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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.
The No Bonuses for Tax Cheats Act would withhold bonuses from Internal Revenue Service Employees with a record of misconduct or tax delinquency.
The Congressional Budget Office says the TSP G Fund investments will stop on Oct. 30 unless Congress can reach a deal, but feds won't see their savings dip.
The federal government will reach its borrowing cap on Nov. 3, two days earlier than the Treasury Department first anticipated, according to Treasury Secretary Jack Lew.
An invitation for you to comment on USASpending.gov is coming in the next week or so from the Treasury Department. It's looking for more feedback on how the site looks and functions, and whether the information itself is useful. It's just one the department's big projects as it helps agencies comply with the DATA Act. Federal News Radio reporter Nicole Ogrysko has more.
The Treasury Department is looking for more feedback on USASpending.gov, an online portal that documents agencies' financial information. It's one step Treasury is taking to help agencies implement the DATA Act.
HUD’s Inspector General says the department’s attempt to move its finances to a shared service is moving too fast.
There is a little more clarity about the mystery of Barry West, the seemingly now-former chief information officer at the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation. West’s LinkedIn page says he left the FDIC in this month and also started at the Mason Harriman Group this month.
Montrice Yakimov, the chief risk officer for the Bureau of the Fiscal Service in the Treasury Department, said her office looks at many different types of risk to help agency leaders make smart decisions.
The executive branch has gotten the DATA Act off to a good start by meeting its first deadline, Obama administration officials, auditors and lawmakers agree. But persistent problems with the data itself threaten to undermine the financial transparency at the heart of the law.
A new memo from David Mader, the OMB controller and acting deputy director for management, requires agencies to move to either the Treasury Department’s Internet Payment Platform or another approved shared service provider. OMB said agencies process only about 40 percent of all procurement invoices electronically today.
Four powerful lawmakers want to know whether the Treasury Department will incorporate the Recovery Operations Center's successful big-data tools into its DATA Act initiatives.
The risk of cyber attacks -- like the recent OPM cyber breaches -- are exactly the type of events risk management programs are designed to identify and plan for. The Treasury Department is one agency that has stood up an entire office to strategize enterprise risk management -- well in advance of OMB guidance for 2016. Montrice Yakimov is the chief risk officer for the Bureau of Fiscal Service at the Treasury Department and leads its Office of Enterprise Risk Management. She tells Federal News Radio Executive Editor Jason Miller why Treasury's mission itself prompted the agency to develop a risk management portfolio.
DATA Act compliance is under way -- or should be under way -- all across government. Now the collection of best practices and execution of the DATA Act is under way at least at the Treasury Department. Marla Freedman is the assistant inspector general for audit at the Treasury Department\'s Office of Inspector General. She tells In Depth with Francis Rose what her team looked at to see how Treasury\'s doing with the DATA Act.