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Byline: Natalie Alms The IRS is using artificial intelligence to identify complicated tax evasion schemes and focus its enforcement efforts for large partnerships, as part of a new compliance push [...]

Byline: Natalie Alms The State Department is testing out the use of artificial intelligence for declassifying decades-old cables and helping members of the public pinpoint what they want in public [...]

Byline: Natalie Alms In the wake of August's devastating wildfires in Maui, the Labor Department, General Services Administration and Hawaii are touting the fast-tracked addition of federally-provided identity verification options [...]

Byline: Natalie Alms The Office of Personnel Management's tech shop is zeroed in on moving to the cloud and improving agency technology for governmentwide services like retirement, human resources and [...]

Byline: Natalie Alms The White House released details about two cross-agency customer experience projects meant to improve how the government provides benefits and services in the latest update on the [...]

Byline: Natalie Alms National Taxpayer Advocate Erin Collins, the head of an independent organization at the IRS meant to focus on taxpayer issues and rights, said (https://www.taxpayeradvocate.irs.gov/news/nta-blog-wheres-my-refund-has-your-tax-return-been-flagged-for-possible-identity-theft/) in a recent [...]

Byline: Natalie Alms Former chief data officer at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, Niall Brennan, is taking on a new role as a senior advisor to the director [...]

Byline: Natalie Alms The Defense Department is poised to make good on plans to supply end-to-end personnel vetting and monitoring services to customers after years of delays, according to a [...]

Byline: Natalie Alms As agencies await guidance for the 21st Century IDEA Act - a law signed in 2018 requiring the government to improve online services - officials can get [...]

Byline: Natalie Alms The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has hired over 1,300 new employees since July 2021, CISA director Jen Easterly wrote in a Monday blog (https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/news/cisa-hiring-hits-high-score-and-were-not-done). 'When I [...]

Byline: Natalie Alms The General Services Administration is moving ahead with a study on remote identity proofing to assess how well different identity verification technologies and methods work across race, [...]

Byline: Natalie Alms The federal government is reworking sustainability provisions in the Federal Acquisition Regulation - or FAR - which serves as the primary policy for government acquisitions. The Biden [...]

Byline: Natalie Alms Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va., chair of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, wants artificial intelligence companies to commit to extending existing voluntary pledges to all of their [...]

Byline: Natalie Alms Three Democrats on the Senate Finance Committee are pressing the Social Security Administration for more details about its efforts to simplify the application for Supplemental Security Income, [...]

Byline: Natalie Alms The White House's Office of the National Cyber Director has a plan meant to address urgent problems in cybersecurity education and workforce development, according to officials. The [...]

Byline: Natalie Alms Shortly following the release of its cybersecurity workforce strategy, the White House's Office of the National Cyber Director has selected a new deputy assistant director for workforce [...]

Byline: Natalie Alms States will have the chance to collaborate with the IRS on how they may integrate with the agency's forthcoming direct file pilot. In a July 16 letter [...]

Byline: Natalie Alms The Labor Department is adjusting to a new reality after lawmakers took back half of the $2 billion they'd previously given the department for modernization and fraud [...]

Byline: Natalie Alms There's a lot happening on Capitol Hill. The House Oversight and Accountability Committee marked up a slate of bills last week, and on Wednesday, the Senate Homeland [...]

Byline: Natalie Alms Federal activity in the generative AI space so far has been limited. While federal agencies have fielded more than a thousand AI use cases, they aren't yet [...]

Byline: Natalie Alms The General Services Administration's identity proofing and authentication service, Login.gov, has a new 'program roadmap' that details GSA's plans to improve its identity verification capabilities, compliance with [...]

Byline: Natalie Alms The Senate Appropriations Committee passed a bill out of committee on Thursday that would rescind $290 million from the Technology Modernization Fund as lawmakers work on crafting [...]

Byline: Natalie Alms The White House's implementation plan (https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/National-Cybersecurity-Strategy-Implementation-Plan-WH.gov_.pdf) for the national cybersecurity strategy has 69 initiatives for agencies to carry out, but lacks any action items on digital identity, [...]

Byline: Natalie Alms The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention launched a reworked COVID-19 website (https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/index.html) on Thursday, intended to make the online hunt for reliable public health information easier. [...]

Byline: Natalie Alms Even government watchdogs run into data gaps when they try to track pandemic spending, according to a new report (https://www.oversight.gov/sites/default/files/oig-reports/PRAC/PRACTracking-Pandemic-Relief-FundsIMPACT-Phase-I.pdf) by the Pandemic Response Accountability Committee and [...]

Byline: Natalie Alms Filling out the forms to recertify for disability insurance benefits was 'more frightening than having cancer - twice,' one individual with a disability told the White House's [...]

Byline: Natalie Alms The General Services Administration's Technology Modernization Fund announced five new investments on Thursday, the latest since it announced two awards in April. The National Transportation Safety Board, [...]

Byline: Natalie Alms Improper payments have long been a headache for the government, but some agencies have been able to reduce the rates of such mistakes in recent years, according [...]

Byline: Natalie Alms Democrats and civic tech organizations are backing plans (https://fcw.com/digital-government/2023/05/irs-will-test-government-run-free-file-system-2024/386445/) for the IRS to pilot a direct, e-file tax return system in the 2024 tax season. An IRS [...]

Byline: Natalie Alms The Department of Homeland Security's Silicon Valley Innovation Program - a part of the agency's research arm that invests in tech startups with government applications - is [...]

Byline: Natalie Alms As the Biden administration pushes the federal government to be more sustainable, one place to watch is the intersection of that goal with government IT. 'Technology is [...]

Byline: Natalie Alms Innovating feels too risky for the administrators of public benefit programs, and that's holding back progress on customer experience efforts meant to make it less arduous to [...]

Byline: Natalie Alms As the IRS works to prioritize tech investments from the billions given to the agency in the Inflation Reduction Act, its tech shop is looking at a [...]

Byline: Natalie Alms The White House should back the creation of digital counterparts to physical identity credentials - like driver's licenses and passports - as well as attribute validation services [...]

Byline: Natalie Alms An 'implementation crisis,' Jennifer Pahlka writes in her new book, 'threatens our democracy.' 'Even the process of getting a construction permit, registering a vehicle, or just filing [...]

Byline: Natalie Alms The Biden administration wants U.S. federal government operations to have net-zero emissions by 2050 - as laid out in a 2021 executive order (https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-actions/2021/12/08/executive-order-on-catalyzing-clean-energy-industries-and-jobs-through-federal-sustainability/) - and officials [...]

Byline: Natalie Alms A bipartisan trio of senators introduced a new bill (https://www.nextgov.com/media/tagact.pdf) Thursday they say is meant to ensure that government decisions deemed 'critical' - like those related to [...]

Byline: Natalie Alms Calling all video game developers - the Library of Congress wants you to develop the next Oregon Trail. The 1970's educational video game, meant to teach students [...]

Byline: Natalie Alms The Information Technology and Innovation Foundation - or ITIF - a tech think tank, wants the White House to recommit to implementing a Trump-era federal data strategy, [...]

Byline: Natalie Alms Sonny Hashmi, the commissioner of the Federal Acquisition Service at the General Services Administration, talked about the path forward for GSA's single sign-on service Login.gov Thursday, after [...]

Byline: Natalie Alms The Software Alliance, also known as BSA - a trade group for software companies including Microsoft, Oracle, IBM, Cisco, Adobe and others - is announcing an expansion [...]

Byline: Natalie Alms The Labor Department thinks that New Jersey is getting technology modernization for unemployment benefits right, and it wants to scale the state's modular modernization approach to other [...]

Byline: Natalie Alms After two decades of relying on a private-public partnership with tax prep companies to give most Americans a free option to file their tax returns online, the [...]