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 <title><![CDATA[GCN Awards Section: It&#146;s not just about the technology]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[By Thomas R. TeminExecutive EditorWhat do a fishing law enforcement chief, a Farm Service Agency office manager and an Air Force colonel have in common? All three&#151;and many others you&#146;ll read about in this special issue&#151;serve on teams whose projects won this year&#146;s 10 GCN Awards for Excellence in IT. Stories in this section are located in The Community section of the online issue.]]></description>
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 <volume>22</volume>
 <issue>30</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[OMB sets  new data privacy regulations]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[With the release of new privacy rules for electronic information, the federal government is trying to right its somewhat troubled record of protecting personal data.]]></description>
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 <volume>22</volume>
 <issue>30</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Perils of unplugging: 11 steps to successful wireless security]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[It&#146;s time to take on the security flaws of wireless LANs.Nothing will make an 802.11 wireless network completely secure, but there are ways to tighten one enough to keep out most unauthorized users.]]></description>
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 <volume>22</volume>
 <issue>30</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Air safety: wireless networking security]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Wireless is perhaps the most rapidly growing networking technology, and certainly the most widely hyped. But its rapid growth has brought some serious security concerns&#151;sometimes, ubiquitous and easy access to data networks isn&#146;t exactly a good thing.]]></description>
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 <volume>22</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[The lowdown on wireless networks]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[What&#146;s the threat to wireless networks? While IEEE 802.11 and other standards for wireless LANs have made it easier and cheaper to set up wireless networks, they have also made it easier for unauthorized people to find and use them&#151;and abuse or attack them. Even a casual hacker can easily circumvent the base level of security on many WiFi networks. And networks that can&#146;t be hacked can be jammed or otherwise disrupted if attackers go undetected.]]></description>
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 <volume>22</volume>
 <issue>30</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[GCN Awards Excellence in IT: Law of the seas]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The National Marine Fisheries Service has developed technological solutions to two of its main responsibilities: keeping fishing vessels out of restricted waters and fighting regulatory challenges in court.]]></description>
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 <volume>22</volume>
 <issue>30</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Attorney, programmers were on the same page]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[After all those years in law school, Leila Afzal can add something else to her resume: application development adviser.]]></description>
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 <volume>22</volume>
 <issue>30</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Sole source: FedBizOpps portal sets standard for integrated government]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[What began life as a small electronic-procurement pilot at NASA has grown into an e-government giant.]]></description>
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 <volume>22</volume>
 <issue>30</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[FedBizOpps finds mark of success as DOD enlists]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[To Federal Supply Service officials, it was the demise of the Defense Department&#146;s online procurement site last July that officially marked the rise of FSS&#146; FedBizOpps.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/22_30/23762-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>22</volume>
 <issue>30</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[All-points bulletins: FBI and Justice link, get the word out]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The FBI and Justice Department have supercharged law enforcement communications by weaving together disparate networks and creating technology to push alerts to officers nationwide.]]></description>
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 <volume>22</volume>
 <issue>30</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Technological curve didn&#146;t affect their project pitch]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[When managers who advocated linking the FBI&#146;s Law Enforcement Online with five other networks went looking for support, they prepared their case in the usual way&#151;in a Microsoft PowerPoint presentation, with a notebook PC and projector ready to deliver it.]]></description>
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 <volume>22</volume>
 <issue>30</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[All together now: USMC manpower system becomes a real force]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[When it comes to personnel administration, the special needs of government offices can make it difficult to implement standard, commercial human resources systems. This is particularly true for branches of the military.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/22_30/23766-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>22</volume>
 <issue>30</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Medical alert: Pa. health eliminates paper]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[One of the first things Joel Hersh noticed in 1993 when he became director of Pennsylvania&#146;s Bureau of Epidemiology was its dependence on paper.]]></description>
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 <volume>22</volume>
 <issue>30</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[System moves fast to swat new bugs]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Pennsylvania&#146;s National Electronic Disease Surveillance System had to have a flexible design because there&#146;s no telling when the next new communicable disease will pop up.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/22_30/23769-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>22</volume>
 <issue>30</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Tag Team: Materiel tracking system supports military]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[In the first Gulf War, the Army&#146;s approach to logistics could perhaps best be described as brute-force.]]></description>
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 <volume>22</volume>
 <issue>30</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Problems in first Gulf War spurred new system]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[In 1990 and 1991, more than 500 ships and 10,000 aircraft were unloaded in Southwest Asia to support 500,000 Operation Desert Storm troops. But much of the materiel never reached its intended destination.]]></description>
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 <volume>22</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Battle-tested: Air Force battlelab&#146;s innovations prove themselves]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Air Force Command and Control Battlelab at Hurlburt Field, Fla., may be thousands of miles from Iraq, but the facility helped wage the fight against Saddam Hussein&#146;s forces.]]></description>
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 <volume>22</volume>
 <issue>30</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Digital system keeps bombers on target]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Two years ago, a crew flying a B-52H&#151;the Air Force&#146;s long-range, large-payload bomber&#151;dropped deadly munitions on friendly forces during a close air-support mission.]]></description>
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 <volume>22</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Global delivery: Request system helps USDA deliver food]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[An automated food aid request system developed by an Agriculture Department office in Kansas City, Mo., helps relief organizations deliver billions of dollars&#146; worth of food more quickly to foreign areas devastated by war and poverty.]]></description>
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 <volume>22</volume>
 <issue>30</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[The goal of FARES was simple, even if the project was not]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[When a team from the Farm Service Agency&#146;s Commodity Systems Office asked agencies for their system requirements for the Food Aid Request Data Entry System, they received a simple marching order: Just make it better.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/22_30/23775-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>22</volume>
 <issue>30</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Net gain: NC treasury builds system to bank on]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[To say that the state of North Carolina&#146;s banking system was outmoded is an understatement. At age 25, it was more than overdue for an overhaul.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/22_30/23777-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>22</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Child support gets a support system]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[For five years, Northern California child support enforcement officials tried to collect child support checks from a surgeon whose debts topped $300,000 and whose home address kept shifting.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/22_30/23779-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>22</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Locator serves up a family&#146;s just desserts]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[For 15 years, a Washington state businessman paid his taxes but failed to send a single child support check to his ex-wife and three children&#151;twins and a child with cerebral palsy.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/22_30/23780-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>22</volume>
 <issue>30</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[GCN Hall of Fame: Cohen changed the course of federal IT]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Try to imagine today&#146;s federal IT without the Clinger-Cohen Act of 1996.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/22_30/23781-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>22</volume>
 <issue>30</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Defense Executive of the Year: Boutelle&#146;s vision kept the military connected in Iraq]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[During the Iraq war, the Army&#146;s battlefield communications flowed with unprecedented speed and reliability, keeping nearly every soldier connected, Defense Department officials have said.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/22_30/23782-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>22</volume>
 <issue>30</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Civilian Executive of the Year: Cooper brings a clear sense of mission to a complex task at DHS]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The explosions of Sept. 11, 2001, touched off a series of events that led to the creation this year of the Department of Homeland Security. ]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/22_30/23783-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>22</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Industry Executive of the Year: Weinbach&#146;s sharpened focus revived Unisys]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Unisys Corp. was in a near shambles when Lawrence A. Weinbach took over in 1997.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/22_30/23784-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>22</volume>
 <issue>30</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[People on the Move]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Rose O. Parkes, who has been CIO of the Federal Emergency Management Agency for the past year, this week  will become CIO of the Energy Department.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/22_30/23858-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>22</volume>
 <issue>30</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[CIOs meet the press]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Several federal IT leaders ventured into the Fourth Estate recently at the National Press Club in Washington to conduct a lively session on government IT.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/22_30/23859-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>22</volume>
 <issue>30</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Managers fret about security for wireless units]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[When the subject is wireless technologies, security vulnerabilities are what first spring to the minds of government IT managers.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/22_30/23794-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>22</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[GCSS boosts security with off-the-shelf app ]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Defense Information Systems Agency is using a commercial application on its Global Combat Support System that provides identity, account management and enhanced security with a single sign-on.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/22_30/23813-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>22</volume>
 <issue>30</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Lawmaker: Intelligence will cut threat ]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[ATLANTIC CITY, N.J.&#151;A key step in preventing high-tech weapons from being used by terrorists or rogue nations is improving intelligence capabilities, Rep. Curt Weldon told an audience of Army chieftains last month.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/22_30/23814-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>22</volume>
 <issue>30</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Army exec insists on data sharing to give soldiers &#145;full power&#146; ]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[During a trip to Iraq in August, Lt. Gen. Keith B. Alexander, the Army&#146;s deputy chief of staff for intelligence, observed an incident that illustrated the service&#146;s intelligence weaknesses.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/22_30/23815-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>22</volume>
 <issue>30</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[USDA upgrades hardware and moves to XP ]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Agriculture Department this summer bought more than 26,000 desktop and notebook PCs from Gateway Inc., one of three vendors supplying hardware for the department&#146;s Common Computing Environment. The others are Dell Inc. and Hewlett-Packard Co.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/22_30/23834-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>22</volume>
 <issue>30</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[FTS tackles procurement weaknesses]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The General Services Administration has put together a plan to improve procurement oversight and training at regional Federal Technology Service offices.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/22_30/23835-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>22</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Grid project finds leads on smallpox drugs]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Smallpox Research Grid Project has harnessed the idle cycles of 2.5 million PCs in 190 countries via a downloadable screensaver to find drugs that might be effective against smallpox.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/22_30/23836-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>22</volume>
 <issue>30</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Defense&#146;s Lee will advise on Iraq&#146;s rebuilding]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Deidre Lee will temporarily leave her post as procurement director for the Defense Department to help with Iraq reconstruction procurements.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/22_30/23837-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>22</volume>
 <issue>30</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[GAO sees need for firefighting coordination]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Agencies that fight wildfires on public lands suffer from many incompatibilities among systems that could hamper firefighting efforts, the General Accounting Office concluded recently.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/22_30/23838-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>22</volume>
 <issue>30</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Now most Food Stamp benefits are paperless]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Almost all Food Stamp benefits for low-income individuals and families are now issued electronically, completing a 20-year transition from paper coupons, Agriculture secretary Ann Veneman said late last month.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/22_30/23839-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>22</volume>
 <issue>30</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Fed Reserve boosts servers]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Federal Reserve System&#146;s in-house IT staff beat out four outside vendors with the most cost-effective proposal for boosting server capacity.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/22_30/23841-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>22</volume>
 <issue>30</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Intelligence is a communal topic]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[When William F. Dawson became the CIA&#146;s deputy CIO for the intelligence community in December 2001, he brought a background in engineering, intelligence and business management.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/22_30/23791-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>22</volume>
 <issue>30</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[&#147;Did you hear...&#148; ]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[What burns rubber and laughing gas? A trucker with a toothache? A bad comedy troupe fleeing killer tomatoes? Nope, it&#146;s the SpaceDev rocket propulsion system invented by Burt Rutan, president of Scaled Composites LLC of Mojave, Calif. According to his press release, which was a real gas in itself, the fiery propellant of nitrous oxide and butadiene rubber will hurl Rutan&#146;s SpaceShipOne 62 miles to the edge of space, back to Earth and then back to space again over a two-week period. Rutan is competing for the $10 million X-Prize, which will go to the first private group to succeed in flying a suborbital three-person spaceship over that route. Don&#146;t believe it? See www.spacedev.com. ]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/22_30/23862-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>22</volume>
 <issue>30</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Packet Rat: Packet Rat roves for raves]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[On a crisp fall Sunday afternoon at Baltimore&#146;s Inner Harbor, the Rat was busy maxing out the newest WiFi hotspot by downloading the latest set of security patches to his notebook PC.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/22_30/23864-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>22</volume>
 <issue>30</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Personal Space: Vrooommm]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[These IT folks ride herd on big iron, but after work they ride boss steel. The National Weather Service&#146;s Barbara Brenkworth, CIO Barry West and Sharon Leigh will take their Harley-Davidson motorcycles on a road trip from Washington to Hershey, Pa., for next week&#146;s Industry Advisory Council Executive Leadership Conference. West&#146;s motto: &#147;Work hard, play hard.&#148;]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/22_30/23866-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>22</volume>
 <issue>30</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[New OMB tools will delve deeper into lines of business]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Office of Management and Budget will soon give agencies tools to take a deeper look into their lines of business and advance their efforts to establish an enterprise architecture.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/22_30/23828-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>22</volume>
 <issue>30</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Federal Contract Law: Creativity is key to this military program]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[On a recent trip to Los Angeles, I visited a place that is putting into practice what many in Washington have merely preached.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/22_30/23829-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>22</volume>
 <issue>30</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Calendar]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[3-7 Next Generation Networks Conference.Boston. Contact MediaLive International Inc.; Web: www.ngn2003.com.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/22_30/23830-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>22</volume>
 <issue>30</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Cooper details EA at hearing]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[With a brand-new enterprise architecture plan in hand, the Homeland Security Department&#146;s IT chief last week told lawmakers he would jump-start the DHS infrastructure with several quick-hit projects.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/22_30/23842-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>22</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[DHS systems projects will take a funding hit next year]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Homeland Security Department will have to scale back plans for its flagship border system in the wake of a $114 million fiscal 2004 budget cut.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/22_30/23843-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>22</volume>
 <issue>30</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Lawmakers prod GSA on license deals]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Getting consensus from agencies on enterprise license deals that would serve users governmentwide has slowed the pace of the General Services Administration effort to create such deals.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/22_30/23844-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>22</volume>
 <issue>30</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[GSA will whack at least six GWACs]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[After setting up more than 25 governmentwide acquisition contracts over the last decade, the General Services Administration plans to let at least six of the contracts fade away.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/22_30/23845-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>22</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Three e-gov projects move forward]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Four agencies are testing the new data repository and work force analysis tools the Office of Personnel Management launched earlier this month under the Enterprise Human Resources Integration e-government project.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/22_30/23846-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>22</volume>
 <issue>30</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[House bill calls for file-sharing security]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The House Government Reform Committee last month gave overnight approval to a bill requiring agencies to safeguard their systems against peer-to-peer networking abuse.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/22_30/23848-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>22</volume>
 <issue>30</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[With 10g, Oracle gets on the grid]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[With the latest release of its flagship database suite, Oracle Corp. has embraced the grid-computing concept of pooled resources.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/22_30/23849-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>22</volume>
 <issue>30</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Security pilot paves the way for wireless throughout Treasury]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Rather than fight the proliferation of personal digital assistants and notebook PCs at the Treasury Department, Scott Hill is working to shore up the Treasury infrastructure before wireless services become commonplace.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/22_30/23850-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>22</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Beware: Hackers are lurking in public places ]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[While waiting to fly out to your agency&#146;s field office in Denver, you decide to tap the airport&#146;s wireless hot spot and do some work before your flight.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Packet-level encryption and a protocol for the transport layer tunnel can boost security]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Say you&#146;ve taken all 11 steps the GCN Lab recommends to avoid falling victim to wireless hijackers.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Policy: Be careful out there]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The National Institute of Standards and Technology last November pronounced wireless networks &#147;the logical equivalent of an Ethernet port in the parking lot.&#148; It warned agencies that wireless security takes far more effort than for a wired network.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Parking tickets now print out wirelessly on the streets of New York]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[New York City parking tickets are getting a high-tech makeover to bring in $2.5 million more per year than current handwritten tickets do.]]></description>
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 <volume>22</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Online Extra: How hackers work]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Want to know more about wireless network vulnerabilities and how hackers exploit them? Visit these sites:]]></description>
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 <volume>22</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[The successes]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[For the past 15 years, Government Computer News has recognized agencies that do outstanding IT work&#151;work resulting in improved service, processing efficiency and mission delivery. The coveted GCN Awards For Excellence in IT, which go yearly to 10 agencies selected from a field of more than 100 nominations, are given out at an annual gala in Washington.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Another View: OMB&#146;s e-authentication policy isn&#146;t fully baked]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[A recent GCN editorial urged the Office of Management and Budget to complete its work quickly on revising its draft e-authentication policy, which closed for public comment in August. I would say, &#147;Slow down a bit so we can make a good product even better.&#148;]]></description>
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 <description><![CDATA[Remember the musical, &#147;Annie Get Your Gun&#148;? Nowadays, Annie would have to pass a computerized criminal history background check to buy a firearm. The National Instant Criminal Background Check system last year rejected 136,000 applications from among more than 7.8 million applications, a 1.7 percent rejection rate, according to the Bureau of Justice Statistics.]]></description>
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 <volume>22</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Looking for the best: GCN Lab ranks 11 LCDs]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Like dieters, LCD monitor makers are constantly striving for thinness. Space-saving LCDs have other advantages over CRTs. They consume less power, last longer, generate far less heat and are generally more pleasing to the eye in prolonged use.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[DisplayMate eyes the screen]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[What&#146;s the &#147;best&#148; LCD monitor? It depends on the eye of the beholder, but a scientific viewing approach makes it easier on that eye.]]></description>
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 <volume>22</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[License authenticity takes new turn]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Five states have plans this year to secure driver&#146;s licenses and state-issued ID cards with digital watermarks.]]></description>
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 <volume>22</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Sites improve, but they&#146;re still short on accessibility]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[An analysis of more than 1,600 state Web sites found that Massachusetts, Texas and Indiana were rated the best among 50 states.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[State lines]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Island blues. The Hawaii auditor has found ineffective case management tools, a lack of inventory controls and other management-related problems with the electronic benefits transfer program run by the state&#146;s Human Services Department.]]></description>
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 <volume>22</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Net-centric]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Joint Interoperability Test Command is working to forge new test methods for network-centric warfare.]]></description>
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 <volume>22</volume>
 <issue>30</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Power User: It&#146;s all security, all the time]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Want to get a six- to 12-hour jump on new network security threats? Monitor Microsoft Corp.&#146;s security bulletins directly.]]></description>
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 <volume>22</volume>
 <issue>30</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Worms inspire VA&#146;s in-house patch effort]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Veterans Affairs Department will begin an aggressive in-house software-patching program. Other organizations&#151;the White House and Federal Aviation Administration among them&#151;are also looking at setting up their own patching operations.]]></description>
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 <volume>22</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Federal Highway Administration puts the brakes on pop-up ads]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[A recent federal court ruling declared pop-up ads legal and inevitable. &#147;Alas, we computer users must endure pop-up advertising along with her ugly brother, unsolicited bulk e-mail, as a burden of using the Internet,&#148; wrote Judge Gerald Bruce Lee of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Internaut: Want to be a project manager? Take these courses]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Installing any new database or network in a government office means that someone must be assigned to oversee the schedule, deliverables and budget.]]></description>
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 <description><![CDATA[It may take a decade for the new Weather Research and Forecasting system to generate the forecasts that make the evening news, said Steve Lord, director of the Environmental Modeling Center at the National Centers for Environmental Prediction.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[PTO tool will go international]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[A patent official is developing a tool to harmonize the Patent and Trademark Office&#146;s business processes with those of its counterparts in Europe and Japan.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Oceanside, Calif., blocks the tsunami of spam]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[For three years, the city of Oceanside, Calif., has been using software from SurfControl PLC of Manchester, England, to keep viruses at bay.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Product minds file-sharing and IM apps]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[SurfControl Inc. claims its Instant Message Filter can bring instant messaging and peer-to-peer file sharing to a halt on enterprise networks.]]></description>
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