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 <volume>23</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Agencies get out of the box]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Mark Carney calls the core financial system the Education Department tried to install in 1999 a &#147;stinker.&#148; The agency&#146;s chief financial officer quickly grew tired of the configuration issues as well as arduous and complex testing processes. Education&#146;s decision to move to Oracle&#151;one of six commercial software systems approved for federal use by the Joint Financial Management Improvement Program&#151;represents a trend: Agencies are changing their business practices to meet the software&#146;s capabilities instead of customizing software to conform to their own procedures.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_25/27081-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>25</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[DOD networks the future]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Somewhere in time, the Army is fighting wars with a super-agile, lightning-fast force of manned and unmanned ground vehicles, air vehicles, sensors and munitions&#151;a networked suite of weapons interoperating effortlessly with other military networks. ]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>25</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Functional equivalents]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Walk around most midsize to large enterprises and you&#146;ll likely see what I see: networked copiers and printers hooked up to scanners and faxes, mixed with all-in-one devices that make the same functions accessible from a desktop PC in a single package.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_25/27052-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>25</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[The lowdown on MFPs]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Why do I need one? You don&#146;t&#151;unless you do more than one thing with your computer. If the only thing you ever do is print out documents, an MFP would be wasted. But if faxing, scanning, copying and printing are part of your day, an MFP might make sense. Double that if you have a digital camera and want to print from removable storage media.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_25/27058-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>25</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[People on the Move]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Office of Management and Budget has named Tim Young its new associate administrator for e-government and IT.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_25/27105-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>25</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Dinner in the round]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Kevin Carroll, right, the Army&#146;s program executive officer for enterprise information systems, was the featured guest at a roundtable discussion of IT industry executives earlier this month in McLean, Va.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_25/27106-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>25</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Swinging for soldiers]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Industry Advisory Council&#146;s 2004 IAC Partners Golf Tournament earlier this month attracted 153 duffers&#151;federal IT officials and industry representatives&#151;to the Reston National Golf Course.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_25/27107-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>25</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Managers face familiar hurdles: security and funding]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[What do government IT managers worry about the most? &#147;Our biggest challenge is security,&#148; said an IT manager at the Patuxent River Naval Air Station in Maryland, reflecting the opinion of nearly half the respondents in a GCN telephone survey.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_25/27062-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>25</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[NMCI launches prototype for app testing]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Navy has started a prototype program to test software for compatibility with the Navy-Marine Corps Intranet.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_25/27050-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>25</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Multibillion-dollar AF Netcents IT contracts are expected soon]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Air Force might speed up the schedule for its expected award of multiple contracts under its multibillion-dollar Network Centric Solutions program.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_25/27051-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>25</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[OMB lays out R&amp;D priorities for IT in 2006]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Bush administration has placed supercomputing and cyberinfrastructure among its highest priorities for agency R&amp;D efforts in fiscal 2006.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_25/27091-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>25</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Army awards contract for simulations]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Army has chosen Northrop Grumman Corp. of Los Angeles for a 10-year, $408 million contract to provide battle command training support to Army corps, division and brigade commanders to improve warfighting capabilities.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_25/27092-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>25</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Forest Service IT workers win their A-76 bid]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Some, but not all, technology employees at the Agriculture Department&#146;s Forest Service have dodged a bullet.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_25/27093-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>25</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[DARPA awards $1b contract for combat UAV]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has awarded Northrop Grumman Corp. a five-year, $1 billion contract to build the X-47B aircraft of the Joint Unmanned Combat Air Systems program, an unmanned aerial vehicle that will be used in combat.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_25/27094-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>25</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Protests over HUD&#146;s HITS aren&#146;t over yet]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Lockheed Martin Corp. has filed a protest with the Government Accountability Office of the latest award of the $750 million Housing and Urban Affairs Department IT infrastructure contract to EDS Corp.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_25/27096-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>25</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Terror finance busters digging deeper, wider]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Treasury Department&#146;s Office of Terrorism and Financial Intelligence plans to integrate the department&#146;s information and intelligence streams.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_25/27097-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>25</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Serving veterans is VA&#146;s ROI]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Robert McFarland brings a bottom-line perspective from his years at Dell Inc., where he was vice president of government relations, to his new role as CIO of the Veterans Affairs Department.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_25/27061-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>25</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Packet Rat: Can a blogger stay awake in the city that never sleeps?]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[With all the absence of excitement that came out of blogging the Democratic Convention in Boston, the Rat is waiting with bated breath to see how deep a coma the Republicans can lull bloggers into in New York. ]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_25/27108-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>25</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Personal Space: Former Elvis]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Worlds converged this year for Cary Malmrose, a senior programmer analyst with the Veterans Health Administration in Salt Lake City, who also sings baritone in the Mormon Tabernacle Choir.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_25/27109-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>25</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[&#147;Did you hear...&#148; ]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Buckle up. It&#146;s no secret that computer use can seriously strain the body, particularly the hands and wrists.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_25/27110-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>25</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Six degrees of worldwide integration]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Defense Department&#146;s Global Information Grid exists today as a vision.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_25/27067-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>25</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Bandwidth expansion is due at 10 bases ]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Around mid-October, 10 military installations in the eastern United States will become the first to get a bandwidth boost.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_25/27068-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>25</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Net-centric approach creates a software challenge]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[As the Defense Department gears its networks for greater use, its software needs also are changing. ]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>25</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Net-centricity has many moving parts]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Defense Department faces a full row of hurdles in its quest for IT gold: to achieve systems interoperability and seamless information-sharing and fulfill its vision of a network-centric department.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_25/27085-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>25</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[The IT world according to DOD]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[C2 Constellation: Air Force&#146;s planned peer-to-peer network meshing command, control, communications, computers, surveillance, intelligence and reconnaissance systems with airborne and space-based sensors.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_25/27087-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>25</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Border Patrol integrates GIS into its electronic barricade]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Geographic information systems are crucial to the Border Patrol&#146;s plans for electronically reinforcing its 11,000 members patrolling the nation&#146;s boundaries.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_25/27098-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>25</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[DHS lines up IT procurements]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Homeland Security Department is moving ahead with three IT procurements to address interoperable communications, general IT functions and advanced baggage screening systems.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_25/27099-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>25</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Records agency automates its FISMA process]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The government&#146;s move toward electronic documents is producing unexpected benefits for the nation&#146;s chief record-keeper.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_25/27100-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>25</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Seeking e-gov users, OMB goes Madison Avenue]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Planning and development are done, the technology and administration are in place, and all that&#146;s left for three e-government projects is for the Office of Management and Budget to unveil them to the public.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_25/27101-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>25</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Checks and balances]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[As the government&#146;s money manager, the Treasury Department&#146;s Financial Management Service must reconcile its checkbook, like most households. ]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_25/27102-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>25</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[DOD to call for reviews of buying to &#145;Get It Right&#146;]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[In an effort to allay lawmakers&#146; concerns about contracting problems, the Defense Department&#146;s top procurement officer plans to issue a memo requiring the military services to review planned purchases from multiple-award schedules.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_25/27103-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>25</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Networking feeds joint transformation]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The &#147;jointness&#148; of the military services, allies and some federal agencies represents the biggest change in defense since 1973, Adm. Edmund P. Giambastiani told a recent R&amp;D audience in Washington.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_25/27104-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>25</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Inside job]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Useful as information technology is, it can be ugly, and not only in the abstract sense. PCs, monitors, printers&#151;from a design standpoint, 99 percent of them are banal at best and downright ugly at worst, especially when combined with unsightly wiring and cabling.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_25/27039-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>25</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Another View: The promotion game]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[A few weeks ago, a young woman I mentor expressed her dismay at not being selected for a promotion she clearly thought she deserved.She spoke of her experience, education, technical expertise and outstanding performance. Yet the promotion went to someone she felt was less experienced and a mediocre performer.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_25/27042-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>25</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[By the numbers]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Hear the pitter-patter of little feet on their way back to school? The country has 73.2 million residents enrolled in schools, from nursery schools to colleges, according to the Census Bureau. About 25 percent of residents over age 3 are students. This year, 2.4 million of them will receive college degrees, according to the bureau, which reports that there are 4,084 postsecondary institutions granting degrees. Younger students will have access to about 13.6 million computers in the nation&#146;s 111,000 elementary and secondary schools. That&#146;s about one computer for every four students. About 80 percent of children ages 6 to 17 use a computer at school, while two-thirds have access to one at home. Students trying to budget for the school year may find the Education Department&#146;s Interactive Budgeting Worksheet and Calculator helpful. Find it at www.ed.gov/index.jhtml. ]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_25/27043-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>25</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Editorial Cartoon]]></title>
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 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_25/27045-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>25</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Utilities each day keep PC doctor away]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Even if you&#146;re a power user who does everything right, your PC still might not be performing at its best.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_25/27064-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>25</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Revenue spikes raise hope for IT]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[State tax revenue has begun to increase after the sharp declines of the past two years, but the new money is unevenly distributed and has not affected IT spending much.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_25/27059-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>25</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[State lines]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Web recruiting. The Government Office of Human Resources of Montgomery County, Md., is hoping to improve police recruiting by putting applications online.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_25/27060-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>25</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Fault finding]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[A new Web-accessible database built by the Geological Survey will help scientists and building engineers predict earthquake risks more accurately, saving time, money and, possibly, lives.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_25/27046-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>25</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[West Point cadets tap SAN to keep up with expanding data]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[A 17T storage area network is the latest step in making the U.S. Military Academy campus at West Point, N.Y., network-centric.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_25/27047-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>25</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Internaut: Open source for government IT?]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Computer Associates International Inc. and IBM Corp. have given the open-software community a big boost by making their database code available.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_25/27048-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>25</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Power User: Make the most of Google&#146;s operators]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Nothing has shaken up the leading online portals as much as Google.com&#146;s offer of free, gigabyte-size e-mail accounts with simple archiving and searching through messages.]]></description>
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