TechTake: Pressure now on Senate to deliver government transparency

TechTake explores the bigger issues and trends in the federal IT community, and twice-monthly features a “Women in Technology” segment.

It’s only Wednesday, but this week has already been a big one for the federal IT community.

On Tuesday, the House passed both the Federal Information Technology Acquisition Reform Act and the FOIA Oversight and Implementation Act of 2014. There are also many more pieces of legislation on the docket this week intended to increase government transparency, especially with federal spending. For many this raises the question: What will the Senate do?