Budget
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The Treasury Department’s Bureau of the Fiscal Service is testing out if artificial intelligence can streamline the annual appropriations process and get money to agencies sooner.
February 09, 2021 -
For more of what both houses of Congress are up to in the days ahead, Federal Drive with Tom Temin called on Bloomberg Government Editorial Director Loren Duggan.
February 08, 2021 -
Raj Iyer, the Army's new chief information officer, is proposing a new IT governance structure that would be chaired by the Army CIO's office. The current decisionmaking process is too diffuse, he argues.
February 08, 2021 -
Mark Forman, the former administrator for e-government and IT at OMB and Gloria Parker, a former CIO at HUD, helped author a new white paper from the Partnership for Public Service to further accelerate IT modernization.
February 05, 2021 -
Agency financial staffs have to account for everything down to the penny. So how'd they do in the past year while dealing with the pandemic?
February 02, 2021 -
The government seemed off guard when the COVID-19 pandemic first hit US shores. Now a bipartisan commission which warned of the need for strong biological defense plans back in 2015, recommends an "Apollo" plan for the next one.
January 29, 2021 -
Of the $2.6 trillion in emergency pandemic spending Congress authorized last spring, federal agencies received over $82 billion for program administration and oversight.
January 29, 2021 -
The IRS estimates it will need $4 billion in multi-year funding over the next five years to meet the goals of the 2019 Taxpayer First Act and its IT modernization plan.
January 21, 2021 -
Buried in the next pandemic spending proposal from Joe Biden are big dollars for federal IT.
January 18, 2021 -
With Congress totally preoccupied with the aftermath of the Capitol riot, and fresh pandemic spending, is there what you might call a normal agenda? For some answers on what to expect near term WTOP Capitol Hill correspondent Mitchell Miller spoke to Federal Drive with Tom Temin.
January 18, 2021 -
DISA launched its cloud-based internet isolation program as a way to keep malware off of DoD networks, but it also reduced the need for expensive IT infrastructure upgrades.
January 18, 2021 -
President-elect Biden announces American Rescue Plan that includes significant funding increases for federal technology and cybersecurity to address long-standing challenges.
January 15, 2021 -
Federal spending never stops rising, and that's certainly true of contracts spending. The pandemic has accelerated contract spending in several categories.
January 13, 2021 -
With a look ahead, Bloomberg Government Editorial Director Loren Duggan joined Federal Drive with Tom Temin.
January 11, 2021 -
The National Defense Authorization Act for 2021 is, like NDAAs tend to be, a vehicle burdened with semi-related policy provisions.
January 07, 2021