Official who oversaw VA computer system that caused havoc in Spokane charged with accepting gifts from government contractors

A former top official at the Department of Veterans Affairs, who oversaw the purchase and deployment of a flawed computer system that led to patient harm after it was launched in Spokane, was charged ...
Marketplace

The 65-year-old computer system at the heart of American business

The programming language known as COBOL, which stands for Common Business Oriented Language, turns 65 this year. We couldn’t help noticing that’s right around retirement age, but COBOL is nowhere near ...
Wired

DOGE Plans to Rebuild SSA Code Base in Months, Risking Benefits and System Collapse

The so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) is starting to put together a team to migrate the Social Security Administration’s (SSA) computer systems entirely off one of its oldest ...
USA Today

Elon Musk's DOGE seeks access to sensitive and restricted IRS data

The Department of Government Efficiency is seeking direct access to Internal Revenue Service computer systems that have vast amounts of sensitive data, according to a source familiar with the ...