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 <title><![CDATA[Info sharing can be perilous&#151;just ask Energy and DHS]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[It&#146;s a cautionary tale: Five months worth of sensitive federal briefings on terrorism show up on a nongovernment Web site. Supposedly, only government eyes would ever see them.]]></description>
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 <volume>24</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Slight of hand, heavy on features]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Who would have thought the day would come when laptops would seem too big, and phones not useful enough?]]></description>
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 <volume>24</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[The lowdown on handheld PCs]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[What is it? For the purposes of this guide, a handheld is a device that combines the data-entry and data-transfer features of a PDA, with the voice capabilities of a phone.]]></description>
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 <volume>24</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[IT systems paint detailed picture of U.S. waterways]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Coast Guard is deploying a sophisticated array of information systems to achieve what it calls &#147;maritime domain awareness&#148;&#151;a comprehensive portrait of the nation&#146;s coasts and waterways.]]></description>
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 <volume>24</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Major programs within the Coast Guard]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Coast Guard&#146;s modernization project is scheduled to run for 25 years and cost $17 billion.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/24_3/34944-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>24</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Onboard system gives Marines a grip on their fleet]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Managing 2,200 light vehicles for the Marine Corps&#146; Southwest Region Fleet Transportation is a major effort.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/24_3/34937-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>24</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[DOD supply app to manage medical supplies on the battlefield]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Doctors serving wounded and sick soldiers in Afghanistan and Iraq should get the medical supplies they need thanks to a new feature the Defense Department is developing for its medical supplies support application.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/24_3/34939-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>24</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Information suite has four-star beta tester]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The new Joint Systems Integration Command in Suffolk, Va., has 160 computer and communications engineers working on &#147;near-term insertion, within one year&#148; of prototypes to close technology gaps in the field.]]></description>
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 <volume>24</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[GSA studies how to reorganize its services]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The General Services Administration is trying to head off&#151;or help out&#151;Rep. Tom Davis before he demands the agency make organizational changes.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/24_3/34984-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>24</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Lockheed wins $1.9 billion A-76 deal with FAA ]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Federal Aviation Administration has selected Lockheed Martin Corp. to provide services that the agency currently performs, following an OMB A-76 competition.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/24_3/34985-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>24</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Interior taps ESRI for geospatial portal redesign]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[ESRI will redesign the Geospatial One-Stop portal that it created under a new five-year, $2.4 million contract.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/24_3/34986-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>24</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Army issues solicitation for portal vendor]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Army is looking for a single integrator to manage its Army Knowledge Online-Enterprise Services program.]]></description>
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 <volume>24</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[OPM will track agencies&#146; IT training efforts]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Office of Personnel Management will use its Human Capital Scorecard to start tracking agencies&#146; success in training IT employees.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/24_3/34988-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>24</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[CIOs faulted for slow crawl toward telework]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Only about 100,000 of the 750,000 eligible federal employees telework at least one day a week, and General Services Administration deputy administrator David Bibb says agency CIOs are partly to blame.]]></description>
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 <volume>24</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[OPM public affairs officer Asher murdered]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Warren &#147;Rusty&#148; Asher, a longtime public affairs specialist at the Office of Personnel Management, was found murdered in his Washington home late last month.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/24_3/34994-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>24</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Patent office will get continued systems help from CSC]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Patent and Trademark Office awarded Computer Sciences Corp. a $280 million contract to continue providing systems development and integration, testing and training for modernizing business processes.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/24_3/34995-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>24</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Postal Service to consolidate servers, improve support]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Postal Service replaced all of its servers, PCs and notebooks two years ago, reducing the number of servers to less than 4,000 from about 20,000. But now USPS chief technology officer Robert Otto wants to consolidate further.]]></description>
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 <volume>24</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Six Quicksilver projects may get e-gov awards ]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Six of the 25 Quicksilver initiatives are among the 25 finalists for the Excellence.gov awards, given each year to projects that show the best practices of e-government.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/24_3/34997-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>24</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[NIST puts the word out on security safeguards]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The National Institute of Standards and Technology and the National Security Agency have released a specification to standardize IT security checklists.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/24_3/34998-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>24</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[People on the Move]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[b>Lisa Schlosser took over as CIO for the Housing and Urban Development Department to- day.]]></description>
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 <volume>24</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[OFPP sees ways to improve buying]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[It took 387 days for the Senate to confirm David Safavian as head of the Office of Federal Procurement Policy.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/24_3/34942-1.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[One more reason to take the train. Classic Restorations, which soups up vintage rides at its sprawling Sloatsburg, N.Y., headquarters, is taking orders for its new Mac Mini Auto design. Apparently, Classic Restorations was working on the means to install an Apple iBook into cars when it realized the new Mac Mini could fit into a stereo compartment. ]]></description>
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 <volume>24</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Neil Stillman, first CIO of HHS, passes away]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Neil J. Stillman, the first CIO of the Health and Human Services Department, died suddenly last month. He was 62.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/24_3/35014-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>24</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Packet Rat: The whiskered one tries a new open-source ingredient]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Sometimes, when a company does what it has repeatedly said it will do, it still comes as a surprise.]]></description>
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 <volume>24</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Congress aims to clear backlog of security clearances]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[More than 500,000 federal and contract employees are stuck in limbo, unable to do the work the government hired them to do.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/24_3/35000-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <title><![CDATA[For &#146;06, most agencies&#146; IT budgets will be flat]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[When President Bush sends his fiscal 2006 budget proposal to Congress today, agencies that do not carry out defense or homeland security missions should expect flat or reduced IT budgets.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/24_3/35001-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <title><![CDATA[The promise of XML]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[For the Navy, the Extensible Mark-up Language provided a possible way to meet its FORCEnet objectives.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/24_3/35003-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>24</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[GSA gets semantic with architecture reference models]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The General Services Administration is one agency making strides in trying to find a path to the semantic Web through a pilot to encode Federal Enterprise Architecture reference models.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/24_3/35004-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <title><![CDATA[An XML registry is key to sharing data]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[When the Federal CIO Council created its Emerging Technology Subcommittee in August 2003, Extensible Markup Language was high on its list of priorities.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[XML excises the Army&#146;s ancient forms system]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[When the Army embarked late last year on a mission to overhaul its antiquated approach to managing forms, officials turned to Extensible Markup Language.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/24_3/35006-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>24</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[NIST lays out new smart-card draft specs]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The National Institute of Standards and Technology has released biometric specifications that firm up plans for governmentwide personal-identity-verification cards.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/24_3/35007-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>24</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[SAIC sees future for FBI system]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The FBI should fully deploy the Virtual Case File case management system despite the problems it has experienced and the criticism it has received, an executive of Science Applications International Corp. said last week.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/24_3/35008-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>24</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Uncle Sam cracks down on the use of fake diplomas in government]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Internet has made it possible for phony schools to proliferate and difficult for state and federal agencies to prosecute them, so the government will fight fire with fire, using a new Web site to help users distinguish legitimate schools from diploma mills.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/24_3/35009-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>24</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Hill takes a close look at high-risk programs]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Defense Department runs eight programs that are at risk of failing, including its initiative to transform 4,700 business systems.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/24_3/35010-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>24</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Bid protest stalls biometric passports]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The government will push back its schedule to roll out passports embedded with biometric information from late this year to mid-2006 because of procurement problems.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/24_3/35011-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>24</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Settlement on much-protested deal frees HUD to modernize IT]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[With its hands now untied, the Housing and Urban Development Department can implement its IT modernization.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/24_3/35012-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>24</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[EDITOR&#146;S DESK: PC abandonment is no surprise, yet sad ]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[No one should be surprised that IBM Corp. is trying to unload its PC business to a company in China, but that doesn&#146;t mean it&#146;s not sad.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/24_3/34947-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>24</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[@Info.Policy: Will privacy officers really protect privacy?]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Did Congress need to mandate the creation of chief privacy officers in agencies?]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/24_3/34952-1.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[802.11g wireless LANs nowhere near 54 Mbps]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The last time the GCN Lab tested 802.11 wireless networks, we found that eliminating wires came at a high cost.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/24_3/34972-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>24</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Microsoft takes crack at counter-espionage software]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[It&#146;s the same old story. Microsoft buys a company, makes minor improvements to the technology and releases its own product.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/24_3/34973-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>24</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Process makes perfect]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[When Prince William County, Va., decided to automate the routing of internal forms, it found that standard workflow software wasn&#146;t up to the job.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/24_3/34956-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>24</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[New features ease BPM planning]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Installing business process management software is just one part of setting up an enterprisewide workflow.]]></description>
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 <volume>24</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[System architects get new tool for their EA efforts]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The most recent version of the Unified Modeling Language, which IT managers and enterprise architects use to model applications, data structures and business processes, will allow agencies to tie together system models more easily, even blend the business and technical parts of their EAs.]]></description>
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 <volume>24</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Inside UML Version 2.0]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Unified Modeling Language is a visual modeling language used for creating maps of complex systems.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/24_3/34959-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>24</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Cyber Eye: Consumer technologies present fresh headaches for net administrators]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[As the distinction between personal gadgets and enterprise tools continues to blur, more consumer products are being introduced into the workplace without any formal planning.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/24_3/34960-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>24</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Power User: More Google power]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The announcement of a project to digitize millions of old books from university libraries put Google in the news recently.]]></description>
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