Budget
IT modernization funds and real estate questions also featured prominently at an April 17 hearing on the General Services Administration's appropriation.
04/18/2018
Enterprise IT
The tech failure at IRS may not be due to legacy IT, but rather to modern front-end systems that are typically hardened and tested in advance the annual filing deadline.
04/17/2018
Digital Gov
In a final rule to be published April 16, the Library of Congress will add published e-books to its mandatory deposit rule.
04/13/2018
Voting
Security and lifecycle replacement remains a concern for localities, but an investigation of hundreds of jurisdictions found broad satisfaction with the way equipment performed during the 2016 election.
04/12/2018
IT Modernization
Acting IRS Commissioner David Kautter told a House panel that the agency has made significant progress on legacy system CADE2, but that conflicts with recent statements from the CIO.
04/11/2018
While the United States dominates many areas of IT, Steve Kelman notes that the hotspots for certain sectors are clearly clustered elsewhere.
04/10/2018
FCW Perspectives
The drive for IT transformation is reaching far beyond technology into every aspect of agency operations.
04/06/2018
Defense
Silicon Valley has become synonymous with innovation, but government leaders might be missing out on what’s going on in their own labs.
04/05/2018
Cybersecurity
Poor security controls for an online tax transcript service at the IRS may be fueling refund fraud, an inspector general audit found.
03/27/2018
Comment
Three ways federal IT program managers can proactively adapt to change.
03/27/2018
Digital Gov
The tech shop that grew out of the Obama-era Healthcare.gov fix-it squad appears to be a permanent fixture of government under the Trump administration.
03/27/2018
People
A month after being passed over for another term on the Election Assistance Commission, Matthew Masterson joins the Department of Homeland Security to tackle election security issues.
03/26/2018
Cybersecurity
A day after members of the Senate Intelligence Committee called for federal funding to assist states in securing their voting systems, the committee's chairman said the forthcoming spending bill will include an expected $380 million in grant funding for that purpose.
03/21/2018
Congress
The Senate Select Committee on Intelligence released its initial recommendations on election security after investigating Russian attempts to target election infrastructure during the 2016 U.S. elections.
03/20/2018
Management
The just-released President's Management Agenda focuses on IT modernization, reshaping the federal workforce and the reorganization of government.
03/20/2018