The Biden administration is taking the first step in its multi-year plan to help the IRS dig out from a decade of budget and workforce cuts, starting with plans to significantly increase its IT modernization spending. Keep Reading
The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) Office of Trademarks has selected REI Systems to support application development and app modernization for nearly 20 mission-critical systems. Keep Reading
Acting Commissioner Mark Morgan said "the past 18 months have challenged us in unexpected and unprecedented ways." Keep Reading
The year also proved urgency and emergency can drive agencies and vendors to get hardware and software in place in record time and within federal rules. Keep Reading
The last several years of Defense spending have a seen a more than seven-fold increase in the amount of money being spent through other transaction agreements for technology development. Keep Reading
IRS Commissioner Chuck Rettig told members of the House Ways and Means Committee that the agency has accelerated programming and “health testing” for IT systems, and that the agency remains at least a month ahead of schedule. Keep Reading
The U.S. Army’s Program Executive Office for Enterprise Information Systems is looking to expand its partnership with industry in several areas, including its “as a service” opportunities, an Army official said Tuesday. Keep Reading
The State Department’s Bureau of Information Resource Management, under the COVID-19 pandemic, accelerated the way it fields applications that support the agency’s mission. Keep Reading
The IRS relies extensively on IT systems to collect more than $3 trillion in taxes and distribute over $400 billion in refunds annually. In FY 2020, the IRS expects to spend approximately $3.2 billion on IT investments. Keep Reading
SAIC will assist the government to process, exploit, disseminate, and act on information against emerging and evolving threats; eliminate or minimize technological obsolescence; and reduce total lifecycle costs Keep Reading
SAIC has won more than $286 million in national security contracts during the second quarter of fiscal year 2021. Keep Reading
If there is a reason to have hope that agencies actually are addressing outdated and potentially risky mission-critical systems, the five agencies that answered the call from Sen. Maggie Hassan (D-N.H.) provided a little optimism. Keep Reading
Citing its ongoing IT modernization efforts and an effort to “restructure” the workforce, the Agriculture Department’s Office of the Chief Information Officer is offering early retirements to its IT specialists. Keep Reading
For the first time in five years, no agency received a “F” or “D” grade for an overall grade on the Federal IT Acquisition Reform Act (FITARA) scorecard. Keep Reading
When Patent and Trademark Office executives met with industry partners in February to discuss opportunities and challenges and take the next step in its IT modernization journey, the coronavirus pandemic was on the horizon, but not yet driving the conversation. Keep Reading
The contract includes service desk support, business and administrative systems infrastructure support, training services, and IT asset management. Keep Reading
“Unfortunately, our digital infrastructure is (virtually) crumbling,” the lawmakers wrote in the planned letter. “Federal agencies often rely on IT systems that are decades old, and the problems are all the more acute at the state and local level.” Keep Reading
"We need this tech revolution and this is really sort of fuel for the fire to talk about just how urgent it is for the future of the Coast Guard," Schultz told Sea-Air-Space 2020. Keep Reading
The skills involved in managing a physical data center are quite different than those needed to manage hybrid cloud environments. Keep Reading
By prioritizing outcome-oriented goals at the start of the process – when writing those key requirements – IT leaders can better meet mission-specific needs with the right solutions rather than one-size-fits-all tools and techniques. Keep Reading