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 <title><![CDATA[HHS lays foundation for health IT network]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Health and Human Services Department has given the move toward a national health information network the push many people in government and industry have been waiting for.]]></description>
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 <volume>24</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[GSA&#146;s realignment marks next step in consolidation]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The surge of consolidation sweeping through government peaked this past month with the release of the General Services Administration&#146;s draft reorganization strategy.]]></description>
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 <volume>24</volume>
 <issue>15</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[WiFi grows up ]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[For several years now, wireless local area networks (WLANs) have proven to be a cheap and easy way to set up a home network, or to get on the Web in one of the public hot spots in metropolitan areas, airports and coffee shops. ]]></description>
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 <volume>24</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[The lowdown on wireless LAN]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[A guide to wireless LAN products is necessarily rife with acronyms. ]]></description>
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 <volume>24</volume>
 <issue>15</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[EVM still a mystery to most feds]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Office of Management and Budget is strenuously pushing earned-value management as a project-management tool and requiring agencies to adopt policies for using EVM.]]></description>
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 <volume>24</volume>
 <issue>15</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[NMCI goes for the save]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[When the Navy awarded Electronic Data Systems Corp. the groundbreaking Navy-Marine Corps Intranet contract in October 2000, the two parties struck up a partnership that quickly came to resemble a difficult marriage.]]></description>
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 <volume>24</volume>
 <issue>15</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Navy&#146;s surveys show satisfaction]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Through NMCI, the Navy has gained discipline and cost visibility, Navy officials say; and the majority of users are satisfied with the service, according to the Navy&#146;s sampling of users in the most recent quarterly survey.]]></description>
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 <volume>24</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Contract award came as a surprise]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Electronic Data Systems Corp., along with three other big integrators&#151;Computer Sciences Corp., IBM Corp. and General Dynamics Corp.&#151;spent months in 1999 and 2000 wooing the Navy for the opportunity to build NMCI.]]></description>
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 <volume>24</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Intranet still rides on DISN]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[One quirk of the NMCI contract is that, even though some credit EDS&#146; contract win to the fact that the company had already set up its own wide area network, NMCI doesn&#146;t use it.]]></description>
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 <volume>24</volume>
 <issue>15</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Marines became  reluctant partner]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[When the Navy embarked on the Navy-Marine Corps Intranet project, some observers say, the Marine Corps balked. ]]></description>
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 <volume>24</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Navy sets up Microsoft license for overseas network]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Navy has signed a three-year enterprise  agreement with CDW Government Inc. to deliver Microsoft Corp. software to Navy installations outside the United States.]]></description>
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 <volume>24</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[EDS&#146; fortunes could hinge on option years]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Not long after it was awarded in October 2000, the Navy-Marine Corps Intranet contract turned into a financial and practical drag on Electronic Data Systems Corp.]]></description>
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 <volume>24</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Mixed and matched]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[When the Army was planning for the Army Knowledge Online portal, it chose a strategy that reflected its organizational structure.]]></description>
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 <volume>24</volume>
 <issue>15</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Air Force takes gradual approach to its portal]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Air Force&#146;s approach to building a one-for-all portal has been a bit like a preflight checklist: to take it one step at a time.]]></description>
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 <volume>24</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Seats of responsibility]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Where seat management works, it&#146;s a godsend; where it doesn&#146;t, it&#146;s probably the agency&#146;s own fault.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/24_15/36090-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>24</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Other agencies could benefit from NMCI&#146;s hard-learned lessons]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The long travails of the Navy-Marine Corps Intranet program offers numerous lessons that can be applied by federal agencies designing very large contracts, and by integrators looking to bid on them.]]></description>
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 <volume>24</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[GSA plans to issue Alliant RFPs in August]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The request for proposals for the 10-year, $65 billion Alliant contracts for governmentwide IT services will be issued in August, according to Neal Fox, the General Services Administration&#146;s assistant commissioner for commercial acquisitions at the agency&#146;s Federal Supply Service.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/24_15/36127-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>24</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[OMB issues draft changes to federal EA]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Office of Management and Budget has given agencies a jump-start in compiling their fiscal 2007 budget requests.]]></description>
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 <volume>24</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[OMB says A-76 will save $1.4b over five years]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Public-private competitions for agency IT positions garnered expected savings of more than $36,000 per position studied in fiscal 2004, according to the administration&#146;s latest report to Congress on competitive sourcing.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/24_15/36129-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>24</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Telecommuting penalty could be extended]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[NASA and the National Science Foundation could join the departments of Commerce, Justice and State as agencies that could lose funding if they don&#146;t meet a federal telecommuting mandate.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/24_15/36130-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>24</volume>
 <issue>15</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Hill investigators dispute FBI&#146;s technology skills]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The FBI has parried a jab from congressional investigators, who charged that it is bungling its latest case management software project, by holding a press conference to defend itself.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/24_15/36131-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>24</volume>
 <issue>15</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[People on the move]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Defense Department has named Bradley M. Berkson as its new director for program analysis and evaluation.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/24_15/36132-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>24</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Dan Farmer | Network security: a devilish mess]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[In the aftermath of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, the Defense Department called on IT experts to help assess the security of public networks in the event of a cyberattack on the United States.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/24_15/36100-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>24</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[&#147;Did you hear...&#148; ]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Nine-tenths of the law. The GSA Schedule&#146;s got nothing on Jakarta. Indonesia, where an estimated 87 percent of software on the market last year was pirated, reportedly has worked out a deal with Microsoft Corp. that will &#147;legalize&#148; pirated Windows programs on up to 50,000 government computers for a dollar each.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/24_15/36141-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>24</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[The community: Fund drive]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Tourney participants warm up before the First Annual Bethesda AFCEA Golf Tournament this month in Reston, Va. The event, sponsored by the Bethesda, Md., chapter of the Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association, drew about 110 participants and took in more than $26,000 for the chapter&#146;s scholarship fund.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/24_15/36142-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>24</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[PACKET RAT: With Mac&#146;s new core, the world doesn&#146;t look the same]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[When the Rat heard the recent rumors that Apple Computer Inc. would be switching its systems to CPUs manufactured by Intel Corp., he was convinced that someone had been playing too much in their reality distortion field again.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/24_15/36143-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>24</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[A fine line on LOB]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Agency CIOs face a broad array of issues and concerns in adapting the Office of Management and Budget&#146;s Lines-of-Business initiatives into their enterprise architectures.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/24_15/36098-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>24</volume>
 <issue>15</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Lawmakers want to codify HHS&#146; health IT efforts]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Members of Congress have jumped on the health IT bandwagon by introducing several bills to boost the momentum for a national health information exchange.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/24_15/36123-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>24</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Vaccine data warehouse gives Ohio shot in the arm]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[If there is ever a biological attack or fast-moving epidemic in the United States, Ohio will be prepared.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/24_15/36124-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>24</volume>
 <issue>15</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[As times changed, so did FSS]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Donna Bennett, commissioner of the General Services Administration&#146;s Federal Supply Service, earlier this month announced she would retire from government after 35 years, the last 21 at GSA. Bennett has the distinction of being the last FSS commissioner&#151;a position she has held for the past five years.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/24_15/36126-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>24</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Justice IG, FBI spar over IT management of terrorist watch list]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[A new report on IT problems at the interagency Terrorist Screening Center, followed by a contrary reaction from the FBI, is the latest in a series of disputes about the bureau&#146;s technology aptitude.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/24_15/36133-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>24</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[DOJ funds cybersecurity lab to test Internet-size attacks]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Justice Department awarded a $500,000 grant to Iowa State University as seed funding for a cybersecurity lab that will accurately simulate online attacks.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/24_15/36134-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>24</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[DOD promises to follow the rules on business modernization approval]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Government Accountability Office has put the Defense Department&#146;s problematic Business Management Modernization Program on its high-risk list for the last 10 years partly because of Defense agencies&#146; reluctance to ensure projects abide by DOD&#146;s Business Enterprise Architecture.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/24_15/36135-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>24</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Pentagon maps out new policies for WiFi, satellite use]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Defense Department will soon roll out a new wireless policy based largely on the 802.11i standard promulgated by the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers, according to the Pentagon&#146;s chief wireless communications policy leader.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/24_15/36136-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>24</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[10 and counting]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Although it looks a little like a prayer book, the small purple paperback that Glenn Schlarman keeps on his bedside table offers guidance of a more secular sort. It&#146;s a copy of the Clinger-Cohen Act, the landmark legislation that ushered in the era of the CIO and set the stage for performance-based management for government IT.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/24_15/36137-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>24</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[What they&#146;re saying about the Clinger-Cohen Act]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[&#147;Kicking and screaming, we managed to bring procurement policy out of the 19th century into the 20th century.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/24_15/36138-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>24</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[NSA searches for novel intel answers in the Glass Box]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Like Alice after she had eaten cake from a glass box in Wonderland, federal databases have grown to an unmanageable size.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/24_15/36139-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>24</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Army wants to go big with Small Computer Program]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Army plans to flex its IT purchasing muscle at the start of fiscal 2006 by using bundled purchases to get IT hardware products at reduced rates.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/24_15/36140-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>24</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[EDITOR&#146;S DESK: Lessons of NMCI]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Few federal projects have attracted as much second-guessing within IT circles as the Navy-Marine Corps Intranet.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/24_15/36102-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>24</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Executive suite: Putting the Clinger-Cohen Act in perspective]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[It&#146;s been nearly a decade since Rep. William Clinger (R-Pa.) and Sen. William Cohen (R-Maine) put the finishing touches on the landmark legislation, the Information Technology Management Reform Act.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/24_15/36103-1.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[Getting there from here]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[It could wind up being the next check-box, must-have feature for mobile computing devices. It&#146;s already in cars and many cell phones. ]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/24_15/36118-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>24</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Acrobat dazzles with new tricks ]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Other than perhaps Web browsers, no program has facilitated more cross-platform document sharing than Adobe Systems Inc.&#146;s Acrobat series of products. ]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/24_15/36119-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>24</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Pulling the plug]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Universal Serial Bus is a great technology. But, with great technology come new challenges, said Fred Turner, information systems security officer for the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/24_15/36105-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>24</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Who&#146;s who in portable device control]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command is just beginning the task of searching for a product to secure its network against improper use of portable memory and removable media devices.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/24_15/36106-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>24</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Patent Office embraces 21st-century FTP]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Patent and Trademark Office has implemented an electronic transfer system to move large files of sensitive and complex data over the Internet rather than transport it on tape.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/24_15/36107-1.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[Yes, we nod, we understand the potential need for mobile storage area networks, such as the one Xiotech Corp. of Eden Prairie, Minn., introduced today.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/24_15/36108-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <title><![CDATA[Internaut: IT projects still on hold? Here&#146;s why]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[One of this year&#146;s big paradoxes in federal IT spending is that budgets have gone up, but overall spending seems to have slowed.]]></description>
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