Digital Government

NASA performance on right track

IG audit finds improvement in space agency's ability to track performance of projects

Digital Government

O'Neill: IRS budget fits bill

The Treasury secretary says the IRS budget is the right size, despite calls that the agency needs more money for modernization.

Digital Government

Customs deal is at hand, but biz knocks funding

The prime contractor for the Customs Service's $1.4 billion modernization project could be selected as early as this week.

Digital Government

Industry backs Customs modernization

Coalition calls on Congress to increase funding for the Automated Commercial Environment

Digital Government

IRS budget 'sensible'

Treasury Secretary counters calls by the IRS Oversight Board for more modernization money

People

IRS.gov a hit with tax filers

Visitors have flocked to the Internal Revenue Service's Web site this tax season

People

Kiosk program fades as group forms

The Office of Personnel Management is phasing out one of the federal government's largest computer kiosk programs

Digital Government

IRS board counters Bush budget

The board has recommended an IRS budget 8.9 percent higher than the administration's request

Digital Government

Treasury gets an IT lift

Fiscal 2002 budget coverage: Customs, IRS modernization give IT budget a boost

Digital Government

Forum focuses interest on kiosks

The new Interagency Kiosk Forum brings officials together to discuss interagency uses

Digital Government

USDA plans consolidation

Fiscal 2002 budget coverage: IT staffs, computing efforts of three bureaus would merge

Digital Government

State investing in info sharing

Fiscal 2002 budget coverage: IT improvements targeted at foreign affairs community

Digital Government

Clinger-Cohen gets mixed marks after five years

In the five years since the ClingerCohen Act became law, it has revolutionized the way the government buys and manages technology

People

Treasury mulls creation of a CXO council

Amid the leadership alphabet soup that now includes CIOs, CFOs and procurement executives, the Treasury Department is looking to add one more ? a CXO council

People

Seeking a good VA CIO

The Department of Veterans Affairs' chief information officer will play a central role at the agency

People

IRS: E-file goal is a stretch

The Internal Revenue Service has made great strides in increasing the number of taxpayers filing returns electronically, but the tax service must show significant increases if it is going to meet the 2007 deadline of having 80 percent of all returns filed electronically, the IRS commissioner said.

Digital Government

New VA chief vows to fix IT

The head of the Department of Veterans Affairs has vowed to either fix or replace the agency's troubled information technology systems.

Digital Government

Agencies still lag behind in tracking finances

Problems with federal financial management systems remain a 'huge' obstacle in the government's efforts to have auditable financial statements, according to the head of the General Accounting Office.

People

VA chief prioritizes technology

'I intend to reform the way VA uses information technology,' VA secretary tells a House subcommittee

Digital Government

IRS tallies up challenges

IRS balancing shortterm service improvements and longterm modernization, officials tell Congress