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 <title><![CDATA[Cart blanche]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The National Institute of Health's Electronic Commodities Store, run by the agency's IT Acquisition and Assessment Center, backs its hardware products with customer service that has gained a reputation for quality.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[RFID resonates]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Big organizations jump on board as radio frequency ID technology matures]]></description>
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 <volume>25</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[In the know&#151;knowledge management software]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[After years of indifference, the post-9/11 federal government is embracing knowledge management. It might be hard to categorize, but you'll know the benefits of KM when you see them&#151;including the ability to help work across agency lines, measure performance and meet regulatory requirements.]]></description>
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 <volume>25</volume>
 <issue>11</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Blade servers: Cutting edge]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The market for blade servers is growing rapidly, especially for new installations, but also for those replacing older server farms. What&#146;s surprising is not that blades are soaring in popularity, but why it took so long.]]></description>
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 <volume>25</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Brad Grimes | Logging On: At issue: Information on what, where and how to buy]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Welcome to the GCN Technology Acquisition Guide. This is the latest step in the evolution of GCN&#146;s efforts to focus on products and acquisition, in four special issues that coincide with the time of year when readers tell us they make most of their IT buying decisions. The Tech Acquisition Guide appears monthly from May through August.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[GCN Insider | Handwriting before fingerprints]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[At the FOSE trade show in March, a GCN editor asked a Gateway Inc. product manager why the company had not yet introduced integrated fingerprint biometrics into its notebook PC line, as seemingly everyone else had.]]></description>
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 <volume>25</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[GCN Insider | A stealth gadget]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Mobile workers take note: There are more and more ways to protect yourself when you&#146;re forced to use an airport kiosk or a shared PC.]]></description>
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 <volume>25</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[GCN Insider | The Sun rises on thin clients]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Walking up to a Sun Microsystems Inc. Sun Ray thin client and popping in a smart card is actually pretty cool.]]></description>
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 <volume>25</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Tech brief: HP&#146;s dual-core Xeons]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Hewlett-Packard Co. has started selling a pair of desktop workstations based on the dual-core version of Intel&#146;s Xeon processor.]]></description>
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 <volume>25</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Tech brief: Tangent protects surfers]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Tangent Inc. of Burlingame, Calif., last month released the latest version of its Web Hawk content filtering software.]]></description>
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 <volume>25</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Tech brief: Ruggedized ... RFID tags? ]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Intermec Inc. of Everett, Wash., last week introduced a ruggedized, reusable radio frequency identification tag that can withstand extreme temperatures and chemical exposure, the company said.]]></description>
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 <volume>25</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Tech brief: Juniper, FIPS and VPNs]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Juniper Networks Inc. recently rolled out a pair of FIPS-compliant, Secure Sockets Layer VPN appliances.]]></description>
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 <volume>25</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Ask the GCN Lab]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The GCN Lab tests hundreds of products each year. The staff has scoured more help files, user manuals and FAQs than many users will read in a lifetime. And they&#146;re happy to answer almost any technical question that&#146;s thrown their way. A recent look at their in-box provided these samples.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[IRS struggles to take next step in E-filing]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The height of tax season may be past, but the IRS is still feeling the pinch, as the agency tries to expand its electronic filing and free tax services. With Congress hot on the case, IRS officials are acutely aware that the pressure is on to make tax services more accessible.]]></description>
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 <volume>25</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Rule banning brand-name  specs gets teeth]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[A year ago, the administration warned agencies against using brand names in contract solicitations. The Office of Management and Budget recently released a memorandum that adds some muscle to the regulation. While the existing guidance has the force of law, OMB also has started a rule-making process for the Federal Acquisition Regulation.]]></description>
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 <volume>25</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Budget cuts could slow IRS modernization]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The IRS may take longer and have to pay more over the long term to modernize its business systems because the administration dramatically reduced funding for the program in its proposed fiscal 2007 budget. The Government Accountability Office and the IRS Oversight Board told lawmakers that IRS Business Systems Modernization should receive more funding to accelerate its progress.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Congress plans to boost port security]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Port security legislation approved by the House Homeland Security Committee last month authorizes the award of $2.4 billion in grants to high-risk ports over six years. The grant money can pay for purchasing and upgrading security equipment, including IT products, to enhance terrorism preparedness.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Emergency systems need a common language]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Police and other emergency response departments in the national capital region of Virginia, Maryland and Washington have standardized on common 800-MHz communications systems. What remains to be done in establishing interoperable systems is the unglamorous job of getting everyone on the same page.]]></description>
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 <volume>25</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Acquisition training could go commercial]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[House Government Reform Committee Chairman Rep. Tom Davis (R-Va.) wants the federal government to spend more money on training procurement officials, and suggests the creation of an exchange program in which industry officials help train government employees.]]></description>
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 <issue>11</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Victor Powers | In RFQs, keep all vendors in play]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[In a GCN interview, program manager Victor Powers explains the advantages of buying from ECS III and what is being done to streamline ordering while meeting increasingly stringent strict performance requirements of OMB.]]></description>
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