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Jared Serbu, DoD Reporter, Federal News Radio

The Internal Revenue Service is telling a relative handful of technology vendors that it plans to spend almost $130 million to upgrade its identity management s...

Federal News Network Staff

June 5, 2015 5:34 pm

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The Internal Revenue Service is telling a relative handful of technology vendors that it plans to spend almost $130 million to upgrade its identity management systems. The plans would improve upon the technology that hackers breached in last month’s theft of 100,000 taxpayer records. But they also diverge from a plan that’s been in the works for years to unite all federal agencies under one authentication system. More from Federal News Radio DoD Reporter Jared Serbu.