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Letter: Stop exacerbating health care problems
The government has socialized the U.S. health care system enough already, a reader writes.
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FCW asks... How does a country block access to the Internet?
As Myanmar’s military cracks down on nationwide protests, the country’s ruling junta is attempting to restrict the flow of information by blocking Internet access. How can it do that?
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Circuit
And the security winners are...; Technology offers a different view; Iowa CIO takes NASCIO helm.
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CMS funds Georgia health care transparency Web site
Medicare agency awards the state a 'transformation grant' to post health cost information online.
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FAA wants satellite-based systems by 2020
The agency says the Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast system will improve monitoring of air traffic, but not all aviation groups are sold on the idea.
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CMS signals it will move to new billing codes
The Medicare agency hires AHIMA to study the effect of converting to ICD-10 codes for billing for medical care.
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Letter: Voting laws, not technology, are the problem
Had state election laws been on par with technology in 2000 and 2006, elections those years would have been automatic do-overs.
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FCW Download and Table of Contents
Table of Contents for this weeks's magazine and some extras.
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The Buzz contenders
#2: Budget fatigue sets inPresident Bush woke up in a realistic frame of mind last week and said he wanted Congress to pass a continuing resolution — with no strings attached — to keep the government operating at current funding levels past Oct. 1. House Appropriations Committee Chairman David Obey (D-Wis.) reacted to the administration's instruction as if it were a provocation to fight. "This is the time when we ought to be sitting down…
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Buyer's Guide 2.0
For years, Federal Computer Week has put together buyers' guides. These guides contain information about how to buy the goods and services agencies use and which contracts carry specific goods and services. This year, we are trying something different. Rather than publish all types of charts and graphs, we are placing that data online. That information, available by visiting www.fcw.com/ specials/buyersguide, contains specific data on contracts, including the vendors on a wide variety of contracts and the products and services they provide. In print, we have combined information about governmentwide acquisition contracts and small-business requirements. We have a…
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DOD tries a new risk strategy
Critics say DOD’s chosen methodology lacks a portfolio management perspective
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NextGen funding battle heats up
Controversy centers on whether Congress should impose air traffic system user fees
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Tech briefs
DHS readies TWIC rollout<LF><LF> Agencies responsible for the Homeland Security Department's Transportation Worker Identity Credential (TWIC) expect to begin biometric enrollment for the permits by October, after the Sept. 18 release of technical specifications for the identity cards. The program to provide biometric credentials to workers at ports and other transport hubs has experienced multiple delays and cost overruns in the past four years, partly because of unsettled questions about biometric technologies. Paul Schneider, DHS' undersecretary for…
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FAQs for midsize and large businesses
Frequently asked questions for midsize and large businesses about what the government’s small-business requirements mean for them
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