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 <volume>20</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Telework gets new support]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Marjorie Adams, a full-time program manager at the Agriculture Department, works 40 hours a week but battles suburban traffic only three days.]]></description>
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 <volume>20</volume>
 <issue>30a</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[FirstGov handles millions of Web hits after attacks]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Like a seismograph needle during an earthquake, the activity on FirstGov, the General Services Administration&#146;s portal to government Web sites, posted a sharp spike during last month&#146;s terrorist attacks.]]></description>
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 <volume>20</volume>
 <issue>30a</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[People on the Move]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld has designated Army Secretary Thomas E. White to be the department&#146;s executive agent for homeland security.]]></description>
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 <volume>20</volume>
 <issue>30a</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[The customer comes first at forum]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[One of the ways government is like business is that they both have customers, particularly when government offers enhanced services online. That&#146;s why customer relationship management has become a hot topic in government circles&#151;it not only helps managers focus on delivering citizen-centric services, it can help agencies achieve paperless processes and other IT goals.]]></description>
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 <volume>20</volume>
 <issue>30a</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Navy staff moves out while Pentagon rebuilds]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[About 1,000 Navy personnel displaced after the Sept. 11 terrorist attack on the Pentagon have been moved to an office in Arlington, Va.]]></description>
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 <volume>20</volume>
 <issue>30a</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Navy e-business operations office is looking for a few good ideas]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Navy is looking for e-business projects to fund during fiscal 2002 that will help improve readiness, business processes and quality of life for its servicepeople.]]></description>
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 <volume>20</volume>
 <issue>30a</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[INCOMING]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Standard Army Management Information Systems Headquarters awarded two seven-year blanket purchasing agreements potentially worth $277 million to KPMG LLP of New York and Titan Systems Corp. of San Diego.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/20_30a/17226-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>20</volume>
 <issue>30a</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[VA preps a new enterprise architecture]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Veterans Affairs Department is ready to roll out its One VA Enterprise Architecture, one of the department&#146;s top five priorities under John A. Gauss, the new assistant secretary for information and technology, and CIO.]]></description>
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 <volume>20</volume>
 <issue>30a</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Notebooks are ready for double duty]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Not long ago, notebook PCs that could double as desktop systems were hard to find for less than $4,000. For most notebooks, you would have had to add portable hard drives or optical drives to boost limited storage capacities.]]></description>
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 <volume>20</volume>
 <issue>30a</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Compaq bundles PCs, services into monthly package]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Government agencies can buy new Evo desktop and notebook PCs from Compaq Computer Corp. through per-seat deals, starting at $99 a month, that include help desk assistance, technology updates and asset reporting services.]]></description>
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 <volume>20</volume>
 <issue>30a</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Bush approves new panel for science advice]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[President Bush last week signed an executive order creating the President&#146;s Council of Advisers on Science and Technology, a group made up almost entirely of private industry and academic advisers.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/20_30a/17240-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>20</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[NSF grants aim to maintain U.S. superiority in IT]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The National Science Foundation last month announced $156 million in grants designed to &#147;preserve America&#146;s position as the world leader of computer science and its applications.&#148;]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/20_30a/17241-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>20</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[USPS links to ads]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Postal Service last month unveiled the first official online change-of-address service, at MoversGuide.com, which links users to companies advertising goods and services needed for relocation.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/20_30a/17242-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>20</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Federal courts will post most civil case files]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Judicial Conference of the U.S. Courts approved a proposal to put case files online. The conference, a 27-judge panel that sets policy for federal courts, said that most civil-case documents should be available online to the same extent they are at the courthouse.]]></description>
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 <volume>20</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[HHS will unify its Medicare accounting]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Health and Human Services Department last month launched a $328 million effort to unify accounting practices of Medicare insurers.]]></description>
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 <volume>20</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Sun launches 72-processor Sun Fire server]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[A new 72-way server from Sun Microsystems Inc. can scale up to 106 CPUs if needed.]]></description>
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 <volume>20</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[INTERVIEW: Bruce A. Brody, cybersecurity strongman]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Bruce A. Brody took over a newly created position&#151;associate deputy assistant secretary for cybersecurity&#151;at the Veterans Affairs Department in March.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/20_30a/17216-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>20</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[DID YOU HEAR]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[PDA, meet the PSA. NASA&#146;s Ames Research Center came up with the PSA, which has an LCD to display lists and schedules and track other information. Yes, it&#146;s made from commercial parts.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/20_30a/17234-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>20</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[UNSCRAMBLE]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[INTERNET BRAMBLE]]></description>
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 <volume>20</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[PACKET RAT]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[While the Rat&#146;s brood scurried home from California, the whiskered one geared himself for yet another foray into high-stakes software insurgency.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/20_30a/17236-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>20</volume>
 <issue>30a</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Current Issue Crossword/Puzzle]]></title>
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 <volume>20</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Bigger hurdles await IRS plan]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The IRS modernization plan is headed in the right direction, but the agency is just now getting to the hard part, according to Larry Levitan, chairman of the IRS Oversight Board.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/20_30a/17229-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>20</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[FEDERAL CONTRACT LAW]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Service Contract Act of 1965 (SCA) requires government contractors to pay their nonexempt employees working on service contracts no less than the prevailing wage and fringe benefit rates applicable in the locale where the work is performed. Unionized work forces must be paid consistent with any applicable collective bargaining agreement.]]></description>
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 <volume>20</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Calendar]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[October 25-26. World Customer Service Congress. Forum. Reston, Va. Contact World Customer Service Congress; phone: 703-359-5969; e-mail: conference@jjaconsultants.com.]]></description>
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 <volume>20</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[NOAA generates 3-D images of the attack sites]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[As cleanup continues at the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has created 3-D models of the debris to help workers locate buried foundations, stairwells, elevator shafts and utility connections.]]></description>
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 <volume>20</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Air Force picks products for its new portal project]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Air Force will use products from BroadVision Inc. of Redwood City, Calif., and Plumtree Software of San Francisco to consolidate hundreds of legacy systems at 110 bases into a single point of access.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/20_30a/17247-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>20</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Navy defers NMCI payments, OKs Web initiative]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Navy will pay Electronic Data Systems Corp. $128 million less in fiscal 2002 for funding the Navy-Marine Corps Intranet than was stated in the original task order.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/20_30a/17248-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>20</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Walker: Treat security like Y2K effort]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Bush administration&#146;s new homeland security plan needs the same federal leadership and oversight that made the year 2000 effort a success, comptroller general David M. Walker said last month.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/20_30a/17249-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>20</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Report: Feds face $75m in IT costs]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[It will cost the federal government more than $75 million in IT hardware and services to replace infrastructure damaged in the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks at the World Trade Center and Pentagon, according to a report from Input Inc.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/20_30a/17250-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>20</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Study: Managers slow telework]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Six months past its deadline, the government has fallen far short of its mandated goal of making telecommuting available to one-quarter of its work force, and inflexible managers are to blame, a House panel heard early last month.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/20_30a/17251-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>20</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Gilligan urges agencies to push for safer software]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Air Force&#146;s deputy CIO last week called on the software industry to deliver products that are more secure out of the box than they are now.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/20_30a/17252-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>20</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[GAO says federal cybersecurity has plenty of holes]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Air Force&#146;s deputy CIO last week called on the software industry to deliver products that are more secure out of the box than they are now.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/20_30a/17253-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>20</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[IT group delays security report]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Members of the President&#146;s Information Technology Advisory Committee are happy with the government&#146;s progress on IT research, but the committee last month postponed a briefing on security in the wake of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/20_30a/17255-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>20</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Forman aims to consolidate systems]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Mark Forman, associate director of the Office of Management and Budget for IT and electronic government, has a plan for unifying government systems but no budget yet.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/20_30a/17256-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>20</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Agency webmasters aid in recovery]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[E-government wasn&#146;t a major focus as the government got back to work after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks in New York and Washington, but federal agencies did use the Web for a variety of purposes.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/20_30a/17257-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>20</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[GAO questions SEC oversight]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Securities and Exchange Commission&#146;s oversight of security procedures for information systems at exchanges and clearinghouses can be improved, the General Accounting Office said in a report last month.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/20_30a/17258-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>20</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Defense review focuses on IT]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld&#146;s Quadrennial Defense Review calls for increased spending on technology and a focus on the likely new battlegrounds of the 21st century&#151;including space and cyberspace.]]></description>
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 <volume>20</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[EDITORIAL]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[You know when you&#146;ve been nailed by a red-light camera. It happened to me one evening at dusk when I was rushing my son to an event and I entered an intersection on yellow (I thought). A flash illuminated the car, and on the return trip I spotted the glass bubble suspended over the intersection.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/20_30a/17212-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>20</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[ANOTHER VIEW]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Over the past several years, information technology soothsayers have preached about the transformational effects of IT on federal agency programs. Under the rubric of electronic government, many agencies have embarked on large IT initiatives to achieve these promised benefits.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/20_30a/17213-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <title><![CDATA[Editorial Cartoon]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[President Bush last month named Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Ridge as Director of Homeland Security. Ridge will coordinate the efforts of 40 agencies during emergencies.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/20_30a/17214-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>20</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[UPSes power up to meet network load]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Uninterruptible power systems in the last decade have matured from glorified car batteries to sophisticated cornerstones for network reliability.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/20_30a/17227-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>20</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Streams of Data]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[A Geological Survey database development group in the Midwest believes strongly in off-the-shelf software tools.]]></description>
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 <volume>20</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[POWER USER]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Anyone can use a fire extinguisher, but only trained personnel should use medical equipment. True?]]></description>
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 <volume>20</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Handheld computers chat at DEMOmobile]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[On the heels of the 2-GHz Pentium 4 microprocessor, Intel Corp. is readying a mobile version for notebook PCs in the first half of next year.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/20_30a/17219-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>20</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[INTERNAUT]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The United States has other kinds of attacks to worry about these days, but ongoing attacks against government Web servers continue to be a top concern.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/20_30a/17220-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>20</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[IT companies pitch in with relief efforts]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Last month, technology vendors joined the front lines of disaster relief, giving away products and services to agencies and organizations responding to the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.]]></description>
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