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The Justice Department and the Departments of Health and Human Services are reporting record-breaking health care fraud recoveries for 2011. The Health Care Fraud and Abuse Program returned 4.1 billion dollars to the Medicare Trust Fund and the Treasury last year. That includes 2.4 billion dollars in bogus claims they recovered in civil court under the false claims act, and 1.3 billion dollars in fines and restitution in criminal cases. Officials credit a new anti fraud team the two departments first created in 2009.
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The Air Force wants to know if commercial cellular networks might be the way forward for its wireless communications needs. The service is trying to collapse several of its legacy wireless networks that it says are becoming too costly and too cumbersome to operate. At Langley Air Force Base, the Command and Control Integration Center has just started testing the 4g wireless networks of the four largest national cellular carriers. They\'re also testing next generation handheld devices running both Android and Apple\'s iOS.
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The Department of Health and Human Services wants to spur the creation of a new generation of software that makes electronic health records more accessible to Americans with disabilities. The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology is launching a EHR Accessibility Module Challenge. They\'ll award prizes of up to 60-thousand dollars for people who can create usable mobile apps for people with vision, hearing, intellectual, and other disabilities.
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The Nuclear Regulatory Commission is becoming only the second federal agency to move its big backend office systems to the cloud. NRC has awarded a 23 million dollar contract to transition its Financial Accounting and Integrated Management Information System to a privately-hosted infrastructure. The agency had been using hosting services provided by the Interior Department. The NRC decision follows a similar move by the Labor department last year, when moved its financial systems to a private cloud.
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Geographer Michael Byrne works with the FCC chief data officer on deciding how the agency collects, uses and disseminates data. He spoke with The Federal Drive with Tom Temin Friday.
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A team of computer scientists at Wake-Forest University is creating an algorithm inspired by genetic survival of the fittest.
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Hackers who broke into a security consulting firm Stratfor are now targeting the company\'s government subscribers.
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Lawmakers at odds over critical infrastructure protection provisions. Sen. McCain promised to introduce a new version of a comprehensive cyber bill to focus on collaboration and information sharing instead of regulation of critical infrastructures. Sens. Joseph Lieberman and Susan Collins refute the criticism, saying they\'ve held 10 hearings, hundreds of meeting and pleaded with others in the Senate to offer comments.
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DHS officials said they\'re only monitoring Twitter and Facebook to get situational awareness of the homeland security situation. Congress seems unconvinced. Privacy group wants lawmakers to take action to stop DHS.
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Gary McNeil, a co-manager of EPA\'s Combined Heat and Power Program, joined In Depth with Francis Rose to discuss an award for energy savings earned by two military bases.
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Brand Niemann, the former senior enterprise architect and data scientist at the Environmental Protection Agency, joined In Depth with Francis Rose to discuss the similarity between the new shared-services strategy and an older plan known as service-oriented architecture.
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Sam Rosenfeld, the chairman and co-founder of the Densus Group, joined In Depth with Francis Rose to discuss the definition of cyber protest and how federal agencies can protect themselves.
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The goal is for agencies to offer on a fee-for-service basis excess cloud capacity. GSA\'s Dave McClure said financial management, human resources, customer relationship management and geospatial services are some of the possible offerings.
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Two congressman wrote to Apple CEO Tim Cook that they\'d heard reports about applications that copied phone owners contacts data and uploaded them.
February 16, 2012
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