that fostered mostly frustration.

In an Aug. 16 post on the FEDRamp site, Director Matt Goodrich said the new blog would provide stakeholders with a better sense of what new projects were in the works and how they can ease cloud acquisition.

"At FedRAMP we’re constantly engaging with those around us to hear what’s going on and what’s on people’s minds," he said in the post. "However, we haven’t always been the best at sharing what’s going on in the FedRAMP world or what’s on our mind outside of our individual conversations with stakeholders."

Goodrich said the new blog would be posting two articles a week with updates highlighting features like explanatory features on how agencies are using FEDRamp, updated templates and news, how-to posts and feedback channels for how to improve the program.

"This blog will give us a space to share the latest and greatest information as it happens. We know that transparency and collaboration is the only way to truly meet all of your needs, and Focus on FedRAMP is designed with that in mind."

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