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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>33</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[New standard could reshuffle smart cards]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Nearly 4 million smart cards in use by government do not match the specifications set out this month in a proposed standard for a governmentwide identification card.]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>33</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[EA or BUST]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Fed up with the lack of progress Defense has made on modernizing its business systems, Congress is threatening fines of $5,000 and jail time for the department&#146;s comptroller if systems do not comply with the EA]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_33/27950-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>33</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Rapid, really]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Rapid application development in the 1990s was, generally speaking, a contradiction in terms.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_33/27925-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>33</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[The lowdown on RAD tools]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[What are they? RAD tools are software that can be used to quickly build applications others can use.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_33/27926-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>33</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Davis, Calif., gets fast with ColdFusion]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Seth Duffey, a systems specialist for the City of Davis, Calif., started off developing with Microsoft&#146;s Visual Basic, but he&#146;s left the tool and isn&#146;t turning back.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_33/27927-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>33</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[People on the Move]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Kurt N. Molholm, an administrator at the Defense Technical Information Center with more than 44 years of federal service under his belt, retired Nov. 1. ]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_33/27967-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>33</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Speakers raise the bar in Hershey]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Feds and industry executives gathered in Hershey, Pa., recently to kick around new ideas on running the government at the Industry Advisory Council&#146;s Executive Leadership Conference.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_33/27968-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>33</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[DISA moves ahead with VOIP ]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Warfighters in Iraq are making phone calls over the Internet.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_33/27911-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>33</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Major programs within DISA]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Global Information Grid-Bandwidth Expansion: Through the $900 million program, DISA is creating a Synchronous Optical Network with throughput of 10 Gbps to handle classified and unclassified data.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_33/27912-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>33</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Electronic medical records go into combat]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[As an Army medic responding to medical emergencies in Macedonia in the early 1990s, Sgt. Tommy Morris thought there had to be a better way to keep patients&#146; records.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_33/27923-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>33</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[DOD revs up satellite strategy]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The military intends to launch special-purpose satellites for global communications over the next two decades, at a total cost of $18 billion.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_33/27924-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>33</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Health IT czar seeks help on interoperability]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Health and Human Services Department is looking to industry for help on electronic health records and health systems interoperability.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_33/27952-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>33</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Justice gets security app for 100,000 users]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Justice Department has signed a four-year, department-wide license for Enterprise Mobile Security Manager software from Senforce Technologies Inc. for about 100,000 users.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_33/27953-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>33</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[DOD wraps up third round of IPv6 testing]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Defense Department has completed a third round of testing for its migration to the next-generation IP.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_33/27954-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>33</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[NARA wants to lighten your]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Under a proposed rule from the National Archives and Records Administration, agencies no longer would have to keep nonessential e-mail after the mandated retention period of 90 to 180 days.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_33/27955-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>33</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[GAO&#146;s second HITS decision due this week]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Before Thanksgiving, the Government Accountability Office will add another episode to the ongoing drama of the Housing and Urban Development Department&#146;s IT services buy when it rules on the second protest filed by the losing vendor.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_33/27956-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>33</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Agencies sign IT equipment recycling pact]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Eleven agencies have pledged to use environmentally sustainable methods of managing federal IT assets.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_33/27957-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>33</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Needed: self-configuring networks ]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Army Col. Timothy Gibson is no stranger to strange ideas.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_33/27910-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>33</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[&#147;Did you hear...&#148; ]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Fleeing north? The recent election was apparently more polarizing than previously reported.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_33/27969-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>33</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Packet Rat: Rat worries agency users could be phish food]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Rat hauled his three offspring to Baltimore&#146;s National Aquarium on Veterans Day&#151;partially out of parental duty and partially because the bottom of the Atlantic coral reef exhibit is one of the deadest wireless dead spots in the greater Baltimore-Washington area.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_33/27971-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>33</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[VIRTUAL space: Backseat driver]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Things slow at the office? If you haven&#146;t already, take a spin around Mars at NASA&#146;s M2K4 Web site]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_33/27972-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>33</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Everybody has a role in evaluating technology]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[You just got out of a long meeting and could use a bit of a stretch.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_33/27894-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>33</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[The business end of new IT]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[In an era when IT is treated as a capital investment whose principal purpose is to support agency goals, no technology is an island.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_33/27895-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>33</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[The bottom LINE]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[For government agencies today, technology evaluation isn&#146;t the sole province of the IT shop.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_33/27896-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>33</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Army PEO goes for the edge]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Emerson Keslar has memory sticks on the mind.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_33/27897-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>33</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Which test is best?]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Last month, NASA announced it was running what may well be world&#146;s fastest computer.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_33/27899-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>33</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Boot camp]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Developers of the Army Recruiter Information Support System knew they had a scattered&#151;and mobile&#151;user base.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_33/27900-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>33</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Federal contract law: Managing contractors is essential to transformation]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Contractors have played a more direct role in the Iraq and Afghanistan conflicts&#151;and their aftermath&#151;than in any other modern campaign.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_33/27902-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>33</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Chiefs might change, but management stays the same ]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[When Colin Powell arrived at the State Department four years ago, its IT infrastructure was in shambles. ]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_33/27958-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>33</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Bigger scope means bigger Networx price tag]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[By adding new technologies and services to the scope of the government&#146;s next-generation telecommunications contract, the General Services Administration has doubled the contract&#146;s potential value to $20 billion.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_33/27959-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>33</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Treasury testing tools to help connect the dots]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Federal investigators trying to disrupt terrorist financing expect to get more analytical muscle from a new system run by the Treasury Department&#146;s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_33/27960-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>33</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[GSA pushes agencies to use more performance-based contracts]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Before signing on to use the General Services Administration&#146;s procurement services, agencies will need to answer a simple question: Why can&#146;t this buy be performance-based?]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_33/27961-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>33</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Success at IRS? Systems coming online at last]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Having brought four systems online over the past few months, the IRS and contractor Computer Sciences Corp. want to build on the momentum they have gained in the Business Systems Modernization program.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_33/27962-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>33</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Military services open the door to GIG-BE]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Defense Information Systems Agency is footing the bill to wire its next-generation network to the doorstep of military agencies, but it&#146;s up to the individual services to make sure the net reaches users.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_33/27963-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>33</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[DHS&#146; 2005 rallying cry: Unify]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The top priority of the Homeland Security Department in the coming year will be to align its IT purchases to gain momentum in consolidating its component agencies and their systems.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_33/27964-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>33</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[DHS, Justice plan to integrate case management systems]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[While the Homeland Security Department works to coordinate its IT assets, it is taking steps to make its case management systems interoperable with those at other agencies.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_33/27965-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>33</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[A few steps forward, a few back]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Amit Yoran recently described his one-year tenure as the government&#146;s cybersecurity czar as &#147;an interesting political experience&#148; and assessed his accomplishments with a combination of satisfaction and frustration.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_33/27966-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>33</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Blow up those myths]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[If your Thanksgiving table is anything like mine, you&#146;ll face the usual divisions along belief lines&#151;animated by the results of recent national contests.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_33/27913-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>33</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Another View: E-government is changing]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[he U.S. government is not the only one trying to figure out the next steps in e-government, outsourcing and communications.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_33/27914-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>33</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Significa]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Federal Judicial Center&#146;s site at www.fjc.gov has a narrative and excerpts from court documents about the Amistad case, which was a sensation in the 1840s and became a movie more than 150 years later.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_33/27915-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>33</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Editorial Cartoon]]></title>
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 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_33/27916-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>33</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Newest Palm puts on a burst of speed]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[In the past, our biggest complaint in the GCN Lab concerning PalmOne handhelds had to do with the 66-MHz Motorola and 126-MHz Texas Instruments chips many of these devices came with.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_33/27928-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>33</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[MapInfo brings GIS to the masses]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[With a lot of mapping software, functionality is about three things: location, location and location.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_33/27929-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>33</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Sony LCD is a wide screen for your PC]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The trend toward stretching liquid crystal displays into letterbox-style rectangles started with televisions and presentation monitors, quickly spreading to the screens in notebook PCs.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_33/27930-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>33</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[System backups made easy]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Quick question for all you feds out there: How many of you regularly back up your data files on all your computers, including notebooks and home PCs? ]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_33/27931-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>33</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Buying into the architecture]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[When Arlington County, Va., bought the first of its three mobile command vehicles, the county&#146;s technology office had to change the truck&#146;s server configuration after it had been delivered.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_33/27907-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>33</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[State lines]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Agencies applying for grants from the Housing and Urban Development Department must have a Data Universal Numbering System number starting Dec. 9.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_33/27908-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>33</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Feed the Network]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Defense Department was on to something when it came across a new way to send out press releases and contract announcements&#151;an Extensible Markup Language flavor called RSS.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_33/27919-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>33</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Cyber Eye: How public should our public data be? ]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[In an old &#147;Rocky and Bullwinkle&#148; episode, the dithering Capt. Peter Peachfuzz confounded the heroes by classifying a telephone directory Top Secret.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_33/27920-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
 <issue>33</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[@Info.Policy: For HUD, privacy is a menu]]></title>
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