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HCFA plans national Medicare Y2K testing week

NOVEMBER 4, 1999 . . . 17:30 EST
The Health Care Financing Administration, the federal agency in charge of Medicare, today announced that it has designated Nov. 15-20 as National MedicareYear 2000 Testing Week, enabling health care providers to evaluate their billing systems in an end-to-end test with Medicare systems.
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Navy builds case against DOD network

NOVEMBER 3, 1999 . . . 18:33 EST
The Navy is building a case for setting up its own network to help support its multibillion-dollar agencywide intranet rather than relying wholly on the Defense Department's mandated network, a Navy official said Tuesday.
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Cyberattacks against DOD up 300 percent this year

NOVEMBER 3, 1999 . . . 18:21 EST
The number of cyberattacks reported this year against the Defense Department's information networks has more than tripled compared with last year, according to the director of the Defense Information Systems Agency.
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DOT, FAA say systems are Y2K ready

NOVEMBER 2, 1999 . . . 17:59 EST
Systems that operate lighting, emergency response and radio communications at the nation's 565 airports are expected to work properly through the Year 2000 date rollover, according to Transportation Department and Federal Aviation Administration officials.
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U.S. savings bonds available via the Net

NOVEMBER 2, 1999 . . . 17:03 EST
The Treasury Department today launched a new Internet site that for the first time will allow the public to buy savings bonds online.
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Hill threatens to cut IT funds

NOVEMBER 1, 1999
Congress may cut off funding for some of the Defense Department's mission-critical information systems after March 31 unless the Pentagon's chief information officer can prove the department is managing the systems in compliance with the 1996 Clinger-Cohen Act.
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Desktop OCR market serves up two strong contenders
FCW Test Center After years of widespread competition, the desktop optical character recognition market has come to be dominated by two products: Caere Corp.'s OmniPage and ScanSoft Inc.'s Text-Bridge.
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FileMaker good for small workgroups
There are times when you want to have a desktop or small workgroup-level database on hand. Perhaps you need to quickly construct a report from a small amount of data or test an interagency data transfer procedure. In these instances, it does not make sense to contact your enterprise database administrator. Instead, take a look at FileMaker Inc.'s FileMaker Pro 5.0.
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The Federal List presents our take on the most important lists in the federal market: Top integrators, GSA schedule holders, 8(a) firms and, a new category, top 10 companies to watch in the federal market.
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