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 <title><![CDATA[He got green]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Why is Education CFO Jack Martin smiling? He and his team earned the Office of Management and Budget's top grade for financial reporting. Their efforts mean the agency is on track to meet shortened deadlines to get their annual financial reports to OMB after the fiscal year ends. Here&#146;s how Education does it.]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Special Report: Homeland defenders frustrated]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[All levels of government are pushing to share homeland security data, but many federal, state and local officials are struggling to work together, which has caused significant delays.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_17/26465-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>17</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[EA made EZer]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Enterprise architecture modeling is finally beginning to show some benefits for government agencies beyond mere compliance with the Clinger-Cohen Act.]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>17</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[The lowdown on EA tools]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[What are they? EA tools include modeling tools that capture enterprise architecture information, and data repositories that let decision makers and business analysts browse and mark up EA information.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_17/26445-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>17</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[People on the Move]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Marguerite R. Moccia, formerly CIO of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, has become the agency&#146;s chief financial officer and assistant director for management, the Justice Department agency said.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_17/26496-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>17</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[How e-gov is done]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Officials from across government discussed how agencies are implementing the E-Government Act of 2002 at a breakfast sponsored by the Bethesda chapter of the Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association.]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>17</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[More managers see good than bad in outsourcing]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[In a GCN telephone survey, most IT managers said their agencies contract with industry for IT support and services, and most expect to do even more outsourcing in the next two years.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_17/26425-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>17</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Central Command brings comms media to the fight]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Col. Jeffrey Foley oversees the Army&#146;s IT infrastructure in 25 countries from the Horn of Africa to Afghanistan, a vast region of mostly southwest Asia and Africa is home to about 500 million people.]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>17</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Incoming]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Wireless solicitation. The Defense Information Systems Agency has released a request for proposals for enterprise wireless services for Europe, Africa and Southwest Asia.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_17/26443-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>17</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[USGS makes more satellite pics available]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Geological Survey has awarded the third contract in a $15 million program to make commercial satellite imagery widely available to government users.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_17/26468-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>17</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Committee finds ways to better keep e-records]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[An interagency working group has identified barriers that keep agencies from managing records effectively.Nancy Allard, the National Archives and Records Administration&#146;s project manager, said the E-Records working group of the Interagency Committee on Government Information will shortly issue a report detailing the problems agencies are having with their records.]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>17</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[DHS makes pick for personnel system work]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Homeland Security Department&#146;s human resources management system, known as MAXHR, will be designed by Northrop Grumman Corp.The company&#146;s information technology unit in Herndon, Va., will perform the work under a blanket purchase agreement worth up to $175 million over three years, the company announced last week.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_17/26472-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>17</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Transportation moves ITOP II contract to GSA ]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Transportation Department last month transferred management of the Information Technology Omnibus Procurement contract to the General Services Administration. ITOP II is worth up to $10 billion over seven years.]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[FBI&#146;s Virtual Case File is stalled for now]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The FBI says its troubled Virtual Case File project has been delayed again and will not meet its planned December launch date.VCF would automate the handling of evidence, leads and other case information. It would replace the Automatic Case File system that is antiquated, difficult to use and riddled with security flaws, according to multiple reports from the General Accounting Office and the Justice Department&#146;s inspector general.]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Wolf threatens funds over telework shortfall]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Commerce, Justice and State departments as well as the Small Business Administration and Securities and Exchange Commission could lose $5 million each if they don&#146;t improve their telework programs.]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[FBI to phase in case file system]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[FBI CIO Zalmai Azmi has taken the reins of an IT operation that is restructuring one of the most ambitious systems procurements in the federal government: the Trilogy system&#146;s Virtual Case File case management system.]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>17</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[&#147;Did you hear...&#148; ]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Die another day. Users already have a &#147;license to kill&#148; bad software, according to the Competitive Enterprise Institute of Washington. So, the institute is urging Congress to just &#147;live and let die&#148; and reject all the current anti-spyware bills. CEI argues that industry self-regulation, consumer education and enforcement of existing laws can stop the villains. Where&#146;s James Bond when we need him? ]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_17/26498-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>17</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Personal space: Wedding singer]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[William M. McGrane, a computer systems specialist at the Defense Information Systems Agency, got his first paying job at age 15 directing a choir. He still directs, sings with the Master Chorale of Washington, and operates a production studio at home. &#147;I enjoy watching my 9-year-old son write music on the computer,&#148; he says. &#147;He has way more talent than I did at his age.&#148;]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>17</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Packet Rat: The Rat develops a split personality]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Whenever the Rat can avoid using Internet Explorer, which is most of the time, he does so. But when he&#146;s stuck with it because of lousy support for Mozilla and Opera browsers in some Web applications, he finds himself neatly split in half.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_17/26500-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>17</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Working Across Agencies: Cross-agency work gets virtual]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Among OMB&#146;s 25 e-government initiatives, those that have fared well to date have developed the proper management structure to promote collaboration, the General Accounting Office has said. But cross-agency work hinges on building the right management structure to make collaboration happen, a task overseen by OMB's portfolio team. GCN Management looks under the hood of agency collaboration.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_17/26414-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Safecom's critical point]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[One of the Office of Management and Budget&#146;s 25 high-profile e-government projects, Project Safecom has had four different management teams under three different agencies since it was launched in 2002.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_17/26415-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>17</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Science.gov&#146;s party project]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[How do you get 17 organizations to collaborate on a single search engine? Run the project like a potluck party, according to Eleanor Frierson.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_17/26417-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>17</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[One move at a time]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[When the Environmental Protection Agency took over the Online Rulemaking project in October 2002 from the Transportation Department, it wasn&#146;t in uncharted territory.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_17/26418-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>17</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[OMB&#146;s advice: Communicate and innovate]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[For President Bush, effective implementation of e-government is critical to making government more responsive and cost-effective. And the Office of Management and Budget&#146;s e-government initiatives are the most visible manifestation of the government&#146;s cross-agency efforts.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_17/26419-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>17</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[How Treasury calculates the bottom line across agencies]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Treasury Department compiles its own financial statement and that of the Homeland Security Department, but it also assembles a consolidated financial statement for the entire federal government.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_17/26464-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Gaps haven&#146;t closed in data sharing]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Networks run by the Homeland Security Department and law enforcement and intelligence agencies are starting to close up some of their gaps.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_17/26466-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>17</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Intelligence office will enforce &#145;write to release&#146; policy ]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[A new organization will rule on agency disagreements over sharing classified information, such as homeland security intelligence, under a plan drawn up by intelligence agencies.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_17/26467-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[SSA wants W-2 reports online only by 2006]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Social Security Administration will require that employers file their annual W-2 reports over the Internet beginning in 2006, the agency said in a notice in the Federal Register June 16.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_17/26470-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Geospatial spending still a mystery to agencies]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Lawmakers have urged the Office of Management and Budget to rein in agency spending on geographic information systems and increase oversight after OMB could not accurately assess how much the government spends on GIS nor guarantee that agencies were not duplicating data.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_17/26480-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[DHS weaves geospatial data into its enterprise architecture ]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Homeland Security Department plans to control its geospatial data through its enterprise architecture.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_17/26481-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>17</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Congress has several bills pending on geospatial data issues]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[HR 3186&#151;The Geospatial Preparedness Act, sponsored by Rep. William Clay (D&#150;Mo.), requires the Homeland Security Department CIO to work with the departments of Interior and Justice, the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency and other agencies to use the National Spatial Data Infrastructure for homeland security purposes.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_17/26482-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>17</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[DOD to exclude high-risk software vendors]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Defense Department is changing its software acquisition policy to improve the quality and security of what it buys.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_17/26483-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>17</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Presto: GSA&#146;s 508 wizard arrives]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Many contracting officers still don&#146;t understand how to apply Section 508 accessibility standards. And the General Services Administration only added to the confusion with an early attempt at a quick reference guide for buying accessible federal IT.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_17/26484-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>17</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Regional networks exchange health data]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Two regions are at work building parts of the National Health Information Infrastructure, and a dozen more communities will begin soon.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_17/26486-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>17</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Audit flunks DHS wireless security]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Homeland Security Department&#146;s failure to impose security controls on sensitive wireless data exposes it to potential eavesdropping and misuse, the department&#146;s inspector general said late last week.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_17/26488-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>17</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[VA puts vets&#146; insurance info online]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Veterans Affairs Department has given veterans online access to their Veterans&#146; Group Life Insurance accounts to view and manage policy information.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_17/26491-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>17</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[GSA builds open-source contracting app]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Federal Supply Service has skipped more than 20 years&#146; worth of IT history and moved right to open-source software, Web services and digital certificates for the new eOffers system.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_17/26493-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[DOT finds out technology is just a step on road to green ]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Improving financial management takes much more than technology, as the Transportation Department can attest.]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>17</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Hijacked]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[&#147;For eight minutes and thirteen seconds, between 8:56 and 9:05, this primary radar information on American 77 was not displayed to controllers at Indianapolis Center. The reasons are technical, arising from the way the software processed radar information, as well as from poor primary radar coverage where American 77 was flying.&#148;]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_17/26426-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Letters to the Editorial]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Grants.gov site provides more functionality than just the ability to submit applications electronically. The Find functionality is fully deployed and receives more than 1.2 million hits a week and distributes 400,000 e-mails weekly. Less than six months after the November 2003 effective date of the governmentwide policy directing all federal grant-making agencies to post all grant funding opportunities on Grants.gov, the weekly usage of the site soared from 435,415 hits per week to over 1 million, more than a 100 percent increase.]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>17</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Significa]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Life&#146;s a gamble, but gambling doesn&#146;t have to be a problem. About 30 states provide services for those who are addicted to gambling, largely through the the state&#146;s American Indian casinos via its site at gm.state.az.us. ]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_17/26432-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>17</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Editorial Cartoon]]></title>
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 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_17/26433-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>17</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Another View: Who goes there? Biometrics can make positive ID]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[In the global war on terrorism, the military faces a highly mobile terrorist foe that deliberately conceals its true allegiance.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_17/26435-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>17</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Phaser makes a (dry) splash]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[If the GCN Lab were to choose the best-value segment of the IT market, printers would probably win.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_17/26446-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>17</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[iPod&#146;s more than just a music player]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[If you&#146;re looking for a good portable storage device to transfer data between Apple computers, look no further than the iPod.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_17/26448-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>17</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[When milliseconds do matter]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Ordinarily a millisecond passes without notice. Thousands of them passed while you read that last sentence. The high-performance Samsung SyncMaster 172x LCD makes you respect milliseconds. It&#146;s the first monitor I&#146;ve seen with a response time of only 12 ms.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_17/26450-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>17</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[IT vendors look for silver lining in state market]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[To roughly paraphrase the Weather Girls&#146; 1980s hit, it&#146;s raining everything but money for state governments.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_17/26421-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>17</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[State lines]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Road software. The Maine Transportation Department is using geospatial software to replace the state&#146;s integrated highway database.The new system from Exor Corp. of Fairfax, Va., provides linear referencing and a spatial network hub designed to let Maine DOT integrate data from other systems and make it available to users of its enterprise data warehouse. The Network Manager and Spatial Data Manager modules of Highways software from Exor replace the department&#146;s legacy database.]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>17</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[No back door]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Laura Vaglia, networking chief at the Army Community and Family Support Center, has a goal: &#147;Not to be a back door to the NIPRnet.&#148;CFSC, headquartered in Alexandria, Va., runs child-care centers, libraries and recreational facilities around the world. It also operates hotels in Orlando, Fla., Hawaii, Germany and South Korea. Most of the operations are funded by fees, which must be kept low.]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Even before network security comes physical security]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Symantec Corp. does its network security monitoring behind the locked doors of a nondescript office building in Alexandria, Va.]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Internaut: Government IT spending winners and losers ]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[A close look at forecasts of federal IT spending between now and 2007 shows three interesting trends. There are significant winners and losers in some hardware categories, and software trends that will shape agency buying patterns for years to come.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_17/26438-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Power User: Time to catch up on your red-hot security reading ]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Summer is a great time to relax and dig into your pile of IT reading&#151;especially the red-hot area of IT security.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_17/26439-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Researchers switch databases, just short of a petabyte ]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Stanford Linear Accelerator Center&#146;s Objectivity database, widely acknowledged as the world&#146;s largest, has stopped growing just short of 900T, a victim of database standardization. A petabyte is 1,000T.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_17/26440-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>17</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[System spots phony passports pre-boarding]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Transportation Department, with help from the Transportation Security Administration, has quietly tested an automated document authentication platform to screen passengers flying from Nigeria to the United States.]]></description>
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