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To: i-node who wrote (572340)	6/17/2010 7:50:18 PM
From: combjelly	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1576709

"Tell you what. If you can prove this statement I'll withdraw mine." Ok. The Government Accountability Office estimated in 2004 that the cost of the 2010 Census would be over $11 billion.[9] In a detailed report to Congress, it called on the Census Bureau to address cost and design issues.[10] Lockheed Martin won a six-year, $500 million contract to capture and standardize data for the census. The contract includes systems, facilities, and staffing.[citation needed] Information technology will be about a quarter of the projected $11.3 billion cost of the decennial census.[11] This was the first census to use hand-held computing devices with GPS capability.[12][13] Unlike the 2000 census, an Internet response option will not be offered nor will the form be available for download.[6][7] Note: this was before the handhelds were scrapped. en.wikipedia.org Once expected to cost $11.5 billion, estimates of the funds required to conduct the count jumped last year after a failed effort to equip census workers with handheld computers. govexec.com Note: this was in October of 2009. "Last year" would have been 2008.