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 <title><![CDATA[Agencies falter trying to meet security mandates]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Earlier this year, an agency manager stood up during the question-and-answer period at a conference on the Federal Information Security Management Act. He had a gripe about the IT security report cards issued by a House Government Reform subcommittee chaired by Rep. Adam Putnam, R-Fl. ]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>10</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[To make the grade, NRC takes a personal approach ]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Nuclear Regulatory Commission&#146;s systems have a big, red bull&#146;s-eye on them.Every day, the agency&#146;s systems face about 500 attempts at reconnaissance and 100 attempted denial-of-service attacks, CIO Ellis Merschoff said.]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>10</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[GSA lab to test authentication ]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Bush administration is pinning its e-government hopes on tests this summer of an authentication strategy that shifts its online focus from providing information to conducting transactions.]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>10</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Services rendered]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[When Sun Microsystems Inc.&#146;s Scott McNealy and Microsoft Corp.&#146;s Steve Ballmer announced last month that the two companies had agreed to work on interoperability between their systems, they already had a good head start. That&#146;s because both companies already support Web services standards in their development tools.]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>10</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[People on the Move]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Defense Department has appointed Dr. Paul A. Tibbits director of one of its largest modernization projects.The former Navy commander has taken the helm of the Business Modernization and Systems Integration Program Office.]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>10</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Pentagon memorial fund under way]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Representatives of government, industry and victims&#146; families took a step recently toward building a memorial to the victims of the Sept. 11, 2001, attack on the Pentagon.]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>10</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Tim Berners-Lee gets a grand prize ]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the Web, last month won the inaugural Millennium Technology Prize awarded by the Finnish Technology Award Foundation. ]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>10</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Sun volunteers help pack for Iraq]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Volunteers spent a recent Saturday at a USO warehouse at Fort Meade, Md., putting together some 6,000 care packages for troops in Iraq. The effort was organized under Sun Microsystems Inc.&#146;s 10th annual Worldwide Volunteer Week and contributed to Operation USO Care Package. ]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>10</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Database will help track international aid in Iraq]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Iraqi government is having a hard time keeping track of billions of dollars in international assistance filtering in to rebuild the country&#146;s war-torn infrastructure.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_10/25820-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>10</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Three teams vie to design JTRS ]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Competition is heating up for the next phase of the Defense Department&#146;s Joint Tactical Radio System: Teams led by Boeing Co., Lockheed Martin Corp., and Northrop Grumman Corp. have submitted proposals to design JTRS Air Force and Navy radios.]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>10</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Incoming]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[New employees. The National Security Agency plans to hire 1,500 people&#151;many for IT jobs&#151;by September. The increase will mark a 37 percent boost in staff, said John Taflan, the agency&#146;s new chief of human resources.]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>10</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[New DHS tech requirements aim to save Safecom]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Homeland Security Department late last month released technical requirements for future public-safety wireless communications and interoperability.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_10/25786-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>10</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[NIST advocates smarter policies on smart cards ]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Technical standards in the rapidly evolving smart-card industry fall short in the areas of security and interoperability. But the real barrier to wide-scale use is policy conflict, according to a recent government report.]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>10</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[RFP coming for law enforcement wireless net]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The departments of Homeland Security, Justice and Treasury plan to seek proposals for their joint Integrated Wireless Network this summer.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_10/25788-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>10</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Lawmakers renew push for data-mining law]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Sens. Patrick Leahy and Russell Feingold are urging fellow lawmakers to support a bill that would require agencies to report to Congress on data-mining technologies used for homeland security purposes.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_10/25789-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>10</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Battle brewing over successor to DVD format]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[With the release of what it claims is the first blue-laser optical disk reader for data, Sony Corp. has kicked off a standards war over the eventual replacement of DVDs that promises to be comparable to the Betamax-versus-VHS clash.]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>10</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Agencies told to assess EA capabilities]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Office of Management and Budget&#146;s Federal Enterprise Architecture Program Management Office last week released an assessment tool for agencies to evaluate their enterprise architectures, set baselines and address problems.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_10/25791-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Collins would give feds A-76 protest rights]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Sen. Susan Collins wants to give federal employees the right to protest OMB Circular A-76 decisions. The Maine Republican was set to introduce the bill late last week.]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Net-centric approach proven in Iraq]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[John Garstka knows networks and what they can do to enhance warfare. He&#146;s written the book on it. In fact, he&#146;s written several books on it.Garstka, assistant director for concepts and operations in the Defense Department&#146;s Office of Force Transformation, co-authored Network Centric Warfare: Developing and Leveraging Information Superiority in 1999.]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>10</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Packet Rat: The Net survives a feeble fable]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Sometimes the story of computer security reads like a Tom Clancy novel. And other times, it reads like a nursery rhyme.]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Personal Space: Spring break]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[A two-for-one charity match from Computer Associates International Inc. helped business development director Leslie Barry, her family and other volunteers build a concrete-block home for a Nicaraguan mother and four daughters. ]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[&#147;Did you hear...&#148; ]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[UML Fever. According to Boeing Co. software architect Alex E. Bell, writing recently to the Association for Computing Machinery forum, UML Fever is one of the metafevers afflicting many software engineers today. But the Unified Modeling Language itself is not the direct cause&#151;rather, it magnifies the symptoms with &#147;a divine-like aura,&#148; making the infected engineers believe that &#147;no matter what task they may be engaged in, mere usage of UML somehow legitimizes their efforts. ... No other technology has so quickly and deeply permeated the software engineering lifecycle,&#148; Bell said. ]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>10</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[FISMA fosters fixes on IT security front]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Federal Information Security Management Act, passed in 2002, is now the propelling force behind the government&#146;s efforts to improve IT security.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_10/25735-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Agencies take notice of continuity planning]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[More than 2,500 federal employees from 45 agencies next week will test how prepared the government is to stay open if disaster strikes.The Homeland Security Department&#146;s Emergency Preparedness and Response Directorate, which still uses the acronym FEMA, will run Exercise Forward Challenge to see how far along agencies are in developing and implementing continuity of operations plans, or COOPs.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_10/25793-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[OPM ferrets out fake degrees, will revise policies]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[As the Senate prepares to open hearings next week on the use of questionable academic credentials in the government, the Office of Personnel Management has found several employees with bogus degrees.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_10/25794-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Prototype Army projector offers a really, really big show ]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[An Army research center has cobbled together what it calls the world&#146;s highest-resolution, large-screen projector.Commanders hope to eventually use it to view large maps with detail down to street names.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_10/25795-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Federal Contract Law: Agencies have upper hand in control of data rights ]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Court of Federal Claims recently issued a rare decision dealing with the operation of the standard rights-in-data clause of the Federal Acquisition Regulations.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_10/25796-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Army will expand battlefield tracking app]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Having successfully used its Blue Force Tracking system in the battlefields of Afghanistan and Iraq, the Army will broaden use of the tool for identifying friendly and enemy forces.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_10/25797-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Internet security test bed goes coast to coast]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[A national test bed for Internet security research is under construction with $10.8 million from the Homeland Security Department and National Science Foundation.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_10/25798-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Budget committee staff gives a hand to biometric log-on]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Richard E. Magee regularly dealt with House Budget Committee staff members who repeatedly forgot their computer passwords. But the committee&#146;s information systems manager hadn&#146;t felt true user wrath until last year&#146;s budget resolution markup, when the network locked out a senior staff member who had repeatedly failed to enter his password accurately.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_10/25800-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[President sets goals for e-health initiatives]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[President Bush has directed the Health and Human Services Department to develop a program that will ensure the use of electronic health records for most Americans within 10 years and electronic prescriptions within five years.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_10/25801-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>10</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Online Extra: Va. uses software template to standardize its agencies&#146; COOPs]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Federal agencies may be struggling with preparations to remain in operation through a disaster, but Virginia government officials said they have found a way to make sure state agencies develop consistent plans.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_10/25813-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[State of grace]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[It must have given secretary of State Colin Powell a lot of pleasure to personally hand over CD-ROMs of department documents to archivist James Carlin.]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>10</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Another View: Here&#146;s an idea: Face common foes]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The gap between government workers and contractors continues to shrink, yet there are still myths and challenges on both sides. Federal and contract workers should consider some strategies to further close the gap.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_10/25742-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>10</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Significa]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Planning a spring wedding and a full life? The government has you covered.The Federal Trade Commission, as enforcer of the Textile Act, regulates wedding gown labels. The commission has posted a lengthy guide, accessible from www.ftc.gov. For the honeymoon, the Postal Inspection Service posts warnings about vacation scams at www.usps.com.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_10/25743-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>10</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Editorial Cartoon]]></title>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>10</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Storage keys: Not all are equal]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Portable storage devices are edging out floppy disk drives as the  technology of choice for moving large files from one end-user machine to another.Where disk media have set capacities, users with USB ports can share gigabytes worth of data using thumb-size devices. What&#146;s more, the latest USB key drives can install themselves automatically on systems running Microsoft Windows XP or Apple OS X. Plus, they&#146;re easier to use than CD burners and offer infinite reuse potential.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_10/25760-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>10</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Education, states team on school site]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[How do schools in Florida compare with those in Delaware in meeting the educational standards of the No Child Left Behind Act?A consortium of federal, state and private groups is posting answers to such questions at www.schoolresults.org, a Web site funded by the Education Department and a nonprofit group to make school performance data readily available and schools more accountable.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_10/25736-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>10</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Hawaii says aloha to new, integrated data mart ]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[There was trouble in paradise.Hawaii&#146;s legacy Financial Accounting and Management Information System (FAMIS), developed by KPMG Peat Marwick of New York in the 1980s, had &#147;a lot of data, but it was very inaccessible,&#148; said Lester Nakamura, administrator for the Information and Communication Services Division of Hawaii&#146;s Accounting and General Services Department. Data was stowed mainly in old IBM VSAM files.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_10/25738-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[State lines]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[PC recycling. Seven local governments and five nonprofit groups recently received  grants from Dell Inc. to organize and promote computer-recycling programs.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_10/25739-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>10</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[On the job]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[A customized tool lets course instructors and supervisors at the Army Research Institute for the Behavioral and Social Sciences design surveys that fit their own needs.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_10/25748-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>10</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Internaut: Justice XML effort is promising]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[One of the more interesting public-safety and homeland security efforts in recent months is a data reference model called Justice XML, officially known as the Global Justice XML Data Model.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_10/25749-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>10</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[With purchase of OctigaBay, Cray plans to build rackmount supercomputers]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Cray Inc.&#146;s $115 million purchase of start-up OctigaBay Systems Corp. of Vancouver, British Columbia, will serve customers at the lower end of the high-performance computing market, said Christopher Jehn, vice president of government programs for Cray of Seattle.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_10/25750-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>10</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Delaware adopts statewide data backup strategy]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The First State is saving money and boosting uptime by centralizing its backup systems and network services.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_10/25751-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>10</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Power User: A little of this and that on security]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[A useful download from Microsoft Corp. called PortReporter has several virtues: It&#146;s free, only 135K and probably all right to use even if agency rules otherwise forbid freeware.]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[DHS mulls patching alternatives]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Homeland Security Department is considering alternatives to its Patch Authentication and Dissemination Capability, which has failed to generate many users.]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>10</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Macromedia tailors online aid for agencies]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[On the heels of its recent acquisition of eHelp Corp., Macromedia Inc. is gearing eHelp&#146;s products to the government market.Among the products are the RoboHelp help-authoring tool, an online policy publisher called RoboInfo and a software demonstration product called RoboDemo.]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[IRS tests 2-D bar codes for scanning e-forms ]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Hoping to reduce manual rekeying in future tax seasons, the IRS is testing an embedded 2-D bar code from Adobe Systems Inc. to automatically capture information from tax forms.]]></description>
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