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Matt Bracken

Matt Bracken is the editor in chief of FedScoop. Before joining Scoop News Group in 2023, Matt worked in various editing, reporting and digital roles at Morning Consult, The Baltimore Sun and the Arizona Daily Star. You can reach him on Signal at MattBracken.33 or email him at matt.bracken@scoopnewsgroup.com.

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A user looks at the IRS Direct File program in front of the tax agency’s building on April 5, 2024 in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images for Economic Security Project)

How the IRS’s ‘cautious’ approach with Direct File prevented its ‘failure’

Tech

A view of a Social Security Administration building in Burbank, Calif., on Nov. 5, 2020. (Photo by VALERIE MACON/AFP via Getty Images)

Data tracking, AI and modernization: How SSA has ditched its paper-based past

AI

CFPB Director Rohit Chopra speaks during a Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee hearing in Washington, D.C., on June 13, 2023. (Photo by Michael A. McCoy/Getty Images)

CFPB urged by consumer groups to take action on banks’ use of algorithms

Policy

Secretary of State Antony Blinken speaks about artificial intelligence at the State Department in Washington, D.C., on June 28, 2024. (Photo by ROBERTO SCHMIDT/AFP via Getty Images)

AI will complement State Department’s diplomatic mission, Blinken says

AI

Erin Collins, national taxpayer advocate, speaks during a Financial Services and General Government Subcommittee hearing on May 19, 2021 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Sarah Silbiger/Getty Images)

IRS needs funding shift to continue ‘transformational’ modernization work, national taxpayer advocate says

Modernization

Department of Homeland Security CIO and CAIO Eric Hysen testifies before the House Homeland Security Committee on June 26, 2024, in Washington, D.C.

DHS aims to boost cyber ranks by streamlining clearance approvals

Workforce

Federal CISO Chris DeRusha speaks at CyberTalks on Nov. 16, 2023. (Scoop News Group photo)

Former Federal CISO DeRusha lands at Google Cloud

Workforce

Isabel Guzman delivers remarks after President-elect Joe Biden announced her as his nominee for head of the Small Business Administration at The Queen theater on Jan. 8, 2021 in Wilmington, Del. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

SBA pushes back timeline to implement GAO privacy recommendation

Cyber

From left, Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen and SEC Chairman Gary Gensler participate in a meeting of the Financial Stability Oversight Council at the U.S. Treasury on July 28, 2023 in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

Financial regulators have ‘insufficiently’ addressed hedge funds’ use of AI, report says

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