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 <title><![CDATA[Red storm rising]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[A growing band of civilian units inside China is writing malicous code and training to launch cyberstrikes into enemy systems. And for many of these units, the first enemy is the U.S. Defense Department.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Procurement conundrum | What&#146;s inside the box?]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[When the State Department purchased 16,000 ThinkCentre desktop computers earlier this year from a company partially owned by the Chinese government, critics warned of the potential risks to national security.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[IT as a prime target]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[An enemy of the United States could launch a cyberattack against a communications infrastructure, or initiate an assault on the country&#146;s banking and finance centers, transportation hubs, nuclear facilities, electrical grids and even food supply. If this cyberattack were to happen, would the Defense Department get involved? That decision would be made by the executive branch of the government.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Malware's tangled roots]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The federal government&#146;s computer networks are, collectively, the single largest target in the world. And the Defense Department systems are the most aggressively pinged&#151;the Global Information Grid, the military&#146;s primary electronic conduit for secure and unclassified network traffic, gets scanned millions of times a day.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Lt. Gen. Robert Kehler | Vigilance means guarding many levels]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Air Force Lt. Gen. Robert Kehler is deputy commander of the U.S. Strategic Command headquartered at Offutt Air Force Base, Omaha, Neb. STRATCOM is the military lead overseeing the department&#146;s Global Information Grid.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Sharing data is crucial to cyberdefense   ]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Each agency within the Defense Department has frontline responsibility for securing its own IT systems, but the job doesn&#146;t end there.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Wyatt Kash | Editor's Desk: Wiki revolution]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Given the freewheeling nature of blogs and wikis, it&#146;s hard to imagine either form of communication finding a welcome foothold inside the command-and-control realms of the federal workplace.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Daniel E. Turissini | Another View: How to keep track of inside threats]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[While training, policies and procedures are essential for IT security, one component that is also necessary is the concept of &#147;auditable&#148; accountability.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Technical Difficulties]]></title>
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 <title><![CDATA[Eureka! A $5 active RFID tag]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The product RF Code CEO Joe Dugan described to GCN could have given VA and other agencies a fighting chance against IT theft.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Rugged GoBook gets more rugged]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[How to make a pretty darn good rugged notebook even better? Make it lighter and cheaper.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[AMD's PC in a pinch]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Advanced Micro Devices Inc.&#146;s Personal Information Communicator form factor has an added application in government deployments.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Navy wants composite apps]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Instaknow Inc. will put its adaptive intelligence software to work for the Office of Naval Research.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Seeker R-500 robot hunts IEDs]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Technical Solutions Group of AMTI  recently rolled out the Seeker Series R-500 robot.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Text comms in a storm]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[With the anniversary of Hurricane Katrina looming, Jefferson Davis Parish, La.,  deployed the Roam Secure Alert Network from Roam Secure Inc. ]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Jeff Raikes | Office 2007 (almost) ready to open ]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Jeff Raikes is bummed, but it&#146;s not because Microsoft Office 2007 has slipped more than a lumberjack in a log-rolling contest (in June, Microsoft confirmed the volume shipment date had slipped again&#151;until next year).]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Talk to the hand]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Latest batch of PDA phones shows that handhelds could be the future of computing.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[BlackBerry 8700g]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The latest top-of-the-line smart phone from RIM, the BlackBerry 8700g, was the easiest to set up and use of the devices we tested.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Treo 700P]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Treo 700P sits atop our roundup of smart phones alongside the BlackBerry 8700g.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Samsung SCH-i830]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Samsung SCH-i830 is more PDA than cell phone. In fact, its calling features make you feel like you&#146;re talking on a late &#146;80s model cell phone.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Motorola Q]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Motorola is close to having a great smart phone in its arsenal, and we suspect the next generation of the Q will be among the best available.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[BlackBerry 7130c]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The 7130c has a lot of features that it shares with the more expensive 8700g. Unfortunately it doesn&#146;t share all of them.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[THE COMMUNITY: Fleet service]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Bob Ernst, chief of the Naval Air Systems Command&#146;s Aging Aircraft Integrated Product Team, was recently named the Navy 2005 Small Business Program Manager of the Year.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[The Packet Rat | Black Hat doings fill the Rat's paranoia to the brim]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Black Hat conferences are always good times for the Rat. The cyberrodent enjoys having his inborn paranoia fed with tangible examples, and nothing feeds that paranoia like watching someone hack a WiFi-connected computer to root, or clone and alter, data from an e-Passport RFID chip.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[And another thing...]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The recent story out of the Garden Street Garage in Hoboken, N.J., could serve as a cautionary tale for government program managers on the importance of having good contracts. ]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Defense portal to add medical data-sharing]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Army's Medical Communications for Combat Casualty Care program is one of several using IT to move DOD toward network-centric operations and warfare.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Spending database would cost $15 million over five years]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Establishing and maintaining a searchable database containing information on all sorts of federal spending would cost about $15 million over the next five years, congressional auditors have said.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[GSA awards deal for crop insurance system]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The General Services Administration awarded a $121 million task order to Science Applications International Corp. of San Diego for IT support services for the Agriculture Department to improve its national crop insurance program.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Eight vendors to provide services to the Air Force]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Air Force has awarded eight companies a five-year, $800 million blanket purchase agreement to provide management, operational and support services, studies, analyses and evaluation, and engineering and technical services.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Agencies halt decline of acquisition workers]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Agencies are starting to have success in increasing the number of contracting officers, known under the General Schedule code as 1102s, to offset impending retirements.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[25 recommendations for improving acquisition]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Acquisition Panel approved 25 recommendations to improve how the government buys services and tracks procurement data. These suggestions will be submitted to the Office of Federal Procurement Policy in the fall in the panel&#146;s final report.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Who's who in an emergency]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Credentialing efforts for emergency responders are branching out to include telecommunications and utilities specialists, nurses and other private-sector workers. But questions remain about who will pay for the initiatives and how extensive they will be.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Airplane bombing plot spurs targeting technology]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Technologies for pinpointing risky passengers drew renewed attention from Homeland Security Department officials following the recent terrorist airliner bombing plot.But wrangling over privacy policy remained a pivotal factor in evaluation of the data-mining technology.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[The test of e-gov: efficiency and effectiveness]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Although the Office of Management and Budget has long touted savings as the chief benefit of e-government initiatives, some current and former government officials say the White House could be leaving out a critically important measure&#151;effectiveness&#151;in their efforts to gain congressional support.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[VA orders encrypted data to go]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Every Veterans Affairs Department notebook PC and mobile device will have software to encrypt data by mid-September.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[EPA gets hold of its assets]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[With more than 24,000 desktops at 60 locations throughout the country, the Environmental Protection Agency has a considerable task taking inventory of its computer network backbone as part as the transition to Internet Protocol version 6.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/25_25/41724-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <title><![CDATA[States go gently on e-health]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[A future in which electronic health records are available in real time nationwide could be as much as a decade away, but states today are looking at how to use e-records to improve the citizens&#146; health, track diseases and lower their health care costs.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/25_25/41726-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <title><![CDATA[Panel wants to increase competition for services]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[A public-private panel Congress mandated to improve how agencies buy services seems, to some observers, bent on returning procurement to the practices of the 1990s.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/25_25/41727-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <title><![CDATA[Financial LOB moves to standardize rules]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Agencies will gain a clearer picture next month of how the administration wants them to standardize financial-management activities.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[People on the move]]></title>
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 <title><![CDATA[HUD, Justice verify security, privacy profile]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Lisa Schlosser and Vance Hitch didn&#146;t have to think hard when offered the opportunity to test the new Security and Privacy Profile for the Federal Enterprise Architecture.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Not all tracking is via RFID]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Army&#146;s telemedicine center uses bar codes to keep the blood supply in circulation.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[The amazing Wikis]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[From the CIO Council to the CIA, the lightweight collaboration platform is taking hold.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Hands on: Running a wiki]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Perhaps the chief benefit of a wiki is that it&#146;s easier to update than regular Web pages.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Inside Black Hat&#146;s big tent]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Feds, hackers get together at annual briefing]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Shawn P. McCarthy | Internaut: Beefing up for Windows Vista release]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[This fall would be a good time for government IT managers to take inventory of the PCs in their collections and make some hard decisions about establishing and enforcing lifecycle rules. ]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Wiki: The etymology]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Ward Cunningham's Wiki software has caught on across the Web as a low-cost, easy way to collaborate. ]]></description>
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