Nearly half of the major Federal government agencies that use Login.gov have reported challenges involving technical issues such as not having visibility into authentications, high failure rates, and lack of fraud controls, a new report from the Government Accountability Office (GAO) says. […]

The General Services Administration’s (GSA) Technology Transformation Services (TTS) group announced that Login.gov will now offer facial recognition technology to all of its partners as an identity verification offering. […]

The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) wants to expand its use of authentication services that employ the Login.gov sign-on service developed by the General Services Administration (GSA), but the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration (TIGTA) said in a July 23 report that IRS is facing security hurdles in that process.   […]

The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) announced on Wednesday that veterans and other beneficiaries will need to switch to Login.gov or ID.me over the next year to continue to access their online services. […]

The Social Security Administration (SSA) announced on Friday that customers who created “my Social Security” accounts before Sept. 18, 2021, will need to transition to a Login.gov account to continue to access their online services. […]

The House of Representatives passed a bill by unanimous consent on Monday that aims to create more oversight of the General Services Administration’s (GSA) Technology Transformation Services (TTS) organization. […]

The General Services Administration (GSA) announced today it has tapped Hanna Kim to serve as the new director of its single sign-on service, Login.gov, with a start date of May 11. […]

The General Services Administration’s (GSA) Technology Transformation Services (TTS) group announced today that its single sign-on service – Login.gov – will begin piloting the use of facial recognition technology next month. […]

Login.gov will begin deploying facial recognition technology next year as a way for people to verify their identities and securely access vital government benefits and services, the General Services Administration (GSA) announced Wednesday. […]

The Cybersecurity and Information Security Agency (CISA) is making some major changes to how it manages the infrastructure behind official government websites. The next change, CISA said, is launching a new .gov registrar.  […]

A new report from the Treasury Inspector General For Tax Administration (TIGTA) sheds light on why the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) scrapped plans to use Login.gov as an alternative for taxpayers to identify themselves to utilize IRS tools and services for 2023 tax season. […]

The General Services Administration (GSA) is continuing to increase adoption of its Login.gov service, reaching 38.8 million active users as of September and supplying service to 42 Federal partner agencies, according to new data from the Office of Management and Budget (OMB). […]

Following up on efforts that began in May of this year, the General Services Administration (GSA) and Department of Labor (DoL) have expanded their partnership to now offer all states the opportunity to use Login.gov to help improve access, decrease fraud, and increase security in the delivery of unemployment insurance (UI) benefits. […]

Nearly half a year after a scathing inspector general (IG) report exposed the General Services Administration (GSA) for years of misleading Federal agencies on the security of its Login.gov platform, GSA announced that the identity-proofing website has seen a 50 percent increase in use over the past year. […]

Bipartisan leaders of the House Oversight and Accountability Committee on June 21 issued calls for briefings and further information from the General Services Administration (GSA) and component offices as it digs more deeply into how GSA misled Federal agencies by falsely claiming that its identity-proofing website – Login.gov – met government standards for identity-proofing. […]

Just three months after the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) at the General Services Administration (GSA) found that the Federal agency had been misleading users on the standards of its Login.gov identity proofing website, GSA Federal Acquisition Service (FAS) Commissioner Sonny Hashmi said this week that the tool’s adoption curve continues to increase despite the OIG’s findings earlier this year.   […]

The General Services Administration (GSA) Technology Transformation Services (TTS) organization has released a new request for information (RFI) for Login.gov’s next-generation identity proofing solutions. […]

A top official from the General Services Administration (GSA) today pledged the agency’s commitment to fully implement recommendations from a recent Office of Inspector General (OIG) report that revealed that GSA misled Federal agencies for years by falsely claiming that its identity-proofing website – Login.gov – met government standards for identity-proofing. […]

Officials from the General Services Administration (GSA) misled Federal agencies for years by falsely claiming that its identity-proofing website, Login.gov, met government standards for identity-proofing, according to a March 7 report from GSA’s inspector general (IG). […]

The General Services Administration’s (GSA) Login.gov service – which enables users to access participating government agencies with only one username and account – continued to grow in fiscal year (FY) 2022, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) said in a Jan. 24 blog post. […]

The General Services Administration (GSA) plans to deploy anti-fraud and identity verification measures to login.gov – which provides single sign-on services for numerous government websites and applications – to prevent account takeovers. […]

The General Services Administration (GSA) has appointed Dan Lopez director of the agency’s Login.gov service that provides secure single sign-on services used by the public to access website and applications of numerous government agencies. […]

Office of Personnel Management (OPM) Chief Information Officer Guy Cavallo said today that his agency’s work with the General Services Administration’s (GSA) login.gov technology for authentication and identity proofing is paying off in OPM’s continuing efforts to make enterprise-wide technology improvements. […]

U.S. military veterans are now able to access online services using the same login and password across a variety of Federal government websites and portals, the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) announced. […]

The Technology Modernization Fund (TMF) said today it awarded $10.5 million to the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) for the agency to implement the General Services Administration’s (GSA) Login.gov single sign-on technology across multiple VA websites. […]

The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) said on Feb. 21 that it will allow taxpayers to opt out of using facial recognition technology to verify their identity and access online accounts, and at the same time will work to roll out login.gov as its long-term authentication solution. […]

The General Services Administration is going on the hunt for a permanent director to lead its Login.gov effort and oversee deployment of the $187 million Technology Modernization Fund (TMF) award GSA got for the project last year. […]

The General Services Administration’s (GSA) project for further development of its Login.gov authentication and identity proofing services won by far the largest share of funding from the Technology Modernization Fund’s (TMF) awards totaling $311 million announced late last month. […]

The General Services Administration’s (GSA) Technology Transformation Services (TTS) is looking for a contractor who can assist the agency in its remote identity proofing process to validate government-issued IDs with data via the login.gov platform, according to a request for information (RFI). […]