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 <title><![CDATA[DOD to vendors: Join PKI system or take a hike]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[If vendors don&#146;t register by April 1 for encryption certificates to do business with the Defense Department, DOD intends to severely limit their ability to work on contracts.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Enough coddling&#151;OMB  demands results from IT]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[After three years of holding agencies&#146; hands, waiting for their infrastructures to settle into place and putting up with systems chiefs&#146; anxieties, Bush administration officials think it&#146;s time that federal IT deliver on the promised results. &#147;We can get to where we want to be. It is just a question of making sure there is plenty of rigor and discipline to make sure agencies understand what their goals are,&#148; OMB&#146;s Clay Johnson says.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[High-speed travelers]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[You can find plenty of powerful notebook PCs on vendor Web sites and retail shelves, and many of them are available at surprisingly low prices. But if you want exactly the right PC for your requirements, do a little digging first.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[The lowdown on power notebook PC]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[What are they? A power notebook PC has a fast processor balanced with an appropriate chip set, at least 512M of SDRAM, at least one magnetic hard drive, a CD-RW/DVD combo drive or better, a V.90/92 modem, an Ethernet or Gigabit Ethernet interface and wireless capability. Some have 16- or 17-inch displays; most come standard with a 15-inch or slightly larger XGA or SXGA screen.]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[People on the Move]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Defense Department CIO John Stenbit will do pro bono work for the National Security Agency Advisory Board after his pending retirement.The board advises NSA&#146;s director and Central Security Service on technical issues involving signals intelligence, information security, science, technology, business procedures and management.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[DHS, industry look ahead]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Homeland Security Department issued a challenge at a recent industry forum in Washington, during which it outlined what it needs from technology in the coming years.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Digital defenders get their due]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Business Software Alliance this month conferred its Cyber Champion Awards on several legislators and one educator for their efforts toward improving the digital world.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Feds get a grip on what managing knowledge means]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Knowledge management is often seen as a diffuse and difficult-to-understand management practice.But many rank-and-file government IT managers and specialists in a GCN telephone survey feel they have a handle on it.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Base-closing review teams tap database]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[For almost two decades, the military has been closing and realigning installations to save billions of dollars and to reduce the redundancies that grew out of Cold War military buildups.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Defense tinkers with rules for major systems buys]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Defense Department has proposed 14 new rules for the Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement to streamline procurements.The proposals deal with major systems acquisitions, including establishing a framework for a new DFARS companion resource and deleting or revising hundreds of pages of obsolete text. The Office of the Director of Defense Procurement and Acquisition Policy published the proposal last month. It is part of the DFARS transformation initiative to speed up the acquisition process.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Incoming]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Biometrics site. The Defense Department&#146;s Biometrics Management Office and Biometrics Fusion Center have established a new Web site.The site, at www.biometrics.dod.mil, offers biometric technology tutorials, test and evaluation updates, policy background, educational program announcements and information on government and industry partnerships.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Lawmaker seeks agency FISMA accountability]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Impatient with agencies&#146; slow progress in meeting federal IT security requirements, Rep. Adam Putnam wants to hold senior officials accountable for their agencies&#146; compliance with the Federal Information Security Management Act.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Cancer network to speed sharing of research data ]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The National Cancer Institute has begun developing a biomedical electronic information network through which scientists can share research data.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[DHS to require interoperability to get grants]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[To improve voice and data interoperability among state and local first-response systems, the Homeland Security Department plans to require governments seeking grants for such applications to adhere to specific technical standards and protocols.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[NIH unifies its grants software under J2EE ]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The National Institutes of Health will upgrade its research grants application and processing system to an object-oriented architecture using Java2 Enterprise Edition.]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[D.C. to create public-safety command post]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The District of Columbia this month broke ground on a Unified Communications Center on the campus of St. Elizabeths Hospital in southeast Washington.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[GSA prepares for follow-on to FedBizOpps]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The General Services Administration this month plans to release a draft request for proposals to upgrade and enhance FedBizOpps, the government&#146;s procurement portal.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[E-filing bolsters IRS enforcement]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Electronic filing has made dealing with the IRS easier for millions of taxpayers. The next step is to improve the effectiveness of the agency&#146;s investigators and auditors.]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[When buying IT, agencies need choice]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Juniper Networks Inc. in December tapped Dubhe Beinhorn to head its new federal unit.By year&#146;s end, the Sunnyvale, Calif., vendor&#146;s federal vice president had announced her first big sale: a spot on the Defense Information Systems Agency&#146;s Global Information Grid-Bandwidth Expansion project. Juniper was one of four vendors initially tapped to support the high-profile project.]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Packet Rat: Rodent Avatar Techie reinvents acronyms]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[With the political season in full swing, the Hatch Act has choked off the flow of wit in and around the Rat&#146;s cluster of cubicles. As for mocking Microsoft Corp. over its latest security faux pas or SCO Inc. for its lawsuits against Linuxites ... well, those topics have gotten old.]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Personal space: For the birds]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The 6-year-old caique parrots&#151;Clyde on the left, Bonnie right&#151;get into mischief like their bank-robbing namesakes, said Mark Silverman, public-key infrastructure manager for the Health and Human Services Department. In fact, he says, &#147;They would make good progr]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[&#147;Did you hear...&#148; ]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Talking pills. Your agency probably employs a few of these, but we&#146;re talking about the kind that come with a prescription label speechified by MediavoxRX, a subsidiary of Wizzard Software Corp. of Pittsburgh, or iVoice Inc. of Matawan, N.J. Just touch the label to convert the physician&#146;s scribble into spoken instructions. We can hear it now: &#147;Take one every two hours, you fool.&#148; ]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Winners break new ground]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Innovation and a focus on government users ruled the day during judging for this year&#146;s Best New Technology Awards at FOSE. The field was loaded with products that not only qualified as good technologies, but were genuinely new.]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Best in show &amp; enterprise systems software: Qovia helps make VOIP systems ring true]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Bill Miller, desktop services manager for Nevada County, Calif., is a believer in voice over IP. The efficiencies of combining voice and data networks make it a logical choice for almost anyone faced with changing out an aging telephone system, he said. &#147;I just can&#146;t see any reason for doing anything else, except for the fear factor.&#148;]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Security products&#151;software: With UltraBac, recovery is good as Gold]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[When disaster strikes, image can be everything.That&#146;s the approach UltraBac Software of Bellevue, Wash., takes. The company&#146;s UltraBac Disaster Recovery Gold uses disk-imaging technology to create a backup of Microsoft Windows servers and PCs.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_6/25286-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Peripherals: HP system writes a new chapter in forms automation]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[How many government forms can fit on the tip of a pen?Quite a few, if it&#146;s a digital pen that can read the forms and record the pen&#146;s movements.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_6/25287-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Portable Computers: MPC T3000 is in touch with security needs]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Even at first glance, it&#146;s apparent the MPC TransPort T3000 is designed with security in mind. MPC pioneered the integration of fingerprint recognition technology in high-performance notebook PCs, and the T3000 is no exception.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_6/25288-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Network Hardware: Dell sets a new low (price) for high speed]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[If speed is what you are looking for in your network connection&#151;and really, who isn&#146;t?&#151;the PowerConnect 2600 can help get the junk out of your network trunk.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_6/25289-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <title><![CDATA[Handheld Clients: For users, BlackBerry&#146;s features look big]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[If you need to be in two places at the same time, Research In Motion Ltd.&#146;s BlackBerry 7510 can help you get there.The 7510&#146;s secure, wireless communications give users always-on connections to their office e-mail and data whether they are across town or across the country. If you get an e-mail message at your office, it shows up immediately on the BlackBerry.]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[1,500 jobs up for grabs at Energy, NASA]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Energy Department and NASA are honing plans to conduct competitions under OMB Circular A-76 that will pit vendor teams against groups of federal employees for major IT tasks. About 1,500 federal jobs are at stake.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_6/25323-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Stenbit explains DOD IT spending to lawmakers ]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[It&#146;s not always easy for Congress to oversee Defense Department systems buys because lawmakers sometimes are unsure which programs are part of the $28.7 billion military IT budget and which fall under other funding umbrellas.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_6/25324-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[GSA awards second SmartBuy deal]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The General Services Administration last week signed a deal that it said could save the government $25 million on supply chain management software.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_6/25325-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Hill to DHS: Fix border databases]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[A senior lawmaker this month demanded that the Homeland Security Department speed integration of criminal and immigration databases so Border Patrol agents can nab felons trying to sneak into the country.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_6/25327-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Judge again orders Interior to take systems offline]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Efforts over the past 28 months by Interior Department systems professionals to fortify the department&#146;s IT security have failed to satisfy a federal judge, who ordered Interior to disconnect nine agencies from the Internet.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_6/25328-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[OMB clarifies federal lines of business]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Federal enterprise architecture officials this week will launch five line-of-business initiatives that reflect common agency processes.The fiscal 2004 and 2005 budget work clarified the common processes, said Robert Haycock, chief architect at the Office of Management and Budget. He spoke last week at the Open Source in Government conference in Washington.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_6/25329-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[DARPA enters uncharted network territory]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[ANAHEIM, Calif.&#151;If pilot efforts at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency pan out, the battlefields of tomorrow will swarm with self-propelled attack vehicles reliant on advanced software and networking gear.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_6/25330-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Robot rally puts the pitfalls of autonomous vehicles on display]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[MOJAVE DESERT, Calif.&#151;The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency saw firsthand this month how difficult it is to make vehicles self-navigating. None of the 13 entries that qualified for the agency&#146;s first autonomous-vehicle race got much past the starting line.]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Desktop Clients: Profile 5&#146;s small size fits all]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Space&#151;specifically, smaller space&#151;is one of the next frontiers in computing, and the Gateway Profile 5 pioneers this territory with power and performance that won&#146;t crowd your desk.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_6/25333-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Storage products: Exabyte leaps forward with autoloader backup]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Given the choice, most systems administrators would have an autoloader system for network backup. But many remote offices can&#146;t afford such a robust system, so they&#146;re stuck with a single-drive backup tape that needs to be changed daily to keep important files safe.]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Security Products&#151;Hardware: Kanguru&#146;s little device gives you sleight of hand security]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Protecting confidential data is one of the hardest things to accomplish outside a secure area, particularly if you&#146;re always bringing data back from the road. It&#146;s one thing to keep your documents organized; it&#146;s quite another to keep them safe.]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Judges&#146; Award: This portable is in a league of its own]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Sometimes companies advance a product category by adding something new and exciting. Then there are companies like Psion TekLogix Inc. that create entire new categories.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Enterprise Application Software: For Web development projects, Studio MX is the stuff of dreams]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Whether you&#146;re new to Web development or an old pro, Macromedia Studio MX 2004 can give you what you need.The latest version of Studio MX from Macromedia Inc. is among the most extensive Web development platforms available; any integrator working on a site redesign could benefit from this integrated toolset. It supports all major Web standards and accelerates development of interactive sites and Web applications.]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Display devices: InFocus sheds new light on ease-of-use issues for projectors]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Everything about the InFocus LP640 is designed to simplify presentations for the user. InFocus Corp. officials joke that the LCD projector was designed by the user.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Judges&#146; Award: Defensor software provides mobile base security]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Personal digital assistants and security don&#146;t always go hand in hand.But they do in Defensor Mobile access management software from Global Bay Mobile Technologies Inc. of Iselin, N.J.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_6/25341-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <title><![CDATA[Online Extra: Grand Challenge Wrapup]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[It was somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, where the robots began to take control.As the sun rose, a fire engine-red Hummer bounded from a starting chute&#151;fashioned from a pair of concrete bunkers&#151;and drove off into the desert. No driver was on board. The vehicle was controlled by a set of Intel Itanium processors. ]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Online Extra: Agencies uneasy about move to governmentwide financial systems]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[For many agencies, the gain of e-government has yet to outweigh the pain. This is especially true in the conversion to governmentwide financial systems from agencywide applications.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Other finalists for Best New Technology Awards at FOSE]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[IBM ThinkCentre S50 &#151;2.06-GHz Intel Pentium 4 PC with 256M of RAM and IBM Embedded Security Subsystem 2.0. IBM Corp., Armonk, N.Y., www.ibm.com.Ace Vision Desktop&#151;3.0-GHz Pentium 4 PC with 512M of RAM and an 80G hard drive. JC Technology DBA Ace Computers, Arlington Heights, Ill., www.acecomputers.com.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[FOSE puts the &#145;e&#146; into everything]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[For years, the &#147;e&#148; in IT terminology has stood for electronic. E-mail, e-commerce, e-government, e-services. But the abbreviation has become so ubiquitous that it has taken on a new meaning: expected.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Unproven entity]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Six months ago, the federal IT community was certain the General Services Administration&#146;s SmartBuy program was aimed at everyone&#146;s convenient evil empire, Microsoft Corp.]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Another View: Good good guys or bad good guys?]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[On the information security battlefield, the conventional wisdom is that the bad guys&#151;criminal hackers&#151;will always be a step ahead.A new dynamic has emerged, however, driven by money and old-fashioned capitalism. Security vendors&#151;the good guys&#151;are in hot pursuit of exploitable vulnerabilities. The question is, is their white-hat activity doing us any good? Not necessarily.]]></description>
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 <description><![CDATA[Sending e-mail from the workplace to home can be a distraction from the tasks at hand. But when the workplace is a battle zone and the employee is a service member or Defense Department civilian deployed to Iraq or Afghanistan, sending e-mail home is important to morale.]]></description>
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 <description><![CDATA[You have been infected, or at least affected.Anyone who has used a computer for any length of time knows about computer viruses. Perhaps one of them once ruined your files or randomly mailed an infected attachment to your friends. Maybe a self-replicating worm squirmed though your system looking for private information.]]></description>
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 <description><![CDATA[When Virginia Gov. Mark Warner took over in 2002, he asked George Newstrom, then the state&#146;s CIO, how much the state spent on IT. Like many other CIOs, Newstrom had trouble answering the question.]]></description>
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 <description><![CDATA[Pierce County, Wash., recently opened a kiosk service for filing temporary protection orders against domestic abusers or potential abusers. The kiosk PC&#151;at city hall in Gig Harbor, Wash., across Puget Sound from Tacoma&#151;runs Microsoft Windows XP and has a keyboard and printer, said Larry Gezelius, the safety and judicial software development team lead.]]></description>
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 <description><![CDATA[Share and save. Maine and South Carolina recently agreed to turn South Carolina&#146;s Environmental Facility Information System into a multistate application.]]></description>
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 <description><![CDATA[A traffic analysis tool conceived by the National Security Agency and born at the Naval Postgraduate School has come of age in a commercial application.]]></description>
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 <description><![CDATA[Security software that visually portrays the state of networks is not a new idea. For example, Computer Associates International Inc. sells eTrust Network Forensics, formerly called SilentRunner. And the National Center for Supercomputing Applications has developed its Security Incident Fusion Tool with funding from the Office of Naval Research.]]></description>
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 <description><![CDATA[A pair of products add some new wrinkles to network defense.Version 7.5 of the Antigen antivirus scanner from Sybari Software Inc. of East Northport, N.Y., can filter content in instant messaging traffic handled by Microsoft Office Live Communications Server 2003.]]></description>
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 <description><![CDATA[The Energy Department, which helped map the human genome over the last decade, is launching a new supercomputing program at the interface of biological, physical and computational sciences.]]></description>
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 <description><![CDATA[At increasingly frequent intervals, a new variation of an e-mail virus or worm wreaks mass havoc on the Internet. This happens because mail recipients are too trusting and keep making the same mistakes over and over.]]></description>
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 <description><![CDATA[Mars has no data networks yet, so NASA engineers are investigating IEEE 802.11b wireless fidelity as a low-cost alternative.But before they can equip future Mars rovers with WiFi cards, engineers at the space agency must devise a way to make the short-range cards communicate with base stations miles away.]]></description>
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 <description><![CDATA[After writing a negative column about office wireless products [GCN, Feb. 23, Page 21], I&#146;m delighted this month to report that DeLorme Publishing Co. of Yarmouth, Maine, is still turning out solid products.]]></description>
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