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The date that the 2025-2026 FAFSA launched to the public.
What is November 21, 2024?
The number of defects FSA identified after initial deployment of FPS.
What are 55 defects?
FSA is currently going through this effort to change staff members' roles and responsibilities.
What is a reorganization?
The newest team on the Summit/GH org chart, they help FSA figure out what and how to buy things.
What is the Procurement Management Team?
This ended the student loan payment pause during the COVID pandemic.
What is the Return to Repayment campaign?
The number of Beta deployments for the 2025-2026 FAFSA.
What is 4?
74% or this number of calls went unanswered by FSA's call center during the first 5 months of the 2024/2025 FAFSA application cycle.
What are 4 million calls?
This former head of the Small Business Administration has been announced as the nominee to lead the Department of Education under the incoming Trump Administration.
Who is Linda McMahon?
This Summit/GH team works directly with the Assistant Chief Operating Officer for FSA.
What is the Organizational Assessment Team?
The Supreme Court struck down the Biden Administration's attempt to implement widespread student debt relief under the authority of this statute.
What is the HEROES Act?
Following the launch of the 2024/2025 FAFSA on December 30, 2023, FSA began processing students' electronic FAFSA records on this date.
What is March 10, 2024?
The number of Department of Education Chief Information Officers (CIOs), acting and permanent, from February 2021 when the FPS project was initiated, to August 2024.
What is 6 CIOs?
While FSA's funding for FY 2025 could be decided in whole or in part by December 20, FSA leadership is forecasting that it's budget in FY 2025 and FY 2026 will likely be this.
What is flat?
This team includes user interaction designers and user researchers.
What is the Product Development Team?
This income-driven repayment plan unveiled by the Biden Administration was blocked by federal courts in July 2024.
What is the Saving on a Valuable Education (SAVE) Plan?
This group of FAFSA applicants experienced the largest decline in 2024-2025 FAFSA submissions.
What are low-income applicants?
GAO found that FSA's IT governance process, otherwise known as Lifecycle Management Methodology (LMM), was not tailored to this type of development.
What is incremental or agile development?
Brian drain is a real risk at FSA with this happening by the end of 2024.
What is the early retirement of several key FSA staff?
This team manages communications campaigns and develops and reviews communication content.
What is the Product Marketing Team?
In 2019, the GAO recommended that the Education Chief Information Officer document the department’s modernization plans for this system, to include milestones, a description of the work necessary to modernize the system, and details on the disposition of the legacy system.
What is the Central Processing System (CPS)?
The 3 key functionalities of the FAFSA Processing System (FPS).
What is 1) Input and development, 2) Eligibility determination, and 3) Results distribution and availability?
GAO found these 2 problems with the independent verification and validation (IV&V) vendor for FPS.
What is 1) they are a subcontractor of the FPS development vendor, GDIT, and thus may not want to criticize their teaming partner and 2) they received the FPS code later than planned and were unable to test all of it before FPS deployed?
While the incoming Trump Administration has discussed eliminating the Department of Education, in 2020, President Trump created the 1776 Commission to do this.
What is establish a national conservative curriculum?
Four out of the five acquisitions the Summit/GH team has supported on this contract.
What is the 1) AED Modernization, 2) FTI Module, 3) TIVOD recompete, 4) BPO recompete, and 5) DCC recompete?
The passage of these laws, in 2019 and 2021, led to significant changes in FSA's plans to modernize CPS.
What are the Fostering Undergraduate Talent by Unlocking Resources for Education Act (FUTURE Act) and the FAFSA Simplification Act?