The Federal Drive with Terry Gerton

The IRS, after wrapping up this year’s filing season with significantly improved service, compared to recent years, is planning to bring the agency’s long-term hiring needs into focus.

IRS Commissioner Danny Werfel told the Senate Finance Committee on Wednesday that the agency will, in the coming weeks, shed more light on the agency’s hiring plans over the next decade.

The IRS Strategic Operating Plan released earlier this month only includes proposed hiring through the end of fiscal 2024. Under the plan, the IRS is looking to hire more than 10,000 employees before the end of this fiscal year, and approximately another 10,000 employees in fiscal 2024. Most of the hiring is focused on taxpayer services and enforcement.

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Agencies made more improvements than usual with federal programs and governmentwide challenges, the Government Accountability Office said in its high risk list. But more long-standing problems are miring further progress.

GAO’s 2023 high risk list, a biennial report that the agency published Thursday, details a broad range of troubled federal programs that are vulnerable to fraud, waste, abuse and mismanagement. Congressional committees use GAO’s high risk list to help create their own oversight agenda.

Overall, 16 of the 37 items on the high risk list improved for 2023, including health care at the Department of Veterans Affairs, as well as the Postal Service, GAO said in its report.

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The Space Systems Command is turning government-industry collaboration on its head.

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Investments can change seemingly as fast as the weather, a fact to which anyone with a Thrift Savings Plan account can testify. Federal Drive host Tom Temin knows he can't forecast the investment weather, but along with his guest, certified financial planner Art Stein, this interview takes a look at recent trends.

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For 25 years, IT giant IBM has operated a government focused think tank. It's called the IBM Center for the Business of Government. To commemorate the Silver Anniversary, the center is holding an essay contest. It'll take the form of a challenge grant, and seeks essays on the future of government. For details, Federal Drive host Tom Temin spoke with the Center's Executive Director Dan Chenok.

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The Biden administration has proposed new ways to classify people for the 2030 census, with more racial groups than ever. But this podcast guest tells Federal Drive host Tom Temin that the changes could still end up misrepresenting Native Americans. Robert Maxim is a senior research associate at Brookings.

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In a move that seemed a little like the boa constrictor swallowing an elephant in “The Little Prince,” IBM Consulting made a deal for its biggest acquisition ever with the purchase of federal government digital services provider Octo Consulting. The $1.25 billion transaction included moving 1,500 Octo employees into IBM’s consulting business and it enhanced Big Blue’s place in the firmament of the government consulting and technology services landscape. For Octo, the move created an opportunity for future expansion, and by acquiring Octo, IBM increased its foothold in the business of federal government.

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