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 <title><![CDATA[Trick or Treat]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[President Bush. President Kerry.]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>31</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Keeping data sources confidential]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[When it comes to statistical data, the Energy Department is between a rock and a hard place.]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>31</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Setting sites on Section 508]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Software tools&#151;and a little forethought&#151;can make sure your Web pages work for every user]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>31</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[The lowdown on Section 508]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[What is it? Section 508 encompasses the rules federal agencies must follow in publishing electronic documents and otherwise making them accessible to disabled staff or citizens.]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>31</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[People on the Move]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[David M. Mihelcic, former chief engineer for the Global Information Grid-Bandwidth Expansion program, has been named chief technology officer for the Defense Information Systems Agency.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_31/27718-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>31</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[FDA, IRS sites honored for Web performance]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Web sites of the Food and Drug Administration and the IRS are winners of the first Keynote Performance Awards, announced today in New York.]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>31</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[At PSX, the stuff that deals are made of]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Government contracting for services, with a heavy emphasis on performance-based acquisition, drew the attention of feds at the Professional Services Expo this month in Washington.]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>31</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[VA sets management marching orders]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Consistency is the key to successful management of IT projects, officials at the Veterans Affairs Department believe.]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>31</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Major programs within VA]]></title>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>31</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Joint warfare requires more collaboration]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Joint Forces Command has built a new command and control facility for civilian and military agencies and NATO countries that its chief promises will be &#147;a vibrant intellectual engine.&#148;]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_31/27671-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>31</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Intel community looks to EA to build up information sharing]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The intelligence community&#151;the collection of federal agencies that gather, analyze and disseminate intelligence&#151;needs to adopt an enterprise architecture to break down the barriers that have long prevented its members from sharing information.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_31/27672-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>31</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Agencies now eligible for Baldrige award]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Government agencies are now eligible to compete for the National Institute of Standards and Technology&#146;s prestigious Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Awards.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_31/27697-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>31</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Agency cluster use may double in two years]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Agencies plan to double the number of high-performance computing clusters they use over the next two years, according to a new survey.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_31/27698-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>31</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Accounting agency group endorses XBRL]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[When it comes to moving financial data, the Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council is bullish on the Extensible Business Reporting Language.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_31/27699-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>31</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Energy widens scope of R&amp;D search engine]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[An Energy Department search engine now includes more than a half-million summaries of federally funded R&amp;D, reaching out to project databases at four more agencies.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_31/27700-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>31</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[IG says IRS&#146; Unix systems need audit trail]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The IRS needs to expend more effort to monitor its Unix computers, the Treasury Department inspector general for tax administration says.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_31/27701-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>31</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[DOT IG flags cybersecurity improvements]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Transportation Department needs to do a better job assessing systems for security weaknesses, according to a new report from the DOT inspector general.]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>31</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Coviello: Feds must take security lead]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The government must lead by example when it comes to online security and privacy, RSA Security Inc.&#146;s Art Coviello told the Congressional Internet Caucus this month.]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>31</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[IT security is the industry&#146;s burden]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Paul Kurtz heads the Cyber Security Industry Alliance of Washington.]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>31</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Online Extra: Online resources on accessibility and Section 508]]></title>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>31</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[&#147;Did you hear...&#148; ]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[BitDefender takes umbrage. Antivirus vendor BitDefender of Bucharest, Romania, last month complained that rival McAfee Inc. of Santa Clara, Calif., had defamed BitDefender&#146;s software as a virus in a Google.com ad.]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>31</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Personal space: Corvette Central]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[There&#146;s not a speck of dust on the engines of these classic sports cars, which were driven to work at the Energy Department last month by IRM analyst Lawrence Robertson and Dan Woomer, a program analyst in the Office of Resource Management&#151;along with 19 other proud Energy employees.]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>31</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Packet Rat: Rat wonders what gives with the cyberczar hot seat]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Typically speaking, you can tell how someone feels they&#146;ve been treated in their job by how much notice they give when they leave. ]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_31/27725-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>31</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[From his lips: John Kerry]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[&#147;It&#146;s about providing our first responders with a secure, wireless network that will arm them with the best communications network so they can better protect America.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_31/27685-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>31</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[From his lips: George W. Bush]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[&#147;Within 10 years, every American must have a personal electronic medical record.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_31/27686-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>31</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Homeland Security CIO gains clout, funding]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Homeland Security Department CIO Steve Cooper will have far more control over critical IT programs and four times as much money to spend as a result of the Homeland Security appropriations bill President George W. Bush signed into law last week.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_31/27705-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>31</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Industry lobbies for cybersecurity job to get higher profile within DHS]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Industry lobbies for cybersecurity job to get higher profile within DHSSeveral major IT trade groups want the Bush administration to boost the status of the cybersecurity chief job within the Homeland Security Department.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_31/27706-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>31</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Global grid will have data assurance &#145;baked in&#146;]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The National Security Agency is revising its 2-month-old, 2,200-page information assurance roadmap for the Defense Department&#146;s Global Information Grid.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_31/27707-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>31</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[GAO to investigate OMB&#146;s IT project at-risk list]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Since the Office of Management and Budget will not voluntarily give its management watch list to Rep. Adam Putnam, the Florida Republican has sent the Government Accountability Office after it.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_31/27708-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>31</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Congress OKs Defense spending&#151;with IT caveats]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Congress has given the Defense Department the nod to spend nearly half a trillion dollars next year, but it has put some restrictions on money used for technology projects.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_31/27709-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>31</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Hill backs off on provision to ban Defense schedule buys]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Lawkmakers have scaled back a plan to limit how the Defense Department buys goods and services through General Services Administration contracts.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_31/27710-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>31</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Union officials say A-76 protest language is too watered down]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Unions, federal employees and the administration&#146;s former procurement chief said lawmakers missed the boat in writing a provision to give agency workers the right to protest public-private competitions.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_31/27712-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>31</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Ethernet over phone lines catches on]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[&#147;Optical fiber is the future, but it&#146;s not everywhere&#148; like copper telephone wiring, the president of the Ethernet in the First Mile Alliance told an audience of 100 small-agency CIOs last week in Washington.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_31/27713-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>31</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Expect some changes in the ranks of appointees]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Like lemmings to the sea, political appointees and senior managers stage a mass exodus from the government every four years following the presidential election.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_31/27714-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>31</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[VA smart-card rollout begins with a trickle]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Veterans Affairs Department is pinning its plans to roll out smart cards to all users on a test it just began at a small hospital in Fayetteville, Ark.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_31/27715-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>31</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Breakdown of DHS' IT funding for 2005]]></title>
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 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_31/27728-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>31</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Two views on competitive sourcing]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[A hot issue &#151; public-private competitions for federal work &#151; for federal contractors and for politicians on both sides of the aisle isn&#146;t going to get less controversial. But its direction could change dramatically. ]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_31/27729-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>31</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Feds fear offshore outsourcing, while contractors fear a backlash]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Government employees and contractors are worried about offshore outsourcing, but for different reasons.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_31/27730-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>31</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[E-voting rollout is slow going]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Help America Vote Act of 2002 set aside nearly $4 billion to help states replace obsolete voting technology and modernize their voter registration systems, but problems in determining the best way to meet these goals have slowed the efforts greatly.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_31/27731-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>31</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Again, a choice]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[It&#146;s gonna be another close one. ]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_31/27657-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>31</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Another View: RFID tags secure vital hardware ]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[In the third known incident of its kind in two years, the Los Alamos National Laboratory is again faced with the embarrassing reality of missing classified data.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_31/27658-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>31</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Significa]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Getting ready for the holidays? The General Services Administration has helpfully posted links to Thanksgiving recipes at www.pueblo.gsa.gov.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_31/27660-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>31</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Edtiorial cartoon]]></title>
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 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_31/27662-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>31</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[All eyes (and hands) on biometrics]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The first fingerprint biometrics vendors made both the hardware and the software for their devices.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_31/27676-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>31</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Jarrett takes NASCIO reins]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[As the National Association of State CIOs has seen an influx of new members in recent months, Tom Jarrett&#146;s three years as Delaware&#146;s CIO makes him a relative veteran.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_31/27652-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>31</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[State lines]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Outsourcing cancellation. The Florida State Office of Technology has said it will terminate contracts with BearingPoint Inc. for data center services and with Accenture Ltd. for applications management.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_31/27653-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>31</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Secure at Last?]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Robert West, the Homeland Security Department&#146;s chief information security officer, made the rounds at an after-hours social event during a conference last summer.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_31/27663-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>31</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Intel is doing its own WiFi testing]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[In a Chantilly, Va., laboratory, Intel Corp. engineers are conducting their own interoperability testing of wireless networking products.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_31/27664-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>31</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Mesh network comes up aces in Vegas]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Downtown traffic often slows to a crawl in Las Vegas, one of the nation&#146;s fastest-growing cities.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_31/27665-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>31</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Cyber Eye: Dueling proposals for improving cybersecurity ]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Amit Yoran, then the Homeland Security Department&#146;s head of cybersecurity, attended a Sept. 30 event to kick off National Cybersecurity Awareness Month.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_31/27667-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>31</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[@Info.Policy: Census Bureau stumbles over DHS request]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Census Bureau stubbed its toe this summer when it gave Arab-American population statistics to the Homeland Security Department.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_31/27668-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>31</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[D.C. enters battle for radio spectrum]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[At a Capitol Hill demonstration last month, the District of Columbia launched a yearlong, $27 million pilot of a high-speed, wireless video and data network for first responders.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_31/27669-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>31</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Safecom makes its presence felt]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Even without a lot of money to throw around, the Homeland Security Department&#146;s Safecom program makes its influence felt, says David Boyd, Safecom&#146;s director.]]></description>
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