COBOL Archives

USDA, U.S. Department of Agriculture — (USDA / Flickr)

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.

Aug 11, 2023 By John Hewitt Jones

Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Commissioner Charles Rettig testifies before the House Ways and Means Oversight Subcommittee on March 17, 2022 in Washington, DC. The subcommittee held a hearing on the 2022 tax filing season. (Photo by Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

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.

Aug 8, 2022 By Nihal Krishan

Customs and Border Protection — A CBP ofﬁcer monitors the delivery of personal protective equipment (PPE) that arrived from China at O’Hare International Airport. (FEMA / Alexis Hall)

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,…

Jul 28, 2020 By Billy Mitchell

data center, cloud, backup — (Getty Images)

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.

May 20, 2020 By Dave Nyczepir

Gundeep Ahluwalia, former Labor Department CIO — Gundeep Ahluwalia speaks at the 2018 VMware Public Seector Innovation Summit. (FedScoop)

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…

May 7, 2020 By Billy Mitchell