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New Treasury.gov brings cost-savings, transparency

Treasury's Dan Tangherlini explains the reason behind the website relaunch and move to the cloud.

Tags: Dan Tangherlini , technology , cloud computing , blog , Gov 2.0 , transparency , Dorobek Insider

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Was the financial bailout legal?

The Wall Street Journal reports on the legal debate over TARP.

Tags: TARP , Wall Street Journal , bank bailout , Citigroup , Must Reads , Dorobek Insider

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Treasury moves to cloud, starts blog

The Treasury Department is moving to the cloud and starting an official blog.

Tags: Tim Geithner , Gov 2.0 , technology , Must Reads , Dorobek Insider

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IRS phone operations managing call volume

Hear more from TIGTA's Mike Phillips on the IRS's effective phone operations system

Tags: Federal Drive , management , IRS , phone operations , TIGTA , Mike Phillips , Vyomika Jairam

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Cybersecurity and telework make an interesting team

Tight security measures both tighten the leashes of executives, while driving them out of the office.

Tags: technology , Telework Ceter , cybersecurity , telework , DHS , USPS , Army , Polycom , Suzanne Kubota

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Bill promotes jointness among national security agencies

Congressmen Skelton and Davis say legislation would apply the lessons learned from Goldwater-Nichols Act to more than 13 agencies to help promote collaboration and understanding of each other's roles. The bill calls for a two-year detail for each senior official to learn how other national security agencies work.

Tags: pay and benefits , management , Ike Skelton , Geoff Davis , House Armed Services Committee , DoD , State , USDA , James Loser , Project on National Security Reform , national security personnel , training , Goldwater-Nichols Act , Jason Miller

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IRS tries a pilot to make banking better

Treasury says it will launch a new pilot program to help capitalize on tax refund season as an opportunity to provide unbanked and underbanked Americans with access to safe, low-cost financial accounts. Assistant Secretary Michael Barr explains.

Tags: Federal Drive , technology , best practices , Michael Barr , tax returns , banking , lessons learned , Suzanne Kubota

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White House recognizes 8 agencies for leadership in transparency

EPA, NASA and Transportation receive two honors each in different categories. Overall 17 agencies received all green scores on the Open Government dashboard.

Tags: management , Aneesh Chopra , Cass Sunstein , White House , EPA , NASA , DOT , HHS , Interior , GSA , open government , transparency , open government dashboard , Jason Miller

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Treasury CIO Duffy moving to Justice

After three years at Treasury, Duffy to move back to the agency he spent 15 years at previously.

Tags: technology , management , Mike Duffy , Justice , Jason Miller

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SIGIR: Defense can't account for $8.7 billion

A report by the Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction shows that insufficient accounting procedures has left DoD unable to account for 96% of the funding it received from the Development Fund for Iraq.

Tags: Defense , DoD , Development Fund for Iraq , Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction , SIGIR , Rachel Stevens

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