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 <title><![CDATA[OMB nears approval of e-gov plans]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Bush administration is two steps away from activating 23 cross-agency e-government projects that, together, represent a nearly $1 billion investment.]]></description>
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 <volume>20</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Bush establishes cybersecurity board]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[President Bush has released his long-awaited presidential order creating a high-level board for ensuring protection of the nation&#146;s critical information systems.]]></description>
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 <volume>20</volume>
 <issue>31</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[XP: Robust and user-friendly]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The new Microsoft Windows XP operating system looks and acts differently from its predecessors. Is the relearning effort worthwhile? In a word, yes.]]></description>
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 <volume>20</volume>
 <issue>31</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[People on the Move]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Virginia L. McCormick, business development manager at OAO Corp. of Greenbelt, Md., and a 46-year General Services Administration employee, received the first Janice K. Mendenhall Spirit of Leadership award from the Industry Advisory Council during its Executive Leadership Conference last week in Hershey, Pa.]]></description>
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 <volume>20</volume>
 <issue>31</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[IT staff talk about access for handicapped]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[How do you ensure that your systems and information are accessible to people with disabilities? That&#146;s a big question with agencies these days, and the search for answers drew a crowd to a two-day conference in Washington earlier this month.]]></description>
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 <volume>20</volume>
 <issue>31</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[eArmyU portal takes enroll call]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[As a single mother and an enlisted Army sergeant at Fort Benning, Ga., it was hard for Andrea Pratt to juggle all of her responsibilities and attend college.]]></description>
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 <volume>20</volume>
 <issue>31</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[INCOMING]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[On guard. The National Guard Bureau has awarded a $50 million contract to SRA International Inc. of Arlington, Va., for IT services. The eight-year contract is for work to support a nationwide telecommunications network connecting 54 U.S. states and territories.]]></description>
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 <volume>20</volume>
 <issue>31</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Compaq still the top federal choice for servers]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Compaq Computer Corp. has long been the big cheese in the federal market for servers.]]></description>
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 <volume>20</volume>
 <issue>31</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[NAS puts data within easy reach]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[How do you give thousands of users immediate access to large files without bogging down network servers? That&#146;s one of an IT manager&#146;s greatest challenges.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/20_31/17322-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>20</volume>
 <issue>31</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Education Web site gets first half of redesign]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Education Department last week launched a redesigned Web site that&#146;s easier to navigate. Users now have the option of personalizing the site, at www.ed.gov.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/20_31/17339-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>20</volume>
 <issue>31</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Bush proposes more flexibility on work force]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Bush administration last week proposed giving federal managers greater discretion in worker buyouts, recruitment and retention.]]></description>
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 <volume>20</volume>
 <issue>31</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[State inks deal with CSC for telecom services]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The State Department&#146;s Diplomatic Telecommunications Services Program Office, which manages networking and telecommunications for U.S. embassies and consulates, will get IT services and support through a recent deal with Computer Sciences Corp.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/20_31/17341-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>20</volume>
 <issue>31</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[NIST scientist is Nobel man]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Eric A. Cornell, a National Institute of Standards and Technology senior scientist, shared in the 2001 Nobel Prize in physics awarded this month for research into an exotic state of matter.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/20_31/17342-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>20</volume>
 <issue>31</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[GSA site will speed service to small business]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Dry cleaners, restaurants and trucking companies will be among the first businesses to be offered one-stop federal and state registration and licensing via a new General Services Administration Web site.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/20_31/17343-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>20</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[SAP protests HHS&#146; choice of Oracle apps]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[SAP America Inc. has protested the Health and Human Services Department&#146;s planned acquisition of Oracle Federal Financials software. HHS wants the software for internal use and to unify Medicare contractors&#146; accounting methods.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/20_31/17344-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>20</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[NASA surveys visitors to its home page]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[NASA is asking a random sample of its home page visitors what they think of its central Web site.]]></description>
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 <volume>20</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Reece: 2002 is make-or-break on IRS upgrades]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Vowing to maintain a barrage of on-schedule releases of systems and software, John Reece, CIO of the IRS, said 2002 will be a &#147;make-or-break year for IRS modernization.&#148;]]></description>
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 <volume>20</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[INTERVIEW: Vincent Weafer, Symantec&#146;s chief virus hunter]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[In 1998, when Vincent Weafer became director of Symantec Corp.&#146;s AntiVirus Research Center, about 200 pieces of suspicious code arrived that year for examination.]]></description>
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 <volume>20</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[DID YOU HEAR]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Good call. On Sept. 11, Federal Aviation Administration controllers safely landed several thousand commercial flights in unscheduled places in a hurry, almost certainly forestalling more terrorist hijacks. Who gave the order?]]></description>
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 <volume>20</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[FIND A WORD]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[BUY, BUY, BUY]]></description>
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 <volume>20</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[PACKET RAT]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[When last heard from, our anthropomorphic hero was crawling through an air duct above a meeting room somewhere in Redmond, Wash., observing a band of giant pandas as they programmed intentional bugs into Microsoft Internet Information Server software to undermine national security.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/20_31/17337-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>20</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Current Issue Crossword/Puzzle]]></title>
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 <volume>20</volume>
 <issue>31</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Handhelds gather health data]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The challenges of poverty, disease and political conflict in the Third World prompted the Center of Excellence in Disaster Management and Humanitarian Assistance to conduct its health research in a small way.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/20_31/17327-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>20</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[OF THE PEOPLE]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The federal CIO Council has long contended that the General Schedule system for classifying and setting salaries of federal IT workers is broken. But for many months, the council has been singing solo in a cavernous arena with few listeners.]]></description>
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 <volume>20</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Calendar]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[November 5-7. PDF 2001 West. Conference. Scottsdale, Ariz. Contact the Wiley Anasazi Group; phone: 877-278-2131; Web: www.pdfconference.com.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/20_31/17329-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>20</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[DOD gains allies in the fight to keep its spectrum]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Defense Department may have won its battle with the wireless communications industry over the use of radio frequency bands.]]></description>
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 <volume>20</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Lawmakers offer homeland security plans]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Shortly after President Bush named Tom Ridge and cybersecurity adviser Richard Clarke to head the Homeland Security Office, Sens. Joseph I. Lieberman (D-Conn.) and Arlen Specter (R-Pa.) proposed legislation creating a cabinet-level National Homeland Security Department with funding from and accountability to Congress.]]></description>
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 <volume>20</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[DISA awards DGS two contracts of up to $3b]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Defense Department has awarded two contracts potentially worth $3 billion for lifecycle management of classified and unclassified portions of the Defense Information Systems Network Global Solutions requirement.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/20_31/17349-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>20</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Security infrastructure begins to take shape]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Government networking could change dramatically under Richard A. Clarke, the president&#146;s newly appointed cyberspace security adviser. Among Clarke&#146;s plans is the creation of a government-only voice and data network that would be hardened against attack.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/20_31/17350-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>20</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[VA rolls out enterprise]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Veterans Affairs Department last week released its plan for the One VA Enterprise architecture. Once implemented, veterans will have to register with the department only once, and information will be available to authorized users in real time.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/20_31/17351-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>20</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[CIO Council gets new look, new direction]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[President Bush&#146;s Office of Management and Budget has radically overhauled the CIO Council, abolishing committees, changing members&#146; assignments and giving the group new priorities.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/20_31/17352-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <title><![CDATA[Bush still supports A-76]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[A-76 may be the most reviled process in all of procurement, but that won&#146;t stop the Bush administration from pursuing its goal of having companies and federal employees compete for work.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/20_31/17353-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>20</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[IT spending to jump, survey says]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Federal IT spending will rise by 15 percent next year, and the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks have changed the government&#146;s priorities for how to spend the money, an industry trade group survey showed.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/20_31/17354-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>20</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Panel proposes &#145;intelligent mail&#146; tracking system]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[A panel of corporate executives and a postal official are advocating the development of a system that would allow the Postal Service to track every piece of mail it handles from pickup to delivery.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/20_31/17356-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>20</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[E-gov bill author is optimistic]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Mark Forman may not be the federal CIO, but his appointment earlier this year as IT point man shows that the Bush administration is aware e-government programs need strong leadership, said the chief author of Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman&#146;s E-Government Act of 2001.]]></description>
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 <volume>20</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[GAO: Better data is key to GPEA success]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Office of Management and Budget must do better at collecting information from agencies on their plans to comply with the Government Paperwork Elimination Act, the General Accounting Office told Congress last month in a report.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/20_31/17358-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <title><![CDATA[FBI got &#145;a wake-up call&#146; from Hanssen]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[After investigating many cases of information theft, the FBI knows that insiders often pose the greatest threat. But the Robert Philip Hanssen case came as a surprise to those charged with securing the bureau&#146;s information.]]></description>
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 <volume>20</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[EDITORIAL]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[In a celebrated real-life Mafia case, the FBI nailed the Boston crime boss Gennaro &#147;Jerry&#148; Angiulo. He was convicted of racketeering charges in 1986, after a long investigation that included the use of listening devices deftly&#151;and legally, by court order&#151;hidden in the ceiling of his 98 Prince St. headquarters five years earlier. ]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[ANOTHER VIEW]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[I wrote the first version of this piece before the attacks. The conventional wisdom before Sept. 11 held there was a crisis in federal employment. IT workers were poster children for the argument that the federal government was unable to compete with the private sector for employees.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Editorial Cartoon]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Telework&#151;that is, working remotely using telecommunications&#151;is back in the news. It&#146;s been long- touted as a way for federal workers to balance home and family life, and to relieve traffic congestion and save energy. Last month&#146;s terror attacks have brought new attention to telework, whether from home or remote centers.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Crimefighting tool lets users copy an entire hard drive without a trace]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Even before the terrorist attacks, the Secret Service and other law enforcement agencies were using the Image MASSter Solo 2 Forensic Kit, a three-piece hardware kit for covertly copying a suspect&#146;s computer files.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/20_31/17323-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <title><![CDATA[Enterprise firewalls halt network traffic]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Keeping your network up and running while safe from attack is the first concern of every administrator.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/20_31/17324-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <title><![CDATA[All About Kids]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The dwindling federal IT work force has a hard time coping with citizens&#146; telephone and e-mail queries, said webmasters at FedWeb 2001, an annual conference held last month at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Md.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/20_31/17313-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <title><![CDATA[CYBER EYE]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Your mother probably told you to dress in layers for protection from the winter cold. It was good advice then, and it still is for those who must protect a network against malicious code.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/20_31/17314-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>20</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Can NWS balloons host cell traffic?]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Space Data Corp. wants to piggyback its cellular repeaters on government weather balloons to cover the entire continental United States, and beyond.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/20_31/17315-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>20</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[IBM debuts new midrange server]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[IBM Corp.&#146;s new two- to eight-way midrange Unix servers have self-managing diagnostics.]]></description>
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 <volume>20</volume>
 <issue>31</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[@INFO.POLICY]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[When should the government keep publicly available information off the Internet? Unfortunately, that is no longer a dumb question. Not after Sept. 11.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Document management pays off for Coast Guard]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[To the Coast Guard&#146;s Paul Herold, a document management system is about as exciting as a new file cabinet. But Herold said his new system, Adept, saves his staff a lot of time and the government a lot of money.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Storage device  stacks rackless]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[A host-independent, disk-based storage appliance uses an Ultra 160 SCSI channel to link enterprise networks to RAID Level 5 storage on 16-bit ATA drives.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Energy lab gets three midsized Linux clusters for nonclassified simulations]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[An Energy Department laboratory is collaborating with two vendors on fast-track construction of three high-performance clusters running Linux.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Acrobat gets digital signature capability]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Agencies that use Adobe Portable Document Format for their output can add digital signature capability for $39 per seat.]]></description>
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