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 <title><![CDATA[Agencies try tiered links to trade info  ]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Federal, state and local agencies all agree that data sharing is vital to effective homeland defense. They&#146;ve also come to realize that it&#146;s a supremely difficult task from a technical standpoint.]]></description>
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 <volume>22</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Office 2003 is XML-friendly]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[With Office 2003, Microsoft Corp. finally gets it: Workers value ease of use and Internet-friendliness more than fancy bells and whistles.]]></description>
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 <volume>22</volume>
 <issue>9</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[For e-gov, feds turn to reliable tool]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[E-government got its start with electronic documents, which is why Adobe Portable Document Format has blossomed in government use in a big&#151;if fairly quiet&#151;way.]]></description>
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 <volume>22</volume>
 <issue>9</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Color makes a play]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[When it comes to adding red, yellow or blue to government printing, the primary color is green&#151;as in, is it affordable and fast enough to justify replacing a monochrome workhorse?]]></description>
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 <volume>22</volume>
 <issue>9</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[The lowdown on color printers]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[What&#146;s new with color printers? Single-pass technology, which applies four primary colors in one pass rather than four, has greatly increased the speed of color printing. Meanwhile, black-and-white printing costs on color printers have moved closer to that of monochrome printers.]]></description>
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 <volume>22</volume>
 <issue>9</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Oki Data&#146;s C5300n represents the new level for LEDs]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The C5300n color printer from Oki Data Americas Inc. is a new series of printer rolled out in January that the company claims can achieve unprecedented performance for a system built on a single-pass LED engine.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/22_9/21838-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>22</volume>
 <issue>9</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[People on the Move]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Sue Rachlin, the Interior Department&#146;s deputy CIO, will retire this week after 32 years of government service.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/22_9/21884-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>22</volume>
 <issue>9</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Awards honor e-biz programs that transform]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The CIO Advisory Board and Awards Committee honored a broad range of government programs with the 2003 SecurE-Biz Awards at a ceremony in Arlington, Va., this month.]]></description>
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 <volume>22</volume>
 <issue>9</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[IRS makes XML schema its business]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Extensible Markup Language is making its way into the IRS through some of the most common tax forms filed by businesses.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/22_9/21850-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>22</volume>
 <issue>9</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Defense streamlines wartime purchasing]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[As the military engaged in fighting earlier this month in Iraq and Afghanistan, Defense Department procurement officials applied a special rule in the Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement to speed buys supporting overseas operations.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/22_9/21832-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>22</volume>
 <issue>9</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Incoming]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Worldwide network. The Defense Department next year will start integrating a common set of information services over a global information system with an enterprise architecture. The department&#146;s goal is to link military networks around the world to speed information to warfighters and decision-makers.]]></description>
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 <volume>22</volume>
 <issue>9</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Soldiers abroad can broadcast text messages]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[From Internet-accessible computers in Iraq, soldiers can broadcast text messages to wireless phones across the world.]]></description>
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 <volume>22</volume>
 <issue>9</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[McDonough to leave the building at GSA]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Veteran systems policy-maker Frank McDonough has announced he is leaving government for the private sector.]]></description>
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 <volume>22</volume>
 <issue>9</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[OMB, OPM ISO expert project managers in IT]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Office of Management and Budget and Office of Personnel Management are drafting a policy that would require agency systems project managers to hold commercial certification or show long-time professional success running IT projects.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/22_9/21868-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>22</volume>
 <issue>9</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[App distributes processing across clusters]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[GridMathematica, a new version of a technical computing program from Wolfram Research Inc., simplifies distributing chunks of a massive calculation among processors in a grid or cluster.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/22_9/21870-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>22</volume>
 <issue>9</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Survey gives Gulf states that sinking feeling]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Two decades&#146; worth of measurements by the National Geodetic Survey show coastal states steadily sinking into the Gulf of Mexico.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/22_9/21871-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>22</volume>
 <issue>9</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[IBM thinks up new series of notebook PCs]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[IBM Corp. earlier this month launched the fifth series of ThinkPad notebook PCs.]]></description>
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 <volume>22</volume>
 <issue>9</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Cuviello to retire; Boutelle new CIO]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[President Bush has nominated Army Maj. Gen. Steven W. Boutelle for promotion to lieutenant general and assignment as the Army&#146;s CIO.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/22_9/21875-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>22</volume>
 <issue>9</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[He manages the e-gov managers]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Cameron Findlay says his technology expertise is limited to his years with a law practice where he became the de facto webmaster for his law firm&#146;s site. So when the Office of Management and Budget tapped Findlay, deputy secretary of Labor, as the E-Government Subcommittee chairman on the President&#146;s Management Council, it was hardly because of his technical savvy.]]></description>
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 <volume>22</volume>
 <issue>9</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[&#147;Did you hear...&#148; ]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Fan mail&#151;not. &#147;Whatever the hair color, the young and pretty Morgan at www.morganshair.net certainly looks better than Microsoft&#146;s Crabby Office Lady,&#148; fired back Buzz reader Joe C. in response to our April 7 item about Crabby&#146;s multihued hair, at Microsoft.com. ]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/22_9/21888-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>22</volume>
 <issue>9</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Packet Rat: The Rat hatches his own regime change]]></title>
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 <volume>22</volume>
 <issue>9</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Crossword: Red, white and blue Web]]></title>
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 <volume>22</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[GSA urges use of PKI bridge]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Every agency with a public-key infrastructure will likely join the Federal Bridge Certification Authority&#151;eventually, said Judith Spencer, chairwoman of the General Services Administration&#146;s Federal PKI Steering Committee.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/22_9/21851-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>22</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Executive Suite: Retiring? Ask yourself three questions]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Many years ago, a wise and trusted member of the Army IT community told me that you are ready to leave the government when you can comfortably answer these three questions:When do I want to leave?Where do I want to live?What do I want to do?Over the next five years, many people will leave government service for new ventures. Traditional transition courses focus mainly on benefit and annuity decisions and how to get a job. Rarely do workers discuss the personal decision dynamics involved in answering the three questions. As someone who has recently left government service, I want to share some insights.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/22_9/21852-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>22</volume>
 <issue>9</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Calendar]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[18-23 SID SymposiumBaltimore. Contact the Society for Information Display; Web: www.sid.org.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/22_9/21854-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>22</volume>
 <issue>9</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[CDC and states will share data to study violence]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Each year, about 51,000 people in the United States die from homicide, suicide or other violent means, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The nation&#146;s yearly motor vehicle fatalities total another 40,000.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/22_9/21818-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>22</volume>
 <issue>9</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[NASA analyzes Columbia&#146;s sensor recorder]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[NASA space shuttle engineers are analyzing the output from a sensor data recorder that survived the Columbia&#146;s fatal crash into an East Texas debris field.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/22_9/21820-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>22</volume>
 <issue>9</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Online extra: Guide to data sharing tools]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[What products underpin data sharing? Here's a guide to some tools you might need.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/22_9/21857-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>22</volume>
 <issue>9</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[New Quicksilver strategy asks managers to deliver]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[In the new E-Government Strategy, the Office of Management and Budget has squarely put the pressure on the 25 Quicksilver project managers.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/22_9/21877-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>22</volume>
 <issue>9</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[First responders get homeland security network]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Justice Department and FBI are expanding their sensitive but unclassified law enforcement networks to share homeland security data across levels of government.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/22_9/21878-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>22</volume>
 <issue>9</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Intelligence and military look to XML to share data]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Defense Department and the government&#146;s intelligence agencies are turning to Extensible Markup Language tags, registries and schemas as a way to share data across disparate systems.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/22_9/21879-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>22</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[FBI&#146;s Dallas office fields first-alert service]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[To shore up law enforcement communications, agencies are looking to piggyback on successful data-sharing efforts. One such project is the Dallas Emergency Response Network.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/22_9/21880-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>22</volume>
 <issue>9</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Homeland department sets an enterprise architecture timetable]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Homeland Security Department must build a systems infrastructure from the network backbones as well as bits and pieces of IT in use at its 22 component agencies.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/22_9/21881-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>22</volume>
 <issue>9</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[DOD sets plan to consolidate 2,100 financial systems]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Defense Department has planned its path to financial systems integration.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/22_9/21882-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>22</volume>
 <issue>9</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Microsoft unveils speedy new Win Server 2003]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Office 2003 isn&#146;t the only new piece of software coming from Microsoft Corp. The company last week launched its Windows Server 2003 family, with prices starting at $999.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/22_9/21883-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>22</volume>
 <issue>9</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Go ahead; be a nerd]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[An old sales saying runs something like: &#147;Nothing happens until someone buys something.&#148; A uniquely American-sounding aphorism, there is a germ of truth in the notion that the willing trade of value for value is fundamental to the economy.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/22_9/21822-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>22</volume>
 <issue>9</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Another View: IRS, tax software companies make peace]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Negotiated rule-making. Public-private partnership. Model for A-76 problem-solving. Award-winning e-government application. These qualities can all be attributed to the astounding success of the IRS Free File Alliance, a program that processed millions of tax returns for free this past season. Seventeen companies, linked to an IRS Web site, provided the returns.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/22_9/21823-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>22</volume>
 <issue>9</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Significa]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[As the Iraq war reaches its final stages, the U.S. government is focusing its efforts on rebuilding Iraq&#146;s economy and providing the institutional underpinnings for a functioning democracy.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/22_9/21824-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>22</volume>
 <issue>9</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Editorial Cartoon]]></title>
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 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/22_9/21825-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>22</volume>
 <issue>9</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Exec printers move up in quality, down in price]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The GCN Lab annually reviews large networked laser printers designed for the government&#146;s medium to large workgroups. But we don&#146;t want to ignore workers who are high enough up the chain of command to warrant their own laser printer, or those who for security reasons cannot share a printer.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/22_9/21841-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>22</volume>
 <issue>9</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Returns are in on Md.&#146;s election IT]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[This month at E-Town, the FOSE 2003 trade show&#146;s virtual Main Street for e-government services, two Maryland counties described how they switched from lever-style and punch-card voting to direct-record electronic devices.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/22_9/21844-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>22</volume>
 <issue>9</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[&#145;We&#146;ve got to talk&#146; at all levels, county CIO says]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[State and local governments are still reeling from the aftershocks of Sept. 11, 2001, which spotlighted many weaknesses in intergovernmental communications.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/22_9/21846-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>22</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[State lines]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[&#147;You know those &#145;Find your classmate&#146; Web sites? We use them to find tax debtors,&#148; said Mike Longhi, deputy treasurer for compliance for the Office of the Treasurer. Longhi spoke earlier this month at the FOSE government systems trade show in Washington.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/22_9/21847-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>22</volume>
 <issue>9</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Talk time]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Workers at the Navy&#146;s Bureau of Medicine and Surgery were snowed in several days this year. But a virtual workplace from Documentum Inc. let them get to work even if they couldn&#146;t get to the office. &#147;We had 12 people online and held a conference,&#148; said Lt. Michael Whitecar, BuMed&#146;s head of online medicine. They conferenced via eRoom, a Web collaboration tool from Documentum of Pleasanton, Calif.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/22_9/21826-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>22</volume>
 <issue>9</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Cyber Eye: Is cyberterrorism a Chicken Little event?]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Information Technology Association of America recently published a glossy booklet of essays, The Long Campaign: Information Security in the Age of Cyberterrorism. In his introduction, ITAA president Harris N. Miller wrote, &#147;Welcome to the age of cyberterror.&#148;]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/22_9/21827-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>22</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Researchers model effects of bomb blasts]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[High-performance government computers are testing retrofitting schemes to make large buildings resist terrorist bombs, Robert M. Ferencz said recently at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Denver.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/22_9/21828-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>22</volume>
 <issue>9</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Sorting app helps make sense of worldwide intelligence data]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The CIA&#146;s In-Q-Tel venture capital arm has handed $500,000 to a California software company to add more foreign languages to its mohoClassifier Web-based filtering system.]]></description>
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 <volume>22</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[@Info.Policy: Openness of government records benefits all]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The United States is a leader when it comes to making government documents available to citizens. For all its flaws, our Freedom of Information Act was the first modern, open-records law anywhere in the world.]]></description>
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