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Some information technology offices within the Internal Revenue Service have had difficulty in adjusting to an automated requirements management tool, says the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Read more...

An estimated $1.7 billion modernization effort at U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services suffers from unreliable schedules and cost estimates, says the Government Accountability Office. In a Read more...

Federal records placed into the National Archives and Records Administration's Electronic Records Archive typically won't be content searchable, the agency's inspector general warns. In two Read more...

The Internal Revenue Service's Active Directory has too many forests, says the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration. In addition, network scans show that 727 Windows servers and 238 Read more...

The Veterans Affairs Department is suspending immediately development of a strategic asset management information technology effort and dismissing the contractors, said VA Chief Information Officer Read more...

The Veterans Affairs Department will likely not request additional information technology funding for fiscal 2012, its chief information officer told a Senate panel Oct. 6. "We will request no Read more...

The Social Security Administration should press on with a project to convert its assembler language-coded master file database into an IBM DB2 mainframe database, despite the fact that other Read more...

The Air Force has tapped IBM for a big job--to create a cloud computing environment that will protect military and national security data. The 10-month contract will cover work involving the Air Read more...

IBM is opening a research center In Washington, D.C., with an eye toward developing tools to help federal agencies better use data in public policy decision making. The IBM Analytics Solution Center Read more...

The Secret Service is ready to begin a major IT overhaul that will include new servers, new storage systems, increased cybersecurity tools and expanded mobile and wireless capabilities. The Read more...