“On March 21, the GSA announced the launch of the new federal IT dashboard, the first major upgrade to the portal since the Office of Management and Budget rolled out the dashboard in 2009, during the Obama administration. According to the GSA, the new dashboard, which tracks federal IT spending and the progress agencies are making on key technology metrics and programs, features several improvements. It now leverages new software and technology to ‘provide users improved search functionality, interactive data visualization, and enhanced accessibility.’ Additionally, the agency says, users can now directly access the data that underpins the dashboard via a publicly available API...” “’We went ahead and actually split it up. We split up the back end data input from agency facing [and] from the public consumption, the external facing. So it’ll wind up being two applications. The public will only ever see the one,’ Dan York, the director of IT data transparency for the Office of Governmentwide Policy at the GSA, tells Federal News Network. Behind the scenes for agencies, York says, the IT Collect API will be an agency-facing API-only application to ingest data from federal agencies. The visualization platform is the front end that the public sees...” “The dashboard continues to report data on agencies’ progress on the Data Center Optimization Initiative and the transition to the Enterprise Infrastructure Solutions contract for network modernization. The dashboard also continues to show data on overall federal IT spending, visualizations at the agency level of IT spending and information on cost savings. Additionally, the new portal will be more easily and quickly updated, according to York...” Read the full article here. Source: GSA Unveils Updated Federal IT Dashboard with a New Look and Functionalities – By Phil Goldstein, April 1, 2022. FedTech Magazine.