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 <title><![CDATA[Search engine gives FirstGov edge ]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The new FirstGov search engine the General Services Administration revved up last month runs smoothly and needs only a few improvements to make FirstGov a best-of-breed Web portal.]]></description>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>17</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[OMB to assign e-gov watchdogs]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Office of Management and Budget will get more hands-on in its management of the 24 Quicksilver e-government projects by assigning 11th-hour gurus to make sure the efforts meet OMB&#146;s demands.]]></description>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>17</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Lure visitors to your site on the cheap]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[It doesn&#146;t take costly advertising campaigns to draw more traffic to agencies&#146; Web sites. Pat Wood, senior adviser for usability in the General Services Administration&#146;s FirstGov Office, has drawn up a list of free or low-cost ways to market government Web sites. Attendees at the recent FedWeb 2002 conference in Bethesda, Md., added their own suggestions to lengthen Wood&#146;s list from 59 items to 93.]]></description>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>17</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[People on the Move]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Retired Air Force Brig. Gen. Jerome A. Landry has joined the Cisco Global Defense and Space Group of Cisco Systems Inc. as an executive partner.]]></description>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>17</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[AFFIRM confirms IT leaders]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Association for Federal IRM conferred its annual leadership awards on government executives at a luncheon last month in Washington.]]></description>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>17</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Doc Cooke, &#145;mayor of the Pentagon,&#146; dies at 81]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[David O. &#147;Doc&#148; Cooke, who in more than four decades at the Defense Department was known as the &#147;mayor of the Pentagon,&#148; died June 22 as a result of car injuries suffered June 6. ]]></description>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>17</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[NMCI workers say change to EDS is smooth]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Navy civilian employees are finding that switching employers as vendors assume control of the Navy-Marine Corps Intranet isn&#146;t that bad.]]></description>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>17</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[ROTC site automates HTML conversion]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Posting documents on the Army ROTC Web site used to be a time-consuming affair.]]></description>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>17</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[California county keeps IT juiced up ]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Riverside County, Calif., residents began growing navel oranges in the late 1800s. For years, the county was the nation&#146;s top producer of the fruit, until high water prices forced farmers to move.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/21_17/19126-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>17</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Major programs within OASIS]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Online Administrative Services Information System. OASIS, the first countywide financial, human resources and payroll system, uses PeopleSoft Inc. software for enterprise resource planning.]]></description>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>17</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Databases tag along with XML]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Extensible Markup Language has become the data format of choice for many emerging applications in e-commerce and e-government.]]></description>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>17</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[The lowdown on databases with XML]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[What are they? Databases designed to store XML documents intact, in their native form. This means that documents can be stored, indexed and accessed without having to &#147;shred&#148; them into relational database tables. This saves time, code and storage space.]]></description>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>17</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[DARPA peers at the future of supercomputing ]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has selected four contractors to do concept studies for an eight-year program on next-generation, high-performance computing.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/21_17/19165-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>17</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Next for GIS: simple apps using standards  ]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Over the last five years, agencies have made much progress on adopting standards for geographically enabled data, but they still have far to go, the head of the Federal Geographic Data Committee said last week.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/21_17/19166-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>17</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Poll finds little confidence in cybersecurity]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Industry IT executives have little confidence that the government can fend off cyberattacks.]]></description>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>17</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[VBA awards task orders for training support]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Veterans Benefits Administration recently awarded three task orders worth $3.4 million to Anteon International Corp. of Fairfax, Va., for systems development and Web training services.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/21_17/19168-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>21</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[DMS not ready for intelligence users at DOD]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[A Defense Department testing team has approved the latest release of Defense Message System software for general service. But testers found DMS Version 3.0 unsuitable for intelligence work&#151;the area for which its security features were designed.]]></description>
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 <volume>21</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[OPM previews Recruitment One-Stop site]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Office of Personnel Management is asking vendors to expand its USAJobs.opm.gov site by adding features such as the ability to submit one resume for multiple job openings.]]></description>
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 <volume>21</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Army plans to field new radio comm network]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Army has awarded an $856 million contract to Boeing Co. to build at least 10,000 software-dependent radios for the Joint Tactical Radio System.]]></description>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>17</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Agencies asked for input on payroll system]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Office of Personnel Management has begun a program to consolidate the government&#146;s payroll systems from more than 18 to fewer than a handful.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/21_17/19172-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>17</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Here&#146;s Chip Gizmo]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Thirty-year-old Chip Gizmo will be the new computer technician at what is arguably the most famous Army base, Camp Swampy.]]></description>
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 <volume>21</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Infrastructure needs a structure]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Ronald Miller had three months to settle in at the Federal Emergency Management Agency before having to deal with the greatest disaster in American history. He took over as the agency&#146;s CIO and assistant director in June 2001, about a dozen weeks before the terrorist attacks posed one of FEMA&#146;s biggest challenges.]]></description>
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 <volume>21</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[&#147;Did you hear...&#148; ]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[&#147;Alien species invading country at a cost of billions.&#148; Nope, that&#146;s not a runner-up caption for the editorial cartoon on Page 22. Nor is it quite what you would expect to hear from the sane and dignified Rep. Sherwood L. Boehlert, but that&#146;s exactly what a press release from the New York Republican said. The House Science Subcommittee on Environment, Technology and Standards heard late last month that the nation is losing nearly $137 billion a year from damage caused by &#147;alien invaders.&#148; Witnesses pointed the pseudopod of blame at foreign clams, crabs, slugs, sponges and&#151;we hope they&#146;re not as big as the ones in the cartoon&#151;snails. ]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/21_17/19187-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>21</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Packet Rat: The Rat helps IRS mix oil and water]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[No federal agency is taken to the woodshed more often than the IRS. Always cast as the bad guy, the tax agency gets beaten up when it doesn&#146;t do its job, and it gets beaten up when it does its job too well.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/21_17/19188-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>21</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Puzzle: Federal IT Face-off]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The government&#146;s IT leadership is made up of some pretty familiar faces. How familiar with them are you? Take this facial-recognition test and see if you can identify the person from the minutiae of an eye, ear, nose or other feature.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/21_17/19193-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>21</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Researchers in Africa go wireless]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Ten years ago, about 70 scientists at the Malaria Research and Training Center in Bamako, Mali, shared one telephone to communicate with the center&#146;s sponsor, the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases in Bethesda, Md.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/21_17/19155-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>17</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Federal Contract Law: Know what your software rights are&#151;and are not]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[With government IT spending on the rise, it&#146;s a good time to remind federal customers and vendors that, before signing development contracts, they should review the Federal Acquisition Regulation clauses that dictate the government&#146;s rights in software&#151;and follow them.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/21_17/19156-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>17</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Calendar]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[30 Technology Excellence in Government: Outsourcing IT/Seat ManagementSeminar. Washington. Contact Meeting Management Services; phone: 202-624-2762; e-mail gcnmktg@postnewsweektech.com.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/21_17/19157-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>21</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[OMB promotes shared funding to build e-gov]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[By the end of the month, agency leaders of the Office of Management and Budget&#146;s 24 e-government initiatives will know how much money they have in their wallets and how many skilled workers they&#146;ll have on board.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/21_17/19120-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>21</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[New FirstGov engine will search agency databases]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The General Services Administration is touting the new search engine for its  FirstGov.gov portal as the technology that will make it the Web site it was intended to be&#151;a single place to look for virtually any information regarding the government.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/21_17/19121-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>17</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Deepwater to link ships, aircraft and land bases]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Coast Guard last week awarded an $11 billion contract to Lockheed Martin Corp. and Northrop Grumman Corp. to replace its aging fleet of about 100 cutters and 200 aircraft and upgrade obsolete computers.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/21_17/19176-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>17</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Maryland CIO&#146;s history with vendor stalls buy]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Maryland&#146;s Budget and Management Department wanted an assessment of the state&#146;s enterprise architecture. It seemed like a direct enough demand, until the contract for the project was sidelined by a blast from the past.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/21_17/19178-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>17</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[FAR rule proposal sparks feud]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Office of Federal Procurement Policy is butting heads with agency procurement officials, lawmakers and industry groups over a late addition to the wording in a proposed Federal Acquisition Regulation rule.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/21_17/19179-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>17</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Customs gets tough on flight data filing demand]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Airlines that fail to meet new requirements for electronically filing information with the Customs Service about passengers and crews aboard planes entering the United States will find themselves grounded.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/21_17/19180-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>17</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Security duties to be shared]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Some ongoing cybersecurity initiatives will not shift to the proposed Homeland Security Department.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/21_17/19181-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>17</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[House OKs data-sharing bill]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Bush administration and House leaders are working to rush through Congress a bill that would require the CIA, the FBI and other federal intelligence agencies to share information with state and local police.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/21_17/19182-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>17</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Academy calls for IT research to counter terror]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The National Academy of Sciences has recommended creating a Homeland Security Institute to provide scientific and technological guidance to the government for counteracting terrorism.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/21_17/19183-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>17</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Is DVD a wise archival option? Maybe, feds say]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[&#147;Most applications take data preservation for granted,&#148; says National Institute of Standards and Technology researcher Oliver Slattery, and that&#146;s why he is studying the interoperability and durability of DVD technology.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/21_17/19184-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>17</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[OPM gets early cooperation on clearance system initiative]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Office of Personnel Management team working on the E-Clearance project has been pleasantly surprised at the high-tech cooperation it is getting&#151;so much so that OPM expects the e-government initiative to meet its next milestone early.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/21_17/19185-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>17</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[FEMA targets public-safety wireless stovepipes ]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[To ensure interoperability and avoid stovepipes and duplicative efforts, the Federal Emergency Management Agency will coordinate all of the government&#146;s emergency and first-response wireless communications.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/21_17/19186-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>21</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Rare chance]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[President Bush&#146;s Homeland Security Department proposal has sparked speculation about technology, systems, processes and goals. It represents a rare chance to correctly align business goals with technology and create, as Bush put it in a speech last month, &#147;a modern agency as efficient as the best corporation in America.&#148; An agency, Bush added pointedly, &#147;that actually works.&#148;]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/21_17/19129-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>17</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Another View: Did we lose our religion?]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Back in 1990 I declared that the 1980s was a lost decade from the perspective of software development progress. The question I posed was: &#147;Will there be a breakthrough in the 1990&#146;s?&#148; I went on to say, &#147;It won&#146;t happen automatically; people are too satisfied with unsatisfactory ways. We dare not make the mistake of complacency a la the automobile industry; we must push awareness and resource commitment to get ahead of the power curve of demand.&#148;]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/21_17/19130-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>17</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Significa]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Signal intelligence has been important to homeland defense since the Revolutionary War.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/21_17/19132-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>17</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Editorial Cartoon]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/21_17/19134-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>17</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[No fault in NEC&#146;s fault tolerance]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Many agencies have experimented with server clusters to provide reliable uptime for their users. But clustering has its drawbacks.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/21_17/19151-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>17</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[PresentationPro takes your slide shows remote]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[When it comes to running the government machine, Microsoft PowerPoint presentations often serve as the transmission grease.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/21_17/19152-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>17</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[The PINprint Pilot&#146;s log-ins are very iffy]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Should a personal digital assistant have biometric authentication just like a PC?]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/21_17/19153-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>17</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Lexmark color printer turns heads with quality]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Lexmark C750n color network printer produces the best color and monochrome output the GCN Lab has seen to date.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/21_17/19154-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>17</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Vermont public safety goes digital]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[In the last nine months many state agencies have combined forces to boost homeland security, but Vermont recognized the need for improved communication and information sharing well before Sept. 11.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/21_17/19122-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>17</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[State Lines]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[All mapped out. Delaware recently became the first state to put complete geospatial coverage of its territory on the Web. Delaware DataMil, developed by the University of Delaware, Delaware Geological Survey, Office of State Planning Coordination and the U.S. Geological Survey, will collect, integrate, maintain and distribute the state&#146;s geographic data.]]></description>
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 <volume>21</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[State CIOs will advise feds]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The National Association of State CIOs will create a working group to advise the federal government on framing a national homeland security strategy.]]></description>
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 <volume>21</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Peas and Queues]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[When grocery shoppers began going online several years ago, the Agriculture Department&#146;s Les Johnson decided public-school lunch managers needed the same convenience and savings.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/21_17/19135-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>17</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Power User: Can Flash MX beat .Net?]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The latest contenders in the Web wars are Macromedia Inc.&#146;s new MX versions of ColdFusion, Director, Dreamweaver, Fireworks and Flash. The San Francisco software publisher boasts that the XP suite can build what it calls Rich Internet Applications.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/21_17/19136-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>17</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Expert says CRM is flourishing in government]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Customer relationship management technology is quietly blossoming at federal, state and local agencies, according to Jill Dych&#x00E9;, vice president of management consulting for Baseline Consulting Group of Sherman Oaks, Calif.]]></description>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>17</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Internaut: It pays to link IT procurement into the supply chain]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Not all dot-com business innovations have gone bust. Take, for example, supply chain management.]]></description>
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