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The cost of modernization
Medicare could lose $140 million a year in interest if the Health Care Financing Administration reduces the number of days doctors must wait for payment for services.
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Learning tech skills from scratch
To carry out the mission of Census 2000, the government had to raise and train a small army.
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E-government watch
This is a roundup of news and commentary from conferences and speeches around Washington, D.C., last week.
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FAA, Customs testing drug sniffer
Security officials from the Federal Aviation Administration and the U.S. Customs Service are testing a new document scanner that can detect minute traces of illicit narcotics on airline passenger boarding passes.
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Modern IRS on track
The Internal Revenue Service's modernization program is on track, with plans to phase in a master database that will enable the IRS to keep track of each contact the agency makes with taxpayers
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Intercepts
My mobile receiving station parked outside the Naval Air Systems Command in Patuxent River, Md., reports that a woman will be leading the first effort to roll out the Navy/Marine Corps Intranet.
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Security champion leaving government
Richard Guida, longtime champion of security within federal agencies, will be leaving moving to the private sector at the end of the year
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Lieberman pushes IT czar
Senator may introduce legislation this year to create the post within the Office of Management and Budget
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Awareness key for cybercrime prevention
Officials say it's critical to get parents to supervise their children online and report anything illegal
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Feds look to R&D partnerships
Government and industry will save time and money if they partner in developing new technologies, according to leaders at defense and space agencies
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Viador picked as platform for fed portals
Five federal systems integrators have chosen Viador Inc.'s EPortal Suite as the platform they will use to serve their government customers
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IT is only part of e-gov, Cisco exec says
Education about what the Internet can do is key to realizing true electronic government, a senior vice president at Cisco Systems
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Electronic Medicare system may lose millions
Medicare may lose $140 million annually in earned interest if a system is created to pay doctors more quickly, GAO warned Congress
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Accounting for projects becomes a challenge
A worker shortage and the trend toward outsourcing complicate project management, government financial officers say
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SSA advances e-services offerings
Medicare recipients can use a form at SSA's Web site to apply for a replacement card online
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OCR gets paper into the digital workflow
ScanSoft Inc.'s TextBridge Pro 9.0 Business Edition provides fast document conversion and output to Web formats
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Portal offers feds free Web access
An Internet portal designed for federal workers has joined a growing number of organizations offering free Internet access and email accounts to its users
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Roster Change
Eight federal organizations will be honored during the 13th Annual President's Quality Awards Program in Washington, D.C., on July 13.
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GAO: Closing NTIS not easy
A year ago, its own parent agency said the National Technical Information Service has been made obsolete by the Internet and should be abolished
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