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NewsIWN, the OIG obituary: 1998-2012
The slow-motion disintegration of a Justice Department-led effort to create a nationwide land mobile radio system for federal law enforcement leaves many federal agencies back where they started when Read more...
GAO makes 105 recommendations to patch IRS information security holes
The Internal Revenue Service cannot assure that its financial statements are fairly presented, current, complete, accurate or secure because of material weaknesses in information security controls. Read more...
Treasury valued AT&T as provider more than it valued competence, says IG
It was more important for the Treasury Department to keep AT&T (NYSE: T) as its tele-communications contractor than "to take the proper steps to either obtain satisfactory performance from the Read more...
Senate appropriators seek more funds for NARA, less for E-Gov account than House counterparts
A Senate Appropriations Committee markup of the annual federal financial services and general government funding bill would give approximately 5 percent less than the president's request but Read more...
Schaffer: DHS expanding private sector cybersecurity pilots
Success with a financial sector cybersecurity pilot has led the Homeland Security Department to expand information sharing and response coordination efforts to additional industrial sectors, a top Read more...
TIGTA: E-file saves the IRS money, but it could be saving more
A new report finds that the Internal Revenue Service is benefiting from new e-file requirements, through faster processing, greater accuracy and reduced costs. Still, there is more the IRS could be Read more...
Grants.gov overcharging some federal agencies
Federal agency payments to Grants.gov, a central portal for government grant opportunities, don't necessarily correspond to how much they use the site, finds the Government Accountability Office. Read more...
IT program manager to become official federal title
Information Technology program manager will become an official federal title under an Office of Personnel Management proposal released March 29. The draft job description (.pdf) portrays an IT Read more...
FierceGovernmentIT FOIAs OMB TechStat meeting info
When earlier this year Federal Chief Information Officer Vivek Kundra began touting a series of Office of Management and Budget-led reviews of agency technology programs dubbed "TechStat," we were Read more...
OMB throws down review power over federal IT
Agencies shouldn't initiate new development spending on federal financial management systems worth more than $20 million until the Office of Management and Budget has reviewed spending plans, states Read more...
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