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 <title><![CDATA[Seeking Users]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[By practically any standard, the Grants.gov portal is a model e-government project.It is one of only two of the Quicksilver e-government projects to have achieved all its objectives. And yet by some metrics, the web site has been a disappointment. Still, &#147;It opens up a new world to people who may have paid for this service before and now they can simply go to the site and find it themselves,&#148; said Rebecca Spitzgo, the Grants.gov program manager. What Grants.gov needs is users.]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Data use vs. privacy]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Federal officials are beginning to feel unexpected ripple effects from the data mining technology used in many government programs.Agency officials and lawmakers say that existing privacy laws may not be up to the task of protecting personal privacy from powerful analytical tools that probe personal information.]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>13</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Videoconferencing screen gems]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[We don&#146;t have Dick Tracy watches and holographic Star Trek displays just yet, but videoconferencing is finally beginning to live up to its decades-old potential.]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>13</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[The lowdown on videoconferencing ]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[What is it? The videoconferencing systems in this guide include PC-based desktop units, many of which have small speaker towers and camera platforms; set-top units with cameras built in that sit atop the video screen, typically a TV monitor, and all-in-one integrated systems in meeting-room units on rolling carts, recessed into walls, or, in some cases, in a flat-panel LCD.]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>13</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[People on the Move]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Senate Governmental Affairs Committee last week approved the nomination of David Safavian to become the new Office of Federal Procurement Policy administrator.]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>13</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Leadership defined]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[What does it take to have great leadership? Some of the federal government&#146;s best leaders took a crack at this question recently at the GCN Management Leadership Awards and Conference in Washington.]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>13</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Creative contracting]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Government procurement officials are using innovative ways to do business. Share-in-savings contracting was the topic at a breakfast held by the Bethesda, Md., chapter of the Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association. James Clausen, a project manager in DOD&#146;s CIO Office of Commercial Policies and Oversight, discussed a creative contract the Navy is using to field software for its enterprise network.]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Security panel]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Federal agencies are falling short on meeting the most critical provision of the Federal Information Security Management Act&#151;that they have security configuration controls for employees&#146; PCs&#151;attendees said at a discussion on FISMA in Washington sponsored by the Center for Democracy and Technology.]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[NMCI to open software test center]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Navy-Marine Corps Intranet program office will open a center later this month to test software applications for compatibility with the Navy&#146;s enterprise portal.]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>13</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Major programs within NMCI]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Base Level Infrastructure Initiative. This program lets Navy personnel overseas, about 30,000 sailors, plug into the Navy-Marine Corps Intranet and IT-21 via common standards and protocols. In many cases, including e-mail and chat functions, the applications the initiative uses are the same as NMCI&#146;s. The Navy will implement the initiative at 16 strategic overseas locations including Bahrain, Diego Garcia, Greece, Guam, Italy, Japan, Singapore, South Korea, Spain and the United Kingdom.]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Army combining war game simulations into single app]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Army is taking its war game training to a new level by replacing eight disparate modeling and simulation training systems over the next several years with the $50 million One Semi-Automated Forces Objective System.]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[DLA buys system to manage employee training programs]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Defense Logistics Agency has purchased software to manage training for 22,000 employees across the United States and 28 other countries, an application the agency expects to improve the readiness of its workers and bolster its ability to track expenses.]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Army Knowledge Online portal seeks one vendor, upgrades]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[By the end of summer, the Army plans to award a single contract for maintenance of its Army Knowledge Online portal.]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[White House adviser: R&amp;D funding is up]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Federal R&amp;D efforts in areas such as high-performance computing, grid computing and next-generation microprocessors are receiving more direct money than ever before, a member of the President&#146;s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology said late last month.]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Census Bureau now counts on SAN storage]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[A 4-year-old storage area network is keeping up with 4.6T of workaday data for 1,500 employees at the Census Bureau and soon will double its capacity.]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[GSA starts the process to redo FedBizOpps]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The General Services Administration late last month issued a request for proposals for a new Federal Business Opportunities system.]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[GAO: Weapons software policy has loophole]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Defense Department acquisition and software security policies have loopholes when addressing some risks associated with using foreign suppliers to develop weapons system software, according to a General Accounting Office report.]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[CIO Council says IT workers lacking skills ]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[In a CIO Council survey, few federal workers said they have extensive experience in IT security, records management, privacy, e-government and enterprise architecture. The gaps in these skills are leading the council to begin working with the Office of Personnel Management to improve the IT workforce through hiring and training.]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[HUD activates Pay.gov for lender fees]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Housing and Urban Development Department is using Pay.gov as a speedier and more efficient method of collecting fees at the Office of Lender Approval.]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Feds closing in on biometric policy]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[A meeting of 28 agencies late last month produced three areas of agreement on governmentwide biometric policy, said John D. Woodward Jr., director of the Defense Department&#146;s Biometrics Management Office.]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>13</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Web services ready for third wave]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[At meetings of the CIO Council&#146;s XML Working Group and other Extensible Markup Language discussions around Washington, Joseph Chiusano is a familiar figure.]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[&#147;Did you hear...&#148; ]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Wormy dilemma. Microsoft Corp. must have made an excruciating choice last month when it decided to deny the forthcoming Service Pack 2 to pirated copies of the Windows XP operating system. Paul Thurrott&#146;s WinInfo Update news list reported that an SP2 download will first check out the user&#146;s OS product identification number. No registration, no patch. But whose fault will it be if the unpatched copies of XP out there get hijacked into launch platforms for new worms? ]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Personal space: Classic sax]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Music marches with ITIMelvin C. Eley Jr., director of Government Printing Office plans, policies and program support, has played woodwinds all his life. &#147;I played tuba for the Washington Redskins&#146; band in the 1970s,&#148; Eley says. He now plays at the Ark of Safety Christian Church in Fort Washington, Md., along with his son, a flautist and Lockheed Martin Corp. associate software engineer.]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Packet Rat: Bolt from the blue leaves the Rat&#146;s systems grounded]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[If you believe the old myth that lightning never strikes twice in the same place, the Rat has new evidence to set your hair on fire.]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Archivists work on a PDF for the long term]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Even documents based on open standards can become unreadable because of intellectual property disputes.]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Contract awarded, work on U.S. Visit begins]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Developers of a federal system to track foreign visitors in and out of the United States have a lot of work ahead of them, but the project has taken a major step forward.]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Agencies warm up to share-in-savings deals]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[For nearly a decade, agencies have been allowed to cut their up-front costs on IT and other projects through contracting methods that let them share savings with vendors who develop valuable systems. Few have taken that approach.]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[EPA&#146;s experience: 3 keys to sharing savings]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Share-in-savings is the most complex type of contract, according to Judy Davis, the Environmental Protection Agency&#146;s director of acquisition management, who has had some experience with them.]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[OMB wavers on project managers]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Office of Management and Budget is backing away from a plan that would have required agencies to have full-time managers for every major IT project.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_13/26126-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>13</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[The three levels of risk in IT project management ]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The CIO Council&#146;s IT Workforce and Human Capital Committee approved a draft of project management guidance for agencies to better determine the skills needed for IT initiatives.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_13/26127-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[IRS systems can track terrorists via tax data]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[As executive director of Benevolence International Foundation Inc. of Chicago, Enaam Arnaout accepted donations for humanitarian efforts overseas but diverted some of the funds to fighters in Chechnya and Bosnia.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_13/26128-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[DOD panel calls for regulatory framework]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[A panel of military experts last month called for the Defense Department to create a regulatory framework for all data mining in order to protect citizens&#146; privacy.]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Records management gets a little attention and respect]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Ed McCeney is on a mission. He wants records management to become a hot topic in the eyes of federal employees. Mostly, he sees their eyes glaze over at its mention.]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[92 Tbps? Agencies could sure use it]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Military users retrieving information &#147;don&#146;t want any hourglasses on the screen,&#148; according to former Defense Department CIO John Stenbit. They want instant response.]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Time to perform]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Good for the FBI, for revising the contract for its Virtual Case File system. Not much has gone right for the FBI recently, including this project. A linchpin of the agency&#146;s Trilogy modernization project, the VCS is headed for poster-child status among failed projects.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_13/26096-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Another View: Graduation advice for managers]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The graduation season is one of optimism and inspiration. Today, with the emphasis on lifelong learning, many managers get their college degrees or certifications while working. This is an occasion to celebrate and to think about the future.]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Significa]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Some federal information on the Web sheds a flickering light on past events that were at various times horrific, arduous, mundane, happy or triumphant. See Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers&#146; Project, 1936-1938, which contains more than 2,300 first-person accounts and 500 black-and-white photographs of former slaves.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_13/26098-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Editoral Cartoon]]></title>
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 <volume>23</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Jacks of all trades]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Most notebook PC users do a little bit of everything, so they need a workhorse that can plow all kinds of fields. And notebooks today are lasting longer, which raises the chances of having to host demanding new applications.]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Mac attack: PowerBook performs with the best]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Because benchmark results from the Mac OS version of the GCN Lab&#146;s Alterion Corp. benchmark software differ slightly from those of the PC version, directly comparing the PowerBook G4 with the other notebooks in this review would literally be a case of Apples and oranges.]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[E-voting debate: paper or no paper]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[As the administrator of elections for Maryland, Linda Lamone believes electronic voting machines are safe and secure, even without a paper trail.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_13/26086-1.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[CIO changes. Montana and Washington are looking for new CIOs after the recent departures of their top IT officials for positions in the private sector.]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Wireless mesh network good as gold]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[When a coalition of emergency response agencies in the San Francisco Bay area built a wireless mesh network for a recent communications field exercise, the big surprise was how easy it was to use.]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Cyber Eye: More security trouble crops up for wireless networks]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[In a springtime bursting with new security worries, wireless users learned of one that&#146;s already built into IEEE 802.11 wireless networking protocols.]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Air Force abuzz over instant messaging app]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Air Force has added instant messaging to its Web portal, which ties together 700 databases and hundreds of applications at 110 sites.]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[@Info.Policy: Better ways to complain about privacy rules]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[If you have visited a doctor or hospital lately, you probably received a notice of your health privacy rights for the first time in your life.]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Smart cards are still stovepiped ]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The government is by far the nation&#146;s leading issuer of smart cards, but it still struggles to find cross-agency uses for them.]]></description>
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