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 <title><![CDATA[Profiles in Persistence]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[One of the qualities especially salient among this year&#146;s GCN IT Leadership Award winners is sustained and exceptional accomplishment. All have labored long and hard in the government trenches, beginning in modest jobs and emerging as dazzling examples of the sort of leaders who are helping to transform government with their vision&#151;and the ability to rally fellow employees around that vision.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[EDITOR&#146;S DESK: Meet the elite]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[This issue honors the elite of government career workers. The 12 profiled in this special issue have shown they can get things done. Important things that move the missions of their agencies and affect the lives of their constituents and fellow workers, done in an environment typically written off as impossibly bureaucratic.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Mike Wash | Government IT is becoming content-centric]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Government Printing Office has been a print-centric agency focused on printing and disseminating printed publications. But the demands of the information age have forced GPO to rethink its approach to creating and disseminating government documents.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[TECHNICAL DIFFICULTIES]]></title>
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 <title><![CDATA[A cyberexercise with real-world lessons]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Students from the military academies recently came under cyberattack. Fortunately, it was from a network attack team composed of National Security Agency and Defense personnel during an intense, four-day competition&#151;the sixth annual Cyber Defense Exercise.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Incoming]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Air Force&#146;s IT modernization effort is moving forward rapidly, and the service should reach its targets for 2012 ahead of schedule, the Air Force CIO said recently.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[JBoss to wear the Red Hat ]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[During a panel at the recent LinuxWorld conference in Boston, the always fiery JBoss Inc. CEO Marc Fleury razzed SugarCRM CEO John Roberts about why the Cupertino, Calif.-based CRM provider entered into a collaboration agreement with Microsoft Corp. ]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Multicore challenges]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[While Advanced Micro Devices Inc. of Sunnyvale, Calif., and Intel Corp. of Santa Clara, Calif., are championing multicore processors, the supercomputing crowd remains ambivalent, at least until these additional cores can be better exploited.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[What&#146;s in an open-source name? ]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Trying to drum up buzz for the mapping software it recently open-sourced, Autodesk Inc. of San Rafael, Calif., created a bit of a muddle by naming its offering after a similar open-source program.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Intelligence as a service]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Business Objects Inc. of San Jose, Calif., will offer its Crystal Reports business intelligence software over the Internet, at crystalreports.com. ]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Linux desktop]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The nonprofit Open Source Development Labs has started a project to fuse the two dominant Linux desktop graphical user interfaces, the staid but consistent KDE and the more adventurous but buggier Gnome. ]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[HPC storage virtualization]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Crosswalk Inc. of Westminster, Colo., has released the iGRid 5100, a gateway that can be used between servers and storage arrays to pool storage as a single entity.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Emily Murphy | After the storm]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[To say these are trying times at the General Services Administration would be an understatement. But for chief acquisition officer Emily Murphy, it is business as usual as she implements an ambitious program to better train and educate GSA&#146;s acquisition workforce&#151;the lifeblood of the organization.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Take Notes]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[With IBM&#146;s Lotus Notes client on the front end and a Domino server on the back, agencies can have a robust enterprise collaboration platform that handles most office tasks&#151;despite what Microsoft says.|GCN Lab Reviewer's Choice|]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[A desktop in laptop clothing]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Alienware MJ-12 m7700a is the latest and greatest power notebook from a company better known for creating gaming rigs. (So well known, in fact, that Dell Inc. bought them.)]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[CD security comes easy]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Burning files to compact disk has become a popular way to disseminate information. Unfortunately, since anyone with a CD drive can access any disk they get their hands on, this medium has been ill-suited for proprietary or confidential files. ]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[PACKET RAT: Search and ye shall be found]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[&#147;It&#146;s getting to the point that I need a search engine to keep track of all the search sites,&#148; the Rat railed recently to one of his underlings. &#147;Everybody&#146;s trying to be a Google&#151;or get bought by them.&#148;]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[THE COMMUNITY: Motorola gives firefighters&#146; families a lift]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Motorola Inc. recently donated $1 million to the National Fallen Firefighters Foundation to fund the Paul Sarbanes Scholarship program and other activities.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[And another thing...]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[After a down year or two, the IT job market is on the rise again. ]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Hard job, soft sell]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Someone once described the mission of the Pentagon Renovation and Construction Program Office, known as PenRen, as trying to convert an old black-and-white television to color while it&#146;s being watched by viewers who expect no interruption in programming.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Straight shooter]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[An engineer at Defense Medical Logistics Standard Support realized that he could write an open-source encryptographic module that secures data. Debra Bonner, director of operations for DMLSS, was the catalyst for moving the program forward.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Bridge builder]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Anyone who has worked in government knows it&#146;s not easy to get city, county and local agencies to agree on anything. Patricia Curtis has made a career of it.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Hallowed ground gets wired]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Thurman Higginbotham, deputy director of operations at Arlington National Cemetery, never misses an opportunity to pitch his vision for a fully automated information management system at ANC. Sometimes, it really pays off.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Change manager]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Barbara Hoffman, investment and performance management team leader for the Department of Navy CIO, is described by admiring colleagues as a risk-taker who doesn&#146;t make enemies.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[The dervish is in the details]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Despite funding cuts, Susan Smoter updated the irs.gov site and recently earned a five-point increase in customer satisfaction on the American Customer Satisfaction Index.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Bottom-line results]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Avie Snow and her team really had to move after 9/11 when the Coast Guard was reassigned from the Transportation Department to the Homeland Security Department and had to migrate off DOT&#146;s accounting system. In nine months, they built the Core Accounting System (CAS) for about $7 million.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Top of the deck]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[What do Texas hold&#146;em poker and IT program management have in common? For David C. Songco, CIO of the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development at the National Institutes of Health, there are important connections.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[One for all]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[How do you pull together the entire acquisition community across the federal government to achieve an extraordinary degree of collaboration on a major cross-agency project? Ask Teresa Sorrenti. She&#146;s done it.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[The grants whisperer]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[At a conference a few years ago, Rebecca Spitzgo was milling about at the de rigueur social hour. It was her first day as program manager for Grants.gov, the e-government initiative that lets organizations apply online for more than $400 billion in federal grants.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[A well-mixed message]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The sound of Dean Martin crooning &#147;That&#146;s amore!&#148; fills the air. Over drippy wax candles, red-and-white checkered tablecloths and pasta, people chat amiably in small groups. A night in Little Italy? No. It&#146;s a staff meeting in Pitt County, N.C., one of the ways county CIO Michael Clayton Taylor has created a more productive, collaborative atmosphere for county employees.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Health IT goes to war]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Getting the Army&#146;s Medical Communications for Combat Casualty Care system successfully deployed to the troops on the firing lines in Iraq was the responsibility of Maj. Kevin Watts, MC4&#146;s assistant product manager. The mission was accomplished.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Portman&#146;s Hill experience seen as an asset]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[If last fall was any sign of what the future holds for e-government and IT on Capitol Hill, Rob Portman&#146;s experience as a member of the House will serve him and federal agencies well.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Denett&#146;s work cut out for him at OFPP]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[If approved by the Senate, he&#146;d likely start with workforce training and improving relations]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[WiFi is taking flight]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Tucked in a corner of an airplane hangar in Iraq, an Air Force mechanic is repairing a plane&#146;s hydraulic landing gear system when he needs to refer to the aircraft&#146;s maintenance manual. He pulls out a tablet computer to access the LAN. Within minutes, he has downloaded the information he needs from a U.S.-based database and is back to work.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Even with Brailer set to leave, health IT efforts locked in]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The next national health IT coordinator will likely have it easier than outgoing coordinator David Brailer, who shaped the position from scratch, initially with no funding, to lead the federal effort to promote electronic health records.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[OMB makes a bid for best value]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Office of Management and Budget&#146;s renewed offensive to promote competitive sourcing is taking a page out of the e-government playbook.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/25_10/40605-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <title><![CDATA[XBRL could make A-123 reports easier]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Federal financial and IT executives risk falling behind their commercial-sector counterparts by being slow to develop the use of Extensible Business Reporting Language (XBRL) in their financial-reporting systems.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/25_10/40606-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <title><![CDATA[Panel mulls shared services for HSPD-12 credentials]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[About 80 percent of federal employees work at 120 locations outside of Washington. And they all will need interoperable credentials under Homeland Security Presidential Directive-12. The Office of Management and Budget has said agencies must determine the risks for each of their offices in deciding how quickly they implement the mandate.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[GSA lab is ready for HSPD-12 product testing]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The General Services Administration&#146;s lab is ready to test six categories of vendor products for interoperability under Homeland Security Presidential Directive 12.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Has the Defense Travel System arrived?]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Defense Department&#146;s online travel booking system is on track to reach 11,000 sites with a capability to scale to 3.2 million users by the time it becomes fully operational in September.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/25_10/40609-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <title><![CDATA[GSA closes in on SmartBuy deal with Telos]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The General Services Administration has announced it is close to an enterprisewide software deal with Telos Corp. of Ashburn, Va., for information assurance and automated message-handling system products.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/25_10/40610-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <title><![CDATA[OFPP developing emergency contracting database]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Robert Burton, acting Office of Federal Procurement Policy administrator, said the Homeland Security Department and the General Services Administration are collecting information on existing contracts that agencies could tap to buy products and services in an emergency.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[TSA restructures worker ID procurement]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Homeland Security Department has restructured a pending contract for the Transportation Worker Identification Credential by limiting the scope of the initial implementation to just the enrollment of eligible workers.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/25_10/40612-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <title><![CDATA[OPM to issue RFP for private-sector HR providers]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[An interagency task force led by the Office of Personnel Management will put interested private-sector providers through the same paces for human resources management as it did for agencies to qualify as centers of excellence under the HR Line of Business Consolidation.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Labor&#146;s deal could prove financial LOB&#146;s worth]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The theory behind the Financial Management Line of Business Consolidation initiative is that an agency could outsource, at a minimum, the hosting of its hardware and software, save money and focus on its core mission. But until now, a major agency had yet to prove this premise.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Privacy officers want to go public]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Federal privacy officers want to move beyond the policy enforcement role they gained under the 2002 E-Government Act and other laws to position themselves as promoters of their agencies&#146; IT missions.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Again, Davis pushes Treasury on TCE]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Once again, Tom Davis is getting tough with the Treasury Department. The Virginia Republican and chairman of the House Government Reform Committee told a packed crowd in Washington last week that if Treasury awards its controversial stand-alone telecommunications contract, he will seek to cut funding for the deal.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Agencies stalled on intelligence info sharing, GAO report says]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Counterterrorism information sharing among agencies remains fragmented and haphazard, according to a new Government Accountability Office report.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Open-source intel takes on new importance ]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[New forms of intelligence-gathering&#151;including the availability of open-source information on the Internet&#151;are becoming increasingly important for fighting terrorism and may even reduce the need for more traditional collection efforts, according to a new report from the Congressional Research Service.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[People on the move]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Pedro Cadenas Jr. is the Veterans Affairs Department&#146;s new acting deputy CIO and acting deputy assistant secretary for the Office of Information Technology.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[The great VPN debate]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The saga of the Labor Department&#146;s attempt to outfit Mine Safety and Health Administration employees with remote access through virtual private networks serves as a minihistory of the technology.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Catch a .wav]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[If you&#146;re on your third copy of the White Album or you can&#146;t find a phonograph needle to play your Elmore James 78s, you can understand the plight of the Library of Congress: A collection of nearly 3 million recordings in every format from wax cylinders, to disks and tapes, to CDs, most of them playable only on obsolete equipment.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Homes for copyright orphans]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Copyright Office is proposing legislation that would make it easier for libraries, universities and archives, including the Library of Congress, to digitize collections that contain &#147;orphan works.&#148;]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/25_10/40582-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <title><![CDATA[E-voting technology gets a road test]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Lingering questions about security and reliability could mean electronic voting is still not ready for the national spotlight. Still, one company is taking its technology out on the road in preparation for the big time.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[CYBEREYE: Making sense of data protection laws]]></title>
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 <description><![CDATA[President Calvin &#147;Silent Cal&#148; Coolidge now is keeping company with the likes of Fats Domino, Jimi Hendrix and the old fog horn at Kewaunee, Wis., in the National Recording Registry. These notables are among 50 subjects added recently by the Library of Congress to its registry of historically significant recordings.]]></description>
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