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 <title><![CDATA[IT projects take a hit on funding]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Congress&#146; willingness to consider gutting funding for OPM's Retirement Systems Modernization&#151;a program considered essential for government employees&#151;has some industry and government officials wondering if lawmakers are targeting civilian IT projects for cuts because of the ongoing effort to fund the War on Terror.]]></description>
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 <volume>25</volume>
 <issue>18</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[As data breaches pile up, OMB cracks down]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The flood of recent data breaches appears to be the product of a perfect storm of inadequate security controls, enforcement and training. As a result, the Office of Management and Budget has announced a deadline for agencies to implement data security safeguards, and Congress is watching to ensure that agencies comply.]]></description>
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 <volume>25</volume>
 <issue>18</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Editor's Desk | Smart use of new tools]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Huffington Post it ain&#146;t. So if you&#146;re looking for a titillating, gossipy blog, you won&#146;t see it from Dale Meyerrose, CIO of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/25_18/41182-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>25</volume>
 <issue>18</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Federal Contract Law | New rules throw a wrench into FSS buys]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[As the jurisprudence develops for Federal Supply Schedule buys, those buys are becoming more and more like other contracting methods.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/25_18/41183-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>25</volume>
 <issue>18</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Technical Difficulties]]></title>
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 <volume>25</volume>
 <issue>18</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Weapons projects misfire on software]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Every year the Government Accountability Office issues a report that gives a brief summary of the status of major weapons acquisition programs. And every year the reports say that many, if not most, of those acquisition programs are experiencing cost overruns and schedule delays in their software development segments.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/25_18/41177-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>25</volume>
 <issue>18</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[The search is on]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Now that Google Inc. of Mountain View, Calif., has launched its own government search site, the question arises: Should you use Google&#146;s site or the General Services Administration&#146;s to fulfill all your querying needs?]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/25_18/41188-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>25</volume>
 <issue>18</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Newton&#146;s next chapter]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Second acts for IT visionaries are rare. Sure, Steve Jobs is living large again over at Apple Computer Inc., but what has Ethernet inventor Robert Metcalfe been up to of late?]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/25_18/41189-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>25</volume>
 <issue>18</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Blending FEA into the enterprise]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[You know that Enterprise Architecture your agency prepared to appease the Office of Management and Budget? Well, you can put the Business Reference Model portion to use in your enterprise business systems.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/25_18/41190-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>25</volume>
 <issue>18</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Microsoft fed blog]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Here&#146;s a weblog to enter into your personalized Google page: Federal Developer Weblog, which is maintained by the federal office of Microsoft Corp.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/25_18/41191-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>25</volume>
 <issue>18</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Opsware asset management]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Opsware Inc. plans to release a new version of its suite of enterprise asset management software by the end of the year.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/25_18/41192-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>25</volume>
 <issue>18</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Appraising PDF archives]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Apago Inc. of Alpharetta, Ga., has released a free application to validate whether documents are rendered correctly in the PDF/A format, an ISO document archiving standard based on Adobe Portable Document Format.]]></description>
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 <volume>25</volume>
 <issue>18</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[FISMA ... Elementally]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Elemental Security Inc. just added a policy framework to its Elemental Security Platform that the company says will help agencies comply with the Federal Information Security Management Act.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/25_18/41194-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>25</volume>
 <issue>18</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Terry Pudas | Transformation on many fronts]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Terry Pudas enjoys home improvement projects and cooking. He finds working with his hands a welcome contrast to his job at the Office of Force Transformation, where he serves as acting director and is known as a key strategist for Defense Department transformation.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/25_18/41181-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>25</volume>
 <issue>18</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[A semi-rugged portable that&#146;s tough enough]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The GCN Lab recently took a look at the new Itronix VR-1, which is something different: a semi-rugged notebook with the specs to back up that ambiguous label.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/25_18/41195-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>25</volume>
 <issue>18</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[When you can&#146;t avoid the crash]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Recover Pro 6 from Phoenix Technologies stores recovery information right on the hard drive that needs recovering. It&#146;s different from other recovery solutions because it lets you boot the computer even if Windows is damaged and won&#146;t launch. And it will restore everything back to the way it was before the disaster occurred.|GCN Lab Reviewer's Choice|]]></description>
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 <volume>25</volume>
 <issue>18</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Is smaller more energy efficient?]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Hewlett-Packard Compaq dc7600 Ultraslim desktop consumed the least amount of power when idle of any desktop we&#146;ve tested, using only 83 watts. If your primary concern is power efficiency or space savings, the $947 dc7600 Ultraslim is a good choice.]]></description>
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 <volume>25</volume>
 <issue>18</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[THE COMMUNITY: IT to a tee]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Familiar faces in the federal IT contracting world took to the links recently in Washington Technology&#146;s annual Top 100 golf tournament, which was among the events marking this year&#146;s list of the top government IT contractors. ]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/25_18/41227-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>25</volume>
 <issue>18</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[The Packet Rat | Will another shoe drop ]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Word had been circulating that a big change was going to be announced in the wake of the recent Microsoft TechEd conference. The Rat tuned in to the webcast just in time to hear that Bill Gates is leaving ... in 2008.]]></description>
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 <volume>25</volume>
 <issue>18</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[And another thing...]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[ny weapon can be turned against its creators, and that&#146;s sort of what has happened with the Mosquito Teen Repeller, which was a pretty wacky idea to start with.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/25_18/41229-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>25</volume>
 <issue>18</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Bill-by-bill look at 2007 appropriations]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Tight budgets put the squeeze on agency IT initiatives, including several high-profile projects; some observers wonder whether technology intiatives are being specifically targeted.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/25_18/41208-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>25</volume>
 <issue>18</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Congress mulls changes for Alaskan Native contracting]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Congress could soon change small-business regulations that currently give Alaskan Native corporations a significant edge in pursuing government contracts.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/25_18/41218-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>25</volume>
 <issue>18</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Army delays portal consolidation]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Defense Department&#146;s plan to begin consolidating at least five of the service&#146;s portals into the central Defense Knowledge Online will have to wait a little longer than originally planned.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/25_18/41219-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>25</volume>
 <issue>18</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[DHS IT procurement now marches in step]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The gears of  IT procurement at the Homeland Security Department appear set at last to mesh with the vision of consolidated operations. DHS last week launched a series of IT contracts under the Eagle project that are set to cover most of its technology service needs.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/25_18/41220-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>25</volume>
 <issue>18</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[A flurry of HR LOB activity]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The government&#146;s efforts to consolidate human resources functions are moving into high gear. Over the next several weeks, the HR Line of Business interagency task force&#151;led by the Office of Personnel Management&#151;will issue additional requirements that agencies and private companies must meet to be considered HR shared-services providers.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/25_18/41221-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>25</volume>
 <issue>18</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Army Corps keeps IT services in-house]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Army Corps of Engineers isn&#146;t saying much about how a public-private partnership won the largest Defense Department competition under the new rules governing A-76, or how the partnership will go about saving the agency $1 billion over the next six years.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/25_18/41222-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>25</volume>
 <issue>18</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[New center will focus on identity theft, fraud]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Center for Identity Management and Information Protection will be located in the Economic Crime Institute of Utica College in Utica, N.Y. Its goal is to replace current piecemeal research efforts and pull together resources from industry, educational institutions and law enforcement.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/25_18/41223-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>25</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[EVM pilot takes closer look at system costs]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Under a pilot program that ended in March, OMB worked with the departments of Agriculture and Housing and Urban Development and with the Environmental Protection Agency to use EVM to calculate the baseline cost of legacy systems versus the costs of implementing new applications and the potential savings from that system. Here are the results.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/25_18/41224-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>25</volume>
 <issue>18</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Q&amp;A | DOD expert lends a hand on HSPD-12]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Mike Butler, chief of DOD&#146;s smart-card programs, has been instrumental in getting the program up and running. Now he has been drafted by the General Services Administration to help the rest of government get Homeland Security Presidential Directive-12 implemented.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/25_18/41225-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>25</volume>
 <issue>18</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[DHS disaster practice makes perfect (kinda)]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Homeland Security Department is getting better at running drills that train a wide variety of government officials how to respond to terrorist attacks and that polish interoperable communications. But in other areas, it&#146;s still being criticized for inadequate preparations.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/25_18/41226-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>25</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Fail safe]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Disaster recovery had been a low priority for many agencies until terrorist attacks, anthrax mailings and hurricanes progressively jolted them out of complacency.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/25_18/41199-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>25</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[One size fits all?]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[When it comes to IT consolidation, agencies like Census have two masters: their customers, who have various needs and preferred technologies, and themselves, who must answer to higher powers over questions of return on investment, total cost of ownership and IT-mission alignment.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/25_18/41185-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>25</volume>
 <issue>18</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[The double-edge blade]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[It&#146;s an overlooked side effect of blade servers: increased power consumption. While consolidating computing resources onto blades can make sense in terms of IT efficiency, it requires planning to maximize power efficiency.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/25_18/41186-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>25</volume>
 <issue>18</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Cybereye | Dont panic yet, but think hard about RFID uses]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[RFID, as it is used now, promises far more benefits than problems. But maybe it is not too early to begin a debate on a technology that is becoming more widespread, versatile and powerful.]]></description>
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