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... Branch Office -- a local SSA office subordinate to a district office, often open only part-time. Central Processing Unit (CPU)
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... See Record. Future Process -- the total process -- hardware, software, human activity and procedures -- through which the SSA could deliver services from the mid-80's through the end of the century.
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... per row, with a few hundred to a few thousand bytes stored per inch along the length of the tape. Mass Storage -- the storage of a very large amount of data in a single storage device, readily accessible to a central processing unit.
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... In most production rule systems, most of the conditions and actions are complex. Program Service Center -- a major SSA office that reviews the more complex claims, that certifies the correctness of continuous payments, and acts as the repository for claims folders.
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... SSADARS -- Social Security Administration Data Acquisition and Response System. This is a computer-communications system providing on-line access from some SSA district offices and program service centers to some of the records maintained in the Baltimore center.
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... Thus, any change to information about an individual -- for example, an address change -- would need to be input only once in order to change all pertinent records. Vertical Slice -- a term associated with two of the three transition plans considered in this report: in one all future process services would be activited in a few district offices prior to being implemented throughout the system; in the other, complete subsystems would be upgraded as a prerequisite to future process services being activated.
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  • horizontal slice
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  • ssa data

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  • ssa office
  • central processing
  • security administration
  • management information

  • integrated data
  • storage media
  • transition plans
  • communications network
  • data communications

  • computer program
  • current ssa


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