Treasury Department

Treasury giving agencies a fighting chance to prevent fraud

David Lebryk, the fiscal assistant secretary at the Treasury Department, said a new machine learning tool is reducing the chance of fraud from paper checks.

Agency Oversight

Senate to take $100M back from TMF, $10M from USDS

Budget

Treasury, IRS set 50% return-to-office target for employees to meet ‘governmentwide’ standard

Workforce

Beyond finger-pointing: Common sense reform needed to prevent another fraud crisis

Commentary

In Data Center Two Military Men Work with Open Server Rack Cabinet. One Holds Military Edition Laptop.

CISA could offer stronger ‘top-down’ support to agencies, cyber officials say

Cybersecurity

The Capitol building in Washington, D.C.

Too many CRs will have catastrophic effects on DoD, Air Force official says

Federal Newscast

What whistleblowers will need from Congress in 2024

Workforce

IRS using ‘every tool available’ to ramp up agency recruitment, retention

Hiring/Retention

IRS cybersecurity chief says agency has made ‘tremendous progress’ on logging

Cybersecurity

Treasury seeks greater data sharing in interagency plan to curb improper payments

All About Data

IRS to launch pilot of its free e-file system for taxpayers to test in 2024 filing season

IT Modernization

IRS points to better taxpayer service as taste of what’s to come with $80B overhaul

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.

Hiring/Retention

In this Monday, April 6, 2020, photo, students are shown on a laptop interacting with Weber State University dance professor Joseph Blake, as he teaches his modern dance class from his living room in Ogden, Utah. Since March 12, when the university announced that all classes would not meet on campus due to the new coronavirus, Blake has continued teaching his class remotely from online video chat. (Ben Dorger/Standard-Examiner via AP)

The trouble with online meetings, is online meetings. Or does D.C. really need federal employees to file back to their offices?

Critics of telework often point to its limitations on collaboration. Video meetings have replaced the conference table for millions of teleworkers, but…

Workforce

IRS CIO Sieger moving to new role in Treasury

CIO News

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.