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 <title><![CDATA[OMB tries to sell Congress on management watch list]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[While lawmakers, the Government Accountability Office and the administration debate how best to manage at-risk IT projects, Hal Bell has made up his mind.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[DHS mulls choice of passport technology, as lawmakers clash]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Senior federal IT policy officials are facing a technology choice that also has set off fireworks in Congress: Should Uncle Sam accept digital photographs, as well as smart chips, as biometric identifiers in foreign passports?]]></description>
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 <volume>24</volume>
 <issue>10</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Assembling a business case]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[In recent years, several government performance initiatives, including the President&#146;s Management Agenda, have focused on IT as both a means to an end and a cost center that must be brought under control.]]></description>
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 <volume>24</volume>
 <issue>10</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[The lowdown on business case tools]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Business case tools help agencies adhere to a variety of regulations for justifying and tracking IT projects.]]></description>
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 <volume>24</volume>
 <issue>10</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Managers say security is good, despite bad grades]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Most IT managers think information security at their agencies is pretty darn good&#151;despite the latest computer security report cards handed out by the House Government Reform Committee, which gave agencies an overall grade of D+.]]></description>
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 <volume>24</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[First, skill all the lawyers]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Unlike civilian lawyers who practice in a single area, Air Force judge advocates often must deal with a variety of legal areas every day.]]></description>
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 <volume>24</volume>
 <issue>10</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[DOD IG resists congressional pressure on acquisition audits]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Defense Department&#146;s inspector general&#146;s office will not say when it plans to resume a pair of audits evaluating the department&#146;s acquisition processes and commercial criteria justifications that were recently suspended due to a lack of resources.]]></description>
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 <volume>24</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Incoming]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[ON THE MENU: The Defense Commissary Agency is looking to industry to maintain the baselines of its three legacy networks, while developing better applications to replace the stovepiped systems.]]></description>
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 <volume>24</volume>
 <issue>10</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[FAA to spend another $57m on STARS]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Federal Aviation Administration has awarded Raytheon Co. a $57 million contract option to continue deployment of the new color display Standard Terminal Automation Replacement System, or STARS, a joint procurement between FAA and the Defense Department.]]></description>
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 <volume>24</volume>
 <issue>10</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[DOD wants unique ID tags on all products]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Defense Department is requiring contractors to mark items delivered under Defense contracts with unique identification tags.]]></description>
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 <volume>24</volume>
 <issue>10</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Bill promotes DHS&#146; chief of cybersecurity]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[A House subcommittee late last month approved a bill that would elevate the Homeland Security Department&#146;s cybersecurity director to the level of an assistant secretary in the Information Analysis and Infrastructure Protection Directorate.]]></description>
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 <volume>24</volume>
 <issue>10</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[NMCI launches ship status tool for maintenance]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[A Navy software application that gives a snapshot of the maintenance status of surface ships is undergoing final tests to run on the Navy-Marine Corps Intranet and is expected to go into operation this month.]]></description>
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 <volume>24</volume>
 <issue>10</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[OMB looks for more functions to merge]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The administration&#146;s next set of initiatives targeted for consolidation are coming into focus.]]></description>
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 <volume>24</volume>
 <issue>10</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[People on the move]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Robert J. Garrity Jr. has been named the FBI&#146;s deputy CIO and business process re-engineering executive]]></description>
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 <volume>24</volume>
 <issue>10</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[William &#147;Bill&#148; McDermott | Competitors can also be partners]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Last December, when Oracle Corp. bought PeopleSoft, SAP AG of Walldorf, Germany, wasted no time in setting out to court PeopleSoft customers.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/24_10/35671-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>24</volume>
 <issue>10</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[&#147;Did you hear...&#148; ]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Law of More. Last week, we mentioned the April 19, 1965, issue of Electronics Magazine quoting Gordon Moore, who went on to co-found Intel Corp. and become famous for formulating Moore&#146;s Law.]]></description>
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 <volume>24</volume>
 <issue>10</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[The Community: A piece of the past]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the Navy and Northrop Grumman Corp. are collaborating with the Mariners&#146; Museum in Newport News, Va., on recreating a bit of high-tech weaponry from 143 years ago: the USS Monitor. More than 100 Northrop Grumman employees are putting together the replica of the Civil War ironclad ship, which will anchor the $30 million USS Monitor Center at the museum.]]></description>
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 <volume>24</volume>
 <issue>10</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Packet Rat: Rat rounds up a copy of Longhorn, but where&#146;s the beef?]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[&#147;Promises, promises,&#148; the Rat sighed as he watched his covert video stream from Microsoft&#146;s WinHEC hardware developers&#146; conference last week. ]]></description>
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 <volume>24</volume>
 <issue>10</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Profiles in leadership in government IT]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The winners of this year&#146;s GCN IT Leadership Awards are a highly diversified bunch.]]></description>
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 <volume>24</volume>
 <issue>10</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Course Correction]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Everything Anthony Cicco Jr. needed to know about managing people he learned from cleaning computer rooms.]]></description>
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 <volume>24</volume>
 <issue>10</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[In demand]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Army has 16 stubborn logistics systems that don&#146;t speak to each other. ]]></description>
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 <volume>24</volume>
 <issue>10</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Personnel service]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[You won&#146;t find many state-of-the-art IT systems that are 30 years old.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/24_10/35647-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>24</volume>
 <issue>10</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[On the beach]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[One day, a woman wearing a back brace walked up to Mike Frazer&#146;s lifeguard tower.]]></description>
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 <volume>24</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Security guide]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[A sharp increase in cyberthreats may have raised Mary Stone Holland&#146;s profile within the State Department in recent years, but it hasn&#146;t changed her approach.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/24_10/35649-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>24</volume>
 <issue>10</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Trust is verified]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Glen Johnson has a reputation as the go-to guy for tough IT projects in the State Department&#146;s Bureau of Verification and Compliance.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/24_10/35650-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>24</volume>
 <issue>10</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Thinking global]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The challenge?]]></description>
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 <volume>24</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Go with the grain]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Chris Niedermayer did not have his eyes on the Agriculture Department&#146;s CIO office when he joined the department 28 years ago.]]></description>
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 <volume>24</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Fonts of information]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Col. Jill Phillips has a stone plaque on her desk at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington. It reads: &#147;Failure cannot cope with persistence.&#148;]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/24_10/35653-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>24</volume>
 <issue>10</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Natural environment]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Working for the government is a family tradition for Linda Travers.]]></description>
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 <volume>24</volume>
 <issue>10</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[How the winners were chosen]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[GCN&#146;s IT Leadership Award winners were selected from among 84 candidates nominated by colleagues, co-workers and, in some cases, bosses.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/24_10/35655-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>24</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Cybercenter monitors data]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[A new cybersecurity operations center at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia has been set up to continuously monitor and report cyberattacks against computer networks related to critical infrastructure.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/24_10/35691-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>24</volume>
 <issue>10</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[State bolsters  passport security  ]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The State Department has declared that electronic passports will be safe from identity thieves.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/24_10/35692-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>24</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[As GAO watches, IRS works to patch security holes]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The IRS, caught in a thicket of IT security problems, is hoping to be mostly out the woods by fall.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/24_10/35699-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>24</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[DOD reels in  SmartBuy deal with Oracle]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Defense Department has placed more than 700 orders, worth $500 million, over the past six years under their agencywide enterprise software license contract with Oracle Corp.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/24_10/35700-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>24</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Share-in-savings regulations  will receive one more review]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Office of Federal Procurement Policy officials admit they dropped the ball in getting share-in-savings off the ground and have fumbled again in their attempts to fix it.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/24_10/35701-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>24</volume>
 <issue>10</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[GSA&#146;s Perry: Let a few agencies do most of the buying]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The federal government should centralize its buying around a few agencies, except for unique procurements such as weapons systems, the chief of the General Services Administration has said.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/24_10/35702-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>24</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Disaster software standards may get muscle from DHS]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Homeland Security Department could supercharge emergency management software standards by requiring the department&#146;s grantees to purchase compliant equipment.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/24_10/35703-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>24</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[NSA finalizing GIG assurance policy]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[SALT LAKE CITY&#151;The long-anticipated information assurance policy for the Defense Department&#146;s Global Information Grid is in its final stages, ac-cording to a senior DOD IT official.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/24_10/35704-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>24</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[DIA gets down to business on consolidating IT operations]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[PHILADELPHIA&#151;The Defense Intelligence Agency wants its IT directorate to function like a business and plans to start by consolidating IT operations.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/24_10/35706-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>24</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[GovBenefits to let agencies design their own front pages]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Instead of giving agencies one benefits portal, the Labor Department&#146;s e-government project will let agencies create their own benefits Web pages and use a search filter to integrate with GovBenefits&#146; back-end database and rules engine.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/24_10/35707-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>24</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[EDITOR&#146;S DESK: Leadership Instincts]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[For all that&#146;s been written about great leaders&#151;and the principles by which they live&#151;most of us consider ourselves lucky to have worked for someone at least once in our careers who actually embodied extraordinary leadership skills.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/24_10/35673-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>24</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Another view: Revised circular will level A-76 playing field]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Government employees have been on a hot streak when it comes to A-76 competitions.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/24_10/35674-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>24</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Editorial Cartoon]]></title>
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 <volume>24</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Database, heal thyself]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[It&#146;s pretty neat to think of a computer or a server healing itself, and that is exactly what IBM is going for across its product line.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/24_10/35682-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>24</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Optimize those hard drives]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[As drives in both servers and standalone PCs get larger, the need for fast, powerful disk defragmentation becomes greater.]]></description>
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 <volume>24</volume>
 <issue>10</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Turn PDF files into editable documents]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Adobe Acrobat Portable Document Format standard is a great way to share information, but it has its limits.]]></description>
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 <volume>24</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[You've got no mail]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[For the Social Security Administration, upgrading its e-mail servers from Microsoft Corp.&#146;s Exchange Server 5.5 to Exchange Server 2003 proved to be a job so monumental that the agency had to break it into segments.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/24_10/35676-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>24</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[GCN INSIDER: Trends and technologies that affect the way government does IT ]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Executives from Tumbleweed Communications Corp. stress the company was founded before the dot-com boom and continues to thrive after the bust. No argument here, but a GCN editor who recently met with the Redwood City, Calif., company prefers to romanticize about its dot-com-like name and history of launching from a founder&#146;s home.]]></description>
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 <volume>24</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[What&#146;s new in Exchange 2003]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Microsoft will cease support of its Exchange 5.5 messaging server software this year, making it all but inevitable that agencies will need to upgrade to Microsoft&#146;s latest&#151;Exchange 2003.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/24_10/35678-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <title><![CDATA[Internaut: Defense shows how an enterprise architecture can really work]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[With all the talk lately about government enterprise architectures, it&#146;s interesting to see what the Defense Logistics Agency is doing to get all of its procurement, supply chain and logistics managers on the same page.]]></description>
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