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Improper payments, fraud in nearly every major federal program, contracting irregularities and false claims. These problems roll on and on, year after year.
To reach a goal of bringing in 20,000 employees, IRS Human Capital Officer Traci DiMartini has a major hiring strategy planned, covering everything from direct hire authority to on-the-ground recruitment events.
The head of the IRS' cybersecurity operations says the Treasury agency is making progress on logging, multifactor authentication, and other aspects of "zero trust" security to help protect taxpayer data.
Agencies saw a governmentwide decrease in improper payments last year, after a surge of them at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The IRS is planning to allow some taxpayers to test out a free, online tax filing platform that’s run by the agency, before the Biden administration decides whether it should scale up the program for the rest of the public.
The IRS is pointing to a higher level of performance this filing season a taste of what it can do to transform the agency in the coming years.
Critics of telework often point to its limitations on collaboration. Video meetings have replaced the conference table for millions of teleworkers, but they can be annoying. Earlier, Tom Temin spoke with the D.C. deputy mayor, who outlined why the city wants federal employees to come back or have the government let go of some of its real estate.
Nancy Sieger has been the IRS chief information officer in a permanent or acting basis since 2019 and helped oversee the tax agency’s pandemic IT modernization efforts.
The Treasury Department’s Bureau of the Fiscal Service is looking to modernize the way the federal government does business — and giving agencies a status update on its goals through the end of the decade.
The Technology Modernization Fund is making three cybersecurity-related investments in the Social Security Administration, the Treasury Department and the U.S. Agency for Global Media.
As part of the Federal Drive's continuing expansion of coverage of pay, benefits and working conditions for federal employees. The Federal Drive with Tom Temin introduces a new voice, who listeners will hear from in monthly interviews.
In today's Federal Newscast: The Treasury Department is temporarily suspending investments in the Civil Service Retirement and Disability Fund. Federal contracting officers have new training and certification requirements. And the State Department is launching a new program to resettle refugees in the U.S.
Maybe it's because nearly everyone pays taxes, but few annual reports get more attention than that of the taxpayer advocate's annual report to Congress.
The National Archives and Records Administration signed a memorandum of understanding with its union to extend telework eligibility to all permanent agency employees.