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 <title><![CDATA[House plans e-gov cuts]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Congressional support for e-government initiatives has been shaky from the start, but a recent move sharply undercuts a handful of the projects, even as they near completion.]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Report on Defense IT: Pentagon simplifies its supply lines]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The military runs more than 3,000 supply chain systems, a number that dwarfs even the Defense Department&#146;s financial systems tally by several hundred. What's more: &#147;Every time we turn over a rock we find more systems," says Gary Jones of the Logistics Systems Management Office.]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Web services need push from the top, experts say]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The cicada-like buzz over Web services during the past year will be nothing but background noise until the CIO Council and the Office of Management and Budget make Web services an official part of how the government does business, OMB&#146;s former IT chief says.]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>16</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Is the pen mightier than the mouse?]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[I&#146;ve made no secret that I love the tablet format for a portable PC.I get along fine with standard keyboards but do very little text input out of the office, so I&#146;ve always resented having to tote one along on road trips simply because all notebooks had one.]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[The lowdown on tablet PCs]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[What is it? Tablet PCs are rather loosely defined but they can be generally considered as notebook PCs where the emphasis is on the screen rather than the keyboard.]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>16</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Tips for tablet use, training]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[It will likely take a bit of training to get the most out of a tablet PC. Microsoft Corp.&#146;s almost universally used Tablet XP operating system isn&#146;t just XP on a tablet; it has a number of new features, mostly related to the use of the pen.]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>16</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[People on the Move]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Transportation Security Administration has chosen Justice Department systems executive David Zeppieri to be its CIO.He will begin working at TSA in mid-July.]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Leadership AFFIRMed]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Outstanding leadership was the focus of an awards lunch held by the Association for Federal IRM this month at the Mayflower Renaissance Hotel in Washington. The organization recognized  exemplary leadership in federal IT programs.]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>16</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Agriculture growing a training system]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[How does a far-flung federal department take soup-to-nuts control of its employee training? With an enterprise learning management system.That&#146;s what the Agriculture Department recently rolled out with AgLearn. It lets employees search, get approval and register for training courses, track their progress and complete courses. It lets managers handle course approvals and financing and follow employees&#146; performance. The system also houses the individual planning and training records of each employee.]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>16</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Major programs within the Department of Agriculture]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[E-authentication service. The department launched its enterprise electronic credentialing and authentication service in October. It permits reuse of online credentials across government and provides secure access to information and services to conduct business with government. Users of the system have access to 75 online USDA applications with a single sign-on capability. Nearly 50,000 employees and 19,500 customers have received credentials through May 2004. Agriculture in July will begin a project to issue credentials to all remaining USDA employees.]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Reservists, DARPA, vendors fill technology gaps in a pinch]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Military reservists in Iraq face new challenges every day, and IT workers among them are no exception.]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Incoming]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Drugstore system. The new Tricare Retail Pharmacy program became effective on June 1, linking military members and their beneficiaries to about 53,000 civilian pharmacies in the United States, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands and Guam.]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[NARA needs volunteers to test e-records]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The National Archives and Records Administration is looking for agency records managers to test prototypes of the Electronic Records Archive system.]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[OMB initiates funding model for Grants.gov]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Grants.gov will become the first Quicksilver project to move from a development to a fee-for-service model in support of the operation and maintenance phase of the initiative, the Office of Management and Budget announced this month.]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Minn. has online Rx for the high cost of drugs]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Minnesota has set up a prescription Web site, at www.MinnesotaRXConnect.com, that walks residents through ordering lower-cost medicines from Canadian pharmacies.]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Agencies get guidance for services buys]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Civilian and Defense acquisition councils have finalized the way agencies should buy services from schedule contracts.Previously, agencies used a part of the Federal Acquisition Regulations for weapons systems and services, said David Drabkin, GSA&#146;s deputy associate administrator for acquisition policy, at a recent conference.]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Records will get their own layer in FEA]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Reynolds Cahoon, National Archives and Records Administration CIO, said the Office of Management and Budget has agreed to add records management as a separate layer in the next version of the Federal Enterprise Architecture.]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[DHS goes on the air with NOAA]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Homeland Security Department and the Commerce Department&#146;s National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration have signed an agreement under which DHS will send all-hazards alerts directly through NOAA&#146;s radio network.]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>16</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Satellites, from the ground up]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[After a recent move to new quarters in Ashburn, Va., Veloris A. &#147;Sonny&#148; Marshall III and his 25 employees are back at work packing satellite receiving equipment into hardened &#147;flyaway&#148; cases for shipment from Dulles International Airport to federal sites around the world.]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>16</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[&#147;Did you hear...&#148; ]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Going nowhere faster? A GCN reader took issue with a June 7 article about the military&#146;s need for more bandwidth now that the world&#146;s fastest router can sling around 92 Tbps. &#147;We never had hourglasses spinning [on screen] until the Navy-Marine Corps Intranet,&#148; the reader griped. &#147;Now we get them when we delete Outlook files, move files to another folder or open a folder. Forget accessing outside data. With NMCI, the Navy and the Marine Corps have no need for faster data transfer. They cannot use what they have now.&#148; ]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Personal space: Hey, Coach!]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Environmental Protection Agency telecommunications project manager Tim Harris began coaching girls&#146; basketball teams when his daughter couldn&#146;t get on the third-grade team. &#147;Sometimes your best-planned plays go awry, just like your best-planned projects,&#148; Harris says. &#147;Basketball keeps me sane.&#148;]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Packet Rat: Inch by inch, the Rat gets back over the border]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Rat family&#146;s quest for a broadband break took them north to Niagara Falls. At the foot of the American Falls, among squawking gulls, the whiskered one found a wireless dead spot and a good place to watch the Rainbow Bridge between Canada and the United States.]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Would a governmentwide XML schema registry cut duplication?]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Federal CIO Council wants to keep agencies from reinventing the wheel as they adopt Extensible Markup Language.]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Architectures guide logistics overhaul]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Military forces in Iraq are using 21st century systems for fighting, but have often found themselves operating in a mid-20th-century logistics structure.]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[DOD wants standardized platform for weapons use  ]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Defense Department&#146;s transformation initiative has &#147;built up a bow wave of change,&#148; Air Force Maj. Gen. Marc &#147;Buck&#148; Rogers said at last week&#146;s Joint Warfare 2004 conference in Arlington, Va.]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[NMCI officials press for big changes]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[NEW ORLEANS&#151;The Navy&#146;s embattled intranet project is undergoing significant changes aimed at improving its management and operation. Despite sharp criticism of the multibillion-dollar program&#151;some from its own ranks&#151;service brass remain committed to it.]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Testing center delayed]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[One measure aimed at improving NMCI&#146;s operation has been pushed back. The Navy said it would be unable to open its Product Evaluation Center at the Space and Naval Warfare IT Center in New Orleans until at least the fall. Earlier this year, the service said it intended to open the center this month.]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Glitches stall Coast Guard radio upgrade]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Coast Guard&#146;s $611 million project to overhaul its coastal radio system for search and rescue has fallen months behind schedule because of delays in integrating control system software.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_16/26385-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Telecom sees IP as its savior]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[CHICAGO&#151;Networks don&#146;t care what moves over their cables and wires, and packets don&#146;t care how they get from one point to another. That means telephone companies can no longer focus on being phone companies if they want to recover economically, telecom executives said last week at the SuperComm trade show here.]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[HHS will move to e-Travel services over next two years]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Health and Human Services Department has awarded a task order to Northrop Grumman Mission Systems to implement its Web-based e-Travel management services across the department. The contract is valued at $945,000, plus transaction fees.]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>16</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[OPM puts IT purchasing under CIO]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Janet Barnes has  power few agency CIOs have but most want. The Office of Personnel Management&#146;s top IT official gets final approval over all technology procurement plans and strategies.]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[NMCI Quickfind links]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Links to GCN.com coverage of the June 22 defense conference]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Bermuda triangle]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[There&#146;s more than a little hypocrisy in the minimovement to strip Accenture Ltd. of its contract for the Homeland Security Department&#146;s U.S. Visit project.Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D-Conn.), in the final minutes of a House Appropriations Committee budget markup session, managed to insert an amendment into the DHS appropriation bill that would bar giving homeland security contracts to companies that use loopholes to avoid paying federal taxes.]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Another View: The perils of cross-government IT]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Most government organizations have made good progress over the past 10 years in building portals, placing forms on the Internet for electronic access, and handling simple, individual transactions such as submitting tax returns through intermediaries. Some now say we are passing through the low-hanging-fruit phase. The &#147;easy&#148; work is behind us.]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Significa]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[You might think that going to the beach wouldn&#146;t require a multimillion-dollar federal grant program and the use of sophisticated systems. You&#146;d be wrong. The Environmental Protection Agency&#146;s Beaches Environmental Assessment and Coastal Health program, at  www.epa.gov/waterscience/beaches, plans to distribute $10 million this year to the 35 states with beaches. ]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Editorial Cartoon]]></title>
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 <volume>23</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Big-screen LCD fits right in]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Plasma has been king of large-screen displays for some time, but LCDs are upsizing enough to compete.]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Nokia 3650 not in tune with Bluetooth headset]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Swapping a wired cell phone headset for a wireless Bluetooth counterpart is a good idea for safe driving&#151;but not with a Nokia 3650.]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Sun&#146;s JDS gets mostly thumbs up]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Sun Java Desktop System isn&#146;t built from the ground up with Java, as you might expect, but is another Linux distribution based heavily on Novell Inc.&#146;s SuSE Linux Desktop 1.0.]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Java Desktop System resurrects aging PCs]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[I&#146;ll admit up front that I love Microsoft Windows XP for its functionality and flexibility. I can do just about anything with it.  But XP has two big limitations. First, it demands a high-end system to run properly. Second, it&#146;s a lot more expensive than it probably warrants.]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Basics keeps middle schoolers in- and online]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The days of kids throwing a peanut-butter-and-jelly sandwich, an apple and a bag of chips into a backpack, slinging it over their shoulders and blithely skipping out the door to school are changing. Some states are adding something a bit more substantial to student backpacks: notebook PCs.]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[State lines]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Air quality online. The Indiana Department of Environmental Management launched a Web site to update residents on the state&#146;s air quality this summer.]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Robots pressed into defense duties]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Defense Department has about 70 robots on explosives disposal duty in Iraq and Afghanistan, and the Joint Robotics Office in the Office of the Secretary is preparing to spend $18 million on 163 more robots, at the request of Central Command.]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[@Info.Policy: Future history reports on Internet's demise]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[This obituary is &#147;preprinted&#148; from a future edition of Government Computer News. Today the Internet was pronounced dead. The immediate cause of death was universal disinterest.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[DHS: Many critical facilities are at risk]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Homeland Security Department has identified 1,700 facilities at risk in the nation&#146;s critical infrastructures, but it lacks the authority to force corrections by companies or state and local governments.]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Cyber Eye: Could we have little help here, please?]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Federal Computer Incident Response Center shut down its free patch-management service in February, one year after its launch, because of a resounding lack of user interest.]]></description>
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