The agency’s “expedited” deployment of a platform to track costs as part of the Trump admin’s “defend the spend” initiative bypassed the market research phase, TIGTA found.

TIGTA credited the IRS with improvements in some cybersecurity areas, but said falling short on others could leave taxpayer data vulnerable.

An inspector general report said IRS employees who took deferred resignation offers didn’t have a "legitimate business reason” to still have access to sensitive agency networks.

In an email obtained by FedScoop, Rajiv Uppal said his last day will be April 28.

Kaschit Pandya will step in as IRS CIO on an interim basis later this month.

On the latest episode of The Daily Scoop Podcast, an $11 billion cloud contract at DISA is on hold, the Defense Department’s zero trust journey is under…