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The IRS has issued a notice to employers on how to retroactively apply federal transit benefits this current tax filing season.
March 02, 2016 -
More than a year after agencies first began embedding digital services teams into their organizations, IT leaders are seeing the benefits of adopting a more agile, incremental mentality -- rather than bending to old policies and standard protocols.
March 02, 2016 -
Here's a breakdown of major agencies and the proposed funding amounts for fiscal 2017, which are included the President Obama's $1.1 trillion budget.
February 09, 2016 -
For many agencies, the move to cloud computing services is predicated by policy, legal and contracting decisions made by more than just the chief information officer.
February 05, 2016 -
Better cost data will help agency CIOs make more informed decisions about moving to newer, more cost effective IT solutions, said Richard McKinney, the Transportation Department's chief information officer.
February 03, 2016 -
Respondents to Federal News Radio's survey on how well the Office of Personnel Management handled getting out information about operating status overall gave the agency a thumbs up. But many survey takers expressed hope that OPM would start making its decision on status earlier in the evening so they could make child and dependent care.
February 01, 2016 -
Steve Harris, vice president and general manager with Dell Federal Systems, joins host John Gilroy to discuss the future of FITARA and how his company can help federal agencies implement FITARA initiatives. January 12, 2016
January 11, 2016 -
GSA, Treasury and Transportation highlighted to House lawmakers progress each has made in improving their individual processes for managing and overseeing networks, systems and data under the Federal IT Acquisition Reform Act.
November 09, 2015 -
The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee released the Federal IT Acquisition Reform Act scorecard and the governmentwide average is a “D.” Lawmakers and OMB expect agency scores to improve across the four metrics.
November 05, 2015 -
The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee will soon release the first round of grades on implementation of the Federal Information Technology Acquisition Reform Act. One of the things the committee will grade agencies on is their IT spending. Richard McKinney, chief information officer at the Transportation Department, told In Depth with Francis Rose that determining what counts as IT spending and what doesn't isn't as easy as it looks any more.
October 30, 2015 -
The nation’s transportation system must handle 70 million more people in the coming years.
October 30, 2015 -
An AASHTO Center of Excellence is scheduled to open in Transportation Department headquarters next year. The modernized space will be a collaborative area designed to foster the one-stop-shop concept.
October 22, 2015 -
Fourteen percent of all traffic fatalities today are pedestrians and lesser crashes involving foot and bicycle traffic often go unreported.
October 14, 2015 -
With the rapidly changing transportation sector, the Department of Transportation will continue to build on its legacy of putting safety first.
October 08, 2015 -
The Transportation Department isn’t implementing the Federal IT Acquisition Reform Act like many of its cohorts. DoT has an 800-pound gorilla to deal with called the Federal Aviation Administration. In his weekly feature, Inside the Reporter’s Notebook Federal News Radio's executive editor Jason Miller writes about why DoT must customize its FITARA implementation.
September 22, 2015