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 <volume>22</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[OMB eyes central authentication plan]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Office of Management and Budget last week acted to stem agencies&#146; inconsistent investments in and implementations of authentication technologies.]]></description>
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 <volume>22</volume>
 <issue>19</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[DOD effort to consolidate its financial IT draws fire]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Defense Department has invested two years and $100 million in modernizing its financial systems, but many experts are questioning the results.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/22_19/22800-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>22</volume>
 <issue>19</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Security at a standstill?]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[An &#147;unacceptably slow pace&#148; is how Rep. Adam Putnam this month described the progress of government efforts to improve cybersecurity. &#147;I think they have the technology. I think the management is a miserable failure, " says Rep. Pete Sessions (R-Texas)]]></description>
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 <volume>22</volume>
 <issue>19</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Internal security]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[A few years ago, the focus of network security and firewall technology was on the perimeter&#151;keeping bad guys on the outside from getting to systems on the inside.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/22_19/22784-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>22</volume>
 <issue>19</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[The lowdown on  firewalls]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[What are they? Firewalls are network devices or a combination of hardware and software that control the flow of network traffic. They stop intruders and malevolent code, while allowing authorized users and applications to send data unmolested.]]></description>
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 <volume>22</volume>
 <issue>19</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[People on the Move]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Sarah Jane League, a 36-year veteran of the federal government, has stepped down as special assistant for infrastructure and information assurance with the Homeland Security Department to take an industry job.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/22_19/22820-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>22</volume>
 <issue>19</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[IAC welcomes new Treasury CIO at meeting ]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Government and industry leaders conferred earlier this month during the Industry Advisory Council&#146;s membership meeting in Falls Church, Va.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/22_19/22822-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>22</volume>
 <issue>19</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[IRM College is as good as gold ]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The National Defense University&#146;s IRM College has received the AFCEA Golden Link Award for solving interoperability problems with its online education programs.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/22_19/22823-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>22</volume>
 <issue>19</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Quicksilver team puts pieces together]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[In some ways, the job facing Teresa Sorrenti and Earl Warrington is like putting together a vast puzzle. The brain-teaser they are working on is the federal government&#146;s new procurement system.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/22_19/22778-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>22</volume>
 <issue>19</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Major programs within GSA]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Federal Procurement Data System&#151;Next Generation. GSA, as a part of its Integrated Acquisition Environment e-government project, awarded a $24.3 million contract to Global Computer Enterprises Inc. of Gaithersburg, Md., in April. GCE will build a new system to collect and report data in real time through the Web. The system will be more accurate and easier to use than the current FPDS, and provide agencies and vendors with more information than the current system. GSA officials expect to launch the system in October.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/22_19/22781-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>22</volume>
 <issue>19</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Smart-card rollout might need more time]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Defense Department has until October to issue smart cards to 4 million users, but a senior official has recommended that DOD extend the deadline to early next year.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/22_19/22782-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>22</volume>
 <issue>19</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[With latest version, DOD thinks it&#146;s got DTS right]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[A new version of the Defense Travel System&#151;described by Defense Department and vendor officials as speedier and easier to navigate&#151;began operating this month.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/22_19/22783-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>22</volume>
 <issue>19</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[E-Clearance Web site clears its last hurdle]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Office of Personnel Management this month completed the final module of its E-Clearance project, automating the SF-86 standard security clearance form. E-Clearance is one of the first Quicksilver initiatives to meet all its original goals.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/22_19/22804-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>22</volume>
 <issue>19</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Interior IG pans Web security and operations]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Interior Department inspector general is recommending that the department overhaul its Web operations.]]></description>
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 <volume>22</volume>
 <issue>19</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[OPM weighs its options for recruitment site ]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Office of Personnel Management has said it will decide by July 21 whether to recompete the contract for its Recruitment One-Stop project.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/22_19/22806-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>22</volume>
 <issue>19</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Verity upgrades its Ultraseek search engine]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Verity Inc. has upgraded the graphical interface and analytical tools of its enterprise search engine for small to midsize agencies.]]></description>
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 <volume>22</volume>
 <issue>19</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Archiving RFP will come in out of the cold]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[By year&#146;s end, the National Archives and Records Administration plans to take a big step toward helping agencies face their colossal electronic-records dilemma.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/22_19/22808-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>22</volume>
 <issue>19</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[WebSphere moves to Linux on Power4]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The newest version of IBM&#146;s WebSphere Application Server will be the first to run under the open-source Linux operating system on IBM&#146;s Power4 processors.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/22_19/22809-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>22</volume>
 <issue>19</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Web site for cross-agency services debuts]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Interagency Services Network launched a new Web site earlier this month for agencies that offer business services to other federal agencies. The site, at www.isn.gov, will provide best practices and a database of products and services.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/22_19/22810-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>22</volume>
 <issue>19</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Selling like hotcakes: LCDs, notebook PCs ]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[May was the first month that notebook computer sales generated more revenue than desktop PCs, and buyers bought more LCD monitors than standard CRTs, according to a new study.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/22_19/22811-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>22</volume>
 <issue>19</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Sometimes a bit of spending is wise]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[After a 37-year Air Force career, four-star Gen. Alfred G. Hansen retired in 1989 and went back to work in the aerospace industry. Now president and chief executive officer of EMS Technologies Inc. of Atlanta, Hansen said his goal is to make EMS &#147;a billion-dollar company.&#148;]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/22_19/22755-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>22</volume>
 <issue>19</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[&#147;Did you hear...&#148; ]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Can you hear me now? NASA&#146;s Jet Propulsion Laboratory seems pretty confident that, by around 2009, you&#146;ll be able to phone your little green Martian friends via the optical-laser Mars Telesat Orbiter. JPL designed the 10-Mbps, telescope-focused laser communications system to cut down on those astronomical long-distance roaming charges. Bummer&#151;it turns out that the laser beams might fry your little green friends&#146; low-flying aircraft. So the Red Planet&#146;s scanty atmosphere will need three sensor tiers to shut off the laser whenever something flies by. Talk about dropped calls. ... See tmo.jpl.nasa.gov/progress_report/42-153/153G.pdf for details. ]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/22_19/22824-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>22</volume>
 <issue>19</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Packet Rat: The Rat abridges freedom of the press plane]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Nothing, it seems, is as simple as it used to be, especially when it comes to Rat family vacations.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/22_19/22825-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>22</volume>
 <issue>19</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Cryptogram: Ask the right questions]]></title>
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 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/22_19/22827-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>22</volume>
 <issue>19</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Will execs buy in to telework?]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Office of Personnel Management wants to address managers&#146; resistance to telework with tools and educational seminars to help executives plan, implement and run telecommuting programs.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/22_19/22789-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>22</volume>
 <issue>19</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Executive suite: Refreshing thoughts for summer]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Don&#146;t look now, but the end of summer is near. You still have a few more weeks before the onslaught of the official Washington IT season that arrives after Labor Day.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/22_19/22791-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>22</volume>
 <issue>19</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Calendar]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[24-28 Air Force Information Technology ConferenceMontgomery, Ala. Contact the Air Force; Web: https://web1.ssg.gunter.af.mil/afitc; phone: 334-416-4319.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/22_19/22792-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>22</volume>
 <issue>19</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[OPM set to standardize personnel data]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Of the 89 items of information that agencies collect for a civilian employee&#146;s personnel file, an address is not among them.In fact, the information that agencies collect seems more useful in compiling a statistical database rather than a complete and useful employee record, Office of Personnel Management officials say. The lack of some information slows down the movement of personnel records and requires additional work by human resources employees.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/22_19/22749-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>22</volume>
 <issue>19</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[At DHS, meshing IT takes tact]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Homeland Security Department leaders want to reduce the number of systems across the department, but managers have to take care in how they cut, CIO Steve Cooper said last month.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/22_19/22751-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>22</volume>
 <issue>19</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[DHS lays out vision for border system]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Homeland Security Department will &#147;restart the engines&#148; of its project to track visitors as they enter and leave the United States, a senior DHS official said this month.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/22_19/22812-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>22</volume>
 <issue>19</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Dell wins software contract at DHS]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Homeland Security Department has awarded Dell Computer Corp. a $90 million contract for Microsoft Corp. software, under which the department will consolidate existing licenses for Microsoft products.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/22_19/22813-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>22</volume>
 <issue>19</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[OPM: Double-check education claims]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Office of Personnel Management this month put the onus on agencies to make sure the employees they hire and approve for security clearances give the government legitimate details about their educational and employment histories.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/22_19/22814-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>22</volume>
 <issue>19</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Collins asks Labor what it knew and what it plans to do]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Sen. Susan Collins has asked the Labor Department to provide details about its review of the educational credentials of Labor&#146;s former deputy CIO, who claims academic degrees from an unaccredited institution.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/22_19/22815-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>22</volume>
 <issue>19</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Contract workers with bogus degrees create potential problems for vendors]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Does the recent interest in federal employees&#146; use of questionable educational credentials extend to IT contract workers toiling away in agencies across government?]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/22_19/22816-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>22</volume>
 <issue>19</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Lawmakers ask GAO to merge diploma mill probes]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Sen. Susan Collins and Rep. Tom Davis last week said they asked the General Accounting Office to investigate the use of diploma mill degrees by federal employees.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/22_19/22817-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>22</volume>
 <issue>19</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[OMB unveils next-generation e-gov strategy]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Office of Management and Budget is gearing up for agencies to submit business cases by Sept. 8 for the second round of e-government initiatives.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/22_19/22818-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>22</volume>
 <issue>19</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[E-gov makes no gains in new PMA scores]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[At first glance, agency progress in meeting the e-government goals of the President&#146;s Management Agenda seems to have hit a plateau. On the midyear PMA scorecard released last week, no agency improved its overall e-government status in the three months since the last evaluation.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/22_19/22819-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>22</volume>
 <issue>19</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Baby steps]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Between the development of the Homeland Security Department and the Office of Management and Budget&#146;s hallowed e-government efforts, you could almost forget there&#146;s a vast government still plugging away at unglamorous routine.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/22_19/22756-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>22</volume>
 <issue>19</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Letters to the editor: Readers debate experience versus degrees]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The problem is on the table, and everyone is looking under it!The issue is the [academic] degrees but not for the reason most think. It&#146;s easy to hire someone because they have a degree. You don&#146;t have to evaluate them or their competition; you take the applicant with the degrees. Government and corporate hiring practices demand the paper, ability be damned.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/22_19/22760-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>22</volume>
 <issue>19</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[By the numbers]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Federal IT investment planners don&#146;t usually wear black tie and sip dry martinis as they evaluate systems purchases. But they can use a statistical technique named after an exclusive gambling center when planning projects.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/22_19/22761-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>22</volume>
 <issue>19</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Editorial Cartoon]]></title>
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 <volume>22</volume>
 <issue>19</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[From XML to wireless, office suites move with the times]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Office suites are even more indispensable than paper at government agencies. Probably 90 percent of every work task starts within an office suite and combines elements of e-mail, word processing, databases, graphics, spreadsheets, networking, instant messaging and presentations.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/22_19/22787-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>22</volume>
 <issue>19</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Multistate network adds blogging app]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Web logging technology has gained a foothold of respectability in the government sector.Blogging lets users publish their own work, clipped text and objects from other sites and even excerpts from other blogging sites in a continuous stream similar to an extended letter to the editor. It requires almost no technical aptitude to master and has spawned thousands of Web sites.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/22_19/22752-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>22</volume>
 <issue>19</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[PKI tools build user trust in Pennsylvania&#146;s JNet]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Pennsylvania&#146;s integrated Justice Network, JNet, is upgrading its security with a managed public-key infrastructure application from VeriSign Inc. of Mountain View, Calif.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/22_19/22753-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>22</volume>
 <issue>19</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[State lines]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[All Web, all the time. Utah&#146;s Web portal now offers full-time live customer service.The site, at www.Utah.gov, has been upgraded to let users chat with customer service representatives at any time of day.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/22_19/22754-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>22</volume>
 <issue>19</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Data squeeze]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Just as rockets must blast off within their launch windows, the Air Force group that helps NASA get rockets off the ground was constrained by a different kind of window&#151;the time needed for daily data backups.]]></description>
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 <volume>22</volume>
 <issue>19</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Cyber eye: Could encrypted speech be threatened?]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[When someone says, &#147;It&#146;s not about the money,&#148; you can be fairly sure it&#146;s about the money.So when Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Texas) began a statement by protesting that she is second to none in her support for the First Amendment, I wondered whether it was really at the top of her agenda.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/22_19/22766-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>22</volume>
 <issue>19</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Frost and Snow are part of NOAA&#146;s summer forecasts]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Hurricane and tropical storm forecasts are coming straight from Frost and Snow.Those are nicknames for partitions in the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration&#146;s new supercomputing workhorse: an IBM SP parallel system with theoretical peak speed of 11.4 trillion operations per second&#151;more than twice as fast as the system it replaced.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/22_19/22767-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>22</volume>
 <issue>19</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Microsoft source code gets a look ]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Microsoft Corp.&#146;s Government Security Program has made more than 100 million lines of Windows operating system source code available for national governments to study.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/22_19/22768-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>22</volume>
 <issue>19</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Expert: Act II no threat to crypto]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Proposed USA Patriot Act II legislation would add a significant stretch of time to the prison sentences of those convicted of using cryptography to commit crimes.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/22_19/22770-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>22</volume>
 <issue>19</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Report cites savvier Internet attacks]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Cyberattacks dropped off during the last six months of 2002, according to a report from Symantec Corp.Recent blended threats also caused considerably less damage than previous worms such as Code Red, said the Cupertino, Calif., company&#146;s report, which predated the SQL Slammer worm. Slammer&#146;s impact resulted from a single exploit with no payload.]]></description>
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 <volume>22</volume>
 <issue>19</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[@Info.Policy: Red tape is threat to FOIA]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Is the Freedom of Information Act as we know it near the end of its useful life?Don&#146;t get me wrong&#151;the case for open government is just as strong as it ever was, or stronger. The question is whether the FOIA is being proceduralized to death.]]></description>
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 <volume>22</volume>
 <issue>19</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Model details federal &#145;information factory&#146;]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[A consultant known for conceptualizing the data warehouse for the private sector now wants to do the same thing for government.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/22_19/22775-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>22</volume>
 <issue>19</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[DOD&#146;s high-performance computing program gets its annual tune-up with purchases for two centers]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Defense Department gave the High-Performance Computing Modernization Program its annual technology upgrade with high-end purchases from Cray Inc. of Seattle, IBM Corp. and SGI Federal.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/22_19/22776-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>22</volume>
 <issue>19</issue>
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