Treasury Department
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It's customary for the Office of Management and Budget to engage with agencies on planning seven days before any government shutdown deadline. OMB said it's confident Congress will avoid a lapse in appropriations before next Thursday's deadline, although it's unclear what path lawmakers will take to do so.
September 23, 2021 -
The Treasury Department’s Bureau of the Fiscal Service sees an opportunity to modernize the way it does business, after spending much of the COVID-19 pandemic getting stimulus payments out to the public.
September 20, 2021 -
The Treasury Department has failed for years to fix controls in the systems it uses to account for the country's finances.
September 08, 2021 -
The Bureau of the Fiscal Service is focused on simplifying its data footprint to make its data more secure while also applying more security to it.
August 12, 2021 -
In today's Federal Newscast, the Treasury Department is temporarily suspending investments in the Thrift Savings Plan's G fund to prevent the government from defaulting on debt.
August 04, 2021 -
The Bureau of the Fiscal Service acting Commissioner Matt Miller said two requests for information and meetings with industry and agencies is leading up to the Quality Service Management Office (QSMO) finalizing its financial management shared services strategy.
July 27, 2021 -
The Census Bureau's Opportunity Project is working on developing a “do-it-yourself model” for partner agencies, while the bureau serves as an accelerator for larger projects.
June 25, 2021 -
The Pentagon has a new strategy to deliver cloud services to OCONUS users, but a single, JEDI-like enterprise cloud service is conspicuously absent from discussion in the document.
June 21, 2021 -
In today's Federal Newscast, companies manufacturing electronics may opt out of working with the Defense Department because of the cost of the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification program.
June 09, 2021 -
The Biden administration is asking for a 2.4% increase and a 14% increase in federal IT and cybersecurity spending, respectively, in fiscal 2022.
June 01, 2021 -
As OPM reminded the press, the FEVS doesn't measure "whether an employee feels that an administration liked them or not."
May 03, 2021 -
The Biden administration is calling for an $80 billion investment in the IRS over the next decade, with the expectation that it will bring in $700 billion in tax revenue by shrinking the "tax gap" between what taxpayers owe and what the IRS collects every year.
April 28, 2021 -
The Office of Personnel Management said the 2020 results demonstrate the resiliency of the federal workforce, which was called on to respond to the unprecedented demands of a global pandemic. Telework may have been a boon to employee engagement as well, OPM said.
April 26, 2021 -
In today's Federal Newscast, the Treasury Department is standing up a central office to oversee COVID-19 economic relief spending.
April 15, 2021 -
Nearly all civilian agencies would see double-digit spending increases next year, according to the Biden administration's 2022 budget request, which officials previewed Friday.
April 09, 2021