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 <title><![CDATA[Ready for the storm]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[A year ago, federal officials thought their IT systems were stout enough to cope with data demands brought on by the torrent of hurricanes expected to hit the Atlantic seaboard.]]></description>
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 <volume>24</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[EA payoff expected in 2007 budget plans]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[For most agencies, the time is now for their enterprise architectures to pay off.]]></description>
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 <volume>24</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[A DOD cyberplan aims to attract hackers like bees]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Two of the Army&#146;s lead technologists propose to defend the Global Information Grid by using decoy networks and &#147;honey pots&#148; to fool hackers.]]></description>
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 <volume>24</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Everything&#146;s on the record]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[As the business of government, like that of the rest of the world, is increasingly done digitally, the task of managing official records becomes increasingly important. ]]></description>
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 <volume>24</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[The lowdown on ERM]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Who certifies ERM systems for use in government? NARA has endorsed the Defense Department&#146;s 5015.2 standard for records management applications.]]></description>
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 <volume>24</volume>
 <issue>17</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Windows still rules government OS world]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The landscape of network operating systems in government looks a lot different than it did two years ago.]]></description>
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 <volume>24</volume>
 <issue>17</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[DISA Web pilot supports move to collaborate online]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Defense Department wants the Army, Navy and Air Force enterprise portals linked to a pilot project to test secure, browser-based collaboration tools from WebEx Communications Inc. of San Jose, Calif.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/24_17/36242-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>24</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Retrieval system would put procurement info on tap]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The military has enlisted a new weapon in the fight against its unwieldy acquisitions bureaucracy.]]></description>
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 <volume>24</volume>
 <issue>17</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[FBI readies rollout of data exchange]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[NEW ORLEANS&#151;The FBI is poised to expand its Regional Data Exchange program from a pilot in the St. Louis area that began in February to a Seattle version set to launch August 1&#151;and then to more than a dozen other cities in the following months.]]></description>
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 <volume>24</volume>
 <issue>17</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[State, NIST disagree on biometrics]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[A digital photograph and contactless chip for electronic passport implementation would confirm the identity of the person carrying the document, a top State Department official said late last month in testimony before Congress.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/24_17/36278-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>24</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[California will revisit RFID restrictions]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The California Assembly at press time was set to consider a partial ban on radio frequency identification that would allow the technology to be used for certain types of identification cards, but only if shield devices and other privacy protections are employed.]]></description>
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 <volume>24</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Ag will upgrade IT at its Farm Service Agency]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Agriculture Department has given Ciber Inc. of Greenwood Village, Colo., a $1 million task order to provide software development, maintenance and support for database applications for its Farm Service Agency, the company said late last month.]]></description>
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 <volume>24</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Justice served with task order for IT services]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Justice Department has awarded a six-year, $80 million task order to SRA International Inc. to provide IT systems and services to the Office of Justice Programs, the company said late last month.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/24_17/36281-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>24</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[GSA adds Lee to its new FAS acquisition team]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The General Services Administration has named Deidre Lee as the assistant commissioner of the new Federal Acquisition Service&#146;s Integrated Technology Services.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/24_17/36282-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>24</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[New bill would aid municipal broadband nets]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Congress has been duking it out over the issue of municipal public networks with two bills, each designed to cancel out the other.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/24_17/36283-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>24</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Navy signs $5m automated warehouse deal]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Navy awarded a $4.8 million contract to General Dynamics Corp. for the development and demonstration of a land-based, automated warehouse system to be used aboard ships.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/24_17/36284-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>24</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[IG pans DHS&#146; plans for IT recovery]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Homeland Security Department&#146;s IT systems are not adequately prepared for disaster recovery, according to a new report from the department&#146;s acting inspector general, Richard Skinner.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/24_17/36285-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>24</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[DOD goal: Boost DISN bandwidth up to 10 Gbps]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Defense Department has issued a request for proposals for technologies that would boost bandwidth for the Defense Information Systems Network.]]></description>
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 <volume>24</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[DOD extends contract for video hubs]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Defense Department has granted a 22-month, $26 million extension of a contract with AT&amp;T Government Solutions for videoconferencing services, according to the company.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/24_17/36287-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>24</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[FAA system stays ATOP oceanic-flight safety, tracking]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[An air traffic system that allows controllers to reduce space between aircraft over U.S. oceanic air space is now fully operational at its first site&#151;the New York Air Route Traffic Control Center&#151;the Federal Aviation Administration said late last month.]]></description>
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 <volume>24</volume>
 <issue>17</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[People on the Move]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Dave Combs>/b> will fill the role of acting Agriculture Department CIO until a permanent replacement is found for Scott Charbo, who is leaving to become CIO of the Homeland Security Department.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/24_17/36289-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>24</volume>
 <issue>17</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[The real cost of open-source software]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Although Linus Torvalds may be the person most people associate with the Linux operating system, Jon &#147;Maddog&#148; Hall, with his hippie-length white hair and Santa Claus beard, is a close second as the public face of the open-source movement.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/24_17/36245-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>24</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Packet Rat: PTO&#146;s IT budget could be the mother of all invention]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[So when the Rat decided to bring the wife and ratlings along to JavaOne in San Francisco, things were bound to go haywire.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/24_17/36296-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>24</volume>
 <issue>17</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[The Community: Ellen Glover takes the lead at IAC]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Ellen Glover took the helm on Friday as chair of the Industry Advisory Council, the industry arm of the American Council for Technology.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/24_17/36297-1.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[But can it sing &#147;Bicycle Built for Two?&#148; The idea of a talking computer on a spaceship has had eerie connotations since &#147;2001: A Space Odyssey&#148; and HAL 9000 hit screens in 1968.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/24_17/36298-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>24</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[2006: Flat funding, with strings attached]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Lawmakers are applying additional restrictions and greater oversight on large IT and e-government projects in the fiscal 2006 agency spending bills making their way through Congress.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/24_17/36255-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>24</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[House follows committee&#146;s lead on DOD, cuts FCS]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The House has signed off on a $408 billion Defense budget that makes significant cuts to key transformational programs across the department.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/24_17/36264-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>24</volume>
 <issue>17</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Data sharing makes Southeast better prepared]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Technology for hurricane preparedness has forged ahead in recent months at the Federal Emergency Management Agency&#146;s Region IV office in Atlanta, which covers the hurricane-prone Southeastern coastal states as well as the rest of the South.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/24_17/36269-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>24</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Honeynets provide sweet temptations to hackers]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The concept of a honeypot or honeynet to lure intruders into an environment where they can be safely observed&#151;and, perhaps, identified and caught&#151;has been used for a number of years by the IT security community to gather information on hackers, vulnerabilities and exploits.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/24_17/36271-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>24</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Protest puts FedBizOpps upgrade in limbo]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Two bidders claiming the General Services Administration unfairly evaluated their bids for the right to upgrade FedBizOpps.gov could be facing an uphill battle, according to a procurement expert.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/24_17/36272-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>24</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[New security threats reshape agencies&#146; info-sharing tactics]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[NEW ORLEANS&#151;Shifts in the hazards facing the country are forcing changes in the culture and technology of information sharing.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/24_17/36292-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>24</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Administration gets behind IPv6, sets 2008 target]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[In light of recent studies that say the government is not moving aggressively enough toward adoption of Internet Protocol Version 6, the Office of Management and Budget is preparing a policy to guide agencies&#146; transition to the new standard.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/24_17/36293-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>24</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Feds&#146; next challenge: targeted data attacks]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Federal agencies are facing a new set of low-level but targeted Trojan horse software cyberattacks aimed at obtaining specific information from PCs.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/24_17/36294-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>24</volume>
 <issue>17</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Army plan requires &#145;ruthless configuration management&#146;]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The leaders of the Army&#146;s nine warfighting and business mission areas must prove that programs within their domains are interoperable or those programs will be cut, according to an upcoming operations plan.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/24_17/36295-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>24</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[EDITOR&#146;S DESK: Data heists: Compliance remains the weakest link]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The news last month that 40 million credit card accounts had  potentially been compromised, and records for 200,000  had been stolen, was perhaps the most stunning example yet of the challenges of cybersecurity.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/24_17/36247-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>24</volume>
 <issue>17</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Another View" Using past performance to steer contract awards]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[When it comes to awarding contracts, there are two kinds of government officials. ]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/24_17/36248-1.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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 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/24_17/36249-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>24</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Dual-core? What dual-core?]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[In the next few weeks lots will be written about the new dual-core systems. ]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/24_17/36263-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>24</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Do you know what you know?]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The instruction was clear: &#147;No new data entry from the field.&#148;]]></description>
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 <volume>24</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[GCN INSIDER: Good code, secure code; Security compliance in action; No Flash in the pan]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Interesting pair of briefings early last month. In the dining room of Washington&#146;s Hay-Adams Hotel, Dale Fuller, CEO of Borland Software Corp., mapped out for a GCN editor (literally, in great detail, on ruled paper), the need for better software development processes in government. ]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/24_17/36251-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>24</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Telecom services gain critical mass]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Last month, the telecommunications industry descended on Chicago for SuperComm 2005, arguably the world&#146;s most important conference for all things networking.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/24_17/36252-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>24</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Internaut: Fiddling while the Net burns]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[We should all give thanks to the Government Accountability Office for confirming what many government IT managers already knew.]]></description>
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