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 <title><![CDATA[23 e-gov projects to fight for funds]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The 23 e-government initiatives recently endorsed by the Office of Management and Budget [GCN, Oct. 22, Page 1] must now enter into further competition for funding.]]></description>
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 <volume>20</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Terrorism war tests DOD&#146;s capacity for data sharing]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[As recently as the Gulf War, military communication systems did not speak to one another. But in Afghanistan, the services are equipped with interoperable IT systems that increase the power of information by sharing it.]]></description>
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 <volume>20</volume>
 <issue>33</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[People on the Move]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Linda Burek has left her job as deputy assistant attorney general for IRM and deputy CIO at the Justice Department to take over as CIO of Maryland. She replaces Alisoun K. Moore.]]></description>
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 <volume>20</volume>
 <issue>33</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[IT chiefs cover a lot of ground at IAC meeting]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Government IT leaders covered the spectrum of hot topics in information management last month at the Industry Advisory Council&#146;s Executive Leadership Conference in Hershey, Pa.]]></description>
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 <volume>20</volume>
 <issue>33</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[NSIPS puts personnel data online for sailors]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[By 2004, Navy officials hope sailors will no longer have to carry bulky paper personnel files with them at every change of station. The Navy is putting personnel and pay documents into an electronic format so the service can migrate to the Defense Integrated Manpower and Human Resource System in two years.]]></description>
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 <volume>20</volume>
 <issue>33</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[DOD seeks small-business ideas to help fight a war on terrorism]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Defense Department is relying more on small contractors to make big contributions to its IT efforts, a lead procurement official for the department promised last month.]]></description>
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 <volume>20</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[INCOMING]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Take the test. Computer Sciences Corp. will help the Defense Department evaluate tactics, techniques and procedures used to coordinate operations among the branches of the military. Under a five-year, $100 million contract signed last month, CSC will support DOD&#146;s Joint Test and Evaluation programs.]]></description>
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 <volume>20</volume>
 <issue>33</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Surveys showed what you thought about IT]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[In 2001, GCN boldly ventured where no Reader Survey had gone before. We also revisited some familiar territory.]]></description>
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 <volume>20</volume>
 <issue>33</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Personal touch]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Last year, they were cool PC accessories. This year, they are serious security tools.]]></description>
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 <volume>20</volume>
 <issue>33</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[EPA launches energy spec during Comdex]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Environmental Protection Agency and Intel Corp. used last week's Comdex show in Las Vegas to kick off the IAPC program. "Instantly available PC" is a specification under which PCs consume 15 watts of power while on standby, yet are able to receive communications and reawaken in the state they were in at power-down.]]></description>
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 <volume>20</volume>
 <issue>33</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Gates says the tablet PC will lead by 2006]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Speaking at the Comdex trade show in Las Vegas last week, Microsoft Corp. chairman Bill Gates predicted a very different computing and networking landscape within five years.]]></description>
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 <volume>20</volume>
 <issue>33</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Army upgrades notebook PCs, servers via BPA]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Army renewed its Desktop and Mobile Computing-1 contract this month with its first $1 million order under a blanket purchasing agreement with Intelligent Decisions Inc. of Chantilly, Va.]]></description>
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 <volume>20</volume>
 <issue>33</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Ashcroft pushes data sharing]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Justice Department aims to expand information sharing among federal, state and local organizations, Attorney General John Ashcroft said.]]></description>
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 <volume>20</volume>
 <issue>33</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[VOA broadens Afghan access on news portal]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[To reach more Afghan citizens, the Voice of America has expanded its newscasts in the Pashto, Dari, Urdu, Uzbek and Farsi languages common in and near Afganistan.]]></description>
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 <volume>20</volume>
 <issue>33</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[IRS contract employee jailed for sabotage]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[An employee of an IRS subcontractor who sabotaged IRS computers at the agency's New Carollton, Md., office has been sentenced to 15 months in prison and fined $109,000.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/20_33/17520-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>20</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[New version of Nimda strikes federal courts]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[A new generation of the Nimda worm infected systems at federal courts in Miami late last month.]]></description>
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 <volume>20</volume>
 <issue>33</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Software seeks hits matching terrorist list]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[A data integration company has introduced an application to aid agencies and companies that are required to match the Treasury Department's list of terrorist suspects against their own records.]]></description>
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 <volume>20</volume>
 <issue>33</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[INTERVIEW: Peter Mell, virus hunter]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Peter Mell, a computer scientist and security expert at the National Institute of Standards and Technology in Gaithersburg, Md., researches computer penetration, intrusion detection and vulnerability databases.]]></description>
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 <volume>20</volume>
 <issue>33</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[DID YOU HEAR]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Too close for comfort? Internet guru Esther Dyson, chairwoman of EDventure Holdings Inc., worries about overzealous application of the Justice Department&#146;s new surveillance powers. At last week&#146;s Comdex trade show in Las Vegas, Dyson warned, &#147;There may be six degrees of separation between you and Britney Spears, but only four degrees between you and some guy looking at your records.&#148;]]></description>
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 <volume>20</volume>
 <issue>33</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[UNSCRAMBLE]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[DEFENSE TRAINING]]></description>
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 <volume>20</volume>
 <issue>33</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[PACKET RAT]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Rat isn&#146;t very fond of wireless technology. Ever since he discovered that he could cook his lunch by leaving it near Marconi&#146;s workbench, he has regarded with suspicion any device that blasts out radio-frequency energy.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/20_33/17513-1.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>33</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Congress looks to more training for IT]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Formal degrees don&#146;t necessarily make for a savvier federal work force, Rep. Tom Davis (R-Va.) said at a hearing last month of the House Government Reform Subcommittee on Technology and Procurement Policy.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/20_33/17496-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>20</volume>
 <issue>33</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[OF THE PEOPLE]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Since I started this column in January, our lives as citizens and federal managers have been transformed dramatically and not for the better. The unimaginable&#151;an attack killing thousands followed by war&#151;is now reality. The future is not assured. The economy has soured. Things people once thought of as important are much less so today. Old scripts have been torn up and rewritten, old agendas discarded.]]></description>
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 <volume>20</volume>
 <issue>33</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Calendar]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[December 10-12. Electronic Government Conference. Las Vegas. Contact the National Electronic Commerce Coordinating Council; phone: 800-487-9180; Web: www.ec3.org.]]></description>
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 <volume>20</volume>
 <issue>33</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[War on terrorism speeds many federal IT plans]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The war on terrorism has brought a greater sense of urgency and cooperation to many federal IT efforts, several senior systems officials said last month.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/20_33/17523-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>20</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Davis plans services buying reform bill]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Agencies can expect Congress and the General Accounting Office to pay even more attention to mission-critical IT systems and disaster recovery plans early next year.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/20_33/17524-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>20</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[DOD calls for reinforcements]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[&#147;Uncle Sam wants you,&#148; demanded the old war poster. The Pentagon had a new take on the saying last month, when it made a plea for help from the IT industry in the war on terrorism.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/20_33/17525-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>20</volume>
 <issue>33</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[New technologies fortify antiterrorism efforts]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Defense Department is pursuing various IT applications on the home front to further aid medical and emergency efforts both on and off the battlefield.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/20_33/17526-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>20</volume>
 <issue>33</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Government gets a collective F for its IT security]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The government&#146;s overall grade for IT security fell from a D- to an F this year, according to a congressional report card released earlier this month.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/20_33/17528-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>20</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[NMCI rolling out, ready for testing]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[LAS VEGAS&#151;The Navy last week switched the first 650 computers from its existing network to the Navy-Marine Corps Intranet.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/20_33/17529-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>20</volume>
 <issue>33</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[O&#146;Keefe named to head NASA]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Sean O&#146;Keefe, deputy director of the Office of Management and Budget, has been nominated as the new administrator of NASA, the White House announced last week.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/20_33/17530-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>20</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Company wants to link homeland security, e-gov]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[One of the digital certificate suppliers for the Federal Bridge Certification Authority this month proposed linking homeland security to e-government via broad security policy mapping.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/20_33/17531-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>20</volume>
 <issue>33</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[BLM app takes final step to the Web]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[With the June launch of GeoCommunicator, a portal that offers geographic and land-related information, the Bureau of Land Management has completed the first module of its National Integrated Land System project.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/20_33/17532-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>20</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[CSC to do network services for NLM]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The National Library of Medicine has awarded a task order to Computer Sciences Corp. to provide computing and network services.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/20_33/17533-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>20</volume>
 <issue>33</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Two apps assist USDA food safety inspectors]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Agriculture Department&#146;s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service safeguards America&#146;s food supply by fighting pests and diseases. The agency improved that capability this year by upgrading systems for two APHIS entities, Veterinary Services and Plant Protection and Quarantine.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Carrier&#146;s net runs aground]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The first aircraft carrier outfitted with the Navy&#146;s Integrated Communications and Advanced Network has reported that ICAN is not yet ready for duty.]]></description>
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 <volume>20</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[EDITORIAL]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[When gun control first became a national issue, I remember seeing a bumper sticker that read, &#147;If you outlaw guns, only outlaws will have guns.&#148; Neanderthal as it might make me seem, I find a certain truth in that statement.]]></description>
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 <volume>20</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[ANOTHER VIEW]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Last time I looked, the AltaVista search engine found more than 110,000 Web pages that listed federal jobs&#151;some 52,000 at .gov sites and 60,000 at .mil.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/20_33/17489-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <title><![CDATA[LETTERS TO THE EDITOR]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[A Sony Electronics&#146; Advanced Intelligent Tape drive and its corresponding media cartridge were recently reviewed [&#147;Backup, storage units have a hold on data&#148; GCN, Sept. 24, Page 40]. Sony Storage Solutions Division thinks the review contained inaccuracies and misleading comments.]]></description>
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 <volume>20</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Who&#146;s in charge of wireless LAN defense?]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[It&#146;s easy to connect small computing devices to the agency LAN, or even to set up temporary wireless networks, as long as the portable clients are within about 2,000 feet of an access point.]]></description>
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 <volume>20</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Cards on Wheels]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Defense Department is turning to mobile offices to finish issuing 4.5 million Common Access smart cards by the end of next year.]]></description>
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 <volume>20</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[CYBER EYE]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[John Gilligan, the Air Force&#146;s deputy CIO, last month called on software developers to improve the quality of their products.]]></description>
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 <volume>20</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Servers&#146; power grows at almost every size]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Server makers&#146; new lines run the gamut from compact midrange systems to high-end supercomputers-in-a-box.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/20_33/17475-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>20</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[IBM PCs add Bluetooth plus 802.11b Ethernet]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[New IBM Corp. NetVista and ThinkPad PCs have an embedded security subsystem that automatically encrypts files, e-mail and user keys but can be turned off if unneeded.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/20_33/17481-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>20</volume>
 <issue>33</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[@INFO.POLICY]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[There is a joke about a driver who lost his keys on the street one night. As he rummaged around on the ground in a pool of light from a street lamp, a friend offered to help and asked where he thought the keys were lost.]]></description>
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 <volume>20</volume>
 <issue>33</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[AI monitoring system gets on-the-job training at ports]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration&#146;s National Ocean Service is using artificial intelligence to monitor the quality of readings from meteorological, current and water level sensors.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/20_33/17483-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <title><![CDATA[Law enforcement groups try to get standardized on XML to share data]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Justice Department&#146;s Office of Justice Programs has proposed using the Extensible Markup Language to help law enforcement agencies and courts at the federal, state and local levels share data.]]></description>
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 <volume>20</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Security pros warned of enemy within]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[A Computer Security Institute conference in Washington late last month focused on insider threats instead of terrorists or hackers.]]></description>
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