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 <title><![CDATA[Special 9/11 Anniversary Issue:  Looking back, moving forward]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[HOW WE'VE CHANGED/PEOPLE: Workers throughout capital cope with changes wrought by 9-11Last month, in the middle of an August heat wave in Washington, like a pebble in a pool, dropped a cool clear morning. Defense Department budget and finance director Joseph Friedl was taking his usual commute to work at the Pentagon that day, enjoying the jewellike morning, the bright sun, the blue sky. ]]></description>
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 <volume>21</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[HOW WE'VE CHANGED/TECHNOLOGY: IT takes the point on security]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[An unintended but positive effect of Sept. 11 has been a higher priority for IT budget proposals, said Linda Massaro, former CIO at the National Science Foundation. The general responsiveness to requests for improving technology seems to have changed. There is a much more positive view that we aren&#146;t just the systems geeks in the basement,&#148; Massaro said.]]></description>
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 <volume>21</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[HOW WE'VE CHANGED/POLICY:  In the wake of the attacks, altered government IT landscape, morale]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The events of Sept. 11 rocked the world. They also rattled government IT to its core, transforming the way officials view systems and information security. For agency CIOs, Sept. 11 rendered brutally real the potential of a terrorist attack that would physically devastate their information infrastructures, said Paul Strassman, NASA&#146;s acting CIO.]]></description>
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 <volume>21</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[OUR STORY: GCN chronicled attacks&#146; fallout]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Aboard a plane and on his way to a conference at the time of the attacks, GCN executive editor Thomas R. Temin spent Sept. 11 and 12 editing stories via handheld and fax from South Haven, Miss.]]></description>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>27a</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[In memoriam]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Listing the 125 military, civilian and contractor personnel at the Pentagon who died after the terrorist plane crash Sept. 11.]]></description>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>27a</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Voices from 9/11: Readers share feelings, emotions, experiences]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[GCN readers share their feelings, emotions and experiences about the day that terror rocked America. ]]></description>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>27a</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Afterwards, cooperation  breaks down comm barriers]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Sept. 11 and its aftermath offer opportunities for people in government IT to take advantage of a collaborative spirit and a technological retrenchment, federal and private-sector IT professionals say.]]></description>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>27a</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Never forget]]></title>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>27a</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[GCN survey: There&#146;s a stronger sense of purpose]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Rank-and-file federal IT workers have a moderately stronger sense of purpose and higher morale since last Sept. 11, a GCN survey found. And security is decidedly tighter on all federal fronts.]]></description>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>27a</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Vendors repurpose products for homeland security]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[CRM software for terrorist tracking? The idea seems odd, but Siebel Systems Inc. spent months customizing its customer relationship management tools to make tracking Osama bin Laden&#146;s minions seem as simple as handling a customer call.]]></description>
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 <volume>21</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Are private intranets the answer for security?]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Last September&#146;s terrorist attacks brought to light the stinging realization that agencies seldom talk or share information with one another.]]></description>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>27a</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Data-sharing project helped New York&#146;s GIS escape disaster ]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[A year ago today, Alan Leidner left his apartment on the Upper West Side a little before 9 o&#146;clock. &#147;I heard someone yelling that it looked like a small plane went into the World Trade Center,&#148; he said.]]></description>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>27a</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Handheld app eased recovery tasks]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[After heroic efforts at the World Trade Center, New York City&#146;s Fire Department had the Herculean task of documenting human remains found in the rubble.]]></description>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>27a</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[DOD stresses network strength ]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Two months after the Sept. 11 assault, the Pentagon established a Contingency of Operations program to assure basic systems functions and provide data access at sites across the country in the event of another attack.]]></description>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>27a</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[NSA pans for data gold]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[How do you filter coherent information out of a swiftly flowing river of seemingly undifferentiated bits?]]></description>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>27a</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[The agenda has changed&#151;and so have we]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA["We&#146;ve been told an airplane hit the World Trade Center and, well, the president has ordered all civilian aviation grounded," said the pilot of US Airways Flight 175, Charlotte to Phoenix. The other flight 175 that morning.]]></description>
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