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 <title><![CDATA[Managers who put plans into action]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[GCN Management&#146;s Top 10 managers are largely the unsung heroes of government IT management&#151;except to their own managers, peers and staff, who sing their praises. The Top 10 managers were selected from 50 nominees by a panel of 14 current and former federal IT leaders, industry executives and PostNewsweek Tech Media editors. Each profile story (listed below in Management Edition) includes a link to an expanded Q&amp;A with each  manager.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Putnam pens security reg for Clinger-Cohen]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[On top of the IT management and procurement rules agencies must follow under the Clinger-Cohen Act, an upcoming amendment to the 1996 law would add security requirements.]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[E-folders let State workers access HR files anywhere]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[New electronic personnel folders are helping the State Department meet the strictures of the Government Paperwork Elimination Act and Bush administration demands to integrate human resources systems.]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Storage at the next level ]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The SMI-S standard, expected to be approved by June, will put teeth into SAN management  The Storage Networking Industry Association is working overtime to sell its Storage Management Initiative Specification to vendors, application developers and users of storage management solutions.]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[The lowdown on SMI-S]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[What is it? SMI-S is the Storage Management Initiative Specification. It has been developed by the Storage Networking Industry Association to create a common approach to managing different vendors&#146; storage products.]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[People on the Move]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Education Department recently named Susan Patrick director of the Office of Educational Technology. Patrick has served as acting director since Feb. 2, when she replaced former director John Bailey, who left to join President Bush&#146;s re-election campaign.]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Agency chiefs confer on 2005 IT budget]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Federal and industry officials looked ahead to the 2005 federal IT budget recently at a conference in McLean, Va., hosted by Federal Sources Inc.]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Five feds among HPCwire&#146;s people to keep an eye on]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[A high-performance computing official at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, two at the Defense Department and two at the Energy Department are among the 17 who made HPCwire&#146;s new Watch List for HPC. HPCwire is a weekly electronic publication devoted to high-performance computing. Its list of &#147;people and organizations in HPC to keep an eye on&#148; included:]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Feds catching the next wave in government]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Many government managers and specialists in a GCN telephone survey see Web services as the next big wave in government IT.&#147;Web services are the coming thing,&#148; said a Veterans Affairs Department IT specialist in Washington.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Army brings digital training to the troops]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[At both the fixed sites and the deployable prototypes, soldiers have access to thousands of Web-based courses unique to the service. Some courses are conducted via videoconferencing or teleconferencing or are multimedia.]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Incoming]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Network support. The Army&#146;s European Command will use software from Quest Software Inc. of Irvine, Calif., to manage its Microsoft network infrastructure.]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[TSA will begin traveler registry pilot in June ]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Transportation Security Administration earlier this month announced a registered traveler pilot to begin at selected airports in June.]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Coming Defense policy to set use limits on WiFi]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Although the Defense Department continues to say it will soon issue a much-delayed policy to guide the use of WiFi equipment, the final policy remains holed up at the Pentagon.]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[NIST releases new drafts of IT security guides ]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The National Institute of Standards and Technology has published a pair of draft IT security documents for public comment.]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[E-health apps might keep Medicare well]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Applying emerging health IT tools to patient care would help avoid projected bankruptcy of Medicare within 15 years, the new Medicare Trustees report says.]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[State, DHS seek more time on biometric entry]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Homeland Security and State departments have asked Congress to extend an October deadline for economically developed countries to provide biometric passports to citizens travelling to the United States.]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[CIA&#146;s In-Q-Tel funds linguistics software maker ]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[In-Q-Tel, the CIA&#146;s venture capital arm, has invested in Basis Technology Corp. of Cambridge, Mass., which sells software for multilingual linguistic analysis, text mining and information retrieval.]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[NASA TV goes digital by satellite]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[NASA TV is moving from a single analog television channel to multiple digital channels via satellite.]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[ATF makes IT transition to Justice]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Marguerite R. Moccia has served as CIO of the same agency at two different Cabinet departments.In February 2002, she was appointed CIO of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms in the Treasury Department. During the governmentwide reorganization that created the Homeland Security Department, most of ATF&#146;s functions were transferred to the renamed Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives in the Justice Department.]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[&#147;Did you hear...&#148; ]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The great indoors. Teleconferencing just got a big boost at the National Park Service. Outraged at the number of trips taken by NPS officials while the agency cut park hours and services, the chairman and ranking minority member of the House Appropriations subcommittee that oversees the Interior Department suggested a ban on foreign travel, which the agency instituted. In a scathing letter to NPS director Fran Mainella, Reps. Charles Taylor (R-N.C.) and Norman Dicks (D-Wash.) wrote, &#147;In this technology age, the service should be using teleconferencing and other means of automated communications in lieu of costly travel.&#148; ]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Packet Rat: One good outage deserves another]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Monday morning, the Rat rolled into the office on his urban assault mountain bike, cranking tunes on his iPod. The cherry blossoms were in bloom, spring was in swing and the whiskered one was determined to start the season with a fresh, positive attitude.]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Personal space: Lab tested]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[&#147;I like the dogs because they protect me&#151;they&#146;re security&#151;and they don&#146;t give away secrets,&#148; says Nuala O&#146;Connor Kelly, chief privacy officer at the Homeland Security Department. Her two-and-a-half-year-old Labrador retrievers Earl, left, and Elie are named after the Royal Burgh of Elie and Earlsferry in Fife, Scotland, where Kelly was married.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Donna Bonar - HHS: The system pays]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Donna Bonar remembers being closer to the front lines of child support enforcement, working in the paternity division of the Marion County Prosecutor&#146;s Office in Indianapolis in the late 1970s.]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Mary Dixon - Defense: Uncommon success]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[As the daughter of an Air Force officer, Mary Dixon was born to high expectations. &#147;I am a driven person, so I am always trying to make things better,&#148; said the program manager of the Defense Department&#146;s Common Access Card program.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_8/25542-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[William Gray - SSA: A two-way street]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[One measure of William Gray&#146;s success at the Social Security Administration can be found in big-picture results, such as system uptime, a proliferation of online services and &#147;green&#148; ratings from the Office of Management and Budget.]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Col. Jacob Haynes - Defense: Mr. Fix-IT]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Army Col. Jacob Haynes is a program fix-it man. When he took over as project manager for the Transportation Coordinators&#146; Automated Information for Movement System II in the late 1990s, the program was falling apart.]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Jack Jones - NIH: IT systems pilot ]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Most everything Jack Jones learned about leadership he learned on the fly, so to speak, in the Navy. As a flight navigator, he participated in a number of simulated emergencies, in which instructors increased the stress level by distracting their students to teach them to focus on the job at hand. The lessons from that training became second nature.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Robert Otto - Postal Service: Early to rise]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Robert L. Otto got his first management training milking dairy cows. Growing up on his family&#146;s farm in Fishertown, Pa., Otto rose at 3:30 every morning to help his father milk 200 cows. ]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[George Reynolds - Trinity County, CA: From the ground up]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Officials in Trinity County, Calif., where the discovery of gold in 1848 triggered the California Gold Rush, struck gold of a different sort a century and a half later when they hired George Reynolds. They just didn&#146;t know it at the time.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_8/25550-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <title><![CDATA[Mary Ann Rockey - Navy: Steady ship]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[In the summer of 2001, the Navy was considering a Web portal through which widely dispersed senior Navy leaders could collaborate and chat. On Sept. 11 that year, the need became urgent, and the job was handed to Mary Ann Rockey.]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Clinton Swett - DFAS: Adapt and improvise]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[In the Marines Corps, leadership style has few nuances. You issue an order. You expect it to be obeyed. But as CIO and director of the Technology Services Organization at the Defense Finance and Accounting Service in Kansas City, Mo., Clinton Swett has had to modify that one-way-street style of leadership.]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Col. Victoria A. Velez - DISA: The power of sharing]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[For Air Force Col. Victoria A. Velez, the word &#147;empower&#148; has become a bit worn-out. But she still embraces the idea it conveys. &#147;I hate to use the word &#145;empower&#146; because I think sometimes people overuse it,&#148; said Velez, commander of the Defense Information Systems Agency&#146;s Joint Interoperability Test Command at Fort Huachuca, Ariz.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_8/25557-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[DHS awards $350m for secret net]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Homeland Security Department will get a new network to transmit secret data and consolidate five classified systems.DHS has awarded a $350 million contract to Northrop Grumman Corp. to build the Homeland Secure Data Network.]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[DHS to the bad guys: Smile for the camera]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Homeland Security Department has invited proposals for new software that would take a Candid Camera approach to identifying criminal and terrorist activity.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_8/25605-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Groups offer security guidance for critical infrastructure systems]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Two groups this month put the onus on private-sector organizations to take steps to secure their systems if the country as a whole is to defend its critical infrastructures against cyberattack.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_8/25606-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Air Force rolls out $10b comm and IT services RFP]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Air Force has ended months of delays on a major backbone buy with the release of a request for proposals for the $10 billion Network Centric Solutions program.]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Defense calls shotgun on RFID ]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Tracking a global supply chain with radio frequency identification tags is like trying to jump into a vehicle that&#146;s still moving down the assembly line.But the Defense Department is proceeding aggressively with RFID plans so it will have a say in how the technology advances.]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[OPM blinks, revisits USAJobs buy]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[After repeatedly ignoring the General Accounting Office&#146;s recommendations that it reopen its procurement for the Recruitment One-Stop project, the Office of Personnel Management finally got the message from Congress.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_8/25609-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[E-Rulemaking goes for central system]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The E-Rulemaking team has decided it isn&#146;t worth $60 million for agencies to keep their own docket systems and has settled on a centralized approach for a governmentwide online docket system.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_8/25610-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Full speed ahead at IRS or back to the drawing board?]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The point-counterpoint arguments continued this month about whether the IRS and its contractor have succeeded in getting the agency&#146;s systems overhaul moving in the right direction.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_8/25611-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[State gives history to NARA on CDs]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[On April 13, Thomas Jefferson&#146;s birthday, the State Department and the National Archives and Records Administration honored the nation&#146;s first secretary of State and archivist by making historical foreign affairs documents more easily accessible.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_8/25612-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[FDA tracks the bad stuff]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Food and Drug Administration&#146;s ban on ephedra products took effect last week, but only after the deaths of 155 people in the United States had been tied to the substance&#146;s use&#151;deaths that the FDA had discovered by using an application to track adverse drug effects online.]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Quickfind link: OPM revisits USAJobs buy]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Here are links to GCN and GCN.com stories on USAJobs.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_8/25624-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Uncommon leadership]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Recently I attended a retirement dinner for the man who hired me into the business-to-business publishing field nearly 25 years ago. Although I haven&#146;t worked for him in many years, he has remained a friend and adviser through the years.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_8/25560-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Federal Contract Law: DHS sets fierce procurement rules]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Companies seeking to do business with the Homeland Security Department are eager for any clues to the characteristics of this still-new customer. They especially want to know whether and how its contracting practices will differ from those of the legacy bureaus that Congress assembled to form the department. People in other agencies ought to be curious too.]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Significa]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Wild horses and burros may be a low-tech community, but they need the help of sophisticated federal computer systems, too.Under the Wild Free-Roaming Horse and Burro Act of 1971, the Interior Department&#146;s Bureau of Land Management runs an adoption program for animals removed from public lands. BLM thins the herds because they lack natural predators and reproduce at a rate of 18 percent annually&#151;risking overgrazing and starvation.]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Editorial Cartoon]]></title>
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 <volume>23</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Telecommuting made easy]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[When I started telecommuting, I was surprised to find very little software geared to the average federal telecommuter.All you really need to do basic office work at home is a computer, an Internet connection and an e-mail address. More advanced work such as accessing secure databases, for example, might require costly applications and arrangements outside the scope of this review.]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Homeland security gets to local level]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[When Anaheim, Calif., launches its new virtual operations center for homeland security in July, top officials will be able to monitor public systems from any PC.]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[State lines]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[No wires. Wireless networking is becoming a top priority of many state and local agencies for public safety communications.For example, Montgomery County, Md., government has dedicated 44 802.11b wireless hot spots to public safety mobile users, said Barbara Garrard, chief of enterprise infrastructure for the county&#146;s Technology Services Department, at the recent FOSE trade show in Washington.]]></description>
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 <volume>23</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[How Interior employees learned their new work alphabet]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Last October, the Interior Department began requiring its 60,000 employees to detail how they spend each hour of the workday under activity-based costing.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_8/25569-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>23</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Power User: Don&#146;t search for text with all the wrong tools]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Whether you regularly dig through more than 15,000 documents you&#146;ve authored or delve into years of records created by others, using Microsoft Office search tools is nothing short of torture.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/23_8/25570-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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