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Agencies enter the home stretch for HSPD-12

T-minus 32 and counting. The General Services Administration and the Interior Department's National Business Center scramble to finalize shared services as Oct. 27 deadline draws near.

News

� DOD to gauge BEA progress
� DOD officials wary of weak spots in commercial apps
� Garcia looks to raise cybersecurity�s profile
� NMCI�s architecture paying off
� Intel leaders try to think alike on sharing
� DHS awards $2b SBI-Net contract to Boeing
� Spy agencies adapt social software, federated search tools
� Passage of database bill is just the start
� OMB, GSA offer financial-management guidance
� Feds wrestle with IT planning requirements
� Education upgrade enhances, smooths flow of student aid
� People on the move
� Officials focus on weak links in privacy
� Lousiana exchange sets pace for regional networks

Defense IT

� IT tools are clogging the airwaves
� Army plans to audit software assets
� Incoming

Interview

� O. Sami Saydjari | Weak spots on cyberdefense

Commentary

� Tom Temin | Editor's Desk: Software�s moonshot
� Scott Schumacher | Another View: Identifying patients vs. patient identifiers
� TECHNICAL DIFFICULTIES

Tech Reports

� COOP: Cover your IT bases
� Maps: the new application interface
� Behind the EA curtain: tools in use
� Shawn P. McCarthy | Internaut: Geospatial LOB may need more help
� PIV specs come down from NIST

GCN Lab Reviews

� There�s light, then there�s fast and light
� Dell Latitude d420
� HP Compaq nc2400
� Lenovo ThinkPad X60s
� Sony Vaio VGN-TX750p
� Toshiba Tecra M5-S433

GCN Insider/Tech Briefs

� Vista�s smarter security
� Check Point gets an Intel boost
� War games
� New Toughbooks galore
� Linux endpoint security
� Amcom earns JITC certs

Promising Practices

� Substance control

Logging Off

� COMMUNITY: Good connections
� R. Fink | Packet Rat: LonelyRat ready to catch wave of unreality
� And another thing...

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