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 <volume>25</volume>
 <issue>3</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[DOD raises the bar on info assurance]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[New manual on security training could be a model for the rest of government]]></description>
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 <volume>25</volume>
 <issue>3</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[OMB makes new case to win Hill support for e-gov]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Officials explain spending plans for 24 projects]]></description>
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 <volume>25</volume>
 <issue>3</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[EDITOR&#146;S DESK: When to fold 'em]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[You&#146;ve got to credit the beleaguered Homeland Security Department for yanking the contract on its Emerge2 financial systems program.]]></description>
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 <volume>25</volume>
 <issue>3</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[EXECUTIVE SUITE: Preparing for the IT world of the year 2026 ]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Despite advances such as e-government services to citizens, the federal IT world has done little to prepare itself as a strong player on the global IT stage.]]></description>
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 <volume>25</volume>
 <issue>3</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[TECHNICAL DIFFICULTIES]]></title>
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 <volume>25</volume>
 <issue>3</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[On the high-tech seas]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Light, fast and laden with IT, the experimental Stiletto would support special operations forces]]></description>
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 <volume>25</volume>
 <issue>3</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Incoming]]></title>
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 <volume>25</volume>
 <issue>3</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Buy a firewall, get the router free]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[&#147;We want more presence in the branch router market,&#148; said Juniper Networks Inc. senior director of enterprise products Chris Spain during a recent visit to Washington. Hence the Sunnyvale, Calif.-based company&#146;s new Juniper Secure Services Gateway 500 family of security appliances, which debuts this week.]]></description>
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 <volume>25</volume>
 <issue>3</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Disk encryption and HSPD-12]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[This is probably just one GCN editor&#146;s interpretation, but Thi Nguyen-Huu, CEO of WinMagic Data Security in Mississauga, Ontario, sounds a bit like the Rodney Dangerfield of security technology.]]></description>
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 <volume>25</volume>
 <issue>3</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Dispatches from Redmond]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[At a conference for public-sector CIOs in Redmond, Wash., last month, Kristin Johnsen, Microsoft&#146;s senior director for security outreach, briefed editors on a slew of promising technologies for protecting systems and networks. Here&#146;s a sampling, in no particular order.]]></description>
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 <volume>25</volume>
 <issue>3</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[EMC embraces Google]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[EMC Corp. recently said it will integrate Google Desktop for Enterprise into its content management platform. ]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/25_3/38147-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>25</volume>
 <issue>3</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Seagate drives expand]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Get ready for bigger notebook hard drives.]]></description>
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 <volume>25</volume>
 <issue>3</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Microsoft aims at Lotus]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Microsoft Corp. last month took the wraps off a slew of new and upgraded tools it hopes will help Lotus Notes users migrate to its own collaboration platform.]]></description>
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 <volume>25</volume>
 <issue>3</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Charles McClam | The changing ways of SBA]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Acting CIO Charles McClam details steps SBA is taking to improve its IT security and the wholesale changes that are coming to its Loan Accounting System.]]></description>
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 <volume>25</volume>
 <issue>3</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Biometrics look ready for prime time]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Technologies improve just in time for HSPD-12 rollouts]]></description>
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 <volume>25</volume>
 <issue>3</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Packet Rat: Dirty laundry list]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[With a fresh message from Osama bin Laden in hand, a lobbying scandal on the Hill, and outrage brewing over National Security Agency monitoring of domestic phone calls, the Justice Department has once again ratcheted up its war efforts&#151;against porn.]]></description>
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 <volume>25</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[THE COMMUNITY: Taking the lead]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Accenture Ltd. honored three IT leaders with its Government Women&#146;s Leadership Awards recently in Washington]]></description>
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 <volume>25</volume>
 <issue>3</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[And another thing]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Coin-flip security. Who do Americans trust with their personal information online?]]></description>
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 <volume>25</volume>
 <issue>3</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Intelligence agencies eye the watch list dilemma ]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Officials want to add biometrics and better search capabilities, but doubts persist about feasibility&#151;and even possibility]]></description>
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 <volume>25</volume>
 <issue>3</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Most of NFC's IT crew return to Big Easy]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Living out of a silver FEMA trailer in his driveway, National Finance Center director Jerry Lohfink returned to work at his New Orleans office last month.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/25_3/38177-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>25</volume>
 <issue>3</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[People on the move]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Navy Department CIO Dave Wennergren has been elected vice chairman of the CIO Council.]]></description>
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 <volume>25</volume>
 <issue>3</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[QDR stresses Defense nets, IT security]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Quadrennial report draws on lessons from war on terror to push technology to troops ]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/25_3/38181-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>25</volume>
 <issue>3</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[2007 IT budget to be mostly flat]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[DOD, DHS, VA to receive the largest increases]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/25_3/38182-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>25</volume>
 <issue>3</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[OMB to name grants service providers]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Three agencies given go-ahead as others told to curtail spending on new or modernized systems]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/25_3/38183-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>25</volume>
 <issue>3</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[HSPD-12 contracts in the works]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The General Services Administration is preparing two contracts for Homeland Security Presidential Directive-12 products and services.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/25_3/38184-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>25</volume>
 <issue>3</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[GSA delays Networx awards by eight months]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[GSA has pushed out the award dates for its $20 billion Networx telecommunications procurement to March 2007 for the Universal awards and May 2007 for the Enterprise awards.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/25_3/38185-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>25</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[DISA extends deadline for Encore II RFPs]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Defense Information Systems Agency has notified vendors that the deadline to receive proposals for its $13 billion Encore II Information Technology Solutions contracts has been extended until mid-February.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/25_3/38186-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>25</volume>
 <issue>3</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Health IT leaders set an aggressive schedule]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Pilots for e-health records, e-prescribing part of year-end plan]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/25_3/38187-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>25</volume>
 <issue>3</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[DHS puts border security on fast track]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Contract for ambitious SBI.net initiative to be awarded by Sept. 30 ]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/25_3/38188-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>25</volume>
 <issue>3</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Funding jolt looms for U.S. Visit]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Even as the Homeland Security Department looks to put technological muscle into its border management work between ports of entry, the department&#146;s U.S. Visitor and Immigrant Status Indicator System program could get a funding fillip at the behest of powerful Senate Appropriations Committee members.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/25_3/38189-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>25</volume>
 <issue>3</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[HUD's e-case system offfers framework for other services]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[SOA application for mortgage lenders cuts processing time by 30 percent]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/25_3/38190-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>25</volume>
 <issue>3</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Air Force awards deal to enhance satellite comm system in space]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Defense Department took a huge step late last month toward establishing a global network capable of connecting warfighters to the Internet and each other.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/25_3/38191-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>25</volume>
 <issue>3</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Library of Congress limits teleworking]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Experts question whether legislative branch will 'walk the walk']]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/25_3/38192-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>25</volume>
 <issue>3</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[NASA discovers an SOA for Earth data]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Ageny&#146;s early foray into Web services technology nets a fully functional service-oriented architecture]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/25_3/38155-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>25</volume>
 <issue>3</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Inside the project: Service-oriented architecture]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[CHALLENGE: NASA needed a way of managing both a growing body of Earth science data&#151;from NASA centers and academic partners&#151;as well as an increasing number of software tools built to parse the data. ]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/25_3/38156-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>25</volume>
 <issue>3</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Not your typical spam fighters]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Keyword filtering wasn't the answer to FDA&#146;s spam problems, so the agency found a solution that did much more.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/25_3/38293-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>25</volume>
 <issue>3</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Now what?]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Four years into the enterprise architecture initiative, agencies have blueprints in place. It&#146;s time to put those EAs to work.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/25_3/38142-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>25</volume>
 <issue>3</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[INTERNAUT: The 'value driver' and the IT project]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The term value driver gets tossed around quite a bit these days when government IT managers discuss new project proposals. ]]></description>
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