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 <title><![CDATA[What&#146;s next for wireless nets]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Will wires someday become obsolete? Greg Hanson, CIO for the Senate Sergeant at Arms, thinks it&#146;s possible. So it's not surprising that Hanson and his IT team are going full bore on wireless technologies, such as the current project to outfit the Senate&#146;s Capitol Hill buildings with a robust wireless infrastructure.]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>21</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Hill moves reflect e-gov&#146;s lower profile]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Recent congressional moves leave little doubt about who lawmakers want to control funding for e-government projects: themselves.]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>21</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Up to speed]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Last year, I predicted that this would be a good year for 10-Gigabit Ethernet switch and router manufacturers because of the growing demand for high-bandwidth connections in enterprise networks.]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>21</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[The lowdown on 10-Gigabit Ethernet switches and routers]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[What are they? 10-Gigabit Ethernet switches and routers direct packets through one or more ports at 10 Gbps. They work in almost any network configuration.]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>21</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[People on the Move]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Tina Westby Jonas recently won confirmation as the Defense Department&#146;s new comptroller, after her nomination had lagged in the Senate for four months.]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>21</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Accessible technology from Commerce]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Commerce Department&#146;s Assistive Technology Exhibit and Policy Forum last month showcased ways to make information systems more accessible to handicapped users.]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>21</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[EPA takes portal concept to the next level]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[When you have a good idea, take it a step further. That&#146;s the notion behind the Environmental Protection Agency&#146;s effort to bundle existing projects and build a framework for the Environmental Information Integration and Portal Development project.]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>21</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Major programs within EPA]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Window to My Environment. EPA provides a Web tool at www.epa.gov that allows the public to access data about environmental conditions in their community. ]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>21</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[TRANSCOM builds enterprise architecture tied into BEA-Log]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Defense Department&#146;s Transportation Command is examining 600 military supply chain systems to determine if they can be integrated into DOD&#146;s overarching business enterprise architecture.]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>21</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>21</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[NIST wants to phase out DES for encryption]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The 56-bit Data Encryption Standard has outlived its usefulness, and the National Institute of Standards and Technology has proposed withdrawing it from government use.]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>21</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Conferees OK Defense Dept. appropriations]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[House and Senate conferees approved a $416.2 billion fiscal 2005 Defense appropriations bill late last month and sent it to President Bush to sign.The proposal is $1.6 billion lower than the $417.8 billion Bush requested and $25.4 billion more than in fiscal 2004.]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>21</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[HP handheld joins up with more networks]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Hewlett-Packard iPaq 6315 coming out this month will be HP&#146;s first handheld to incorporate wireless voice connectivity as well as e-mail, text and instant messaging, and data communications through T-Mobile USA Inc. of Bellevue, Wash.]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>21</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Ag awards EDS $93m contract for e-travel]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Agriculture Department has selected EDS Corp. to provide employee travel services under the General Services Administration&#146;s e-Travel Service indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity contract vehicle.]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[CIO Council and OMB define a project manager ]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Agencies must now have a plan to make sure every project manager meets the qualifications set forth last month by the CIO Council.In a July 21 memo to CIOs, Karen Evans, Office of Management and Budget administrator for e-government and IT, said plans should outline agencies&#146; approach, milestones and schedule for complying with the council&#146;s guidance.]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>21</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[GSA&#146;s FTS will merge several of its offices]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The General Services Administration&#146;s Federal Technology Service will combine its service development and service delivery offices into a single entity called the Office of Global Network Solutions in two to three months, said John Johnson, assistant commissioner for service delivery at FTS.]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>21</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Dell overhauls  its venerable server line]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Dell Inc.&#146;s PowerEdge server line, born in 1996, has entered its eighth generation and within a few months will be able to store a maximum 1.4T per unit on forthcoming 300G drives.]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>21</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[IRS cracks down on PDA use]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The IRS has more than 2,000 unapproved personal digital assistants that can connect to its network, the Treasury inspector general for tax administration said.]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>21</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[How weather forecasting is like war]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[As director of earth and space science programs for Boeing Satellite Systems Inc., Mark Spiwak is responsible for the new series of geostationary operational environmental satellites soon to be launched by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and NASA.]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Personal space: Beachbound]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[John and Kay Ely, both former GSA Trail Bosses of the Year, load up a moving truck with new furniture for their rental houses on North Carolina&#146;s Outer Banks. The beach houses will fund their retirement, and Kay credits the skills they learned as government acquisition pros. &#147;It&#146;s the only way I can get John to go shopping,&#148; she adds.]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[&#147;Did you hear...&#148; ]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Lefty alert. The 10 percent of all users who are left-handed can now type exclusively with their left while mousing with their right. The $150 Lefty FrogPad from FrogPad Inc. of Houston crams all the standard keys onto a 5.5- by 3.5-inch rectangle centered on the 15 most-used English letters. A Bluetooth version is coming. 8Office arsenal. The General Services Administration&#146;s security machine catalog from SEM of Westborough, Mass., sells not only big, centralized shredders and disintegrators but also the Model 4033 Ultimate Destruction System, which can chew up whole computer towers into 2-inch-wide random lengths. ]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Packet Rat: Dr. StrangeGoogle or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Blog]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Rat slid quietly through the shadows at the National Healthcare Information Infrastructure conference, looking for a former colleague who had been drawn to the dark side of HMO tech support.]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[9/11 panel&#146;s report prompts a fresh look at IT reforms]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Homeland security agencies and systems chiefs face a shakeup in the wake of the 9/11 Commission&#146;s recommendations for the overhaul of counterterrorist systems.]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Modernization begins to gain ground at IRS]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[IRS&#146; ambitious systems overhaul may finally be gaining a foothold.Lead contractor Computer Sciences Corp. is nearly finished reworking the code and retesting the first release of IRS&#146; Integrated Financial System, and company officials expect to meet the scheduled October release date. And a report from the IRS Oversight Board is expected to be positive.]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[WiMax aims to expand the reach of wireless networks]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[It&#146;s a gorgeous spring day and you feel like doing a little work outside the office. So you grab your notebook PC, head down to the park or wander across the plaza to the caf&#x00E9;, log on via WiMax and continue to work on that big PowerPoint presentation for your agency&#146;s next executive meeting.]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Mobile IP could liberate network-bound computers]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[An emerging networking standard called Mobile IP could add a lot of range to mobile computing.Just as cell phone users can roam from one provider&#146;s region to another without adjusting their phones, Mobile IP would let users of mobile computing devices move from network to network without reconfiguration.]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[In a mesh network, adding nodes multiplies its strength]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Wireless mesh networking holds the possibility of letting communities extend broadband access on the fly and on the cheap to public safety officials, municipal employees and citizens.]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Changes afoot for mobile computing&#146;s Achilles&#146; heel]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The more things change in mobile computing, it seems, the more batteries have stayed the same.With rapid gains in microprocessor technology, the variety of mobile devices offered in the past 15 years has expanded dramatically, to everything from cell phones that take pictures to personal digital assistants that rival last year&#146;s notebook PCs.]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[System problem shortchanges Canadian checks]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[A computer system used by a Canadian government agency cannot calculate a rate increase for people on disability and social support programs, and fixing it will take years and cost millions of dollars.]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Slice of the spectrum]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The District of Columbia is ready to launch a 10-site, citywide broadband mobile network that will give first responders high-speed access to video and data.]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Colorado city switches protocols to keep vehicles on track]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[When AT&amp;T Wireless Services Inc. dropped its Cellular Digital Packet Data service, the city of Aurora, Colo., faced a tough choice.Aurora&#146;s public works division, which relies on a wireless automated vehicle locator for its fleet of about four dozen vehicles, had to switch to another provider, build its own infrastructure or convert to AT&amp;T&#146;s new General Packet Radio Service.]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[XML standards battle is brewing over Navy&#146;s data-sharing plans]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Proposed Navy rules for Extensible Markup Language use are forcing other agencies to take a stand on how they share and reuse data.The Navy plans to adopt international interoperability standards that would eliminate document type definitions, or DTDs, which many agencies now use for sharing documents. Newer XML schemas are more suited to individual data elements.]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[HHS offers funds to boost use of IT ]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Health and Human Services Department will provide financial incentives to push the health care industry toward greater use of IT.]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Software dividends]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[At about the same time Microsoft Corp. was announcing the largest shareholder dividend payout in corporate history, the Office of Management and Budget was trying to ensure rational policy on agency acquisition and use of open-source software.]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Another view: In search of the perfect client]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Corporate America is searching for the perfect government IT client. We want to work with agencies to develop systems for government missions. We are seeking relationships built on trust and the common goal of serving the nation.]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Significa]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Piecing together a family history can be a lifelong avocation of connecting the dots among family members. The National Archives and Records Administration is increasingly putting records online to aid researchers. Via www.archives.gov, geneaologists now can purchase reproductions of military pension records,  military pension application files for service before 1917, pages of  census schedules from 1790 to 1930, and some land records. The site also links to NARA&#146;s Access to Archival Database system, which allows users to search many sources. One database, for example, provides World War II enlistment records for more than nine million Army soldiers. Taken together, the databases provide online access to nearly 50 million historic records created by more than 20 federal agencies.]]></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[Desktops blaze new trails]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[A brand-new, high-performance computer suddenly died in the GCN Lab this summer and messed up our reviews schedule.We&#146;d planned to bring you our annual desktop PC review in June, featuring the new Intel 915 G/P and 925X Express chip sets formerly code-named Grantsdale and Alderwood.]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Miami-Dade Fire Rescue talks IP]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Replacing an outdated telecommunications system with voice over IP has given Miami-Dade Fire Rescue users more features and flexibility in emergency response.]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[State lines]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Getting in touch. Of Mississippi&#146;s 82 counties, only 45 have e-mail capability. But the state is aiming to turn this around. Its first step will be to conduct a cybersecurity assessment of its counties that it will use to help plan a secure enterprise system.]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Who&#146;s who]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Each year, about 50,000 prisoners come through the doors of the 3,100-bed Pinellas County Jail in Clearwater, Fla.]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Cyber Eye: E-voting really needs standards ]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[An estimated 32 percent of American voters will cast electronic ballots in November, but their confidence could be undermined by worries about the security and reliability of the tallies.]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[How the Navy times its weather forecast computing workload]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Behind every Navy weather forecast is the complex task of coordinating a sea of applications at government weather centers. The job scheduling would far exceed the capability of the venerable Unix cron daemon, the standard Unix scheduler, which for decades has automated timed events.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Experts want supercomputing resources pooled]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Following the Energy De-partment&#146;s announcement of a new supercomputer designed to be the world&#146;s fastest, the White House and Congress are demanding better coordination of federal supercomputing resources.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[@Info.Policy: Is there privacy after death?]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[In March, the Supreme Court decided a Freedom of Information Act case involving photos of Vince Foster, a Clinton White House aide who committed suicide. The principal issue was whether relatives of deceased individuals have a protectable privacy interest.]]></description>
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