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The Office of Management and Budget launched Code.gov, a repository of open source code that can pull from and use on their own. It's part of the administration's Federal Source Code Policy, which OMB released this summer. Yet some federal CIOs said the push for open source has the opportunity to go even one step further.
November 04, 2016 -
The Internal Revenue Service is standing up an Identity Theft Tax Refund Fraud Information Sharing and Analysis Center (ISAC) to help build on the 2016 progress of reducing identity refund fraud.
November 03, 2016 -
Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration says the Internal Revenue Service needs to work on strengthening the security of taxpayer information and employees if it wants a strong information technology program.
October 28, 2016 -
Dozens of people were arrested in relation to the phone scams, which targeted millions of people and resulted in more than 10,000 victims and hundreds of millions of dollars in stolen money.
October 27, 2016 -
Welcome to the #FedFeed, a daily collection of federal ephemera gathered from social media and presented for your enjoyment.
October 11, 2016 -
When the IRS's major union and its taxpayer advocate agree something is a bad idea, maybe it's time to take another look.
September 28, 2016 -
Rather than outsource the work of delinquent tax collection, thousands of IRS employees set to lose their jobs in the next eight years could be retrained on how to do the work.
September 27, 2016 -
IRS Commissioner John Koskinen took responsibility for his decisions and actions during a congressional investigation into the agency's involvement in targeting of political groups. But he said impeachment would not be appropriate.
September 21, 2016 -
Government sources tell Federal News Radio that some in the departments of Commerce, Agriculture and Labor also are pushing back against the implementation of the intrusion detection and prevention program known as EINSTEIN 3-Accelerated (E3A).
September 12, 2016 -
What happens when a government agency receives bad publicity for something it is doing? Find out this week when Federal News Radio reporters Nicole Ogrysko and Meredith Somers join host Mike Causey on Your Turn. August 3, 2016
August 02, 2016 -
The Republican National Convention supports impeaching the head of the IRS, and demands more stringent oversight of federal agency spending in its official party platform.
July 19, 2016 -
Federal PCs have been stuffed with Microsoft applications since time immemorial. Now more and more users want the cloud versions. But the IRS found that an existing license maintenance contract didn't give it access to the cloud. Procurement attorney Joseph Petrillo of the law firm Petrillo and Powell offers his insight on Federal Drive with Tom Temin.
July 14, 2016 -
The IRS answered 73 percent of phone calls during the 2016 tax filing season, compared with 37 percent in 2015. Average wait times were cut in half as well. Taxpayers waited an average of 11 minutes to speak with an IRS representative this year, compared to 23 minutes the year before.
July 11, 2016 -
In today's Top Federal Headlines, the Justice Department is interested in knowing how law enforcement agencies are using drones, and the Obama administration plans to utilize data to change local incarceration patterns.
July 05, 2016 -
Eric Ferraro, who has been the assistant commissioner for GSA’s Integrated Award Environment (IAE) since July 2015, has stepped down, and Terry Milholland, the IRS CIO and CTO, left after eight years when his term under a special hiring authority expired.
July 04, 2016