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 <title><![CDATA[Davis kicks IT oversight upstairs to full committee]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[IT is so entrenched across government programs that it demands the attention of a full committee&#151;that&#146;s the reasoning behind Rep. Tom Davis&#146; decision this month to elevate IT oversight to his House Government Reform Committee.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Rent a cybercop]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The information assurance group in the Education Department CIO&#146;s office had only a handful of employees two years ago, when it became clear that new federal IT security requirements would create a mountain of work.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Apps on tap]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Government agencies are increasingly turning to Web services to speed application development, share data and conduct transactions more easily.]]></description>
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 <volume>24</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[The lowdown on web services]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[What is it? Web services, essentially, provide applications&#151;from customer services to human resources&#151;over the Internet or another network.]]></description>
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 <volume>24</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Workforce reality: Keep doing more with less]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Heavy workloads and staffing shortages are weighing on the minds of federal managers in 2005.]]></description>
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 <volume>24</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Pentagon&#146;s business systems plan goes global]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Designed around thousands of systems, the Defense Department&#146;s new enterprise architecture will usher in what some people are calling the biggest IT transition ever undertaken.]]></description>
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 <volume>24</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[XML will weave a common picture of military intel]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Defense Department and its allies are building an architecture to share their intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance data in near-real time.]]></description>
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 <volume>24</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Incoming]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Intelligence deal. The Army has tapped four companies to vie for work under a $209 million support deal for its Intelligence and Security Command.]]></description>
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 <volume>24</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Future budget crunch could put Defense IT on the hot seat]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Despite an increase in spending for 2006, the  Defense Department could face budget decreases over the next six years and escalating costs such as health care spending.]]></description>
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 <volume>24</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Users will get free Windows spyware tool]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[SAN FRANCISCO&#151;Microsoft Corp.&#146;s new AntiSpyware tool will be available at no charge to all Windows users, company chairman Bill Gates said last week.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/24_4/35123-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>24</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Novell&#146;s Hula says &#145;aloha&#146; to open source]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[BOSTON&#151;Novell Inc. will open source the e-mail and calendar functions of its NetMail enterprise collaboration server software. ]]></description>
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 <volume>24</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[NIH accelerates  posting of work it has funded]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The National Institutes of Health is asking scientists to voluntarily make their biomedical research results available through the agency&#146;s searchable database within 12 months of publication.]]></description>
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 <volume>24</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[CIOs fret over consolidation, cybersecurity]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[CIOs and IT managers will focus on systems consolidation and security through the end of the fiscal year.]]></description>
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 <volume>24</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Telecom reform may be back in play on the Hill]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Internet rated only a footnote in the landmark 1996 Telecommunications Reform Act. ]]></description>
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 <volume>24</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Weather service syncs up new supercomputers]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration&#146;s planned Global Earth Observation System of Systems got a new member earlier this month when the National Weather Service synchronized a trio of IBM eServer clustered supercomputers.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[GSA outlines its strategy for consolidation deals]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The General Services Administration&#146;s strategy for its Alliant acquisition will include a contract for small businesses and a $65 billion ceiling.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[USGS backs global warning system idea]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Through its Public Warning Network Challenge, the Internet Society is calling for collaborators on an all-media, all-hazards public warning system.]]></description>
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 <volume>24</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Federal GIS users want a better GPS fit]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Interoperability, data standards and policies for sharing geospatial information are among the top concerns of federal geographic information system users, according to a survey by ESRI.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Army shuffles groups that handle IT work]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Army has realigned three of its communications and electronics organizations at Fort Monmouth, N.J., to form the Communications-Electronics Life Cycle Management Command.]]></description>
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 <volume>24</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Data Reference Model already being revised]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Data Reference Model, the final piece of the Federal Enterprise Architecture, is only a few months old, and already federal officials are making plans to revise it.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[People on the Move]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Carlos Solari, who spent the last 2 1&#8260;2 years as White House CIO, left last week to return to industry.]]></description>
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 <volume>24</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Sun targets Red Hat, not Microsoft]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Is there any major IT company under more competitive pressure right now than Sun Microsystems Inc.?]]></description>
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 <volume>24</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[&#147;Did you hear...&#148; ]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Buyer beware. According to an analysis of more than 20,000 notebook computers it has repaired, NoteFix recently concluded that Toshiba America Inc., Sony Corp. and Hewlett-Packard Co. notebooks are the most commonly repaired brands, in that order.]]></description>
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 <volume>24</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Feds won&#146;t fume over Fiorina getting her pink slip]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[&#147;The star-nosed mole sweeps its feelers back and forth 13 times a second while feeding,&#148; recited the Rat&#146;s youngest son as he wrote his science report. &#147;When it finds food, it snatches it up in less than a fifth of a second.&#148;]]></description>
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 <volume>24</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[On this day, the &#147;E&#148; in e-gov stands for excellence]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Government and industry officials gathered this month at a Washington lunch to honor agencies that received Excellence.gov Awards for their e-government systems.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[VA and SBA downgraded on security]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Veterans Affairs Department and Small Business Administration fell a notch in the latest e-government ratings on the President&#146;s Management Agenda scorecard because of IT security weaknesses.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/24_4/35121-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <title><![CDATA[Air Force deal offers a model for outsourcing IT security]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Air Force&#146;s recent enterprise deal with Microsoft Corp. could serve as an example of what future IT security services contracts could look like, Transportation Department CIO Dan Matthews said.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/24_4/35122-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <title><![CDATA[Mergers reshape telecom landscape in government]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Within a year, the government will be looking at a much different telecommunications market&#151;with far fewer vendors offering far more services.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/24_4/35136-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <title><![CDATA[VA turns to vendor in bid to salvage flawed financial system]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Veterans Affairs Department is trying to figure how to put its Core Financial and Logistics System back on track.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[FBI probes hack involving fbi.gov e-mail addresses]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[FBI systems specialists last week launched an investigation into a hacking incident that prompted the bureau to close e-mail accounts furnished by its Internet service provider.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Commerce set to give nod to smart-card specs this week]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[SAN FRANCISCO&#151;If everything goes well, the Federal Information Processing Standard for personal identity verification will be signed this week.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/24_4/35139-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <title><![CDATA[That system&#146;s only as secure as its audit trail]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[SAN FRANCISCO&#151;The message is clear to vendors: It&#146;s not enough to secure your network and data when working for the government; you must be able to document security efforts to meet a growing list of federal requirements.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Agency IT security improves&#151;a little]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Seven agencies, including the Homeland Security Department, have received failing grades for their IT security efforts.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/24_4/35141-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <title><![CDATA[Bush&#146;s IT spending grows, but leaves some agencies behind]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[On the surface, the fiscal 2006 IT budget request of $65.1 billion appears to reflect the Bush administration&#146;s willingness to spend on technology, with a 7.1 percent jump overall from 2005 and double-digit percentage increases going to the Homeland Security and Veterans Affairs departments.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[DOD&#146;s IT budget boost is biggest in four years]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The president&#146;s fiscal 2006 Defense Department budget proposal calls for raising IT spending by the largest margin in the past four years.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Proposed cuts to GSA&#146;s governmentwide policy shop to be felt throughout agencies]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The White House&#146;s desire to eliminate what it considers redundant spending at the General Services Administration&#146;s Office of Governmentwide Policy might make things more difficult for one of its own offices.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Editorial Cartoon]]></title>
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 <title><![CDATA[EDITOR&#146;S DESK: FBI IT foul-up: The case for oversight]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The reaction was swift and predictable when FBI director Robert Mueller delivered the grim news at a Senate Appropriations subcommittee hearing earlier this month that the agency&#146;s three-year, $170 million effort to build the highly touted Virtual Case File system now appears destined to be scrapped.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/24_4/35082-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <title><![CDATA[Executive suite: And the Oscar for net-centricity goes to ...]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Net-centricity is the power of networks to distribute information instantly and without borders.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Ready for a Windows-free desktop?]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Earlier this month, Red Hat Inc. gathered government users, partners and the press together to launch its federal sales division.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Remote access]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Securities and Exchange Commission uses an IP Security virtual private network to provide workers with a remote connection to the SEC network.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[GCN INSIDER: Trends and technologies that affect the way government does IT ]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Executives of security startup Venafi Inc. make a good point: If agencies can&#146;t manage the digital certificates that ensure secure communications among servers, they could run into problems troubleshooting system downtime.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[PC blades gain acceptance]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[From the wilds of Afghanistan to the depths of Cheyenne Mountain&#151;and at numerous civilian agencies in between&#151;a novel approach to desktop computing is solving some of government customers&#146; thorniest problems.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/24_4/35098-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <title><![CDATA[VPN choice not clear-cut]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Luis Toledo, a computer scientist at the Securities and Exchange Commission, thinks the IPSec VPN with its client-side software is on its way out.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Internaut: Services shops take on more government IT]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The stars seem to be lining up in a way that could push even more business toward the big IT service vendors that already handle so much of the federal government&#146;s need for IT.]]></description>
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