Bureau of Fiscal Service

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

Data science is driving major changes to the Bureau of Fiscal Service’s operating model

Ask the CIO

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Accelerating Government with ACT-IAC – Episode 24: Digital Transformation and Cyber Compliance

Accelerating Government

Congress moves to reauthorize CISA’s cyber defense program

Cybersecurity

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Culture of risk management beginning to emerge at the Fiscal Service

Management

FILE - This June 6, 2019, photo shows the U.S. Treasury Department building at dusk in Washington. The U.S. announced Friday, May 6, 2022, that it is sanctioning North Korean digital currency mixing firm Blender.io, which the country allegedly uses to launder stolen virtual currency and support cyber crimes. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)

How the Treasury Department plays whack-a-mole with financial weaknesses

Agency Oversight

Fiscal Service putting its customers at the center of its IT modernization efforts

Federal Insights

Another attempt to revive federal shared services

Reporter's Notebook

FILE - This May 4, 2021, photo shows the Treasury Building in Washington. The U.S. budget deficit hit a record $2.06 trillion through the first eight months of this budget year as coronavirus relief programs drove spending to all-time highs. The shortfall this year is 9.7% higher than the $1.88 trillion deficit run up over the same period a year ago, the Treasury Department said Wednesday, June 9, 2021 in its monthly budget report. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, file)

Bureau of the Fiscal Service seeks to issue nearly all payments electronically by 2030

Big Data

Legacy financial management federal providers must define their roles in new approach

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Bureau of the Fiscal Service explores ‘data lakehouse’ concept

Big Data

Overcoming cultural barriers remains biggest hurdle to enterprise risk management

A new survey from the Association of Federal Enterprise Risk Management (AFERM) shows more than 50% of the respondents say their ERM programs are either…

Agency Oversight

A man wearing a face mask to protect against the new coronavirus talks on his smartphone as he walks past a Huawei store in Beijing, Wednesday, July 1, 2020. China on Wednesday demanded Washington stop

Agencies, contractors get more time to purge Chinese-made telecom gear from supply chains

In today’s Federal Newscast, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence has extended waivers for agencies requesting more time to excise that…

Federal Newscast

A medical worker wearing a single protective glove and a face mask walks past a line of workers and visitors waiting to be tested for COVID-19, the disease caused by the new coronavirus, at the main entrance to the Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Monday, March 23, 2020, in New York. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)

Federal employees on frontlines of coronavirus response could get premium pay bumps

Federal Newscast

In today’s Federal Newscast, the Office of Personnel Management says agencies can lift the usual limits on premium pay and set higher annual premium pay caps for specific employees.