Brian Conrad, acting director of the General Services Administration’s (GSA) Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP), is stepping down from his position.
Conrad’s last day will be March 22, a GSA spokesperson told MeriTalk.
It is still unclear who will be taking over as acting director, but the spokesperson said: “GSA will have interim leadership established in the near future.”
The 12-year-old FedRAMP program is administered by GSA and provides a standardized, government-wide approach to security assessment, authorization, and continuous monitoring for cloud products and services used by Federal government agencies.
Conrad has served as the acting director of the program since January 2021, and first joined the FedRAMP team in December 2018.
In previous talks about FedRAMP’s progress, Conrad has emphasized that the value proposition of the program is “authorize once, and use many times.”
In addition to his role as acting director, Conrad leads multiple efforts associated with Joint Authorization Board (JAB) assessment and authorization activities that facilitate the authorization and adoption of commercial cloud services across the Federal government.
Prior to his time at GSA, Conrad served in the Marines for 21 years and worked at Booz Allen Hamilton as an IT and cybersecurity analyst for over seven years.
