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 <volume>23</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Breaking point]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Don&#146;t be mistaken: Optical disks won&#146;t last forever.Many users think the disks are indestructible, but they are wrong, said Fred Byers, an IT specialist at the National Institute of Standards and Technology.]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Old DOD net is key to new global grid]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The $900 million Global Information Grid-Bandwidth Expansion program will give the Defense Information System Network a new lease on life. The Defense Department will use the existing DISN infrastructure to provide last-mile connectivity to the global grid, a ground-based switched optical network that will create a worldwide information backbone supporting 10-Gbps and faster connections.]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Dangers in disguise]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Pundits often throw around the phrase &#147;digital convergence&#148; to describe how Internet and computing technologies are changing everything from television to telephone calls. But there&#146;s another, somewhat less friendly digital convergence happening on the fringes of the technology world&#151;the merging threats of unsolicited e-mail marketing and malicious software.]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[The lowdown on malware]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[What&#146;s malware? Software written for malicious purposes, such as:viruses, or programs that spread through altered or &#147;infected&#148; data filesTrojan horses, or software that poses as something else to get a computer user to execute its functionspyware, or software that tracks the activities of a computer user and reports them back to the developerback-doors, or software that provides a way for a hacker to circumvent security and gain access to functions of the computer the software is installed on.]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[People on the Move]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[John Sindelar, the General Services Administration&#146;s deputy associate administrator for governmentwide policy, will split his time between the Office of Management and Budget and GSA to help OMB kick-start its business consolidation initiatives.]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[At 25, ACT makes the scene in Washington]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The American Council for Technology put work aside one recent night to mark 25 years of leadership in the government IT community with a gala at Washington&#146;s Union Station.]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Homeland security? Let&#146;s talk]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association put homeland security on the table late last month during a three-day conference in Washington. Panels took up issues ranging from state, local and federal collaboration to critical infrastructure to management challenges.]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[EA serves NIH&#146;s clinical diversity]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The National Institutes of Health faces a mixed challenge in IT management.It must meet the needs of a diverse group of scientists at clinical institutes studying AIDS, cancer, and blood, heart and many other diseases. But the agency also is working to consolidate systems and develop an enterprise architecture.]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Major programs within NIH]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Certain Computer Equipment Resources and Technology Acquisition. NIH is updating its biomedical, statistical and administrative computer systems. The Division of Computer Research and Technology provides computer and technical support, and services for research and management programs in NIH and other parts of the Health and Human Services Department. The program will integrate existing NIH-wide applications and provide new technologies as the agency moves to a client-server architecture.8Contract value: $55.3 million, expires at year end.Lead contractor: Northrop Grumman Corp.Contracting officer: Julius Tidwell]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[AF sets sights on night-flight training]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Air Force is building a prototype system to simulate flying with night vision goggles to improve safety for F-16 undergoing training.Air Force officials said pilots need the simulation system, which will be delivered in September, because the service has seen a number of fatalities during night vision goggle training, in which pilots learned while flying.]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Marine Corps logistics systems are better on MERIT]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Until a little over a year ago, managing the Marine Corps&#146; logistics systems was a case of having too many balls in the air.&#147;We had so many [systems] that were trying to collect and report on readiness data, and information generally was 30 to 90 days old,&#148; said Michael A. Williamson, deputy director for studies and analysis for the Logistics Command in Albany, Ga.]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Incoming]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Better mileage. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, under its Connectionless Networks program, has hired seven contractors to develop techniques for reducing the amount of energy required for data transmission.]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[SBC first vendor  to gain FTS 2001 crossover deal]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The General Services Administration&#146;s FTS 2001 telecommunications contract has a new long-distance provider: SBC Communications Inc. of San Antonio.]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[FAA awards $140m deal to aid TMA rollout]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Federal Aviation Administration awarded Computer Sciences Corp. a $140 million task order to continue to support the rollout of the Traffic Management Advisory Tool.]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Net-centric plan will cost $200b, Boeing exec says ]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The integrated space-air-land-sea battlespace envisioned by the Defense Department and industry will cost about $200 billion over the next decade, Boeing Co.&#146;s Roger Roberts said last week.]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Justice set to award network contracts soon]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[ORLANDO, Fla.&#151;The Justice Department plans to award a pair of contracts for its Justice Unified Telecommunications Network project in the next six weeks.]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[GSA establishes team to improve Web site design]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[ORLANDO, Fla.&#151;The General Services Administration has kicked off a usability training project to improve government Web design practices.The agency formed the Usability Solutions Group in the Office of Governmentwide Policy, said Rosemary A. Gibert, a member of the new office, which has three staff members but will expand to 10 employees and add contract staff.]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[OMB task groups will analyze HR and financial IT]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[ORLANDO, Fla.&#151;The Office of Management and Budget has formed two task groups to study ways for the government to consolidate human resources and financial systems.]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Three agencies combine biotech regs on portal]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Agricultural biotechnology regulations from three federal agencies have been brought together at a single portal. The site, usbiotechreg.nbii.gov, is a &#147;one-stop shop for people who are interested in regulation of biotechnology,&#148; said Megan Thomas, a spokeswoman for the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service.]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[GSA tinkers with Networx plan]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The General Services Administration is considering major changes to Networx, its $10 billion telecommunications governmentwide acquisition follow-on to FTS 2001, GSA officials told lawmakers late last month.]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Pushing for cybersecurity, e-gov]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Sen. Susan Collins was born into a political family. Her mother and father each served at separate times as the mayor of Caribou, Maine. So it came as no surprise when her first job out of college in 1975 was working on the Washington staff of Maine Sen. William Cohen, an author of the Clinger-Cohen Act. After 12 years of working for the Republican lawmaker, Collins served as a cabinet secretary for Gov. John McKernan for five years and as head of the New England regional office of the Small Business Administration for a year.]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Packet Rat: Rat rolls his own version of an e-mailer ID ]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Few things jar the Rat&#146;s concentration worse than a ringing telephone&#151;especially when there are plenty of hands available to answer it.  &#147;Will somebody  stop  that abominable noise,&#148; he shouted from his lair one recent morning, having just soldered his fingers together. The household landline rang a fifth time.]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Personal space: Footwork]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Wayne R. Spencer likes martial arts, from wrestling with the Naval Tactical Command Support System at the Navy&#146;s St. Juliens Creek Annex in Portsmouth, Va., to teaching tae kwon do and combat hapkido most evenings at a local YMCA. What does he do in his spare time? &#147;On weekends, I study judo and jujitsu,&#148; Spencer says.]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[&#147;Did you hear...&#148; ]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Talk Skype. Like the Kazaa and Gnutella peer-to-peer file sharing networks that preceded it, Skype will tempt thieves. More than 7.8 million users have already downloaded the voice-over-IP beta software in a dozen languages within a month of its late January release, according to www.skype.com. Up to five Skype users can conference on a VOIP call&#151;totally free to them. Telcos are going to lose a lot of long-distance business, but what worries network administrators more is that Skype takes up bandwidth and resources without monitoring&#151;and it claims to work through any firewall. ]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_5/25193-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Online Extra: OMB is defining final phase for e-gov projects]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Each of the Office of Management and Budget&#146;s 25 Quicksilver e-government projects will be rolled out by the end of the summer, administration officials vow. Next: How they'll be used.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_5/25165-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Find ready-made enterprise pieces at CORE.gov]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Need a component for your agency&#146;s enterprise architecture? Check out www.core.gov.CORE.gov, the new Federal Enterprise Architecture Component Organization and Registration Environment, will store existing components as well as those under development.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_5/25168-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[OMB sets SmartBuy action plan]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Office of Management and Budget is taking its search for savings to the users&#146; desktops. A new directive requires agencies to use the new SmartBuy enterprise license program, inventory software bought last year and detail software buying plans for this year.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_5/25177-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[JFMIP certifies PeopleSoft 8.8 for government ]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Joint Financial Management Improvement Program has certified PeopleSoft Enterprise Financial Management Solutions 8.8 as a core federal financial application.]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[OMB to demand more detailed business cases]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Agencies can expect to do more work on their fiscal 2006 IT business cases than they&#146;ve had to do in previous years. The Office of Management and Budget is considering requiring agencies to follow separate steps in filing business cases for ongoing projects and for initiatives&#146; development, modernization and enhancement phases. OMB also plans to change some rules for contract management and software buying.]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[OPM&#146;s path to green paved by IT security]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[As the leaves turned brown last fall, Office of Personnel Management IT officials could only think about green. CIO Janet Barnes hoped OPM would become only the second agency to earn a green rating for its e-government work on the President&#146;s Management Agenda scorecard.]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Feds propose security standards]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[SAN FRANCISCO&#151;Everyone had a different take on standards-based security at the recent RSA Conference 2004. Advocates touted three proposed security standards and a handful of technical specifications.]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Agencies improve IT security, but there&#146;s still work left to do]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Agency IT security has shown marked progress in the last year, but too many agencies still fall short of meeting the goals of the Federal Information Security Management Act.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_5/25183-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Data-sharing projects begin to gel]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[As agencies sort out the homeland security and defense tasks they must perform, two integration centers are making progress sharing counterterrorism information among many organizations.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_5/25185-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[DHS tactical network begins nationwide use]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Homeland Security Department&#146;s new tactical response network will &#147;receive and share tactical information, and quickly piece together the puzzle and see if an incident poses a threat,&#148; DHS secretary Tom Ridge says.]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Stop the tide?]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Congress and the agencies are struggling with the issue of whether federal contracting dollars should be spent on software development in low-wage foreign countries. The option is on hold for a year thanks to a provision in the fiscal 2004 omnibus appropriations bill. But that stoppage is comparable to shoveling back the tide.]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Another View: Good decision-making needs good IT]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The purported intelligence failures regarding Iraqi weapons of mass destruction are stark reminders of the role IT has&#151;or should have&#151;in fixing longstanding government problems.]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Significa]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Spam: Can&#146;t live with it, can&#146;t completely choke it off. Legal efforts to stem the flow of bandwidth-gobbling junk e-mail proceed slowly. But the Federal Trade Commission and 36 agencies in 26 countries are working to stem the flow of spam. Operation Secure Your Server is an international effort to close open relays and open proxies that provide gateways for spam. Open relays and open proxies are servers that allow any computer in the world to bounce or route e-mail through the servers of other organizations, thereby disguising the real origin of the e-mail. Spammers often use these servers to flood the Internet with unwanted e-mail and potentially damage unwitting organizations&#146; reputations if it appears that they sent the spam. ]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Editoral Cartoon]]></title>
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 <volume>23</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Aces of space beat a full house]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[For most government workers, the most valuable piece of real estate is three or four square feet of space on their desks. Unfortunately, too much of that work area is hogged by a CRT monitor, keyboard, mouse and a CPU or two, not to mention a telephone and possibly a fax machine.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_5/25147-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Small-foot iMac has a lot of kick]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The iMac all-in-one system with a 20-inch display is an amazing piece of hardware.Apple Computer Inc. invented the all-in-one way back in the days of the Mac Classic. A lot has changed since then, however.]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[As budgets get tight, states consolidate]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The economic downturn that has squeezed IT budgets over the last four years is forcing many state and local governments to consolidate systems to cut costs.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_5/25118-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[DHS will pare down state funding requests]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Homeland Security Department likely will not grant states all the money requested in security plans they recently submitted, but will instead focus more on helping to fund crucial systems.]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[State lines]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Election reform. Congress has appropriated $500 million in the 2004 catchall spending bill for grants to help states improve voting technology.The Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2004 states that the half-billion-dollar grant kitty will assist state and local efforts to improve election technology and administration of federal elections.]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Gimme Shelter]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Personnel at 1,400 military recruiting centers sometimes live far from the nearest Army, Navy or Air Force base.  &#147;It lets our recruiters be a part of the community where they are working,&#148; said John Curry, leased housing program manager for the Navy Recruiting Command. But living off-base can make housing difficult to find. ]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Big Apple]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[With  one significant, and somewhat  surprising, accomplishment already to their credit, researchers at Virginia Tech are building the infrastructure for a new, highly networked Terascale Computing Facility they hope will win funding from an upcoming National Science Foundation program.]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Cyber Eye: Entrepreneurs seek market in Can-Spam compliance]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[A recent study of 40,000 pieces of unsolicited commercial e-mail found that only 3 percent complied with the Controlling the Assault of Non-Solicited Pornography and Marketing Act of 2003.]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Library of Congress plans new film, video portal ]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Library of Congress will in the fall launch the first centralized database portal for motion pictures and video images.The portal will be &#147;a gateway to the world&#146;s moving-image collections,&#148; said Gregory Lukow, assistant chief of the Library&#146;s Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division.]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Hybrid software deflects attackers with guile]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Fremont, Calif., a Silicon Valley city of 200,000, doesn&#146;t sound like a top target for network hacks. But when war began last spring in Iraq, the city&#146;s Web site, at www.ci.fremont.ca.us, received scores of hits from locations in the Middle East.]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[@Info.Policy: An inch closer to a privacy disaster]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[For nearly 30 years, individuals have used the Privacy Act of 1974 to access their own records held by federal agencies. The act allows disclosure under many circumstances, including with the data subject&#146;s written consent. That sounds easy, but the consent onion has many layers.]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Command unifies Unix, Windows inventories]]></title>
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