House Democrats demand answers on IRS’s AI use to manage taxpayer data
Eleven House Ways & Means lawmakers want Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent to address questions about the tax agency’s use of AI on antiquated COBOL code.
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Legacy IT systems jeopardizing future of USDA’s National Finance Center, report says
The National Academy of Public Administration identifies major concerns including unintegrated IT systems, lack of staff technical knowledge and the continued use of a COBOL-based mainframe system.
Inflation Reduction Act to include $4.8B for IRS to beef up IT systems
The bill includes funding for the Internal Revenue Service to modernize its IT business systems and digital asset monitoring.
CBP scores $15M TMF award to modernize import tracking system
CBP wants to breathe new life into its 30-year-old Automated Commercial System, a mainframe platform that runs on 3.9 million lines of COBOL code to track, control,…
Select data centers should specialize in shared services, says director of consolidation effort
Archiving or mainframe-as-a-service should be housed in a single data center, says Thomas Santucci.
Labor Department lends a hand with states’ overwhelmed unemployment systems
The Department of Labor and other federal partners have formed a "response team" to help with overwhelmed state unemployment systems, CIO Gundeep Ahluwalia told FedScoop in an…
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