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In Part 1, you learned that federal agencies are being nudged to implement DevOps as they commence Agile initiatives, since the two are integrated and synergistic, particularly in the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe).

As you no doubt have read and followed in previous articles in this space, the Integrated Award Environment (IAE) is in the midst of an Agile, multi-release build of what we call “the new SAM.gov” in our effort to modernize the 10 IAE systems that exist today. We accomplished several Identity and Access Management (IAM) updates in Release 6 which concludes in July. These updates lay the foundation for registration, login capability, and role migration. IAM capabilities are being designed to ease the transition to the new SAM.gov platform. Registration

While on the surface, speeding up the time to market for government IT projects doesn’t seem like much of a concern, changing expectations brought about by the cloud, new technologies, and tight budgets mean more rapid and iterative processes are part of government IT’s future. Government agencies will only be able to meet these challenges by implementing DevOps. 

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