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 <title><![CDATA[HSPD-12 hits a critical stretch]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[It&#146;s make-or-break time for Homeland Security Presidential Directive-12. Over the next three months, the Office of Management and Budget expects a number of pieces to fall into place to help major agencies meet the Oct. 27 deadline of issuing at least one secure, interoperable ID card. But a lot still hinges on whether the General Services Administration can finish interoperability testing of products and services, and whether agencies step up to become HSPD-12 shared-services providers of four services common to all agencies.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[DOD gets on the telework bus]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[As the Defense Department braces for massive changes from pending base closures and realignments, officials see telework as a saving grace that could soften the blow for their workforce. Although the rest of the government has yet to fully embrace telecommuting, Defense officials are implementing pilot programs and discussing ways to expand existing telework initiatives.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Editor's Desk: Telework temptation]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Telework has been one tough sell around Washington. That&#146;s not good news. Especially as something of a perfect workforce storm appears to be brewing just outside the Beltway.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Robert Gellman | @Info.Policy:The ills of sharing health network data]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[One of the big IT projects of the coming decade is the National Health Information Network. No one really knows what NHIN is, what data it will contain or how it will be controlled. It&#146;s the details that present tough choices and killer conflicts.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[TECHNICAL DIFFICULTIES]]></title>
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 <title><![CDATA[Warren Suss | Networx and the Future of GSA]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[I read with distress Neal Fox&#146;s column, &#147;GSA&#146;s Networx&#151;Will it connect with users?" What makes the piece dangerous is that it trashes a program that really represents a wonderful, if imperfect, model for how GSA should address many of the government&#146;s most pressing challenges.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Smart call]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Warfighting is not the only military activity that requires great strategy&#151;IT acquisition does, too. That&#146;s a view that is increasingly popular under the Defense Department&#146;s recently implemented strategic-sourcing initiative, and it is beginning to result in substantial savings.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Incoming]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has signed a five-year, $111 million seat management and services contract with RS Information Systems Inc.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Surveillance in your pocket]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[RealityVision is client-server software that takes advantage of existing cellular or WiFi communications. to allow mobile users to share live video over a variety of  devices]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[IPv6 security from edge to core]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[NFR Security begins shipping the Sentivist Smart Sensor 20 and Smart Sensor 50 to help agencies protect remote or branch offices.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Application security gets serious]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The nFX Open Security Platform 3.4 from netForensics Inc. includes a new application-monitoring agent, which collects information from specified databases and compiles it into dashboards.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Ajax and 508 compliance]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[MB Technologies Inc. said the latest version of its Bindows software development kits has been designed to conform with Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Cross-platform comms]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Codespear LLC and Itronix Corp., which last fall became part of General Dynamics, have agreed to combine their products into an interoperable communications platform.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Ecora&#146;s IT management freebie]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Earlier this month, Ecora Software Corp. of Portsmouth, N.H., began offering a free download of Ecora Documentor, an agentless, Windows-based application that generates detailed configuration reports of an agency&#146;s IT infrastructure]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Colin Angle | Tuning in to robot wisdom]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[iRobot Corp. CEO Colin Angle talked with GCN about where most robot researchers went wrong in their development and how the PackBot is used in Iraq.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Can't stand the heat? Get the right desktops]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Today&#146;s dual-core desktop processors are designed to be energy-efficient. It&#146;s a claim the GCN Lab has often wondered about.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Dell OptiPlex GX620]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The OptiPlex GX620 packs a lot of power into a fairly small minitower case. With a 3.6-GHz Pentium D 960 dual-core processor and 1GB of 533-MHz DDR2 RAM, the GX620 broke the bank for performance, scoring an amazing 10,523 and edging the tricked-out Alienware system. |GCN Lab Reviewer's Choice|]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Sony Vaio VGC-RC210G]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Vaio VGC-RC10G has the two hallmarks we&#146;ve come to expect from the Vaio line: loads of multimedia features and a higher-than-average price tag.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Alienware MJ-12 7550a]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[If biggest were best, the MJ-12 7550a would win hands down. Sitting on the test bench with the other systems, it towered over them.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Lenovo ThinkCentre A52]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Not willing to part with $1,400-plus for the Dell OptiPlex we like so much? Then take a look at the ThinkCentre A52, which has a government price tag of only $1,072.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Gateway E-6500D]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The E-6500D we tested is a middle-of-the-road system, not really shining in any of our tests but not failing any of them either.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[How we test power consumption]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[When looking for a workstation PC, most agencies will be interested in getting something powerful.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[The Packet Rat | Once more, unto the breach]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Rat has finally found a silver lining in the recent loss of veterans&#146; data in the laptop theft that has disgraced the Veterans Affairs Department.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[THE COMMUNITY: Contracting, from the top]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[MORE THAN 200 ATTENDEES got together in McLean. Va., for the Lessons of the Top 100 event sponsored by GCN&#146;s sister publication, Washington Technology.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[And another thing...]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Slang expressions, born at the grass roots and raised in the neighborhoods, often have a fairly short shelf life]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[DHS Special Report | Integration takes root]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[A modest number of IT and security initiatives are now gaining traction in the Homeland Security Department&#151;including border screening and targeting programs, port and harbor monitoring, and the use of geospatial mapping to improve disaster response, as GCN reported last week. In this, the second of a two-part special report on DHS, GCN looks at several fledgling and pending IT projects that form pockets of promise.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[DHS Special Report | Can DHS meet IT cybersecurity expectations?]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Homeland Security Department&#146;s stagnant cybersecurity program stands in stark contrast to its progress in other IT areas. The job of assistant secretary for cybersecurity and telecommunications remains open, as it has been since secretary Michael Chertoff created it last October.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[DHS Special Report | Authentication, ID are in the cards]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Robert Mocny, deputy program manager for the U.S. Visitor and Immigrant Status Indicator Technology program, has a simple vision for making the borders more secure.It doesn&#146;t have to do with 12-foot fences, or unmanned aerial vehicles or anything fancy. It is a simple card combining two technologies that have been around for decades&#151;biometrics and radio frequency identification.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[DHS Special Report | Coast Guard secures facilities with biometrics, RFID system]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[To understand the promise biometrics and radio frequency identification technology hold for the Homeland Security Department, look no further than two Coast Guard facilities&#151;one in Washington and one in Washington state. At Coast Guard headquarters, a voluntary program&#151;which both campuses use&#151;called RapidGate lets vendors gain easier access to the facility by voluntarily registering for a biometric identification card.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[DHS Special Report | From gizmos to tactical infrastructure]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Border security has been a major problem for the government since long before Congress and President Bush created the Homeland Security Department. The problem hasn&#146;t gone away. But DHS officials are convinced that this time, the Secure Border Initiative-Net program will succeed where past efforts have fallen woefully short.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[DHS Special Report | Communications are key to SBInet&#146;s success]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The border of the future might not look very different from today, but there will be one major change&#151;the way border security systems communicate. While the Homeland Security Department seeks innovative surveillance solutions that can weather different climates and terrain, the Secure Border Initiative-Net procurement focuses on better informing and linking border patrol agents.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[DHS Special Report | Dept. getting a handle on procurement]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Homeland Security Department has reined in the eight disparate procurement offices that had made it nearly impossible to control what kind of technology its directorates purchased. Following the turf wars that erupted when Congress created the department in 2003&#151;and seven procurement shops arrived with the combined agencies&#151;officials are seeing the fruits of their hard-fought battles.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[DHS Special Report | Component approach aiding IT infrastructure consolidation]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Until last October, the Homeland Security Department did not even have a global access directory&#151;a basic requirement for a large organization. Employees couldn&#146;t find each other if they were in different DHS directorates. Now, secretary Michael Chertoff can send an all-department e-mail with a few select addresses instead of sending it to each component agency and ordering it to cascade through those organizations.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[GPO mulls offering HSPD-12 services]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Government Printing Office is considering becoming a provider of Personal Identity Verification II cards for small agencies.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Telework advocates: VA case a breach of policy, not tech]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[When a thief stole more than 26 million names, Social Security numbers and other sensitive data from a Veterans Affairs Department employee&#146;s home last month, telework got a bad rap.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Hacker breaks into USDA system; data may be stolen]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Secretary Mike Johanns alerted employees in the Washington area that a hacker broke into a database at headquarters and may have stolen the names, Social Security numbers and photos of about 26,000 current and former workers and contractors.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Oasis OKs standard]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[A new open IT standard, capable of facilitating data sharing across local, regional, national and international governments and organizations, has been ratified by the Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Intel forum breaks new ground]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The intelligence community is looking to glean fresh ideas on how to reshape its certification and accreditation methods from an unprecedented online forum, in which it has invited the general public to comment on technical issues.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Committees weigh Alaskan Native rule change ]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Two House committee chairmen appear ready to seek changes in regulations that currently give Alaskan Native corporations a significant advantage over other companies in the federal 8(a) program in landing government contracts.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[DOD cross-trains info-sharing technology ]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The point of Coalition Warrior Interoperability Demonstrations&#151;conducted annually since 1989 under the aegis of the U.S. Joint Forces Command at several locations&#151;is to test how emerging technologies could help information sharing among warfighters and homeland security officials.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[VA&#146;s IT centralization could slow security fixes]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Lawmakers and oversight authorities are expressing doubts that the way the Veterans Affairs Department is centralizing its IT organization will ensure that security is marbled throughout its agencies.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[OFPP gets ready to move beyond Safavian]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[On the same day the former chief of the Office of Federal Procurement Policy was convicted, the White House&#146;s nominee to lead the office Safavian once ran said he will make government contracting more transparent and accountable.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Telework Investment 101]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[According to the new General Services Administration telework study, if a large agency of about 100,000 spends about $16 million over three years to let 50,000 people telework at least once a week, that agency could save about $36 million.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[In the eye of the storm]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[For 45 consecutive days last spring, the islands of Hawaii were deluged with rain. Roads flooded, beaches washed away and seven citizens died when a dam burst on the island of Kauai. For Ray Lovell, public information officer for the state&#146;s department of civil defense, the word busy doesn&#146;t begin to describe that period.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Inside the project: Web conferencing]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Hawaii State Civil Defense Department needed a more efficient way of coordinating responses from multiple government agencies during emergencies, so it could offer more timely, accurate information to the public and the media.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[IP convergence: Traffic jam at the on ramp]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Merging voice, video and audio into an IP network can be tricky when many partiesare involved.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Converged networks: You can&#146;t use what you can&#146;t find]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Moving voice, video and graphical data over a single IP network offers advantages in economy and manipulation.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[FAA maps hurricane damage]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Federal Aviation Administration has found that a little lozenge can simplify a lot of information during times of crisis.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Internaut | Virtual IT helps make do with less]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[As government data centers strive to cut costs by consolidating both software licenses and hardware platforms, &#147;virtualization&#148; has become a common buzzword.]]></description>
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