The Federal Secure Cloud Advisory Committee will tap Lawrence Hale as the new committee chair effective May 15. Hale, who serves as deputy assistant commissioner within the Office of Information Technology Category Management for GSA’s Federal Acquisition Service, will act as a liaison for the group and as its designated federal officer, as well as serving as a spokesperson for committee work products. 

“The inaugural committee has provided great value and insight over the past year to help ensure secure adoption of cloud computing products and services across agencies,” GSA Administrator Robin Carnahan said in a press release. “We are grateful to all our committee members for bringing their wealth of cloud expertise to help the committee continue equipping agencies with what they need to address ever-evolving threats in order to securely deliver for the American people.”

Two vacant FSCAC seats will be filled by Josh Krueger, chief information security officer for Project Hosts, and Kayla Underkoffler, lead security technologist at HackerOne. Carlton Harris, senior vice president of End to End Solutions, will also join the committee, serving a full three-year term.

Michael Vacirca, a senior engineering manager at Google who has served one year on the council, was reappointed to a full term.

The committee’s inaugural appointments were made last year, with Ann Lewis, director of GSA’s Technology Transformation Services, serving as chair.

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In the meetings, the FSCAC will advise GSA, the FedRAMP Board and others on FedRAMP operations and the way forward for the program to best serve federal agencies’ cloud security needs, according to the notice. 

Broadly, the goal of the committee is to provide recommendations on ways to increase agency reuse of FedRAMP authorizations, actions to simplify and streamline FedRAMP authorizations for commercial cloud service providers and agencies, and measures to increase small business authorizations under the program.

“The FSCAC will ensure effective and ongoing coordination of agency adoption, use, authorization, monitoring, acquisition and securing of cloud computing products and services to enable agency mission and administrative priorities,” the notice states.   

The meetings will take place starting Oct. 11 and occur each Wednesday until Nov. 9 with planned topics for discussion, such as the cloud provider authorization process, continuous monitoring and opportunities to automate FedRAMP.

In the final session, the committee will generate recommendations to GSA on topics discussed in previous meetings.

The committee’s meetings come as the Office of Management and Budget and GSA look to issue new policy guidance on the future of FedRAMP, Deputy Federal CIO Drew Myklegard recently told FedScoop.

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