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Veterans Affairs: Subcommittee Questions Concerning the Department's Information Technology Program

Description: Correspondence issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "The Department of Veterans Affairs' (VA) information technology (IT) program faces many challenges, including filling its chief information officer position, improving computer security, and refining its process for selecting, controlling, and evaluating its information technology investments. This correspondence answers several questions from Congress on these and other challenges facing VA's IT program."
Date: May 2, 2001
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
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FTS 2001 Implementation Issues

Description: Correspondence issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "The General Services Administration (GSA) awarded FTS2001 contracts to Sprint and MCI Worldcom to provide long distance telecommunications services to federal agencies. The federal government began the sizable and complex effort of switching from the existing FTS 2000 contracts to FTS2001 in June 1999. Several implementation issues have delayed this transition. One of these issues concerns the billing problems … more
Date: July 2, 2001
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
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VA Health Care: Community-Based Clinics Improve Primary Care Access

Description: A statement of record issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "This testimony discusses the Veterans Health Administration's (VHA) efforts to improve veterans' access to health care through its Community-Based Outpatient Clinics Initiative. Overall, through its clinics, VHA is steadily making primary care more available within reasonable proximity of patients who have used VHA's system in the past. However, the uneven distribution of patients living more than 30 mil… more
Date: May 2, 2001
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
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Briefing Slides on Martin Frankel's Alleged $200 Million Insurance Scam

Description: Correspondence issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "This report provides information on a highly publicized insurance investment scam exposed in May 1999. Martin Frankel, with the assistance of others, allegedly obtained secret control of entities in both the insurance and securities industries. Instead of managing the assets of these companies in a prudent manner, he allegedly diverted them to other accounts he controlled and used them to support the ongoing sc… more
Date: August 2, 2001
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
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Financial Management: Improper Payments Reported in Fiscal Year 2000 Financial Statements

Description: Correspondence issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "This report provides information on improper payments that federal agencies reported in their fiscal year 2000 financial statements. GAO found that the amount of improper payments reported in agency financial statements has remained consistent at about $20 billion for the past three years. Even though these amounts are substantial, agency-specific audits and studies indicate the improper payment problem is much… more
Date: November 2, 2001
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
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Farm Credit Administration: Analysis of Administrative Expenses and Funding Through Assessments

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "The Farm Credit Administration (FCA) regulates the farm credit system. Administrative expenses, which accounted for about 97 percent of FCA's total operating expenses of $34.5 million in fiscal year 2000, are funded primarily by assessments on the institutions that make up the system, including the Federal Agricultural Mortgage Corporation (Farmer Mac). This report (1) analyses trends in administrative expense… more
Date: August 2, 2001
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
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Department of the Treasury: Information on the Office of Enforcement's Operations

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "This report discusses GAO's review of the Department of the Treasury's Office of Enforcement. The office was created to provide oversight, policy guidance, and support to Treasury's enforcement bureaus. GAO found that no comprehensive source provided guidance to either the office staff or to the bureaus on the circumstances under which bureaus are required to interact with the office. In addition, established … more
Date: March 2, 2001
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
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Coast Guard: Progress Being Made on Deepwater Project, but Risks Remain

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "The Coast Guard is in the final stages of planning the largest procurement project in its history-the modernization or replacement of more than 90 cutters and 200 aircraft used for missions more than 50 miles from shore. This project, called the Deepwater Capability Replacement Project, is expected to cost more than $10 billion and take 20 years or longer to complete. Congress and the Coast Guard are at a majo… more
Date: May 2, 2001
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
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Kosovo Air Operations: Army Resolving Lessons Learned Regarding the Apache Helicopter

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "The Army deployed its team, called Task Force Hawk, to participate in a Kosovo combat operation known as Operation Allied Force. This report (1) examines how Task Force Hawk's concept of operation compared to Army and joint doctrine, (2) reviews the lessons learned identified from the operation and determines the status of actions to address those lessons, and (3) examines the extent to which the Army and the … more
Date: March 2, 2001
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
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Licensing Hydropower Projects: Better Time and Cost Data Needed to Reach Informed Decisions About Process Reforms

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "This report assesses the licensing process of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC). Specifically, GAO examines (1) why the licensing process now takes longer and costs more than it did when FERC issued most original licenses several decades ago; (2) whether participants in the licensing process agree on the need for, and type of, further reforms to reduce time and costs; and (3) whether available ti… more
Date: May 2, 2001
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
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Contract Management: Purchase of Army Black Berets

Description: Testimony issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "The Army's decision to issue black berets to all of its forces in just eight months placed enormous demands on the military's procurement system. To meet this challenge, the Department of Defense (DOD) increased the domestic supplier's production, awarded contracts to known foreign sources, and procured berets from additional sources. This testimony discusses DOD's contracting strategy, including (1) the contracting… more
Date: May 2, 2001
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
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Child Care: States Increased Spending on Low-Income Families

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Nationwide, states reported that federal and state expenditures for child care under the Child Care and Development Fund (CCDF) block grant and the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) block grant grew from $4.1 billion in fiscal year 1997 to $6.9 billion in fiscal year 1999 and totaled over $16 billion in constant fiscal year 1997 dollars for this three-year period. More than half of the children wh… more
Date: February 2, 2001
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
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INS' Southwest Border Strategy: Resource and Impact Issues Remain After Seven Years

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "To deter illegal entry between the nation's ports of entry, the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) developed its Southwest Border Strategy. INS has spent seven years implementing the border strategy, but it may take INS up to a decade longer to fully implement the strategy. This assumes that INS obtains the level of staff, technology, equipment, and fencing it believes it needs to control the Southwe… more
Date: August 2, 2001
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
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Superfund: EPA's Contract Cost-Estimating Initiatives Show Promise and Should Be Monitored

Description: A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), which manages the cleanup of the nation's most hazardous abandoned sites through the Superfund program, relies heavily on contractors to conduct its cleanup activities. Currently, EPA spends about 50 percent of its approximately $1.5 billion annual Superfund budget on contractors. With so much at stake, it is critical that the government get the best contract price fo… more
Date: March 2, 2001
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
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Tactical Aircraft: Impact of F-22 Production Cost Reduction Plans on Cost Estimates

Description: Testimony issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "The Air Force started developing the F-22 aircraft in 1991, and plans to complete development in September 2003. The Air Force plans to procure 333 production aircraft at a cost now capped at $37.6 billion. The law does not specify the total number of aircraft to be procured. This testimony discusses (1) potential cost reduction plans, (2) production cost estimates by the Air Force and the Office of the Secretary of… more
Date: August 2, 2001
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
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Energy Markets: Results of FERC Outage Study and Other Market Power Studies

Description: Testimony issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "The importance of the role of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) is illustrated by the situation in California. Wholesale electricity prices in California rose sharply in May 2000 and have remained high. California also saw disruptions in service this winter and spring. GAO reviewed FERC's outage study and two other studies that examined possible exercise of market power in California's electricity indu… more
Date: August 2, 2001
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
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Internal Revenue Service: Progress Continues But Serious Management Challenges Remain

Description: Testimony issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "This testimony discusses the management challenges that continue to face the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). These challenges include (1) computer security, (2) financial management, (3) organizational modernization and performance management, and (4) business systems modernization management. IRS must make progress in all four areas to improve the agency's efficiency and to significantly improve service to taxpayer… more
Date: April 2, 2001
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
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Development of Lower Energy Neutron Spectroscopy for Areal Density Measurement in Implosion Experiment at NIF and Omega

Description: Areal density ({rho}R) is a fundamental parameter that characterizes the performance of an ICF implosion. For high areal densities ({rho}R> 0.1 g/cm{sup 2}), which will be realized in implosion experiments at NIF and LMJ, the target areal density exceeds the stopping range of charged particles and measurements with charged particle spectroscopy will be difficult. In this region, an areal density measurement method using down shifted neutron counting is a promising alternative. The probabilit… more
Date: August 2, 2001
Creator: Isumi, N; Lerche, R A; Phillips, T W; Schmid, G J; Moran, M J & Sangster, T C
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Effective Communication and File-I/O Bandwidth Benchmarks

Description: We describe the design and MPI implementation of two benchmarks created to characterize the balanced system performance of high-performance clusters and supercomputers: b{_}eff, the communication-specific benchmark examines the parallel message passing performance of a system, and b{_}eff{_}io, which characterizes the effective 1/0 bandwidth. Both benchmarks have two goals: (a) to get a detailed insight into the Performance strengths and weaknesses of different parallel communication and I/O pa… more
Date: May 2, 2001
Creator: Koniges, A E & Rabenseifner, R
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Computational Simulations of High Intensity X-Ray Matter Interaction

Description: Free electron lasers have the promise of producing extremely high-intensity short pulses of coherent, monochromatic radiation in the 1-10 keV energy range. For example, the Linac Coherent Light Source at Stanford is being designed to produce an output intensity of 2 x 10{sup 14} W/cm{sup 2} in a 230 fs pulse. These sources will open the door to many novel research studies. However, the intense x-ray pulses may damage the optical components necessary for studying and controlling the output. At t… more
Date: August 2, 2001
Creator: London, R. A.; Rionta, R.; Tatchyn, R. & Roessler, S.
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Congressional Oversight

Description: This report provides information about the Congressional Oversight of implementation and administration has occurred through out the history of United States government under the constitution.
Date: January 2, 2001
Creator: Kaiser, Frederick M.
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Creating Ensembles of Decision Trees Through Sampling

Description: Recent work in classification indicates that significant improvements in accuracy can be obtained by growing an ensemble of classifiers and having them vote for the most popular class. This paper focuses on ensembles of decision trees that are created with a randomized procedure based on sampling. Randomization can be introduced by using random samples of the training data (as in bagging or arcing) and running a conventional tree-building algorithm, or by randomizing the induction algorithm its… more
Date: February 2, 2001
Creator: Kamath, C & Cantu-Paz, E
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