FedRAMP® Authorized: Partnering with the public sector to drive digital transformation for the AEC industry

The architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) industry’s well-documented efficiency challenges extend to both the commercial and public sectors. But the stakes are especially high when taxpayers are footing the bill. With the ongoing implementation of the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act), which was enacted to invest over $1 trillion into infrastructure improvements, there is a renewed focus on cost-effective and sustainable projects.

The U.S. Federal Government is increasingly embracing digital transformation to deliver building and infrastructure projects more efficiently. Public works projects need digital tools that move project data to the right people at the right times. They need stakeholders working from the latest versions of models and files. They also need to meet their customers’ (or taxpayers’) growing expectations around sustainability.

But digital-first public projects have one more critical layer of burden: security and compliance to protect federal information. To ensure the adoption of secure cloud technologies, the U.S. federal government established the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program, or FedRAMP®, which authorizes cloud services that meet key security standards.

I’m thrilled to announce our new Autodesk for Government portfolio, which includes Autodesk BIM Collaborate Pro for Government and Autodesk Docs for Government, has achieved FedRAMP® Moderate Impact authorization. With these solutions, customers will be able to use industry-leading cloud collaboration and document management tools for U.S. Government public sector projects, enabling flexibility and modernization of their workflows. This is an important step towards helping the public-sector-facing AEC industry achieve digital transformation.

Register for Autodesk’s webinar to learn how to bring the power of the cloud to your U.S. federal and public sector projects.

The initial FedRAMP-authorized offerings will enhance collaboration and document management.

A single source of truth from design to operation

U.S. federal government projects today often face challenges from teams working in silos. Architects design in one environment and engineers in another. Both disciplines may be leveraging building information modeling (BIM) to design and coordinate their work in Revit, but they still frequently rely on outdated methods to transmit PDFs to servers to share information with federal agencies, general contractors, and other stakeholders.

Files and models become outdated not long after they’re sent. Emails get buried in inboxes. Changes downstream by contractors may not get recorded into the original models. Technically, everything is digital; but the process is far from transformed. Projects still drain time and money, as they always have, which leads to unnecessary waste.

Our Autodesk for Government offerings unite stakeholders to reshape how projects are delivered. Autodesk Docs for Government is a common data environment that aggregates design models and files and centralizes issue management. It’s a single source of truth that brings collaborators together from design all the way through handover. When a new model is ready, stakeholders can review it anytime, anywhere.

Autodesk BIM Collaborate Pro for Government takes collaboration even further. In this environment, the rich data in BIM can be maximized and enable true digital transformation. Users can access a model timeline to track the status of design packages from each collaborating discipline to streamline the project and improve efficiency among teams. Your Revit models hosted in the cloud can be worked on simultaneously by each discipline. You can parse models into distinct views, where each stakeholder only reviews or works with the data they need. You can communicate real-time design updates and–with these tools–designers can spend less time fixing errors that waste materials and money and more time innovating sustainability-led designs.

Every step of the way, the secure cloud environment keeps a digital record of the models and files. At handover, the federal agency has accurate data that can be used to efficiently operate and maintain the asset.

A secure environment for GSA projects

Autodesk for Government has received an Authority to Operate (ATO), making it available for federal contractors and their agency partners to use on federal projects. Our solutions are hosted on Amazon Web Services (AWS) and built on a technology stack that is separate from our commercial offerings. In addition, we’re also making available select cloud-based APIs, enabling firms to create model translations to extend workflows within the secure cloud platform.

We’ve achieved FedRAMP Moderate Impact authorization for our Autodesk for Government Offerings which means we’ve gone through a rigorous review process that validates our security controls. This allows government agencies to quickly review our security package and issue their own ATO for our offering, enabling that agency and its contractors to use the offering on authorized projects.

We’re proud to announce that our FedRAMP authorization is sponsored by the U.S. General Services Administration’s Office of the Chief Information Officer OCIO (GSA IT). As a federal government agency, the GSA’s purpose is to streamline government operations and save money. Digital transformation in the building industry promises to help meet those goals. By working in the cloud with seamless collaboration, intuitive workflows, and secure data, project teams can deliver public projects faster and with less waste. These are outcomes that we all–taxpayers included–can get behind.

Ready to get started? Learn more about our Autodesk for Government offerings here.