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 <volume>22</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Census will test iPaq handhelds for 2010 count]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Census Bureau is laying plans for the 2010 Census that include the use of as many as 500,000 handheld computers by census takers.]]></description>
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 <volume>22</volume>
 <issue>32</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[New authentication plan takes shape]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Taking a cue from industry, the government is shifting to a federated approach for authenticating users of e-government services.]]></description>
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 <volume>22</volume>
 <issue>32</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Is HHS certifiable?]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Health and Human Services Department&#146;s public-key infrastructure will be the first broad civilian use of digital credentials and one of the first departmentwide uses of a revamped governmentwide e-authentication program.]]></description>
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 <volume>22</volume>
 <issue>32</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Ethernet switches on 10-Gbps speed]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[If there&#146;s one thing network administrators can all agree on, it&#146;s that you can never have too much bandwidth.]]></description>
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 <volume>22</volume>
 <issue>32</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[The lowdown on 10-Gigabit Ethernet switches]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[What is it? A 10-Gigabit Ethernet switch is built to handle 10-Gbps speeds in its switching fabric. Most also bundle multiple Gigabit Ethernet and Fast Ethernet slots as well.]]></description>
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 <volume>22</volume>
 <issue>32</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[PostNewsweek Gala: A progression of partners]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Ten-foot-tall Cirque Magnifique clowns on stilts circulated in the black-tie crowd at the cocktail reception for PostNewsweek Tech Media's 2003 Awards Gala, but most people were too deep in eye-to-eye conversation to take much notice.]]></description>
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 <volume>22</volume>
 <issue>32</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Conferencing apps keep road warriors at home]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Many agencies use mobile and remote-computing technologies, but government IT managers are concerned about their security, a GCN telephone survey found.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/22_32/24049-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>22</volume>
 <issue>32</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Army briefings get up to date]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Amry senior managers have always relied on briefings for updates on major programs.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/22_32/24072-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>22</volume>
 <issue>32</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Defense chooses pilot networks for IPv6]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Defense Department will test the next generation of the Internet on two major networks over the next year.]]></description>
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 <volume>22</volume>
 <issue>32</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[CAP gets better sensors]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Civil Air Patrol, the Air Force&#146;s civilian auxiliary headquartered at Maxwell Air Force Base, Ala., has awarded two contracts worth nearly $5 million for hyperspectral imaging sensors and a visual computing network to enhance its reconnaissance missions.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/22_32/24074-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>22</volume>
 <issue>32</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[CIO Council has a wish list for management ]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The CIO Council&#146;s Project Management Working Group this month will make recommendations to the Office of Management and Budget on how to further establish the project management profession in government.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/22_32/24103-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>22</volume>
 <issue>32</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[DOD and VA will test joint IT operations]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Eight Defense Department medical sites will participate in joint demonstrations with Veterans Affairs Department medical facilities to improve services in financial management, staffing and medical IT.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/22_32/24106-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>22</volume>
 <issue>32</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Red Hat scales up Enterprise Linux hardware]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Red Hat Inc. has increased the number of processors its Linux distribution can run on and has boosted the open-source operating system&#146;s performance with databases and other large applications.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/22_32/24107-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>22</volume>
 <issue>32</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Online catalog will hold all federal forms]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[A key component of the Business Gateway project, the eForms Catalog, will compile all federal forms into an online collection, according to officials working on the project.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/22_32/24108-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>22</volume>
 <issue>32</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[CDC awards contracts for IT outsourcing]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has awarded contracts jointly worth up to $465 million to Lockheed Martin Corp. and Northrop Grumman Corp. for a variety of IT services.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/22_32/24110-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>22</volume>
 <issue>32</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[EPA questions GAO&#146;s audit]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Environmental Protection Agency officials are questioning the timing of a General Accounting Office report criticizing the rollout and progress of the EPA&#146;s E-Rulemaking project.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/22_32/24111-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>22</volume>
 <issue>32</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Net-centric goal: a different military]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Arthur K. Cebrowski&#146;s job is to develop technological concepts that will revolutionize the culture of the military and warfare.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/22_32/24048-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>22</volume>
 <issue>32</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[&#147;Did you hear...&#148; ]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Voodoo science. That&#146;s what a NASA flight project research manager accused the agency of practicing during medical experiments aboard the International Space Station.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/22_32/24123-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>22</volume>
 <issue>32</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Personal space: Clowning Around]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[&#147;I collect clowns for two reasons,&#148; Lloyd K. Mosemann II says. &#147;When I worked at the Pentagon, clowns reminded me that &#145;things are not always what they appear to be.&#146; Now that I am on the contractor side of the table, I find that equally true.&#148; A senior vice president at Science Applications International Corp., he retired in 1996 as deputy assistant secretary of the Air Force.]]></description>
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 <volume>22</volume>
 <issue>32</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Packet Rat: Rat won&#146;t tolerate any bull from Redmond]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[&#147;This is the biggest gathering of vaporware developers since ... well, the last Microsoft Developers Conference,&#148; the Rat sighed as he slid through the crowd at Microsoft Corp.&#146;s recent coder shindig.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/22_32/24125-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>22</volume>
 <issue>32</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[GSA plans new rule for share-in-savings ]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The General Services Administration has proposed a new procurement rule intended to boost the number of share-in-savings contracts agencies award.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/22_32/24083-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>22</volume>
 <issue>32</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Federal Contract Law: Public database for contracts could spell disaster]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Last summer I read about a proposal by the General Services Administration to post copies of all awarded contracts on the Internet. At the time, I wondered why anyone would want to do such a thing.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/22_32/24084-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>22</volume>
 <issue>32</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Calendar]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[9-10 SoldierTech 2003 Conference.Arlington, Va. Contact the Institute for Defense &amp; Government Advancement; Web: www.idga.com.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/22_32/24085-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>22</volume>
 <issue>32</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[It all comes down to the mission]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The goal of performance-based IT services contracting is, ultimately, to improve the bottom line. And for government agencies, the bottom line is mission.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/22_32/24030-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>22</volume>
 <issue>32</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[It&#146;s what&#146;s up front that counts]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[On paper, performance-based IT services acquisition looks like a piece of cake: You tell the contractors what you want and let them find the best way to do it.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/22_32/24032-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>22</volume>
 <issue>32</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Chicago adjusts on the fly to make its contract perform]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[What&#146;s one way to make performance-based IT acquisition work? Keep it simple.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/22_32/24033-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>22</volume>
 <issue>32</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[The key ingredient: discipline]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[While performance-based contracting is hardly a new tool for agencies, the Veterans Affairs Department is one of the few having success.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/22_32/24034-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>22</volume>
 <issue>32</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Agencies work to get a handle on contracting for results]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Only a quarter of government procurement managers in a special GCN Management e-mail survey said they fully understand what procurement-based contracting is and how to write a performance-based contract.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/22_32/24035-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>22</volume>
 <issue>32</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[OMB loosens up on performance-based goals]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Office of Management and Budget&#146;s Office of Federal Procurement Policy is softening its stance on goals for implementing performance-based contracting across the government.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/22_32/24036-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>22</volume>
 <issue>32</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Without precise planning, metrics can be a minefield]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[In 1991, when Allan Burman was administrator of the Office of Federal Procurement Policy, he issued a bulletin starting the push for performance-based contracting. Since then, this contracting technique has had some success but proponents are still dissatisfied. In their view, agencies are missing many opportunities to use it.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/22_32/24038-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>22</volume>
 <issue>32</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[NIH issues plan for biomedical computing net]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The National Institutes of Health last week laid the groundwork for a decade-long effort to build a national biomedical computing infrastructure. NIH launched the effort with Digital Biology Week, an event at the agency&#146;s campus in Bethesda, Md., where the Health and Human Services Department unveiled the National Centers for Biomedical Computing.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/22_32/24109-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>22</volume>
 <issue>32</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[FBI&#146;s Trilogy rollout delayed after CSC misses deadline]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The FBI has delayed final deployment of Trilogy, its enterprise investigative system, because Computer Sciences Corp. missed a delivery deadline for a component of the third and last phase of the project.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/22_32/24114-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>22</volume>
 <issue>32</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Defense pushes smart-card rollout into spring ]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Defense Department now expects that it will take until early spring to finish distributing more than 4 million Common Access Cards&#151;roughly six months longer than originally planned.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/22_32/24115-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>22</volume>
 <issue>32</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[USPS strives to attract users to E-Postmark app]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Postal Service hopes to draw users to its Electronic-Postmark tool now that Microsoft Corp. has incorporated it in Office 2003 and XP.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/22_32/24117-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>22</volume>
 <issue>32</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[IRS vows to roll out taxpayer database in &#146;04 ]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The IRS won&#146;t release the initial version of the much-delayed Customer Account Data Engine, the centerpiece of its modernization effort, until &#147;sometime in 2004,&#148; CIO W. Todd Grams said.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/22_32/24118-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>22</volume>
 <issue>32</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Sales booming, GSA regroups]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The General Services Administration is reorganizing its IT Acquisition Center to cope with the growing popularity of the Federal Supply Service&#146;s schedule contracts.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/22_32/24119-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>22</volume>
 <issue>32</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[OMB tests  g-to-g portal for payments]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Office of Management and Budget has begun testing a portal for interagency transactions. By July, OMB expects 24 agencies will be using the portal to process rent and reimbursable IT services payments.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/22_32/24120-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>22</volume>
 <issue>32</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[CIO shift at DOD; multiple personnel changes at OMB]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Last week the Bush administration announced major personnel changes at the Defense Department and the Office of Management and Budget.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/22_32/24121-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>22</volume>
 <issue>32</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Taking a hit]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Few acquisition proposals in recent memory have generated as much grumbling as the General Services Administration&#146;s SmartBuy. At the recent Executive Leadership Conference in Hershey, Pa., it was a leading topic&#151;of complaint.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/22_32/24051-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>22</volume>
 <issue>32</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Letters to the Editor]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[As the government ponders a do-not-e-mail database, it should consider that the way to eliminate unwanted e-mail is to go after the companies that employ spam as a means of advertising. Unlike viruses and Trojan-horse programs, spam always has a clear economic motivation. The spammer is being paid by someone to sell a product or service.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/22_32/24054-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>22</volume>
 <issue>32</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Significa]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The National Oral Health Surveillance System is a group of databases and statistics maintained by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention&#146;s Division of Oral Health and the Association of State and Territorial Dental Directors.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/22_32/24055-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>22</volume>
 <issue>32</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Editorial Cartoon]]></title>
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 <volume>22</volume>
 <issue>32</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[These utilities can keep your computer fit]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[It&#146;s not easy to keep a PC running well in the face of viruses, spam, resource-hogging applications and rogue Dynamic Link Library files from deleted apps.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/22_32/24082-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>22</volume>
 <issue>32</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Alabama links data to nab bad guys]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Alabama police are finding that a single integrated data portal can help catch criminals more effectively than dozens of standalone databases can.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/22_32/24077-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>22</volume>
 <issue>32</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[State creates database of abandoned mines]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Pennsylvania&#146;s Environmental Protection Department is developing an electronic database of maps and information about abandoned mines to avoid a repeat of the Quecreek Mine disaster of July 2002.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/22_32/24078-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>22</volume>
 <issue>32</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[State lines]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Wireless hookup. Nevada, Mo., has hired a wireless high-speed Internet provider to connect the town to the Web after other telecommunications providers said they couldn&#146;t deliver access to such a remote area.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/22_32/24079-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>22</volume>
 <issue>32</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[On the ball]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[A Veterans Affairs police officer is called in to subdue an unruly hospital patient&#151;routine duty that turns sour. The patient pulls out a knife and stabs the officer.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/22_32/24057-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>22</volume>
 <issue>32</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Fire support center gains CMMI Level 5]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Fire Support Software Engineering Center at Fort Sill, Okla., has cut the number of coding defects in its software by 80 percent over the past eight years.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/22_32/24060-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>22</volume>
 <issue>32</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Power User: Command line tools rule when an OS is under attack]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[No power user worthy of the name should ignore the command line tools that still underlie Microsoft Windows&#146; graphical interface.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/22_32/24062-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>22</volume>
 <issue>32</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Internaut: Now Net cowboys want a federal sheriff]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Amazing, isn&#146;t it, how companies that once demanded the government keep hands off the Internet are now begging it to move in and regulate the online chaos?]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/22_32/24064-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>22</volume>
 <issue>32</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[EPA tool gets its business cases in order ]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[When Environmental Protection Agency CIO Kim Nelson came to the federal government from a state agency two years ago, EPA was already working on its enterprise architecture.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/22_32/24066-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>22</volume>
 <issue>32</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Middleware connects Excel to the Web ]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Middleware and a self-contained XA 2500 appliance from Westbridge Technology Inc. of Mountain View, Calif., can use Extensible Markup Language to set up secure Web services connections to common applications such as Microsoft Excel.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/22_32/24067-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>22</volume>
 <issue>32</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[NIST puts money where the risk is]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Computer security, intelligent data searching and a personal wireless service are among 16 projects funded recently by the National Institute of Standards and Technology&#146;s Advanced Technology Program.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/22_32/24070-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>22</volume>
 <issue>32</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Sandia simulator tests Calif. bioterror readiness ]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[With a simulator developed by an Energy Department laboratory, county, state and federal officials in California recently conducted a six-hour anthrax attack drill.]]></description>
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