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Treasury’s fiscal data site growing by leaps and bounds

Fiscaldata.treasury.gov is up to 24 datasets since the summer with more on the way.

Jan 28, 2021 By Dave Nyczepir

Army financial management — Joint Service members and civilians participate in Exercise Diamond Saber at Fort McCoy, Wisconsin, on June 26, 2019. It’s the Army’s only large-scale financial management exercise. (U.S. Army / Russell Gamache)

The Army migrated one of the world’s largest financial systems to the cloud 7 months ahead of schedule

Other agencies lent the Army extra bandwidth and personnel to be able to carry out large data transfers and fill a 189-person team to complete the GFEBS…

Aug 3, 2020 By Jackson Barnett

VA consolidating home loan applications to improve analytics, transparency for veterans

Veterans will be able to make better informed decisions about their home loans thanks to the potentially $328 million contract awarded to Accenture Federal Services.

Jul 29, 2020 By Dave Nyczepir

Pam Dyson speaks about SEC’s IT modernization at the 2018 AWS Public Sector Summit. (Amazon Web Services)

How the 2012 Facebook IPO filing taught the SEC that IT modernization never ends

The online pandemonium crashed a key SEC website, and the agency learned a thing or two about scalability.

Jun 21, 2018 By Billy Mitchell

DHS wants enterprisewide financial software solution

The agency is looking for software that can integrate with existing asset management systems across the department’s 22 component agencies.

Mar 12, 2018 By Carten Cordell

FDIC breached more than 50 times between 2015 and 2016

The agency took more than 9 months in most cases to notify victims they may be affected.

Oct 5, 2017

J. Christopher Giancarlo (House Committee on Agriculture / Flickr)

CFTC chairman: Government must ditch ‘analog regulation,’ embrace blockchain

J. Christopher Giancarlo sees blockchain technology as the key to protecting the government's oversight of markets.

Sep 20, 2017