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 <title><![CDATA[Deep Web ]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Scientists at federal agencies have filled billions of database fields and millions of Web pages with their research results. Until recently, much of it was inaccessible to commercial search engines.]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Mission gap: A special report on the Homeland Security Department]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Two years after coming into being, the Homeland Security Department is still under construction, a loose collection of agencies not bound by a common infrastructure. GCN focuses this report on the gaps in Homeland's bridge to domestic security, and its successes to date as well.]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>15</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[DHS takes on human resources]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Homeland Security Department is considering proposals from five companies it invited to compete for an unadvertised, $175 million human resources project.]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[A fluid line of defense]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Firewalls are an essential element of network protection, though they&#146;re not the whole package.]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[The lowdown on firewalls]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[What is it? A firewall is nothing more or less than a filter that attempts to block data streams you don&#146;t want to enter or leave your network. They accomplish this in several ways, including blocking all traffic over some ports. A firewall also can restrict traffic according to originating IP addresses or by constantly monitoring the stream of data and trying to determine which traffic is legitimate and which may be malicious.]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>15</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Quickfind links: Firewalls]]></title>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>15</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[People on the Move]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[A pair of Quicksilver e-government projects will get new managers as they reach critical points of their development.The Small Business Administration has named Justin Van Epps as interim project manager for its Business Gateway initiative. Van Epps replaces Sandy Gibbs, who left recently because of family responsibilities, said CIO and acting chief of staff Stephen Galvan.]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>15</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[On schedule]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Agency buyers aren&#146;t the only ones who have to keep up with government procurement policy; contractors have to stay with the program, too. Both got the chance recently at a conference in Arlington, Va., held by the Coalition for Government Procurement, a Washington association of contractors on the General Services Administration&#146;s Federal Supply Schedule.]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>15</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Time is money, and videoconferencing saves both]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Why is videoconferencing becoming all the rage? It&#146;s mostly the money. &#147;Our agency is divided between Colorado and Washington, so it saves money to use videoconferencing,&#148; said a senior communications and systems specialist for the Interior Department&#146;s National Business Center in Denver.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_15/26240-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>15</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Defense medical records system is rolling out ahead of schedule]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Defense Department officials say military units are already ahead of schedule in meeting a recent mandate by President Bush for federal agencies to keep electronic health records of personnel and their families.]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>15</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Incoming]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Training contract. The Army has awarded a $74.1 million contract to AT&amp;T Government Solutions of Vienna, Va., to develop simulated battlefield training systems under its One Tactical Engagement Simulation System program.]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[OPM launches teleworking seminar online ]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[With only about 14 percent of eligible federal employees teleworking, the Office of Personnel Management is looking to the Web to promote its benefits.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_15/26278-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>15</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Senate gives workers A-76 protest rights]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Senate last week moved a step closer to giving federal employees the right to protest public-private competitions to the General Accounting Office.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_15/26279-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>15</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Admiral Munns moving up from NMCI command ]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Rear Adm. Charles L. Munns, director of the Navy-Marine Corps Intranet, will leave his position later this year to take over as commander of the Atlantic Fleet Submarine Force in Norfolk, Va.]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>15</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Putnam, Davis seek changes to Clinger-Cohen ]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Reps. Adam Putnam (R-Fla.) and Tom Davis (R-Va.) last week added proposed language to four sections of the 1996 Clinger-Cohen Act, which governs how agencies make their IT investments.]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>15</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[NIH sets A-76 competition for help desk]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Health and Human Services Department is starting a competition for IT help desk services at the department&#146;s National Institutes of Health, under the Office of Management and Budget&#146;s Circular A-76 to reduce government costs.]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[National Guard couple weds via Internet]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Shadow Evans and Richard Everton, both sergeants in the Massachusetts National Guard, were married earlier this month by videoconference&#151;the bride in Iraq and the groom in Colorado.]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Data sharing starts on the Web]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Bill Spalding, CIO of the interagency Terrorist Threat Integration Center, has supervised the creation of an information architecture for the intelligence community&#146;s main nerve center for homeland security intelligence gathered overseas.]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>15</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Packet Rat: The Rat finds there&#146;s no escape from broadband]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[After a day cutting loose at the WiFi Planet conference this month, the Rat was feeling just a bit too connected.]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>15</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Personal space: It&#146;s history now]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Back in 1987, Argonne National Laboratory photographer Wes P. Agresta never dreamed his Kodachrome bug study would cause a media frenzy in 2004. &#147;A national news site posted it with incorrect credit to Argonne,&#148; he says, &#147;but it&#146;s my own work. A cicada likes to be upside-down. I took it off a tree and put it back. The shot is rotated 180 degrees.&#148;]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_15/26302-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>15</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[&#147;Did you hear...&#148; ]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Trucks on autopilot. The military needs smart supply trucks just as much as it needs smart weapons, according to the Robot Club sponsored by American Industrial Magic LLC of Traverse City, Mich. &#147;Congress has mandated that the Defense Department convert one-third of ground vehicles to driverless operation as soon as possible,&#148; says chief engineer Paul F. Grayson. He plans to enter an autopiloted vehicle in the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency&#146;s next robot race in March 2005. The prize this time: $2 million. ]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_15/26303-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>15</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Cooper, Congress look to reshape chain of command]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Congressional Democrats recently branded the Homeland Security Department&#146;s IT management as less than effective and blamed it on &#147;an organizationally weak DHS CIO&#146;s office.&#148;]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_15/26210-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>15</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Entry-exit strategy]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Homeland Security Department&#146;s Border and Transportation Security Directorate, in a way, is the Homeland Security Department.]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[After 9/11, import data project became more urgent]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Automated Commercial Environment, the oldest ongoing systems project in the Border and Transportation Security Directorate, began life in the Treasury Department in the mid-1990s. ]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_15/26216-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>15</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Inside job]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Think for a moment about the tremendous technical challenge of knitting 22 agencies into one agency. Get everyone on the same network. ]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_15/26217-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>15</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Problem sharing]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Under a moonless sky on a desolate stretch of Texas&#146; border with Mexico, Border Patrol agents with spotlights pinpoint scurrying illegal entrants and gather them into a waiting vehicle. After the agents bring the border crossers to the station for processing, most agree to return voluntarily to Mexico.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_15/26219-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[EA, Act 2]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Many agencies that implement an enterprise architecture don&#146;t see the benefits of it for many years. But the Homeland Security Department doesn&#146;t have the luxury of waiting.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_15/26220-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>15</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Points of contact]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[On Sept. 11, 2001, all terrorism became local.  State and local governments remain the front-line soldiers in the war against  terror on domestic fronts.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_15/26221-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Program at nation&#146;s major ports tests ways to secure containers ]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[While Seattle sleeps, port officials in Puget Sound are on their second cup of double-jolt espresso, working to keep cargo safe in the nation&#146;s third-largest center for containerized imports and exports.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_15/26223-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[OMB targets desktop hole in cybersecurity]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Agencies are failing at the first line of defense against cyberattacks for lack of minimum desktop configuration security standards. And the Office of Management and Budget is trying to patch the gap, said Karen Evans, administrator for e-government and IT.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_15/26276-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[DOD, contractors try sharing credentials]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Defense Department and six contractors are cooperating on a summer-long interoperability test for credentials.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_15/26284-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[State CIOs seek more funding for cybersecurity ]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[It was a fly-in, not a love-in, but there were still plenty of encounters between 15 state CIOs and Capitol Hill legislators this month at the fourth annual fly-in sponsored by the National Association of State Chief Information Officers.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_15/26285-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Fattened spending plan would boost CIO&#146;s role]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The House Appropriations Committee has cleared a $32 billion Homeland Security Department spending bill that conveys new line item budget authority and a stronger role for the department&#146;s CIO.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_15/26286-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>15</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Accenture contract in Bermuda triangle]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Homeland Security Department&#146;s multibillion-dollar contract with Accenture LLP of Reston, Va., to integrate the U.S. Visit virtual border system overcame a legislative hurdle last week.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_15/26287-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Will the DHS financial system emerge, too? ]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Teams of contractors vying to develop the Homeland Security Department&#146;s integrated financial system, dubbed Emerge2, face a risky task.]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Lights, camera, Emerge2!]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Recent film spectacles have featured animated ogres and a global weather catastrophe. Now the Homeland Security Department&#146;s Emerge2 program has joined the summer movie season with its own entry, the Electronic Industry Day Event.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_15/26290-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>15</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Justify time-and-materials contracts, OFPP says]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Agencies will have to justify using time-and-materials contracts for commercial services, a senior administration procurement official has said.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_15/26291-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>15</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Education almost ready on legit-college list]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Education Department within weeks will seek proposals for building a database of accredited colleges.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_15/26292-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>15</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[HHS adopts standards to speed health IT]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Health and Human Services secretary Tommy Thompson wants his department to implement electronic health records ahead of the president&#146;s 10-year goal.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_15/26293-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>15</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Army busy upgrading Iraq communications]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Hundreds of Army civilian employees and contractors are in Iraq to upgrade satellite terminals for better security and transmission, install commercial hardware and software, and bring wireless technologies to the fight.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_15/26294-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>15</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Online Extra: HHS grants go to health IT]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Grants to urge the health care sector to integrate IT with patient treatment. ]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>15</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Space Command salutes Section 508 ]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[At Air Force Space Command headquarters in Colorado Springs, Colo., there&#146;s an office for OPTN&#151;Air Force lingo for &#147;operationalizing and professionalizing the network.&#148; But the IT staff got no special Web training until last summer.]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>15</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[DHS&#146; next steps]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[President Bush has said that government is good at starting things but that what&#146;s important is completion and performance.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_15/26251-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>15</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Another View: Making progress on accessibility]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[When Congress voted to strengthen Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act Amendments of 1998, federal law promised opportunities for millions of Americans with disabilities to pursue new careers and gain better access to government services and information.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_15/26253-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>15</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Significa]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[It&#146;s said that a cynic knows the price of everything and the value of nothing&#151;but everyone knows the value of a gas station with low prices. That&#146;s why the Energy Department has published links to dozens of local, nongovernment gas price monitoring sites at www.fueleconomy.gov.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_15/26255-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>15</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Editorial Cartoon]]></title>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>15</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Letters to the editor]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The article &#147;Cleansed agency data may still ID individuals&#148; that appeared on the GCN Web site (go to www.gcn.com and enter 250 in the Quickfind box) misrepresents not only the specifics but also the tone and thrust of my presentation at the National Conference on Digital Government Research.]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>15</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[New scourges: spam, spyware and pop-ups]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[A few years ago, an antivirus program was plenty of protection for the average PC user. Then firewalls had to be erected against hackers. Soon privacy controls became standard to limit online losses of personal information.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_15/26272-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>15</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[MediaRacer 1000 boosts video security]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[When you can&#146;t tell whether a grainy surveillance video is showing a suspect or your own mother, it means the security network is not very well arranged.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_15/26273-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>15</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[States, feds working to fix Matrix]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[State officials would keep greater control of their own information under a plan that federal officials hope will bolster support for an antiterrorism information-sharing network.]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>15</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[State lines]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Health standards. Maine&#146;s Bureau of Health plans to award a contract to implement the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention&#146;s public health information network standards across its 33 databases by late summer. The Health Bureau recently hired GovConnect Inc. of Cincinnati to assist with the evaluation of the vendor and management of the contract.]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Data to go]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[A field agent trying to defuse a bomb has no time to hurry back to the office and look up details about the explosive in question.]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Blu-ray: The next generation of disk]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[As agencies such as Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives move from 650M of storage per CD-ROM to DVDs that can store 4.7G, the optical-disk industry itself is advancing beyond DVD.]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>15</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Internaut: Data drillers: Watch the fault lines on personal data]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The controversial Total Information Awareness project may be gone, but multiple data-mining projects continue to flourish within the federal government, the General Accounting Office has found.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_15/26261-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>15</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Handhelds keep USPS managers in touch ]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[As the government sharpens its focus on agencies&#146; ability to maintain services in the wake of a disaster, the Postal Service has turned to handheld devices.]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Power User: Security trumps backward compatibility]]></title>
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