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 <volume>21</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[White House plans a &#145;network of networks&#146;]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The White House wants to use the Army National Guard network&#151;which with 3,000 connection points throughout the United States and three territories is one of the federal government&#146;s largest unclassified networks&#151;as the starting point for a network of networks. The CIO of  the Homeland Security Office, Steve Cooper, speaks out on this new plan]]></description>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>33</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Agencies&#146; sites go multilingual]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Agencies are slowly starting to deliver their online content in languages besides English.]]></description>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>33</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[When a handshake isn&#146;t good enough]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[If you&#146;ve been involved with technology for more than, say, the last 15 minutes, you&#146;ve probably been told that this or that technology is the next big thing. ]]></description>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>33</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[The lowdown on PKI]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[What is PKI? A public-key infrastructure is a system in which digital certificates and keys are created, managed, stored and distributed in order to verify users of secure systems, e-mail, documents and other online transactions.]]></description>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>33</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Post Newsweek gala: Big night in &#145;a small town&#146;]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[&#147;It&#146;s like old home week,&#148; said Chip Mather, shouting to be heard above the roar of conversation in the Washington Hilton and Towers&#146; playing-field-size grand ballroom.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/21_33/20520-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>33</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Army&#146;s Browning sums up 20 years]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Miriam Browning, the recently retired principal director of enterprise integration in the Army CIO Office, joined the GCN Hall of Fame at Post Newsweek Tech Media&#146;s awards gala in Washington.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/21_33/20521-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>33</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Brooks brought competition to federal IT procurement]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[In the mid-1960s, Jack Brooks, then a congressman from Texas, saw the future in technology. He also saw the need for competitive bids.]]></description>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>33</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Cooper says thanks for the journey]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Two decades after Milton E. Cooper came to the nation&#146;s capital, federal IT applications and policies are different&#151;but better, he said.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/21_33/20523-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>33</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Paige shares the praise with his staff]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[In retired Army Lt. Gen. Emmett Paige Jr.&#146;s view, sharing a podium with former Rep. Jack Brooks is far better than getting &#147;browbeaten by [Brooks&#146;] staffers when you have done your best on a program.&#148;]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/21_33/20524-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>33</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Navy documents will be shipshape]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The office of the Navy CIO has launched an enterprise records management system that will ultimately manage the records and documents stored on 411,000 computers on the Navy-Marine Corps Intranet.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/21_33/20477-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>33</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[DFARS now requires inventory checks]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Military contracting officers must review the existing Defense inventory for software and services before checking new sources, under a final rule the Defense Acquisition Regulations Council published last month.]]></description>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>33</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Incoming]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[IT unity. The Navy&#146;s road map of the future is guiding it toward integrating information systems and testing new technologies to push them faster to the fleets, said Vice Adm. Richard W. Mayo, commander of the Naval Network Warfare Command in Norfolk, Va.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/21_33/20480-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>33</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[&#146;02 in review: what GCN&#146;s readers thought]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Variety was certainly the spice of the GCN Reader Survey in 2002.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/21_33/20461-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>33</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Congress OKs cybersecurity R&amp;D legislation]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The House last week passed by voice vote the Senate-amended version of the Cyber Security Research and Development Act, clearing the bill for the president&#146;s approval.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/21_33/20497-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>33</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[OPM and CIO Council look for more managers ]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Office of Personnel Management and the CIO Council are taking on the governmentwide shortage of IT project managers and systems architects by elevating the two positions above the generic title of computer specialist.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/21_33/20498-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>33</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[INS awards a $228m services deal to Northrop ]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Immigration and Naturalization Service earlier this month awarded a five-year, $228 million contract for IT services to Northrop Grumman Corp.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/21_33/20499-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>33</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Treasury will merge federal financial data]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Financial Management Service has awarded Savantage Solutions Inc. a one-year, $1.2 million contract to help consolidate financial information for the government.]]></description>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>33</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Justice selects software to edit FOIA responses ]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Pitching their black permanent markers, U.S. attorney&#146;s offices and seven other Justice Department units have begun using redaction software to delete sensitive material from documents in Adobe Portable Document Format.]]></description>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>33</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[NARA issues guidance on archiving e-mail ]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The National Archives and Records Administration recently released a guide on how agencies can submit e-mail and message attachments to NARA for archiving as records. Agencies now can use a standard markup language or an e-mail program&#146;s native format. Previously, NARA only allowed the ASCII text format.]]></description>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>33</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Paper wranglers get certification nod from DOD]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[An online document management product from two merging companies has met Defense Department 5015.2-Std requirements for electronic record-keeping.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/21_33/20503-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>33</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Housing agency likes mice]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[At the Chicago Housing Authority, there&#146;s a mouse in the house. The nation&#146;s third-largest public housing authority is swapping network passwords for biometric mice that scan users&#146; fingerprints.]]></description>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>33</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[IT management is improving]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[For 18 years, Dave McClure got a first-hand look at how agencies manage their IT infrastructures.]]></description>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>33</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[&#147;Did you hear...&#148; ]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Not yet on GSA schedule? Practically every e-mail address in the galaxy was blasted this month by an AOL.com spammer with a desperate yen for two items: &#147;A modified mind-warping Dimensional Warp Generator, #524350a series wristwatch with memory adapter&#148; as well as a &#147;Reliable carbon-based or silicon-based time transducing capacitor.&#148; The sender cautioned, &#147;I need a reliable source! Please reply only if you are reliable.&#148; Not being a very reliable source, we declined the invitation. ]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/21_33/20525-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>21</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Packet Rat: The Rat emotes about e-votes]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Rat usually votes by absentee ballot. It causes less uproar than a six-foot anthropomorphic rodent trying to enter the polls. ]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/21_33/20526-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>33</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Find A Word: Get some help]]></title>
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 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/21_33/20527-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>33</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Lessons learned at home helped with new system]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[When Martin Smith, director of the International Trade Commission&#146;s Office of Information Services, faced the task of overhauling the agency&#146;s electronic docket system, he recalled his experience in building his home in McLean, Va., in the 1990s.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/21_33/20488-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>33</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Of the People: Signing off-- Never forget the basics]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[For my last GCN column, I'd like to revisit the issues and strategies I've written about over the past couple of years. My goal is to leave you with a clearer understanding of what I believe we need to do to improve the federal IT work force.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/21_33/20489-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>33</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Calendar]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[8-13 XML 2002 ConferenceBaltimore. Contact IDEAlliance; Web: www.xmlconference.org; phone: 703-837-1093.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/21_33/20490-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>33</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Shortage of IT workers reaches a critical stage]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Everybody in government is intensely aware of the IT work force problem. Make that crisis.You know the grim picture. You&#146;ve heard the dire statistics over and over.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/21_33/20444-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>33</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Recruiting, management  policies on front burner]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Last April the Office of Personnel Management and the federal CIO Council collaborated on a modest pilot project to demonstrate a new approach to recruiting and hiring federal IT workers.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/21_33/20445-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>33</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[James: building a new culture for federal work]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[At the very top of President Bush&#146;s management agenda is developing strategic management of human capital. &#147;We must have government that thinks differently, so we need to recruit talented and imaginative people to public service,&#148; Bush has said. As director of the Office of Personnel Management, Kay Coles James is one of the principal leaders in the administration&#146;s efforts to transform government. The federal IT work force will play a critical role in administration&#146;s management revolution, James says. GCN staff writer Richard W. Walker recently interviewed James in her Washington office about government IT work force problems and how the administration plans to pass the daunting tests ahead. ]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/21_33/20446-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>33</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Support for telecommuters is an uphill ride]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[When Congress included Section 359 in the Transportation Department Appropriations Act of 2001, many observers said agencies got the kick in the pants they needed to establish telecommuting policies and start running pilots.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/21_33/20447-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>33</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[DOJ analysis tool adds up]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Justice Department has enhanced management of its work force with a new analysis and reporting tool that lets program managers bring payroll and personnel data quickly to the surface.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/21_33/20448-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>33</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[SBA to put its disaster loan processing online]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Small Business Administration officials hope a new disaster credit management system will help loan processors think outside the shipping box.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/21_33/20449-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>33</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Quicksilver map shows agencies how to proceed]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[E-government project leaders and architects now have a road map to follow to make sure their initiatives adhere to the Office of Management and Budget&#146;s rules for interoperability, scalability and reusability.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/21_33/20450-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>33</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[FDA contracts for regulations architecture]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Food and Drug Administration has awarded a $2 million, 11-month contract to SRA International Inc. to develop a system to help the agency&#146;s Office of Regulatory Affairs regulate foreign and domestic products.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/21_33/20451-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>33</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Coast Guard updates its disaster call system]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Coast Guard is modernizing the way it monitors distress calls from vessels.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/21_33/20452-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>33</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[VA sets first architectural plan]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Veterans Affairs Department is counting on the first version of its enterprise architecture, released last month, to  turn the slogan &#147;One VA&#148; into a reality.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/21_33/20453-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>33</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[DOD directive aims for layered security]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Defense Department agencies last month began following a new policy that sets standards for securing networks using a layered defense-in-depth approach.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/21_33/20506-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>33</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[OMB shakes up two e-gov projects]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Dissatisfied with the progress on two Quicksilver e-government projects headed by the Federal Emergency Management Agency, the Office of Management and Budget last month replaced the program managers.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/21_33/20508-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>33</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Election boosts Bush&#146;s IT agenda]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[For the federal IT community, the 107th Congress will be remembered mostly for how little it did&#151;especially in agency appropriations, homeland security and IT.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/21_33/20509-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>33</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[With e-voting, Broward County election results were slow&#151;but chadless]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Nov. 5 election in Broward County, Fla., went more smoothly than the Sept. 10 primary or the 2000 presidential election.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/21_33/20510-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>33</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[NMCI gets a new lease on life]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Navy will pay Electronic Data Systems Corp. an additional $1.96 billion to extend the base period of the Navy-Marine Corps Intranet contract from five to seven years.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/21_33/20511-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>33</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[HHS will overhaul security]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Through a new task order, the Health and Human Services Department has kicked off an effort to consolidate IT security services across its bureaus.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/21_33/20512-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>33</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Make GISRA permanent, House panel tells Congress]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Strengthening the Government Information Security Reform Act is essential for effective oversight, a House report concluded last month.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/21_33/20513-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>33</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[IG cites ongoing flaws in State&#146;s security]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The State Department&#146;s systems security remains weak a year after the department&#146;s inspector general identified serious flaws, the IG reported recently.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/21_33/20515-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>33</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Beta tablets a bitter pill]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Tablet PCs could revolutionize computing and become the leading format within five years, as Microsoft Corp. chairman Bill Gates has predicted. Or they could vanish like their predecessors, notably 1993&#146;s Apple Newton MessagePad.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/21_33/20516-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>33</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Few takers for VA&#146;s search engine ]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[As the White House&#146;s Homeland Security Office tests data-sharing tools, agencies slated to join the proposed Homeland Security Department already have access to a commercial application for searching across databases.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/21_33/20517-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>33</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Homeland security bill passes House]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Congress last week acted quickly to move legislation to establish a Homeland Security Department. The measure made it through the House on Wednesday and was expected to clear the Senate later in the week.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/21_33/20518-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>33</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Can we talk?]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Last month&#146;s multiagency pursuit of the Washington-area snipers proved how elusive interoperability can be.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/21_33/20462-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>33</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[ANOTHER VIEW: Homeland security team could learn from eBay]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[When the Homeland Security Advisory System level was raised to &#147;high&#148; this past Sept. 10, it created a lot of anxiety and misunderstanding. And it showed that federal agencies must do more to actively involve the public in both terrorism prevention and response to an attack.]]></description>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>33</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Significa]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Designing home pages for kids has become a vibrant art form, as the Government Printing Office&#146;s index to such pages suggests. At bensguide.gpo.gov/subject.html, GPO has tracked down dozens of agency home pages for kids.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/21_33/20464-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>21</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Letters to the Editor]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Reading your review of 802.11b wireless access points, I was surprised and disappointed to see such blatant prejudice. Although the article itself was well-written, your reviewers omitted one of the first 802.11 devices and one of the most well-known.]]></description>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>33</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Editorial Cartoon]]></title>
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 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/21_33/20486-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>33</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[What keeps the up in uptime? UPS]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Network users take electrical power for granted, like oxygen, until the supply suddenly shuts off. Then a reliable uninterruptible power system, like a full scuba tank, becomes supremely important.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/21_33/20487-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>33</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Public works shop goes digital ]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Public Works Department of Michigan&#146;s charter township of Waterford had just two PCs in 1996. In six years, the department has expanded its IT resources into a multimillion-dollar, award-winning IT infrastructure.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[NASCIO honors 10 innovative IT programs]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The National Association of State CIOs last month honored 10 state government programs for IT excellence. The winners were announced at NASCIO's annual conference in St. Louis.]]></description>
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 <description><![CDATA[From DeZee to shining sea. Matt DeZee, former CIO of South Carolina, took a job last month with American Management Systems Inc. of Fairfax, Va. South Carolina Gov. Jim Hodges appointed DeZee as the state&#146;s first CIO in July 2001. DeZee also was chairman of the National Association of State CIOs&#146; security committee.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Who is It?]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The National Institute of Standards and Technology this month will release large-scale test results for 14 vendors&#146; facial-recognition systems.]]></description>
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 <description><![CDATA[In a digital game of Spy vs. Spy, the pointy-hatted adversaries are fighting it out on your hard drive.]]></description>
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 <description><![CDATA[&#147;Criminals are now automating their entire world,&#148; said Sgt. James Doyle, so law enforcement officials have little choice but to become tech-savvy.]]></description>
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 <description><![CDATA[Adopting biometrics means more than installing a device at every entrance, said Maj. Gen. Steven Boutelle, director of information operations, space and networks for the Army CIO, speaking at a recent Biometric Consortium meeting in Arlington, Va.]]></description>
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 <description><![CDATA[A new edition of an existing book is rarely worth much discussion, but I am very pleased to see the return of the FOIA Litigation Guide. The book, Litigation Under the Federal Open Government Laws 2002,  is the best one-volume guide to the Freedom of Information Act, Privacy Act of 1974, Government in the Sunshine Act and Federal Advisory Committee Act that I know of. The last edition was published in 1997.]]></description>
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 <description><![CDATA[The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency&#146;s homeland security strategy covers everything from biometrics and language processing to predictive modeling and modernized databases.]]></description>
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 <description><![CDATA[A suite of enterprise content management products from Obtree Technologies Inc. of Rancho Santa Margarita, Calif., can deliver data to intranets, extranets and the Web.]]></description>
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 <description><![CDATA[An upgrade to Xerox Corp.&#146;s DocuShare 3.0 document management application now has workflow and Web services tools.]]></description>
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 <description><![CDATA[Networking at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory is all about bandwidth, because visualization, simulation and other high-end applications eat up bandwidth voraciously.]]></description>
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