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 <title><![CDATA[Application Accepted]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Of the 13 million loan and grant applications it received this year, the Education Department&#146;s Federal Student Aid Office got 82 percent of them&#151;nearly 10.7 million&#151;online.]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>20</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[DHS mulls one office for IT buys]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Homeland Security Department is considering creating a central procurement office to bring order to its expanding list of IT initiatives, a senior official has told GCN.]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>20</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Storage management: Battle of the bulge]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[An old computing adage says that software lags behind hardware. In the case of storage, the gap has widened&#151;hardware has left software eating its dust.]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>20</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[The lowdown on storage management software]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[What is it? Storage management software helps streamline management of data through automated processes and, among other things, identifying unused capacity.]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>20</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[People on the Move]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The General Services Administration this month named Casey Coleman as the new CIO of the Federal Technology Service.Coleman replaces Jimmy Parker, who became the assistant regional administrator for GSA&#146;s Region 6 in Iowa, Kansas, Missouri and Nebraska. Parker had been FTS CIO since 2000.]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>20</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Supercomputing conference]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[How many trillions of floating-point operations can you conduct per second? The systems under discussion at this month&#146;s High-Performance Computing Users Conference, held by the Council on Competitiveness in Washington, can do plenty.]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>20</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Procurement points]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Deidre Lee, the Defense Department&#146;s procurement and acquisition director, this month gave a keynote speech at a breakfast sponsored by Input of Reston, Va. ]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_20/26709-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>20</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Government users are wild for wireless devices]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Agencies seem to be going gangbusters on wireless.In a GCN telephone survey on mobile and wireless communications, 86 percent of agency managers said their agencies use wireless communications technologies for agency business and continuity of operations.]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>20</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Logistics system starts operational tests]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Defense Logistics Agency will finally phase out the first of its two antiquated systems later this year.]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>20</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Incoming]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Personnel site. The Defense Department has launched a Web site to inform civilian employees about the new National Security Personnel System.The human resources system, laid out in the fiscal 2004 Defense authorization bill, changes the way the department hires, pays, promotes and disciplines civilian employees. The site shows employees how the system works and solicits their comments about it.]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>20</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[CIO Council defines service components]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The CIO Council last week defined the different types of system components that will let agencies share technology more easily.]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>20</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Army awards contract for JTRS radios]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Army has awarded a contract to General Dynamics Corp. to design and develop small, lightweight software-programmable radios under the Joint Tactical Radio System contract. A team led by General Dynamics will modify commercial hardware and software products and develop single- and dual-channel handhelds and small backpack radios, known as Cluster Five radios, according to an Army announcement.]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>20</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Defense looking for a few good auditors for IG]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Defense Department is looking for more than 100 experienced auditors to work in the Office of the Deputy Inspector General for Auditing.DOD will use direct-hire authority, granted this month by the Office of Personnel Management, to recruit the auditors at grade levels 11 through 15. Those levels require specialized skills and management experience in auditing financial statements and systems.]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>20</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[HUD contract for IT services may be delayed]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Housing and Urban Development&#146;s IT Services contract, scheduled to be awarded by the end of the month, may be delayed again.The competition for the $860 million contract, which has been embroiled in controversy since last September, got even murkier earlier this month when Moody&#146;s Investors Service of New York lowered its rating of EDS Corp.&#146;s debt rating to junk status. The lower rating could make it more difficult for EDS to win new business, analysts said. EDS has said it disagrees with the rating.]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Net-Centric office at DOD looks at future]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Net-Centric Enterprise Services Program Management Office recently completed its first major Defense Department oversight review.The NCES office, run out of the Defense Information Systems Agency, is now exploring new concepts and technologies while it continues to define its nine core services.]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>20</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Jihadist files posted on an Arkansas server]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[An Arkansas government File Transfer Protocol server wouldn&#146;t seem to top the list of likely terrorist targets, but that didn&#146;t stop it from getting walloped this month by terrorist sympathizers, who loaded it with online videos of Osama bin Laden and other multimedia jihadist materials.]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>20</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Los Alamos cracks down on security]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The loss of two classified data storage units earlier this month at the Energy Department&#146;s Los Alamos National Laboratory has prompted a halt to all classified work.]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>20</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[E-gov redefines the workforce]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[When Norm Enger agreed nearly two years ago to manage the Office of Personnel Management&#146;s five Quicksilver e-government projects, he wasn&#146;t sure how much success each initiative would find.]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>20</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Packet Rat: The Rat gets all Googly-eyed]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The wired one suspects a conspiracy against him at Google.com. &#147;They&#146;re doing it on purpose!&#148; he ranted to his spouse.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_20/26710-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>20</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Personal Space: Barry Bonds at bat]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Citrix Systems Inc. government vice president Mark Goldman, the photographer at lower right in Baltimore&#146;s Camden Yards, calls Citrix &#147;job one, but photography is my passion.&#148; For 30 years he has shot sporting events for magazine covers. A friend took this picture of him beside the San Francisco Giants outfielder &#147;to show the grandkids.&#148;]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>20</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[&#147;Did you hear...&#148; ]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Meaningless software? In the fascinating Oracle-PeopleSoft-Justice Department antitrust circus this summer at the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, Oracle Corp. proposed that the court endorse these findings: &#147;Enterprise resource planning software has no generally accepted meaning&#148; and &#147;High-function financial management systems software has no industry meaning.&#148; Also, &#147;Incumbent systems do nothing.&#148; Hey, we always sort of suspected that. ]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_20/26715-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>20</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[FTC plans e-mail authentication standards]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Federal Trade Commission this fall will host an anti-phishing expedition, a summit at which industry experts will offer advice on developing requirements for an e-mail authentication standard.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_20/26688-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[GSA puts up $3 billion to spur share-in-savings]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The General Services Administration has done the easy part on share-in-savings contracts. Now it&#146;s up to agency procurement officials to do the real work.]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>20</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Army award for WIN-T is nigh]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Army is expected within the next few days to name General Dynamics Corp. as the prime contractor for the multibillion-dollar Warfighter Information Network-Tactical program.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_20/26697-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>20</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Secure e-voting? Not this year, experts say]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Electronic voting errors are inevitable regardless of the technology, experts last week told a House panel that is grappling with election accuracy and security worries.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_20/26698-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Western consortium&#146;s model smokes out fire behavior ]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Desert Research Institute, a Reno, Nev., group that&#146;s part of the University and Community College System of Nevada, is using modeling software to answer  questions about fire and smoke behavior.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_20/26700-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>20</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Army plans to roll out some parts of FCS by year&#146;s end]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Army will accelerate work on its massive Future Combat Systems program to deliver a communications capability and some unmanned systems to warfighters in Iraq by the end of this year, program officials said last week.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_20/26701-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>20</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[OPM set to recompete USAjobs ]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The development and management of the government&#146;s jobs Web site is up for grabs, again.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_20/26702-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>20</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[OMB splits the difference on open source]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Office of Management and Budget evidently exercised good diplomatic skills in a new memorandum on federal software acquisition.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_20/26703-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[BMMP in the night]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Once again, the Defense Department has been shaken by deficiencies in its business and financial systems. The weaknesses date back beyond anyone&#146;s memory. But the issue flares up periodically, like sunspots.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_20/26653-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Another View: Who&#146;s &#147;proud to be&#148;?]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Many agencies have achieved their &#147;Proud to be&#148; targets under the President&#146;s Management Agenda. The time has come to mark not only the progress government employees have made, but also their achievements on the PMA.]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>20</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Significa]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Pain and fear. Who needs them? Fortunately, virtual reality technology can help. The National Institute of Mental Health has funded a study in which a survivor of the World Trade Center attack was treated with virtual reality technology. The woman&#146;s severe post-traumatic stress disorder had not improved with traditional therapy. Psychologists exposed her to six, one-hour VR therapy sessions with images of jets crashing into buildings amid animated explosions and sound effects, and virtual people jumping to their death from windows. Her symptoms were eliminated, according to an independent assessor. Doctors in Seattle have carried out similar, federally funded research on the use of VR along with morphine to ease the  excruciating pain burn patients experience during daily bandage changes. Another study pointed to the use of VR to reduce dental pain. For details, check www.hitl.washington.edu/projects/burn.]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>20</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Edtioral Cartoon]]></title>
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 <volume>23</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Working with Apple in a Windows world]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Like most Microsoft Windows users, I&#146;ve heard both good and bad things about Apple Computer Inc. products. I had played with Macs before but until this review had never really used one for an extended time.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_20/26675-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>20</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[In search of the e-voting paper trail]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Electronic voting machines have worked just fine for hundreds of elections in California, Georgia, and Maryland, the House Administration committee heard this month, but that is no guarantee of future performance.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_20/26647-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>20</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[State lines]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[GIS launch. New Jersey recently launched NJ Image Warehouse, which lets users download state orthophotography.The warehouse uses materials from New Jersey&#146;s Geographic Information Network between 1995 and 2002. The photos include metadata that describes the images, which users can download.]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>20</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[The lost, found]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[To make sure its records aren&#146;t missing in action, a Defense Department command that tracks down lost military personnel is using archive management software.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_20/26659-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[NSF puts bite into forensic research]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[To help forensic experts identify missing individuals, National Science Foundation researchers are developing a system to automate matching of dental records.]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>20</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Power User: Are we gambling on democracy? ]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Participants in the SummerCon 2004 hacker conference last month in Pittsburgh heard an electronic-voting panel discuss the past year&#146;s e-voting failures, such as not encrypting vote data and not sealing the machines to prevent tampering.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_20/26662-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Internaut: Browser woes could prompt user switch]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Until Microsoft Corp. gets serious about fixing the security flaws in its Internet Explorer browser, some government users are considering less-vulnerable alternatives for the Web.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_20/26664-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[San Antonio slam-dunks Final Four security ]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[A souped-up tractor-trailer wove a security net around San Antonio during the National Collegiate Athletic Association&#146;s Final Four games in April.]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>20</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Network app security takes priority at Energy ]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Energy Department&#146;s Computer Incident Advisory Capability has seen security threats shift from simply denying Web service to attacking the department&#146;s IT resources.]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>20</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Air Force users collaborate on a joint workspace]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The essence of online community is &#147;having all the resources you need in one place,&#148; believes Bill Dennehy, a software engineer at the Air Armament Center of Eglin Air Force Base, Fla.]]></description>
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