The initiative will involve police, fire and emergency response agencies in the District of Columbia, Virginia, Maryland and Pennsylvania, Holcomb said at a forum on interoperability at the FOSE trade show in Washington.
The Customer Account Data Engine, launched last summer, handles 1040EZ forms for filers who owe no taxes. CADE will process about 1.3 million such returns this year and 3 million next filing season, Spires said today at the FOSE trade show in Washington. The relational database will replace the 1960s-era tape-based Master File.
Weiterlesen: USA: IRS' CADE reaches the 1 million mark this tax season
“More and more, it’s impossible to keep track of hundreds of thousands of lines of documentation and review notes” using paper, said Fred Farmer, information technology program director in the FDA’s Office of the Chief Information Officer. Instead, the FDA relies on specialized scientific computing, which has to be reliable to avoid any costly breakdowns in the review process.
The Vernon Hills, Ill., company followed up a telework study in January by surveying 287 federal workers. It found that only 1 percent more employees have begun to telework at least one day a week.
The Web site -- www.teleworkexchange.org -- is intended to provide infoto federal employees about how they can join the telework ranks. It also provides an online chat room called the Water Cooler for federal workers to discuss problems. The move was prompted by a survey showing that only about 20 percent of all federal workers telework.