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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>30</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Aligning the planets]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[As the sun holds the planets in orbit at different speeds and distances, NASA wants to make its portal the axis for more than 170 disparate Web sites. The goal is to keep NASA's sites friendly for visitors but easy to manage for employees, CIO Patricia Dunnington says.]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>30</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[GSA reinvents SmartBuy&#151;again]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The SmartBuy program has fallen far short of the General Services Administration&#146;s vision of a big-box store for government software, a sort of Costco for federal enterprise license deals.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_30/27578-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>30</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[CRM crosses over]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[One of the few emerging software categories to survive the dot-com crash of the early 2000s was customer relationship management software.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_30/27572-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>30</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[The lowdown on CRM software]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[What is it? CRM software helps agencies organize and manage relationships with customers using data collection, analysis and routing features, among others. Originally used primarily in industry for sales force automation, some CRM software is being designed for government use.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_30/27573-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>30</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[People on the Move]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The General Services Administration has tapped Denis Gusty to head its Office of Intergovernmental Solutions.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_30/27602-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>30</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Leaders at the front of the Lines]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The leadership at the Office of Management and Budget recently honored those who keep  the Lines of Business consolidation projects in line.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_30/27603-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>30</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Government IT buyers keen on GSA schedules]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Government IT buyers think General Services Administration schedules are pretty cool.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_30/27557-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>30</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[App lets Air Force, Navy gain control of workflow]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The first year the Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard in Hawaii began using Concerto software to accelerate the flow of projects, officials cut overtime by $9 million.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_30/27567-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>30</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Incoming]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Fingerprint deal. The Defense Department has awarded Lockheed Martin Corp. a five-year contract to build an automated biometric system that will consolidate, store and search fingerprint data collected worldwide by the department.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_30/27568-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>30</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Technology is the domain event at DHS]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Homeland Security Department plans to launch a series of major IT services acquisitions to support its component agencies, CIO Steve Cooper said last week.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_30/27581-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>30</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Congress keeps funds flowing until Nov. 20 ]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The House and Senate late last month passed a bill that would keep the government open until Nov. 20.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_30/27582-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>30</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[FAA tests radar to spot birds in flight at airports]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Federal Aviation Administration is on a bird hunt&#151;an electronic one that is.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_30/27583-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>30</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[IG: DOE was hacked 199 times last year]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Weaknesses in the Energy Department&#146;s cybersecurity programs let hackers penetrate DOE systems 199 times last year, affecting 3,531 systems, according to the department&#146;s inspector general.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_30/27585-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>30</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[IT provisions hang up DHS funding bill]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Congress prepared last week to iron out last-minute disputes that had stalled the Homeland Security Department appropriations bill.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_30/27587-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>30</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Wyatt Kash appointed GCN editorial director]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Wyatt Kash, an award-winning, 25-year veteran of business-to-business journalism, joined Government Computer News as editorial director Oct. 4. ]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_30/27588-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>30</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[FTS works to get back on course]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Sandra N. Bates&#146; career has come full circle. She began as an intern working on telecommunications acquisitions at the General Services Administration 35 years ago, now she runs GSA&#146;s $9 billion Federal Technology Service.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_30/27556-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>30</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[&#147;Did you hear...&#148; ]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[An FBI sting? GCN covers all kinds of vendors, but none ever before offered, by e-mail, an &#147;OFAB-500U HE fragmentation air bomb, ZB-500RT incendiary tank, 500-KG unified cluster bomb&#148; and many other munitions.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_30/27604-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>30</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Personal space: Building interest]]></title>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>30</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Packet Rat: The Rat puts a happy face on facial recognition]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[It was picture day for the cyberrodent&#146;s youth soccer team.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_30/27607-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>30</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Meet the 2004 GCN Awards winners]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Want to renew your faith in the ability of government to get things done? Then keep reading about the winners of the 18th annual GCN Awards.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_30/27510-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>30</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[PTO brings the U.S. patent system into the digital age]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[For its first 200 years, the Patent and Trademark Office&#146;s examiners shuffled millions of paper pages and sent mountains of them to warehouses.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_30/27511-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>30</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[The real test is getting attorneys to e-file]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Although electronic files are king at the Patent and Trademark Office, most applications still arrive on paper.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_30/27512-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>30</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Interstate exchange: Management was key to putting EPA network together]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[From the beginning, the Environmental Protection Agency&#146;s Environmental Information Exchange Network initiative looked like a tall order.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_30/27513-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>30</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Network mellows federal-state relationships]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Environmental Protection Agency&#146;s Environmental Information Exchange Network has not only improved data sharing with state environmental agencies, it has helped assuage the sometimes strained relationships between EPA and the state agencies.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_30/27514-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>30</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Prints on patrol: Minnesota county puts fingerprint system into squad cars]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[About 40 percent of motorists stopped by police in Minnesota don&#146;t have proper identification, such as a driver&#146;s license.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_30/27515-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>30</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Hennepin&#146;s system puts the lie to prevaricating suspects]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Before Minnesota&#146;s law enforcement agencies upgraded the Integrated Biometric Identification System last year, analysts at the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension had to physically compare fingerprints captured by officers against database records.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_30/27517-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>30</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[The Army&#146;s personnel database paves the way for DOD-wide system by 2006]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Army brass had 4,000 reasons to build the Electronic Military Personnel Office. The single system the Army created, dubbed eMILPO, gives the service a better footing on which to move military personnel data to the Defense Integrated Military Human Resources System, or DIMHRS, by 2006.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_30/27518-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>30</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Interim personnel system clicks with users]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[More than four years ago, the Army began planning to rid itself of the outdated code in its old human resources software program to make way for a new Web program called the Electronic Military Personnel Office.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_30/27521-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>30</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[DHS system puts immigration data at users' fingertips]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Keeping track of more than 50 million paper files documenting foreigners&#146; dealings with immigration authorities would be a challenge under the best of circumstances.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_30/27523-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>30</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[It&#146;s all in the files&#151;if you can find them]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Homeland Security Department&#146;s Citizenship and Immigration Services agency has millions of files, but information is worthless if users can&#146;t find it.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_30/27524-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>30</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[HHS, other agencies collaborate to make Grants.gov pay off]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[If it takes nimble cross-government collaboration to really make electronic government work, Grants.gov is well ahead of the pack.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_30/27529-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>30</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Project brings grants programs to light]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Grants.gov has helped shine light on more than 900 disparate grant programs tucked into cracks and crevices of the federal government.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_30/27530-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>30</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Air Force expands parts tracking app to other must-have data]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Air Force Knowledge Services can analyze aircraft uptime so efficiently that the Air Force is expanding it to other kinds of intelligence.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_30/27531-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>30</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[System proves its value to brass]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Air Force leaders got an unscheduled benefit from their Air Force Knowledge Services ad hoc query tool last spring when, on short notice, the Senate Armed Services Committee requested information about sea power resources.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_30/27535-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>30</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Marine Corps uses Web to track who&#146;s ready, who&#146;s not]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[When Marine Corps commanders prepare to send troops into a potentially volatile situation in Iraq, a key factor in deciding which units to deploy is the readiness of their equipment.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_30/27536-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>30</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Better, faster data has clear rewards]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[In a situation as fluid as Iraq, the flow of information is critical to support not just troops in the field, but the command structure that makes decisions about deployment.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_30/27537-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>30</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Maine&#146;s move to online services picks up speed&#151;and users]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Many states have put services for citizens and businesses online. What sets the efforts of Maine apart is how extensively users have adopted them.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_30/27538-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>30</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[User feedback keeps services on the move]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Maine secretary of state Dan Gwadosky wants to change the relationship people enjoy with government&#151;emphasis on the word enjoy.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_30/27539-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>30</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[From complex to the commonplace, EPA calls its own numbers]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Environmental Protection  Agency&#146;s finance and budget workers used to spend late nights and weekends trying to decipher the agency&#146;s budget figures.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_30/27541-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>30</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[EPA system looks ahead, in detail]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[When Congress passed the Government Performance and Results Act in 1993, the Environmental Protection Agency took the challenge head on.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_30/27543-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>30</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Carlin goes the distance for NARA]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The responsibilities of the National Archives and Records Administration are daunting by any standard. In charge of managing the essential documents that define America, the independent federal agency also responds to more than 13 million government and 2 million public requests for information annually.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_30/27544-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>30</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Nelson applies an enterprise view to EPA&#146;s systems strategy]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[A single, apt metaphor could help explain the success of Kim Nelson, CIO of the Environmental Protection Agency and recipient of GCN&#146;s Civilian Executive of the Year award.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_30/27545-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>30</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Meyerriecks helped put Defense systems on common ground]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Create a common operating environment for the military&#146;s IT infrastructure, lead the team moving the Defense Department from legacy systems and mainframes to IP networks, commercial software and PCs, and act as chief architect of the Global Command and Control System used by all of DOD today.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_30/27546-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>30</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Thompson takes Symantec well beyond its antivirus roots]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Symantec Corp. built its name on its flagship Norton system maintenance and antivirus products.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_30/27547-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>30</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[NIST scientists model grid computing]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Grid computing promises to redefine IT in-frastructures by optimizing existing resources and providing access to more processors as needed.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_30/27579-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>30</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Navy modifies NMCI service agreements]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[To keep the Navy-Marine Corps Intranet initiative from sinking under the weight of its performance agreements, the Navy has radically revamped its service requirements.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_30/27580-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>30</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[USDA offers farmers e-loan payment service]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Agriculture Department now lets farmers request loan payments online and receive them automatically in their bank accounts.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_30/27584-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>30</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Agencies look to integrators for telecom services]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Postal Service&#146;s award to Lockheed Martin Corp. of a $3 billion telecommunications infrastructure contract  signals a change in the way the government is buying voice, data and video services.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_30/27589-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>30</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Forest Service webcam is only &#145;eye&#146; close to Mount St. Helens]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[When Mount St. Helens threatened to erupt early this month and the immediate area had to be evacuated, a low-cost webcam attached to a surplus Pentium III server kept watch over the rumbling peak outside Amboy, Wash.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_30/27590-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>30</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[With Putnam&#146;s move, federal IT loses an advocate]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[With Rep. Adam Putnam&#146;s recent accession to the House Rules Committee, congressional oversight of federal IT is left in the breach.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_30/27591-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>30</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Library of Congress takes distributed approach to archiving]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Library of Congress has awarded about $15 million to eight teams to create an archive for materials that start life digitally.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_30/27592-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>30</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[GAO: Homeland Security lacks big picture on IT]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Homeland Security Department plans within the next few months to establish goals, performance measures and timelines for its eight priority IT areas, according to a new Government Accountability Office report.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_30/27593-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>30</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[DHS balks at IG&#146;s watch list findings]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[A senior House lawmaker has come to the Homeland Security Department&#146;s defense against charges from the department&#146;s inspector general that DHS has failed to take the lead in combining the government&#146;s multiple terrorist watch lists.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_30/27594-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>30</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[License dispute creates possible hurdle for TSA]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[A licensing disagreement has thrown a kink into the Transportation Security Administration&#146;s Registered Traveler program.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_30/27595-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>30</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Schmidt back as DHS adviser; Yoran bows out]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Howard Schmidt, a former Bush administration cybersecurity adviser, is returning to government as a consultant to the Homeland Security Department.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_30/27596-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>30</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Network to help soldiers get supplies safely]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Somewhere in Iraq, a soldier is driving to an Army post to hand-deliver a compact disk with supply orders for equipment.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_30/27599-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>30</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Grants team proposes pods of systems, not one]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[A task force charged with finding the best way to manage grants spending has recommended the Office of Management and Budget build on a consortium model instead of a centralized platform.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_30/27600-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>30</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[HHS has plan to boost financial health]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Managers in the Health and Human Services Department complain that their financial systems are &#147;held together with duct tape and baling wire,&#148; a department executive said, but they&#146;ll have to wait a little longer for something better.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_30/27601-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Cyber tinkering]]></title>
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