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 <volume>22</volume>
 <issue>5</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[On Ready.gov, HSD reaches out to public]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[To present its homeland security face to the public, the Bush administration turned to the Advertising Council to design a $100 million print, broadcast and online campaign about public preparedness.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/22_5/21337-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>22</volume>
 <issue>5</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[President overhauls his security teams]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[As part of the executive branch restructuring to create the new Homeland Security Department, President Bush has eliminated his Critical Infrastructure Protection Board.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/22_5/21339-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>22</volume>
 <issue>5</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Ready or not]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[&#147;We have to get it right in a real-time environment.&#148;That&#146;s the charge&#151;as described by Homeland Security Department CIO Steve Cooper&#151;facing the IT chiefs of the 22 agencies that have been thrown together under the new department. ]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/22_5/21340-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>22</volume>
 <issue>5</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Online Extra: Mission Control -- Program Assessment Rating Tool can be a matter of common sense]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Program Assessment Rating Tool is supposed to evaluate a program&#146;s purpose and design, planning, management, and results and accountability to determine its overall effectiveness. It could work better.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/22_5/21357-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>22</volume>
 <issue>5</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Picking up the pieces]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[There are few things more critical to an IT department than having a good, thoroughly tested backup and disaster recovery program in place.]]></description>
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 <volume>22</volume>
 <issue>5</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[The lowdown on backup software]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[What is it? Software in this category provides either backup of files and applications&#151;from PC to database levels&#151;or recovery of files in the wake of a disaster. Although they are two separate types of programs, their purposes are linked. Making a backup is the first step in preparing for a disaster; you also have to restore the system.]]></description>
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 <volume>22</volume>
 <issue>5</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Compatibility problems plague DVD]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[With drive prices less than $500 and capacities in the gigabytes, DVD is a tempting backup medium for small networks and individual client systems.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/22_5/21322-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>22</volume>
 <issue>5</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Norton Ghost shadows your system]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The ultimate backup is to have a mirror image of a system on a separate hard drive stored offsite.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/22_5/21323-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>22</volume>
 <issue>5</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[People on the Move]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[President Bush has named Mark Forman, the Office of Management and Budget&#146;s associate director for IT and e-government, to be administrator of the White House Office of E-Government.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/22_5/21372-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>22</volume>
 <issue>5</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Conference targets the ABCs of security]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[If the essence of security is in diligence and details, training and awareness are key at government agencies. And that was the focus last week at the 16th Annual Conference of the Federal Information Systems Security Educators&#146; Association in Silver Spring, Md. FISSEA cosponsored the conference with the National Institute of Standards and Technology.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/22_5/21373-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>22</volume>
 <issue>5</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Davis reassigns IT oversight to new Government Reform panel ]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[House Government Reform Committee chairman Rep. Tom Davis (R-Va.) has decided to fold procurement policy oversight back into the full committee, leaving IT issues under one of four new subcommittees.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/22_5/21374-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>22</volume>
 <issue>5</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Grid models drug effects on smallpox]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Defense Department will soon learn whether grid computing can enlist enough idle desktop computing cycles to help in the development of a drug to treat smallpox.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/22_5/21317-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>22</volume>
 <issue>5</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Navy eases NMCI e-mail access for reservists]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Navy&#146;s 87,000 reservists can now access their Navy-Marine Corps Intranet e-mail accounts without buying an NMCI portable PC for remote access.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/22_5/21318-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>22</volume>
 <issue>5</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Incoming]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[DISA shakeup. Three senior managers at the Defense Information Systems Agency have taken new job positions as a result of an agency restructuring.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/22_5/21319-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>22</volume>
 <issue>5</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Service takes aim with air-planning app]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Air Force has removed the large maps and yellow sticky pads that were tacked around the air operations center for its air warfare planning in Afghanistan. Now the service uses Web software to match weapons to targets.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/22_5/21295-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>22</volume>
 <issue>5</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Major programs within the Air Force]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Enterprise Portal. The Air Force is using One-to-One Enterprise and InfoExchange Portal software from BroadVision Inc. of Redwood City, Calif., and Plumtree Version 4.0 from Plumtree Software of San Francisco to consolidate hundreds of legacy systems at 110 bases into a single point of access. The portal will merge about 700 legacy databases and hundreds of applications and make a variety of information&#151;from personal data to frontline combat intelligence&#151;available to authorized users throughout the service.]]></description>
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 <volume>22</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[GSA releases RFP for online travel system]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The General Services Administration last week released the final request for proposals for an end-to-end online travel management system.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/22_5/21341-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>22</volume>
 <issue>5</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[SBA, two states begin employer ID program]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Small Business Administration late last month announced the launch of the second piece of its Business Compliance One-Stop project.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/22_5/21342-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>22</volume>
 <issue>5</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Sun teams with Aether Systems on Web services]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Aether Systems Inc. and Sun Microsystems Inc. earlier this month said they will jointly market their mobile Web services software to the Homeland Security Department.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/22_5/21343-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>22</volume>
 <issue>5</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Navy gateway fosters career chats, learning]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The new Navy Knowledge Online portal, at www.nko.navy.mil, em-phasizes career learning and collaboration skills.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/22_5/21344-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>22</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[In New Mexico, troopers use  GPS-ready radios ]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[New Mexico State Police have joined federal civilian and military users of a two-way satellite data radio with Global Positioning System tracking, from EMS Technologies Inc. of Atlanta.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/22_5/21345-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>22</volume>
 <issue>5</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[California city tracks workers&#146; Internet use]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The gateway to Napa Valley is American Canyon, Calif., which supplies water to nearby wineries. The city of about 12,000 uses another kind of gateway to block inappropriate Internet use by employees.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/22_5/21346-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>22</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[State plans to get SMART on messaging]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The State Department wants to build a new e-mail system.The $10 million State Messaging, Archiving and Retrieval (SMART) system would replace the canceled Overseas Presence Interagency Collaboration pilot, a department official said.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/22_5/21347-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>22</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Congress removes cap on NMCI seats]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Congress late last month authorized the Navy to rescind a 60,000-seat limit for the Navy-Marine Corps Intranet and to begin moving 100,000 additional seats to the NMCI network.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/22_5/21348-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>22</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Web expands access to labor stats]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Richard Devens, executive editor for the Bureau of Labor Statistics&#146; Monthly Labor Review, knows the value of technology for the bureau&#146;s employees and also for citizens.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/22_5/21294-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>22</volume>
 <issue>5</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[&#147;Did you hear...&#148; ]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The bigger they are, the harder they fall. The National Science Foundation-funded www.startap.net sent an &#147;oops&#148; message to its e-mail distribution list last month. The advanced optical networking center, run by Argonne National Laboratory and the University of Illinois among other luminaries, lost its current subscriber list while swapping out some big computers. Star Tap had to tap an old system backup and solicit updates. ]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/22_5/21375-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>22</volume>
 <issue>5</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Packet Rat: Homeland Security is short one red sweater]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[A great weight lifted off the Rat&#146;s shoulders when the ratlings returned to an almost normal school schedule. The blizzard of 2003 was melting with only a moderate flood in the lower reaches of the family digs. ]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/22_5/21376-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>22</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Cryptogram: The science is not the technology]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The author of the statement below was a logician who created the shortest-path algorithm and the first Algol 60 compiler.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/22_5/21377-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>22</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[After state parks complain, feds shift gears on approach to recreation portal]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[When the Interior Department started down the road of creating an all-inclusive Web site for citizens to find recreation information at national and state parks, project managers envisioned collecting and managing all the data.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/22_5/21328-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>22</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Federal Contract Law: Feds should use market research to refine IT plans]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Government and industry have a lot to learn about market research for federal performance-based acquisitions. ]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/22_5/21329-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>22</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Microsoft: Trustworthy computing is years away ]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[A year after Microsoft Corp. chairman Bill Gates called a companywide stand-down to focus on software security, chief technology officer Craig Mundie said it will take the rest of this decade to achieve trustworthy computing.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/22_5/21330-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>22</volume>
 <issue>5</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Calendar]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[1-2 Secure E-Biz Executive SummitArlington, Va. Contact ICHnet.org; Web: www.SecurE-Biz.net; phone: 703-768-0400.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/22_5/21331-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>22</volume>
 <issue>5</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[ATF&#146;s database fires four barrels]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms has built a case management database that relies on four systems developed to integrate information used for criminal investigations, regulatory activities, intelligence analysis and text management.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/22_5/21287-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>22</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[SBA frees its managers from daily backups]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[By moving its data backup and recovery operations to a secure Web application, the Small Business Administration transformed the process from a time-consuming and inefficient chore to a quick and painless one.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/22_5/21288-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>22</volume>
 <issue>5</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[OMB plans Round 2 of e-gov]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Office of Management and Budget officials are focusing on backroom operations and homeland security systems as they look past the 25 Quicksilver initiatives to the next wave of e-government projects.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/22_5/21349-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>22</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[IRS modernization chief to leave agency]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[As the IRS Business Systems Modernization initiative heads into a crucial phase, John Reece, the CIO and deputy commissioner for modernization who has overseen the project since March 2001, is planning to leave the agency.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/22_5/21350-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>22</volume>
 <issue>5</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[DOD sets net security plan]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Pentagon&#146;s latest information assurance directive offers specifics that Defense Department users need to secure military systems, but some observers fear that the new policy could complicate the acquisition and budget processes.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/22_5/21351-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>22</volume>
 <issue>5</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[On the Hill, more Web sites making the grade]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Congressional Web sites improved dramatically over the past year, but the number of poor sites remained almost the same, the Congress Online Project concluded last week in its second annual study.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/22_5/21353-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>22</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Whistleblowers tell Congress: Gut Los Alamos]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Los Alamos National Laboratory officials tried to stymie investigators looking into theft and corruption at the New Mexico weapons lab, a House oversight panel heard late last month.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/22_5/21354-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>22</volume>
 <issue>5</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Team pushes ahead on Entry-Exit Program]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[As Immigration and Naturalization Service chiefs work to bring the agency under the aegis of the new Homeland Security Department, a systems team is scrambling to keep INS&#146; premier antiterrorism effort&#151;the Entry-Exit Program&#151;on pace.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/22_5/21366-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>22</volume>
 <issue>5</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[TSA to put smart cards in play]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Transportation Security Administration is forging ahead with a smart-card pilot and airline passenger-screening project, despite an anticipated multimillion-dollar budget shortfall next year.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/22_5/21367-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>22</volume>
 <issue>5</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[New smart-card guidance coming soon]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Transportation Security Administration&#146;s smart-card pilot could overlap the release of new guidelines from the General Services Administration and the Office of Management and Budget.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/22_5/21368-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>22</volume>
 <issue>5</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Terror center sparks Hill skepticism]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Lawmakers last month voiced skepticism about Bush administration plans for a new Terrorism Threat Integration Center that can merge counterterrorism data gathered by the government&#146;s intelligence agencies.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/22_5/21371-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>22</volume>
 <issue>5</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[An easy fix]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Sometime around 1992, the term &#147;low-hanging fruit&#148; came into the federal lexicon. It simply means doing the obvious and relatively easy things first to improve management. Often that&#146;s where you will get the largest positive changes the fastest.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/22_5/21303-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>22</volume>
 <issue>5</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Another View: The spectrum debate is obsolete]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[When the Defense Department recently reached an accord with the wireless industry over the narrow issue of 5-GHz radio spectrum sharing, both sides missed the big point.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/22_5/21304-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>22</volume>
 <issue>5</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Significa]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The administration&#146;s National Strategy to Secure Cyberspace lays out generally voluntary methods by which the government and the private sector can cooperate on information security. But in the military, where information defense and attack have taken institutional form, a proposal has emerged for a more aggressive approach.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/22_5/21305-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>22</volume>
 <issue>5</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Editorial Cartoon]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/22_5/21306-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>22</volume>
 <issue>5</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Tungsten W can go wireless and Graffiti-less]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[After testing Palm Inc.&#146;s new Tungsten W for a couple of weeks, I can tell you from long experience with Palm OS wireless devices that it&#146;s unlike the Palm VII and i705, and not merely because it incorporates a telephone.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/22_5/21324-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>22</volume>
 <issue>5</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Millennia clients score high on lab benchmark]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The latest 3.07-GHz Millennia desktop clients from MPC Computers Inc., formerly MicronPC LLC, are lightning-fast office workhorses.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/22_5/21326-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>22</volume>
 <issue>5</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[HP 4300n emulates a laser printing press]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Fine-tuning engines and recalibrating gears is what goes on inside a NASCAR garage. It also happens in printer makers&#146; laboratories.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/22_5/21327-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>22</volume>
 <issue>5</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Team works on first-response net for D.C.]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[District of Columbia police chief Charles Ramsey last month delivered sobering news about the ability of Washington-area officials to respond to a terrorist attack: Local first responders aren&#146;t able to fully mesh their digital communications.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/22_5/21290-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>22</volume>
 <issue>5</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Va. county fights comm failures]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[First responders in Arlington County, Va., have faced many communications crises.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/22_5/21291-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>22</volume>
 <issue>5</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[State lines]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Working together. Thirteen states, led by New York, last month conducted a communications exercise that could lead to a multistate initiative to create an information sharing and analysis center.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/22_5/21292-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>22</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Capitol Content: Architect&#146;s offices benefit from common site management system]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[When James Graham started work for the Architect of the Capitol in the spring of 2001, there was no system for updating materials on the office&#146;s Web and intranet sites.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/22_5/21308-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>22</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Cyber Eye: Patch management is a full-time job]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[It didn&#146;t have to happen. There has been a patch available since last summer for Sapphire, the worm that spread rapidly in January by exploiting a Microsoft SQL Server vulnerabil]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/22_5/21309-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>22</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Army is first customer for brand-new Cray X1]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[After four years of federally subsidized development by Cray Inc. of Seattle, the new Cray X1 supercomputer weds the vector architecture of its Cray ancestors to modern massively parallel designs.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/22_5/21310-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>22</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Informatica tool lets noncoders warehouse data]]></title>
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