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 <title><![CDATA[New DHS IT chief faces big challenges, impatient Congress]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[As the Homeland Security Department&#146;s new CIO, Scott Charbo faces tougher and more immediate challenges than most agency technology executives.]]></description>
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 <volume>24</volume>
 <issue>16</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Feds feel bite of cybercrime]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[There is something about the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. that seems to attract cybercrime.]]></description>
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 <volume>24</volume>
 <issue>16</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Called to Account]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Over the past five years, agencies increasingly have left the General Services Administration&#146;s Federal Technology Service holding the bag&#151;a very large bag of money.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/24_16/36187-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>24</volume>
 <issue>16</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Enterprise storage - it&#146;s SAN-tastic]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Whether you&#146;re part of a large agency that has long dealt with massive storage requirements, or a smaller agency just beginning to buckle under the weight of accumulated data, the storage area network&#151;in all its increasingly varied flavors&#151;remains a popular solution]]></description>
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 <volume>24</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[The long arm of the Army&#146;s cybercrime unit]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[For three months last year, an Army soldier stationed in Afghanistan installed on more than 200 computers illegal software that captured users&#146; keystrokes and, ultimately, caused about $25,000 in damage.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/24_16/36166-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>24</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Shelton will be acting head of GSA&#146;s new FAS]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The General Services Administration has named Barbara Shelton to be the acting head of the new Federal Acquisition Service.]]></description>
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 <volume>24</volume>
 <issue>16</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[What is: The FBI cancels its &#145;Jeopardy&#146; app?]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The FBI is developing a new security training app to replace an earlier system  based on the television quiz show &#147;Jeopardy.&#148; The intelligence community developed the &#147;Jeopardy&#148;-like computer security training system to impress on federal employees classified security protocols and other precautions, according to government security training specialists.]]></description>
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 <volume>24</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[NIST drafts rules to certify ID card makers]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Draft guidelines have been released to help agencies verify that organizations issuing governmentwide identification cards are up to the job.]]></description>
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 <volume>24</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[EPA wants chemical data filed only once]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Environmental Protection Agency will streamline reporting for its Toxics Release Inventory by enabling companies in three states to submit their annual accounting of dangerous chemical releases once to EPA&#146;s Central Data Exchange using the TRI-ME reporting software.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/24_16/36193-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>24</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Gen. Peterson picked for Air Force CIO spot]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Maj. Gen. Michael Peterson has been nominated by President Bush to become the Air Force&#146;s next CIO as director of the newly formed Office of Warfighting Integration and Chief Information Officer. Peterson also has been nominated for promotion to lieutenant general.]]></description>
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 <volume>24</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Open source gaining ground at local level]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[State and local governments are giving more consideration to use of open-source code to help relieve budget pressures, according to market research firm Input Inc.]]></description>
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 <volume>24</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Symplicity wins bid to manage FedBizOpps]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The General Services Administration&#146;s Federal Technology Service earlier this month awarded Symplicity Corp. of Arlington, Va., the contract to run FedBizOpps.gov, the government&#146;s procurement portal.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/24_16/36197-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>24</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Bill would bar new municipal public networks]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Texas Republican Pete Sessions has introduced a bill in the House that would prohibit state and local governments from offering any public telecom or networking services in competition with private companies.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/24_16/36198-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>24</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[NIST checking out labs for voting systems]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The National Institute of Standards and Technology has begun an accreditation program for laboratories that want to evaluate voting systems under the Help America Vote Act.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/24_16/36199-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>24</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Rule would add new factor to FAR evaluations]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Government contractors would be evaluated on past performance as well as on how they handled subcontracts, under a proposed amendment to the Federal Acquisition Regulation announced in the Federal Register earlier this month.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/24_16/36200-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>24</volume>
 <issue>16</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Recreation One-Stop finalizes contract award]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Forest Service has once again awarded a $97 million contract to ReserveAmerica of Ballston Spa, N.Y., to provide a single federal recreation information and reservation service.]]></description>
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 <volume>24</volume>
 <issue>16</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[People on theMove]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[President Bush has nominated John G. Grimes, a Raytheon Co. executive and retired Defense leader, to be the Defense Department&#146;s next CIO.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/24_16/36202-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>24</volume>
 <issue>16</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Mike  Sade, AFFIRM&#146;s unlikely president]]></title>
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 <volume>24</volume>
 <issue>16</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[AFFIRM honors Lee Holcomb for thinking big]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Lee Holcomb, whose work on NASA&#146;s Voyager mission earlier in his career imbued him with the notion to dream big, received the Association for Federal Information Resources Management&#146;s highest honor for executive leadership at an awards ceremony this month.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/24_16/36220-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>24</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[DHS takes a break to review Emerge2&#146;s future]]></title>
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 <volume>24</volume>
 <issue>16</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Collaboration  central]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[DAHLGREN, Va.&#151;Inside the Coalition Task Force Command, Marine Corps Col. Tim Cassidy is preparing to brief commanders on the latest developments in Southeast Africa.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/24_16/36206-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>24</volume>
 <issue>16</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Complex pay systems slow some E-Payroll migrations]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Federal Aviation Administration and the Veterans Affairs Department are two of the agencies putting the government&#146;s E-Payroll initiative behind schedule. But they have good reasons.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/24_16/36207-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>24</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Veterans Affairs, Defense expand their two-way health data system]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Doctors in the Defense and Veterans Affairs departments&#146; hospitals will soon be able to view patients&#146; medical histories from their first examination to their latest checkup, regardless of which department holds the records.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/24_16/36208-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>24</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[New hope for data exchanges]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[With the revision of the Federal Enterprise Architecture&#146;s Data Reference Model, expected in December, federal agencies could finally have solid metrics to evaluate how well they share data, said Michael Daconta, metadata program manager for the Homeland Security Department.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/24_16/36210-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>24</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Congress plans funding cuts for Defense space systems]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Space programs in the Defense Department face significant cuts this budget cycle, signaling frustration among legislators that the programs continue to come in over budget and behind schedule.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/24_16/36211-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>24</volume>
 <issue>16</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Voice over IP on the rise at state level]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[State governments, attracted by the prospects of lower costs and better service for communications, are beginning to shift to voice over IP and Internet telephony, according to a new report.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/24_16/36213-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>24</volume>
 <issue>16</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[NFC data to come in from the rain]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Big Easy is a frequent target of hurricanes blowing across the Gulf of Mexico, which often forces the Agriculture Department&#146;s data center there to shut down until the emergency passes.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/24_16/36219-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>24</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Spyware is affecting even the network&#146;s Dear Leader]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[With spyware becoming more of a security threat&#151;given programs like &#147;Cool Web Search,&#148; which uses rootkit-like exploits to work its way onto users&#146; machines&#151;the Rat has escalated his network security alert level to two shades above maroon.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/24_16/36222-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>24</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Tectonic forces at the FBI]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Only a couple of weeks after the Mark-Felt-was-Deep-Throat revelation came news of far more pressing im- portance to the FBI: The FBI director had agreed to share the selection of the bur- eau&#146;s intelligence chief with the director of national intelligence, currently John Negroponte.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/24_16/36217-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>24</volume>
 <issue>16</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Sticking points in EA Business Transformation]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The recent Management of Change Conference in Philadelphia was notable for several recurring themes. ]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/24_16/36218-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>24</volume>
 <issue>16</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[When is BIG too BIG?]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[With LCD prices dropping and quality improving, the CRT may soon be like the record player: a groovy reminder of the past but far outpaced by modern technology.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/24_16/36171-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>24</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[E-Government run amok!]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[In the first half of 2004, when the Environmental Protection Agency solicited public feedback for a proposed rule that would limit mercury output from power plants, it received almost 540,000 comments over the Internet.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/24_16/36163-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>24</volume>
 <issue>16</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Breathing new life into the e-postmark]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Postal Service&#146;s digital proofing business rubs some the wrong way]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/24_16/36226-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>24</volume>
 <issue>16</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Power User: Record what you want, where you want]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[For the second Power User column in a row, I actually have some new products to talk about. This is unusual for me because these days I seldom see anything new and worthwhile.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/24_16/36228-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>24</volume>
 <issue>16</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Cyber Eye: For crying out loud, encrypt data at rest]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The nation owes a debt of gratitude to California, which last year began requiring that companies doing business in the state notify consumers whose unencrypted personal data has been compromised. Because so many companies do business in California, the law has in effect become a de facto national requirement.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/24_16/36229-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>24</volume>
 <issue>16</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Business transformation puts DLA in the know]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Business transformation is starting to pick up steam at the Defense Logistics Agency.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/24_16/36216-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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