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 <title><![CDATA[Feds focus in on biometric tools]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Transportation and law enforcement agencies are rushing to try biometric security, and in some cases Congress is mandating its use.]]></description>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>8</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[On the rise: monitoring employees&#146; Web habits]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Many agencies know what their workers are doing and where they are going on the Internet.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/21_8/18418-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>8</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[PKI team tries to lead by example on new pilot]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[In its latest effort to jump-start public-key infrastructure use within government, the Federal PKI Steering Committee will put its money where its mouth is and use an e-signature application for its own pilot.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/21_8/18421-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>8</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[People on the Move]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Attorney General John Ashcroft last month named Vance Hitch the Justice Department&#146;s new CIO.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/21_8/18383-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>8</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Government, industry talk about protecting critical IT]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Federal and industry experts discussed the foundation of IT security earlier this month at a conference hosted by the National Institute of Standards and Technology at its main campus in Gaithersburg, Md.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/21_8/18384-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>8</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[IRS employees take home first innovator awards]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Adobe Systems Inc. inaugurated its Innovators in eGovernment award program last month at FOSE 2002 in Washington by honoring two IRS employees, Paul A. Showalter and John R. Wood.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/21_8/18385-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>8</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Army will expand access to its AKO portal]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Army&#146;s computer-based training program has attracted steady interest for years. But when the service recently announced a training initiative on the front page of the Army Knowledge Online portal, 20,000 people signed up in one week.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/21_8/18372-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>8</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[DOD sets plan for financial system]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Defense Department is designing a financial and accounting systems architecture and expects the Defense Fi-nance and Accounting Service to approve it this month.]]></description>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>8</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[DISA says &#145;Encore&#146; to successful purchase process]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Defense Information Systems Agency, designating its Defense Enterprise Integration Services II contract a success, is continuing the $3 billion purchasing vehicle, which had been set to expire July 1.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/21_8/18374-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>8</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[INCOMING]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Titan Corp. of San Diego won a Special Operations Command contract potentially worth $189.4 million over nine years.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/21_8/18375-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>8</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Smart system confirms bulk deliveries]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Postal Service, which has been criticized for its business practices by Congress and the General Accounting Office, is running a pilot that uses IT to better allocate resources, limit overtime for workers and provide businesses with important information about their bulk mail.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/21_8/18360-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>8</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Keys to access]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[A key phrase in the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 orders employers to &#147;make reasonable accommodations&#148; for disabled employees and others.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/21_8/18381-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>8</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[VA picks four for Peaches system support]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Veterans Affairs Department has tapped four companies to provide departmentwide hardware and software support.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/21_8/18392-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>8</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Raytheon files second protest on FAA&#146;s ERAM]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[A billion-dollar air traffic modernization project faces its second protest in two years from Raytheon Co.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/21_8/18393-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>8</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Airports get long-delayed STARS displays]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Federal Aviation Administration has accepted the first two of 11 new air traffic control displays for the long-delayed Standard Terminal Automation Replacement System.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/21_8/18394-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>8</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Hi-res scans save rare books]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[&#147;Somewhere down the road&#148; computer monitors will show higher-resolution images than the Web&#146;s current 72 dots per inch, said Martin R. Kalfatovic, head of the Smithsonian Institution&#146;s New Media Office.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/21_8/18395-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>8</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[House gives job swapping bill the green light]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Federal and industry systems employees are a step closer to being able to switch jobs.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/21_8/18396-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>8</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Flyzik will advise Ridge on IT security]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Starting today, James Flyzik will be on detail as the senior adviser for IT on homeland security director Tom Ridge&#146;s staff.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/21_8/18397-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>21</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[DOD taps IBM to plan financial architecture]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Defense Department has hired IBM Corp. to develop a DOD-wide financial enterprise architecture.]]></description>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>8</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[INTERVIEW: Deborah Diaz, GSA&#146;s FirstGov chief]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Deborah Diaz has had a long career in technology. Now the deputy associate administrator for the General Services Administration&#146;s Office of FirstGov.gov, she said the challenge of making the portal the face of the government is her dream job.]]></description>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>8</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[DID YOU HEAR]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Brewhaha. U.K. soccer fans won&#146;t need to save their lucky bottle caps any longer to win World Cup tickets. Anheuser-Busch has put a Global Positioning System transmitter inside one can in each of 25 winning Budweiser six-packs. Winners get tickets delivered to their GPS coordinates.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/21_8/18388-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>8</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[UNSCRAMBLE]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[TELEWORK, WORK, WORK]]></description>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>8</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[PACKET RAT]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Last month the Rat glimpsed an article in which Air Force CIO John Gilligan complained about the security problems of Microsoft Windows. &#147;We&#146;re not leaving Microsoft in a week or six months,&#148; he told InformationWeek, but he did suggest that dumping Microsoft Corp. products was an option.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/21_8/18390-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>8</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Current Issue Crossword/Puzzle]]></title>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>8</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[GAO official: Take the long view]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[With the focus of President Bush&#146;s proposed 2003 budget on performance, agencies&#146; IT capital planning and investment managers will play a much larger role in determining how money is allocated.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/21_8/18376-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>8</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[FEDERAL CONTRACT LAW]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[&#147;But in all contracts, if one party fails to perform his share of the compact, is not the other virtually absolved from his liability? Who is there who will not answer in the affirmative?&#148; &#151;Herman Melville in Typee, 1846]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/21_8/18377-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>21</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Calendar]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[May 7-9. Advances in C4ISR Architecture Framework Implementation. Seminar. Fairfax, Va. Contact the Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association; Web: www.afcea.org/education/coruse/504.htm. ]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/21_8/18379-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>8</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Carriers say security concerns are creating increased demand for 3G wireless services ]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Threats of terrorism have spurred government agencies to hold more videoconferences and make communications networks more redundant, said Anthony G. D&#146;Agata, vice president and general manager of Sprint Corp.&#146;s government systems group.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/21_8/18369-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>8</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[IT job fair kicks off OPM online effort]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Horror stories about the government&#146;s hiring process are well documented. The CIO Council and Office of Personnel Management knew there had to be a better way. So next week the two are hosting a virtual IT job fair.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/21_8/18399-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>8</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Hill asks: Too much overlap in GSA agencies?]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The General Services Administration&#146;s two IT procurement shops overlap in the products and services they offer, but there is no consensus as to whether that is good or bad.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/21_8/18400-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>21</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[GSA postpones FirstGov revamp]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The wait for the new search engine to power the FirstGov portal continues&#151;at least for another six weeks.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/21_8/18401-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>21</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[USPS plans business model makeover]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Postal Service lost $10.4 million last year running its online payment services, prompting the agency to revisit its e-commerce initiatives.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/21_8/18402-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>21</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Uneven broadband traffic jams telework progress, GSA says]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The General Services Administration this month will tell Congress that telework programs cannot succeed without a more equitable bandwidth distribution.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/21_8/18404-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>21</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[GSA suspends new IT leases pending accord with industry]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[After months of unsuccessful negotiations with vendors and industry groups, the General Services Administration has suspended new lease orders through IT Schedule contracts until June 4.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/21_8/18405-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>21</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[State will ramp up Net service]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Over the next year, the State Department will roll out Internet access to 30,000 users worldwide, reducing the department&#146;s network costs and boosting communications security.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/21_8/18406-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>8</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[XML group challenges GAO report]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The General Accounting Office this month said the lack of uniform, government-specific data structures could dim the Extensible Markup Language&#146;s promise of easily searchable, reusable content.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/21_8/18407-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>21</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[DOE lines up plans for its Science Grid]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Energy Department and IBM Corp. are de-veloping a high-performance computing grid for research in global climate change and other data-intensive topics.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/21_8/18409-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>21</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Agencies lag in IT continuity plans]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Many agencies will likely miss the May 3 deadline for IT continuity-of-operations plans, a congressional overseer says.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/21_8/18410-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>21</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[DISA finally names DREN vendor]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Defense Information Systems Agency has ended 10 months of controversy over which of five vendors will build the Defense Research and Engineering Network, selecting WorldCom Inc. for the 10-year, $450 million contract.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/21_8/18411-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>21</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Web system sharpens USDA&#146;s analytical skills]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Agriculture Department&#146;s Rural Development office is enhancing its policy analysis and program management tool to give 6,000 users at 800 offices nationwide the ability to find project details in a few clicks.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/21_8/18412-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>8</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Transportation bureau system gets the details on flight delays]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Transportation Department is collecting the causes of flight delays and cancellations, and posting them online.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/21_8/18413-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>21</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[DOT, Defense set plan to expand use of GPS]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Transportation and Defense departments plan to strengthen the Global Positioning System to make it the nation&#146;s primary means of navigation.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/21_8/18414-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>21</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[State ready to test overseas system]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The State Department is negotiating a contract with Accenture LLP of Chicago to implement the pilot phase of the Overseas Presence Interagency Collaboration project.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/21_8/18415-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>21</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[VA takes over veterans&#146; medical data from DOD]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Veterans Health Administration is taking over from the Defense Department a system that lets the agencies share up-to-date veterans&#146; medical information.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/21_8/18416-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>21</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[EDITORIAL]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[As everyone now knows, the Immigration and Naturalization Service last month sent student visas for two dead Sept. 11 terrorists to their Florida flight school.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/21_8/18358-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>8</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[LETTERS TO THE EDITOR]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Your story, &#147;Defense throws the book at its software buyers&#148; [GCN, March 4, Page 9], shows what may be short-term gains for the federal sector. But the long-term effects will be less competition and inferior competition. Take a look at Lotus Development Corp. and WordPerfect.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/21_8/18359-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>8</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Fingerprint readers prove reliable at log-in]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Biometric vendors are doing their best to supplant password security, but GCN Lab tests indicate they&#146;re not quite ready yet. Some developers of biometric products have continued to improve already good products, but others need to go back to the drawing board.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/21_8/18382-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>8</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[E-gov, security occupy the states]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The states, though besieged by budget deficits, a recession and threats of terrorist or systems attacks, are coping.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/21_8/18350-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>8</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Virginia county stems a rising tide of paper]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Bordered on three sides by rivers, Prince William County, Va., is no stranger to floods. But the county&#146;s Human Resources Department also has struggled with another kind of flood: paper.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/21_8/18351-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>8</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[STATE LINES]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Pelican State brief. The Louisiana State Land Office is working with IT Group Inc. of Baton Rouge, La., to scan more than 3.5 million historical land documents and post them in JPEG format on the Web. Some of the documents date to the 1790s, said Marty Beasley, geographic information systems manager for the State Land Office.]]></description>
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 <volume>21</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Secure Wireless]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Army this spring will start beaming IEEE 802.11b wireless LAN connectivity to support troops in the field.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/21_8/18361-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>21</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[INTERNAUT]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Training initiatives now under way should help the government over two big obstacles: broadening electronic services and guarding against cyberterrorism. The question is, will Congress fork over enough money to make a real difference?]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/21_8/18362-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>8</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Qwest is first to migrate from MAA to FTS 2001]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Qwest Communications International Inc. is the first company to cross over from the General Services Administration&#146;s local telephone service program to its long-distance program.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/21_8/18363-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>21</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[POWER USER]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Despite security concerns about Microsoft Corp.&#146;s Passport authentication initiative, the chances are good that many Windows users will find themselves dealing with the company&#146;s .Net computing paradigm&#151;not next year but soon.]]></description>
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 <volume>21</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[No pain, no gain in federal teleworking effort]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Although the federal government officially encourages its workers to get off the highways and telecommute, it lags behind the private sector in percentage of teleworkers.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/21_8/18366-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>8</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Cobalt Qube 3: little big server]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Sun Microsystems Inc.&#146;s compact Cobalt Qube 3 server appliance is sized for small offices but can handle 250 to 300 users, said Peder Ulander, the division&#146;s marketing director.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/21_8/18367-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>21</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Drug abuse unit kicks paper habit]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Until recently, the National Institute on Drug Abuse had a dependency of its own: paper.]]></description>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>8</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Take a RISC&#151;or Pentium&#151;on an IntelliStation system]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Four new IntelliStations from IBM Corp. have different processor architectures&#151;one RISC and three Intel Pentium&#151;but the same brand name.]]></description>
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