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 <title><![CDATA[GSA Team prepares to test authentication gateway]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The General Services Administration is building a prototype gateway to authenticate transactions for agencies&#146; e-government programs.]]></description>
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 <volume>21</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[OMB advocates J2EE, .Net for e-gov]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Office of Management and Budget is recommending that the architects of the 24 e-government initiatives use Java 2 Enterprise Edition or Microsoft .Net as underlying technology.]]></description>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>9</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Trade commission runs Web dragnet]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[&#147;Surf&#146;s up&#148; is not a phrase most people would associate with scam investigators at the Federal Trade Commission. But surfing is one of the chief pastimes at the FTC Internet Laboratory&#151;surfing the Web, that is. Commission attorneys and investigators use the lab to track down online-savvy violators of the 87-year-old Federal Trade Commission Act and related laws.]]></description>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>9</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[People on the move]]></title>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>9</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Feds, vendors connect at wireless event]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Government and industry experts examined wireless communications from a wide variety of angles earlier this month at a Technology Excellence in Government seminar in Washington.]]></description>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>9</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Post Newsweek celebrates new digs]]></title>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>9</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Mr. Gates goes to Washington]]></title>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>9</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[National Security Agency takes on IT transformation via outsourcing]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[National Security Agency CIO Richard G. Turner put on a new hat after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/21_9/18479-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>9</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Army puts crisis guidance online]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[In the frantic days last October after anthrax attacks on targets in Florida, Washington and New York, Army personnel at commands across the country issued 14 different instructions on how to respond to suspicious mailings. A few offered conflicting advice. Some were simply wrong.]]></description>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>9</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Sailors will get some say in picking NMCI's apps]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Users of the Navy-Marine Corps Intranet portal should have a say in which applications are moved into the NMCI environment.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/21_9/18482-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>9</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[IT managers find handhelds a mixed blessing]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[For government IT managers who use them, there&#146;s nothing better than a handheld PC or personal digital assistant for immediate access to vital data on the go.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/21_9/18485-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>9</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Bright future for presentations]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The value of multimedia presentations has always been a mixed bag. They&#146;re often necessary, even illuminating, in office meetings, conferences and road shows. And if nothing else, they give people something to do besides stare at you, the presenter.]]></description>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>9</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Schedule shop issues new set of leasing terms]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The General Services Administration&#146;s Federal Supply Service last week submitted final IT leasing terms to vendors for approval. Contractors have until May 3 to either sign the new terms or negotiate changes.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/21_9/18498-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>9</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Navy uses smart cards to speed travel process]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Navy is the first department in the Defense Department to use Common Access smart cards for the Defense Travel System.]]></description>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>9</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[7,100 apply in first 2 days of virtual job fair]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Applicants flocked to the virtual IT job fair last week presented by the CIO Council and Office of Personnel Management.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/21_9/18500-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>9</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Army issues RFP for new tactical network ]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Army will use commercial technologies to develop a tactical network for voice, data and video communications.]]></description>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>9</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Unisys systems run Windows, mainframe OSes]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Three new midrange mainframe computers from Unisys Corp. use the same cellular multiprocessing architecture as the company&#146;s Enterprise Server ES7000.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/21_9/18502-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>9</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[EPA taps Signal for follow-on software pact]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Environmental Protection Agency has signed a five-year, $6 million task order with Signal Corp. of Fairfax, Va., to continue developing software for EPA&#146;s environmental response teams.]]></description>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>9</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Customs picks CACI to help with IT security]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Customs Service has awarded a five-year, $31.5 million contract to CACI International Inc. to help secure information systems throughout the agency.]]></description>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>9</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Expose in Maryland]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Maryland last week launched its first sex offender registry site, at www.dpscs.state.md.us/sor.]]></description>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>9</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Security is federal telecom focus]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[As chief technology officer of Verizon Communications Inc., Mark Wegleitner oversees the federal network systems group, which provides services to government. He is responsible for technology assessment, network architecture, platform development and laboratory infrastructure for the company's wireline business.]]></description>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>9</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Crossword answer]]></title>
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 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/21_9/18506-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>9</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[R. Fink: Taxing software stalls Rat's e-filing plans]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The IRS might have wrought wonders with e-file, but tax software publishers have succeeded in making electronic  filing just as hard as printing and mailing a return&#151;maybe even harder.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/21_9/18513-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>9</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Did you hear...]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[ It comes in a case of Omaha Steaks, as payment for a publishable end-user case study about data backup to go into a book. The authors at www.netfrontiers.com, Network Frontiers LLC of San Francisco, say they have other edible prizes for vegans and vegetarians, and they promise that &#147;your e-mail address will never be used for spam on ham, spam and eggs, or anything else vile.&#148;]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/21_9/18515-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>9</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[NMCI chief is for change]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Rear Adm. Charles L. Munns wants every sailor to be as enthusiastic as he is about the Navy-Marine Corps Intranet. But even if they aren&#146;t, the NMCI program manager stresses that the $6.9 billion outsourcing program will proceed.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/21_9/18489-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>9</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Of the People: Virtual job fairs are the wave of the future]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[As I wrote this, we in the federal government were about to establish a new mark in the history of personnel recruitment.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/21_9/18490-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>9</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Calendar]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Meetings, events of interest to government IT managers.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/21_9/18491-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>9</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[House VPN connects staff remotely ]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Greg Roney spent four months finishing up his bachelor&#146;s degree at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah, but to the congressmen he worked for, it was as if he never left Washington.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/21_9/18441-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>9</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[IG says Customs needs more help]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Customs Service lacks the managers it needs to oversee its $1.3 billion modernization program, the Treasury Department&#146;s inspector general recently reported.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/21_9/18483-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>9</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Leisure and tourism are top topics on federal sites]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Sixty-eight million Americans have used government Web sites, according to a survey released earlier this month by the Pew Internet and American Life Project in Washington. That&#146;s up from 40 million users two years ago.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/21_9/18484-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>9</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[GAO answers XML report critics]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The lead author of a General Accounting Office report on the Extensible Markup Language is working to build bridges to a vendor group that criticized the report.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/21_9/18507-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>9</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[A-76 recommendations are due this week]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[A panel reviewing government outsourcing efforts will make four major recommendations this week to improve the OMB Circular A-76 process.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/21_9/18508-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>21</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Deju vu for DREN: DISA faces protests]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Somewhere in soliciting bids and awarding the $450 million contract for the Defense Research and Engineering Network, something went wrong for the Defense Information Systems Agency. Again.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/21_9/18509-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>21</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[GAO: Audit, tech staffs should share expertise]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Agencies&#146; systems controls fall short and inspectors general tend to overlook IT security, the General Accounting Office&#146;s information security director told the House this month.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/21_9/18510-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>21</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Forman's team funds four projects]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[When Office of Management and Budget officials chose which of the 24 e-government initiatives would receive funding from the $5 million appropriated by Congress for fiscal 2002, they looked at the business cases the agencies submitted.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/21_9/18512-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>9</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Editorial: Snoop patrol]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[At the public schools in my neighborhood, local police officers often visit to advise kids and parents on the dangers of alcohol and drugs. One piece of advice always bothers me: Lock up the liquor cabinet.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/21_9/18451-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>9</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[At postal site, online service elicits no purr]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Since 1997 I've reported on government efforts to improve service by using the Internet. Ah, the Internet. How efficient and convenient! How much money it will save us all. Recently I encountered online government as a citizen-user. I found one service saved me neither time nor money. But it did serve up headaches.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/21_9/18453-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>9</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Editorial Cartoon]]></title>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>9</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[By the numbers]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Just as air bags and electronic ignitions are universal in today&#146;s cars, Internet access has become a baseline for libraries.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/21_9/18462-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>9</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Look me in the eye--or in the face]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Vendors of biometric devices are betting that their face and eye recognition technologies can make a camera lens as efficient as a security guard&#146;s watchful eye. Far-fetched? Maybe not.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/21_9/18488-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>9</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[CIOs make e-commerce inroads]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[State and local governments have steadily increased their adoption of e-commerce.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/21_9/18446-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>9</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[GAO urges coordination of homeland security]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[In testimony last month before the House Government Reform Committee, Patricia A. Dalton, director of strategic issues at the General Accounting Office, exhorted Congress to improve relations among federal, state and local governments to better protect the nation against terrorist attacks.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/21_9/18447-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>9</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[State Lines]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Wall Street favorite. At a recent New York conference sponsored by the IT Association of America, industry representatives discussed the future of IT spending by state and local governments.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/21_9/18449-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>9</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Beyond 508]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Agency managers have found bonus capabilities in the compliance software they bought last year to meet Section 508 accessibility deadlines. Several related their experiences this month at the opening of the General Services Administration&#146;s Assistive Technology Showcase.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/21_9/18465-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>9</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[State attorney brings PDAs to Calif. courts]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Nikki Colbert was tired of lugging a notebook PC from courtroom to courtroom. As a senior legal analyst with California&#146;s Office of the Attorney General, she traveled from Sacramento to San Diego and almost every city in between to give presentations.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/21_9/18467-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>9</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Cyber Eye: Does your modem have loose lips?]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[As if the government didn&#146;t already have enough security worries, researchers have discovered that the light-emitting diodes that show computer operations status are leaking data.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/21_9/18469-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>9</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Energy's Yucca Mountain site gets redesign, data restoration]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Controversy over the Energy Department&#146;s plan to build a nuclear waste repository in Nevada has brought renewed attention and a redesign to the Yucca Mountain Project&#146;s Web site, at www.ymp.gov.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/21_9/18471-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>9</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[@Info. Policy: Bush team stumbles on health privacy]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[In March, the Bush administration proposed some modifications to the health privacy rule that Bill Clinton promulgated on his way out the door. The rule was issued under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, fondly referred to as HIPAA.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/21_9/18473-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>21</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[IBM Corp. adds internal RAID to p610 eServer]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[IBM Corp. has added an entry-level model and internal RAID storage to the p610 eServer line.]]></description>
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 <volume>21</volume>
 <issue>9</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[The clock ticks toward accurate network timing]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[It pays to know the time to keep a network running efficiently and securely.]]></description>
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