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 <title><![CDATA[Seeing eye to eye]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Environmental Protection Agency&#146;s decision three years ago to outfit its Emergency Operations Center in Washington with a custom suite of rooms wired with videoconferencing systems from Tandberg of New York paid off when Hurricane Katrina devastated the Gulf Coast last August.]]></description>
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 <volume>25</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Dealing with data deluge]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[More information was generated between 1999 and 2003 than otherwise was created since the beginning of mankind, declares IDC of Framingham, Mass., a high-tech research company. It&#146;s anyone&#146;s guess how much this equation has changed in the three years since then, but the trend is clear&#151;we&#146;re flooded with new information daily.]]></description>
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 <volume>25</volume>
 <issue>15</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Traditional values]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Blade servers may be cutting into the market for traditional servers, but there are still many applications where rack or tower servers are an appropriate and sensible choice. While traditional servers and blade servers perform the same tasks, the main differences are in expandability and processing density.]]></description>
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 <volume>25</volume>
 <issue>15</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[The ups and downs of Schedule 70]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[When any of the 12 bureaus that make up the Commerce Department need to order PCs or services such as programming, chances are their procurement officers will use the General Services Administration&#146;s Federal Supply Service&#146;s IT Schedule 70. Schedule 70, which offers millions of pieces of general-purpose IT equipment, software and professional services to other agencies through more than 5,000 vendors, has been around since the mid-1970s.]]></description>
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 <volume>25</volume>
 <issue>15</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Logging On | Is Schedule 70 the Wal-Mart of IT commodity buys?]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[My wife and I don&#146;t shop at Wal-Mart, we buy. We buy toilet paper, laundry detergent, beef jerky &#151;commodities for which the only criterion is low price. We&#146;re in and out in minutes. Some say that&#146;s similar to how government IT buyers have started treating Schedule 70 of the Federal Supply Schedule.]]></description>
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 <volume>25</volume>
 <issue>15</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[GCN Insider | Cover your Windows in a storm]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[As hurricane season revs up again, be prepared for an onslaught of business continuity solution pitches.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/25_15/41002-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>25</volume>
 <issue>15</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[GCN Insider | Microsoft goes virtually ga-ga]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[There was a time that a company would come out with a good product, take it around to editors, then get snapped up by Microsoft Corp. It&#146;s about to happen again.]]></description>
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 <volume>25</volume>
 <issue>15</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[GCN Insider | Intel vs. AMD heats up]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[When a longtime, devoted customer like Dell Inc. quietly tells the world it plans to use some of your competition&#146;s server processors (which is what the Intel stalwart said of AMD Opteron CPUs last month), then a little good news couldn&#146;t hurt.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/25_15/41004-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>25</volume>
 <issue>15</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Tech brief | CA updates security gateway]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[CA (you might still know them as Computer Associates) just launched eTrust Secure Content Manager r8, a unified security gateway that protects networks against malware via e-mail and Web traffic. ]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/25_15/41005-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>25</volume>
 <issue>15</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Tech brief | Check Point secures remote users]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. is shipping Check Point Integrity Clientless Security 4.0, which is designed to protect unmanaged PCs over remote access connections.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/25_15/41006-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>25</volume>
 <issue>15</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Tech brief | AtTask&#146;s plug-and-play system]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[AtTask Inc. has rolled out AtTask Version 4, a &#147;pluggable&#148; project management system that is platform, database and browser independent.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/25_15/41007-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>25</volume>
 <issue>15</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Tech brief | Motorola's dual-mode WiFi card]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Motorola Inc. came out with what it says is the first "dual-band Wi-Fi card for municipalwide and ad hoc wireless connectivity."]]></description>
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 <volume>25</volume>
 <issue>15</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Ask the lab]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[No question is too big or too small for the GCN Lab.]]></description>
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 <volume>25</volume>
 <issue>15</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Registered Traveler program revs for takeoff]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Homeland Security Department&#146;s Transportation Security Administration is filling the IT gaps in its Registered Traveler program, which it plans to roll out at up to 20 airports by year&#146;s end. The program is intended to let travelers who have agreed to background checks move through airport screening points more quickly.]]></description>
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 <volume>25</volume>
 <issue>15</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Code breaking new ground]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Today, the need to protect data&#151;and the existence of forces trying to steal it&#151;is perhaps greater than ever before. To keep pace with those who would try and break modern codes, the Defense Department and the National Security Agency&#146;s Information Assurance Directorate have an ongoing effort called the Cryptographic Modernization Initiative, an effort is to transform and modernize information assurance capabilities.]]></description>
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 <volume>25</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Deadline looms on border]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Although the Homeland Security and State departments have made progress in implementing the Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative, the program&#146;s broad nature and complexity could prevent the agencies from meeting congressional deadlines, according to the Government Accountability Office.]]></description>
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 <volume>25</volume>
 <issue>15</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Biometric systems also face cultural challenges]]></title>
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 <volume>25</volume>
 <issue>15</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[GSA drafts second round of Alliant requests]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The General Services Administration has issued the second set of draft requests for proposals for its 10-year, $65 billion Alliant procurement program, which will offer federal agencies a wide range of IT services.]]></description>
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 <volume>25</volume>
 <issue>15</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Q&amp;A: Roger Waldron | GSA plans the schedule's next chapter]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Roger Waldron is acting senior procurement executive and acting deputy chief acquisition officer for GSA. He directs procurement and acquisition policy on all Federal Supply Service contracts, including the Federal Supply Service IT Schedule, known as Schedule 70.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/25_15/40976-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>25</volume>
 <issue>15</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Schedule 70 step by step]]></title>
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 <volume>25</volume>
 <issue>15</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Document management system helps break immigration logjam]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[At the U.S. embassy in Mexico City, 2,000 to 3,000 people per day seek visas to enter the U.S.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/25_15/40983-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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