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 <title><![CDATA[DHS Special Report | Forward Motion]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Even as the Homeland Security Department has stumbled through project failures, stalled during leadership vacuums and withstood withering criticism, DHS has delivered some projects that serve as exemplars of technology management and are improving prospects for better project performance.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Sidebar | DHS hoping the past is not prologue]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[While pursuing successful projects, the Homeland Security Department is aware of the risks, as its history is littered with projects that have failed or struggled mightily. Among them:]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[DHS Special Report | Secret Service stays on the trail of funny money]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[When it comes to IT-enabled crime, counterfeiters have gained some helpful tools. But standing in the way of wannabe counterfeiters is the Secret Service, which is using other technological advances to thwart and catch them.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[DHS Special Report | Who's Who at the Border]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Homeland Security Department has quietly put together a wide-reaching net of screening and targeting programs, working not only within its several internal organizations&#151;such as Customs and Border Protection, the Coast Guard and Citizenship and Immigration Services&#151;but with other agencies such as the Justice and State departments.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[DHS Special Report | Agencies Look for a Match on Fingerprint Systems]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The FBI and Homeland Security Department are closing in on a significant milestone that will get the agencies&#146; fingerprint image systems a step closer to their ultimate goal of communicating seamlessly.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[DHS Special Report | Watch-list data converges at Terrorist Screening Center]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Although Donna Bucella prefers to stay out of the limelight, her job doesn&#146;t allow it. As director of the Terrorist Screening Center, Bucella oversees one of the most important data sets in the Bush administration&#146;s war on terror&#151;the consolidated Terrorist Screening Database.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[DHS Special Report | FEMA maps out a better response]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[While withstanding a storm of criticism for its response to recent large-scale natural disasters, the Federal Emergency Management Agency has continued to make substantial investments in its geospatial and flood-mapping operations. In the long term, geospatial technology should help FEMA become more effective in its core missions of disaster response and hazard mitigation, officials said.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[DHS Special Report | Coast Guard Fine-Tunes Its Harbor Watch]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Under the cloak of night, a vessel quietly floated in the channel waters at the entrance to the busy cargo, cruise and petroleum seaport of Port Everglades in Fort Lauderdale, Fla.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[DHS Special Report | Learning Tool Takes Some of the Load Off of Port Personnel]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The automated scene understanding tool being developed for the Coast Guard amounts to more than another pair of eyes. It collects data on vessel movements, compares them with established parameters and alerts operators of any anomalies. That frees staff to make decisions on what to do about it.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Online extra | DHS needs to win over some employees]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Homeland Security Department employees as a whole hold relatively low opinions of their department&#146;s performance in several respects, according to an Office of Personnel Management survey.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Tom Temin | Editor's Desk: When less means more]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[You might have read about professor-media thinker-consultant NicholasNegroponte&#146;s project to get governments of poor countries to buy $100 computersfor their children. He described the project when speaking at the recent Management of Change conference of the American Council for Technology.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Neal Fox | Contracting in perspective: GSA Networx &#151; Will it connect with users?]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[GSA Networx, the next-generation telecom and networking contract from the GeneralServices Administration, has garnered its share of news. That&#146;s good for magazine sales but bad for GSA, which announced a surprising eight-month delay inthe contract award shortly after proposals were received in October 2005.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Technical Difficulties]]></title>
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 <title><![CDATA[Network science project]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Transforming the Defense Department into an integrated, globally networked organization will cost between $30 billion and $50 billion and be as challenging asthe Manhattan Project. And it is a long way from becoming a reality. Those are two key findings of Network Science 2006, a report ordered by the Army&#146;s director of research and laboratory management.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Incoming]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Defense Information Systems Agency has awarded a contract for $1 million toMerlin Technical Solutions Inc. to provide service-oriented architecture governanceproducts for the agency&#146;s Net-Enabled Command Capability and Net-Centric EnterpriseServices initiatives.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[GCN Insider | Desktop intelligence]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Back in our cub reporting days, we once met a city council president who had whatlooked to be the best low-maintenance way of organizing data. ]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Tech Briefs]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Nuance Communications Inc. has released version 11 of its PaperPort scanning and document management software. The upgrade features a new compression method that cuts the size of multicolored Portable Document Format files by eight times or more. ]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[GCN Insider | Scanner Wars]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Scanner manufacturers see three markets for their wares, says David Haining, product marketing manager for Hewlett-Packard Co.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[GCN Insider | The tao of ECM]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Last year, the content management field was aflutter over enterprise content management. But this year, at the AIIM Conference and Exposition, the scope of content management seemed to be shrinking.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Steven Law | E-gov's Ardent Activist]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Steven Law is the second deputy secretary of the Labor Department to head the President&#146;s Management Council&#146;s E-government Committee. It&#146;s no surprise that the Office of Management and Budget continues to tap Labor Department leaders.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[GCN Lab Review | Tape drives, meet disks]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[It seems network administrators and computer users alike are constantly in need of more storage. And while most users are encouraged to save to the network in order to take advantage of the LAN&#146;s backup system, it is not always feasible or efficient to do so, much as administrators may wish otherwise.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[GCN Lab Review | A scanner for all reasons]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[When we first received the tiny, 17-ounce DocketPort DS485-90 scanner from Ambir Technology, we were skeptical. We&#146;ve seen small-scale scanners before,and the performance level claimed by this device&#151;six pages per minute induplex mode at 600 dots per inch&#151;seemed a bit much.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[GCN Lab Review | For better security, touch your printer]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Security is more than just passwords on your desktop. Every agency knows physical security is just as important. However, within a department there is normally not much to protect documents from users already in the building. And that can cause trouble.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[The Packet Rat | AJAX Craze Could Lead to Dirty Business]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[&#147;It&#146;s like a bad horror-movie monster,&#148; The Rat recently ranted as he reviewedrequirements for another application development project. &#147;Just when you think you&#146;ve killed it, it comes back again!&#148; &#147;What, &#145;American Idol&#146;?&#148; asked his wife. &#147;No, no ... though that&#146;s true, too,&#148; he replied. &#147;No, I&#146;m talking about this dynamic HTML offalthey&#146;re calling AJAX."]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[The Community]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Some federal employees passing through Washington&#146;s L&#146;Enfant Plazaon their way to work earlier this month got some payback for their commute,as part of a promotion by the public-private Telework Exchange.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[And Another Thing]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Texas&#146; latest plan to shore up its border with Mexico involves, in one respect, turning it into a sort of 1,200-mile Neighborhood Watch program, via the Web.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[DOD wireless policy starts with LANs]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Defense Department has gone back and forth over what to include in the scope of a modified wireless policy and how to coordinate implementation across the services and agencies. After months of work, Defense CIO John Grimes tweaked the focus on June 2 and approved a memo aimed at boosting security on wireless LANs connected to the Global Information Grid.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[USDA covers its bases with a detailed plan]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Agriculture Department&#146;s wireless policy, updated in April through a series of departmental notices, comprises everything from architectural requirements to acquisition guidance.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Energy ups security efforts after loss of employee data]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Energy Department has joined a long list of federal agencies that recently have suffered serious breaches of cybersecurity. Unlike those organizations, however, the DOE breach was the result of a targeted intrusion and theft, rather than carelessness.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Justice narrows IWN race to two]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Justice Department is ready to enter the thicket of federal, state and local government radio interoperability. Justice earlier this month awarded General Dynamics Corp. and Lockheed Martin Corp. two separate contracts to compete in a &#147;bake-off&#148; for the nationwide law enforcement voice and data radio system under the Integrated Wireless Network program.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[CIO council adds to IPv6 transition primer]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[In the newest additions to the IPv6 Transition Guidance, the council&#146;s Architecture and Infrastructure Committee has provided a list of best practices and transition elements that agencies should use as they work to meet the deadline.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Congress, OMB resume tug of war over E-Gov]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[In case there was any doubt, the annual turf battle between congressional appropriators and OMB over the e-government initiatives is on, even after the administration this year launched an unprecedented campaign to convince skeptical appropriators of the program&#146;s benefits.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[USDA to merge e-mail, data systems]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[E-mail will be first on the list to go. The Agriculture Department plans to consolidate three platforms and five different versions into Microsoft Corp.&#146;s Exchange 2003 by October 2007. And that&#146;s only the beginning. The agency will next target LANs and data centers for consolidation.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[IG gives GSA passing grade on financials]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The General Services Administration has made enough improvements in financial management to satisfy its inspector general and likely keep its biggest customer, the Defense Department.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Doan starts tenure at GSA with splash]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Lurita Doan promised one thing in her first public address since taking the reins at the General Services Administration last month&#151;change. Her first big one was bringing in Jim Williams, the program manager for one of the government&#146;s highest-profile, politically toughest challenges&#151;the U.S. Visit project at the Homeland Security Department.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Feds' view of Vista focuses on security]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[When asked what most interests the Army about the upcoming Microsoft WindowsVista operating system, Lt. Col. Clinton Wallington III put it succinctly: &#147;Security. Security, without a doubt.&#148;]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[IP Wiretap Ruling Raises Security Concerns]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[A Federal Communications Commission ruling that federal wiretap laws should apply to Internet traffic could pose difficulties for agencies trying to conduct wiretaps while creating unintended consequences for IT security, an industry association warns.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[The database of databases]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Internet and IP-based networks have gone a long way toward removing barriers between agencies. To further a spirit of cooperation, agencies are also beginningto share information from disparate databases by sending some of that data to common data warehouses, where it can be merged, queried and analyzed.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[RFP Checklist | Data warehouses]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Ask yourself the following questions when creating and evaluating proposalsfor a data warehouse.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[When fiber optics won't do]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Much of downtown San Francisco is wired with fiber-optic cable to serve the broadband needs of city agencies. But not every arm of every agency is so lucky.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Location-aware services: one more thing to worry about]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[A new generation of location-based services threatens to open up a whole new can of worms in the debate over privacy.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Modern Relics]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The National Institute of Standards and Technology hosted a workshop onlong-term knowledge retention, looking for answers to the questions of what digital data should be saved and how it should be saved.]]></description>
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