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 <title><![CDATA[Special Report: State Department&#146;s computer crime investigations go global]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[In 2003, in a former Soviet republic, several people were tried and convicted of terrorism, and two of them received the death penalty.]]></description>
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 <volume>24</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Special Report: Digital investigations: difficult, expensive&#151;and necessary]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The bank robber Willie Sutton famously said in the 1930s that he robbed banks &#147;because that&#146;s where the money is. So no one should be surprised today at the extent of crime in cyberspace&#151;from credit card fraud to identity theft to &#147;Nigerian bank&#148; scams.]]></description>
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 <volume>24</volume>
 <issue>32</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Agency reports to shape wireless spectrum allocation]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The commercial pressure to free up more of the nation&#146;s airwaves for the latest wireless technologies is heading for a tipping point, as agencies clarify how they use and manage their portions of the radio frequency spectrum.]]></description>
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 <volume>24</volume>
 <issue>32</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[The business of IT intelligence]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Intelligence is an imperfect science. Just ask the CIA or the 9/11 Commission. ]]></description>
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 <volume>24</volume>
 <issue>32</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[The lowdown on IT assests]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[What is it?  Software for tracking and managing IT assets&#151;hardware, software and services.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/24_32/37471-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>24</volume>
 <issue>32</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Spirit of A-76 proves uninspiring]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Federal IT managers have overcome some of their wariness toward Office of Management and Budget Circular A-76, the Bush administration&#146;s guidance for competing government jobs with the private sector.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/24_32/37450-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>24</volume>
 <issue>32</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[One weapon, many uses]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Today&#146;s warfighters must do battle on at least three fronts: securing the homeland, fighting abroad and safeguarding critical data from terrorists and hackers.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/24_32/37446-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>24</volume>
 <issue>32</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Incoming]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Army has released a request for proposals for a $5 billion procurement vehicle that will standardize desktop and notebook computer purchases.]]></description>
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 <volume>24</volume>
 <issue>32</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Army sets new policy for redacted documents]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Six months after the Defense Department inadvertently exposed classified data in an Adobe Portable Document Format memo, a senior Army official said an investigation has concluded that human error was to blame for the slip-up.]]></description>
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 <volume>24</volume>
 <issue>32</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[IAC issues guide to federal IT security]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Federal agencies struggling with information security requirements can use a new handbook from the Industry Advisory Council as a road map.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/24_32/37491-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>24</volume>
 <issue>32</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[GAO says Army AKO portal award is OK]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Government Accountability Office has sided with the Army in its choice of Lockheed Martin Corp. to manage the Army Knowledge Online portal.]]></description>
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 <volume>24</volume>
 <issue>32</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[NIST sets up repository for health IT info]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The National Institute of Standards and Technology, along with standards development groups and others, is working on a Web-based repository of health IT standards information.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/24_32/37494-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>24</volume>
 <issue>32</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Treasury&#146;s TCE reopens for further bids]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Treasury Department has reopened its controversial network and telecommunications contract to new offers from the original bidders.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/24_32/37495-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>24</volume>
 <issue>32</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Bill gives first responders more spectrum]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[First responders would have more radio spectrum in the 700 megahertz band under legislation approved late last month by the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee as part of the fiscal 2006 budget resolution. ]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/24_32/37496-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>24</volume>
 <issue>32</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[GAO again sides with rec-site losing bidder ]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Government Accountability Office for the second time has ruled in favor of Spherix Inc. of Beltsville, Md., in the vendor&#146;s protest of the Agriculture Department&#146;s award of its $97 million recreation information and reservation service contract to ReserveAmerica of Ballston Spa, N.Y.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/24_32/37497-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>24</volume>
 <issue>32</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[People on the Move]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Senate has confirmed former Raytheon Co. vice president John G. Grimes as the Defense Department&#146;s new CIO, filling a position that had been without a permanent IT leader for more than 1 1/2 years.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/24_32/37498-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>24</volume>
 <issue>32</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Tim Bray | No easy road to interoperability]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[After he helped develop the Extensible Markup Language, Tim Bray could have rested on his laurels, collecting the occasional consulting check. ]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/24_32/37449-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>24</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Packet Rat: For this superpower battle, sit back, relax&#151;and keep your head down]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Once upon a time, a Silicon Valley start-up company created some software that changed the Internet.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/24_32/37510-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>24</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[The community: IAC and ACT awards]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Marcella Banks said she was both surprised and honored last week when she found out she had won the Industry Advisory Council/American Council for Technology award named after her longtime friend, the late Janice Mendenhall. Banks, assistant regional administrator for the Federal Technology Service&#146;s Southwest Region, has been in government for 48 years, the first 10 with the Air Force, the last 38 with GSA.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/24_32/37511-1.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[b>Undisguised fearsM. People love the Internet. ]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/24_32/37512-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>24</volume>
 <issue>32</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Digital clues help police land high-tech pirates]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Last month, the Sacramento Valley Hi-Tech Crimes Task Force, along with the U.S. Attorney&#146;s Office and the Secret Service, busted what they described as a massive DVD pirate ring.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/24_32/37482-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>24</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Basic training]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The reason the Secret Service puts so much emphasis on computer forensics is fairly simple: Computers are where the clues are.]]></description>
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 <volume>24</volume>
 <issue>32</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Making a case for computer forensics]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[A commitment to establishing a computer forensics operation is an expensive proposition, and it&#146;s not a one-time purchase decision.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/24_32/37484-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>24</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Senate, House need to come to terms over e-gov funding]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Legislation allocating $5 million for the administration&#146;s E-Government Fund and placing limits on competitive sourcing for certain agencies cleared the Senate last month and is headed for a conference committee so House and Senate lawmakers can work out differences.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/24_32/37499-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>24</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Committee blasts NASA&#146;s financial management]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Despite significant investments in new systems and an overhaul of NASA&#146;s financial organization, the space agency is still struggling to get its books in order.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/24_32/37500-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>24</volume>
 <issue>32</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[HHS lays out a plan to have e-health records on the table by next June]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Health and Human Services secretary Mike Leavitt and national health IT coordinator David Brailer have spent a lot of time talking about what health IT systems could do for medicine. Recently, they got a glimpse of what it can look like.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/24_32/37501-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>24</volume>
 <issue>32</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Patient authentication standard could win patients&#146; trust]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The federal government should play a larger role in ensuring that electronic health records protect patients&#146; data, because gaining patients&#146; trust will be a key factor in gaining public support for health IT, according to the federally appointed Commission for System Interoperability.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/24_32/37502-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>24</volume>
 <issue>32</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[OMB mulls evolving beyond GILS]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Agencies submit more than 3,000 annual requests to the Office of Management and Budget&#146;s Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs for permission to collect public data.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/24_32/37503-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>24</volume>
 <issue>32</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[HUD, other agencies worked around Katrina&#146;s telecom conundrum]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[It&#146;s no surprise that the scale of destruction from Hurricane Katrina exceeded every agency&#146;s worst-case predictions.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/24_32/37507-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>24</volume>
 <issue>32</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[IRS&#146; IT reorg strives for unified view, fast dividends]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[It may have taken the IRS a long time to improve the way it delivers services to taxpayers, but its recent management reorganization should pay dividends immediately, officials say.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/24_32/37508-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>24</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Editor's Desk: Networks becoming criminal accessories ]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The assault on network systems by cyberintruders has become so unrelenting that most IT managers treat it as routine.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/24_32/37451-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>24</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Executive Suite: Counting our IT blessings]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Despite the hardships caused by the war in Iraq, the devastation from hurricanes Katrina and Rita, and the prospect of higher-than-usual winter energy prices, those of us in the IT business can count our blessings this Thanksgiving.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/24_32/37452-1.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[Security 2006: How suite it is]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Teleworking is a great idea. But research indicates that organizations don&#146;t necessarily do it, because it means letting a legion of home PCs access the network. And who knows how those home PCs&#151;or systems set up in remote offices&#151;are protected?]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/24_32/37469-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>24</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Eyes front]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Defense Department is planning to sharpen its wireless networking policy by requiring the use of interoperable products built to industry standards.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/24_32/37454-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>24</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[DOD wireless policy: If you use it, secure it]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Wireless access to IT resources can be convenient and can enhance productivity, but it also opens up a can of worms for those who must secure and manage the connections and resources.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/24_32/37461-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>24</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[GCN Insider | Microsoft SQL Server 2005: Case of the missing mirror]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[This month marks the long-awaited release of Microsoft SQL Server 2005.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/24_32/37462-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>24</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[GCN Insider | Cranite Systems' SafeConnect: The end of VPN?]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[At last month&#146;s MILCOM conference in Atlantic City, N.J., Cranite Systems Inc. of Los Gatos, Calif., took the wraps off what its vice president of engineering calls virtual private LAN technology.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/24_32/37463-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>24</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[GCN Insider | Enterprise service bus products: Tale of two technologies]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[As service-oriented architectures generate ever more buzz, the market for enterprise service bus products is starting to heat up as well.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/24_32/37464-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>24</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Red Hat, Sun aim for security certification]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[In 2006, network administrators in high-security environments will have two new general-purpose operating systems to choose from.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/24_32/37465-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>24</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Internaut: Buying naked? Don&#146;t forget to cover your assets]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Now may not be the best time for government agencies to keep their clandestine &#147;naked PCs&#148; undercover.]]></description>
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