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 <title><![CDATA[Senators to  FBI: Get a VCF refund]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Senate&#146;s draft of the appropriations bill for the Justice Department and the FBI would order the bureau to use &#147;all means necessary&#148; to try to recover funds from the vendor of its failed Virtual Case File project.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[FAA telecom effort lifts off ]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[More is riding on the Federal Aviation Administration&#146;s nearly $2 billion effort to upgrade its telecommunications network than just helping the agency save money and consolidate its existing communications systems.]]></description>
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 <volume>25</volume>
 <issue>33</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[IT security and the contractor]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[After data breaches, agencies put stricter policies in place]]></description>
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 <volume>25</volume>
 <issue>33</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Tom Temin | Editor's Desk: A new Hill view ]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[With Democrats gaining control of Congress, liberal Rep. Henry Waxman, will likely chair the House Committee on Government Reform, replacing the peripatetic Tom Davis (R-Va.).]]></description>
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 <volume>25</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Mimi Browning | Executive Suite: The myths and realities of IT cost savings]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The perennial congressional question&#151;&#147;What did I get for the $200 million I gave you last year?&#148;&#151;can be difficult to answer.]]></description>
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 <volume>25</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Technical Difficulties]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA["You can't bring those menus in here; you need to order from this one."]]></description>
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 <volume>25</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[And another thing...]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[ A recent survey by Akamai Technologies confirmed something Web site developers probably already knew: You have four seconds to win your audience. ]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Supply on the fly]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Marine Corps logisticians in late October established a milestone for what they call &#147;the logistics of the 21st century&#148; with the completion of a preliminary design review for the Global Combat Support System-Marine Corps.]]></description>
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 <volume>25</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Incoming]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Air Force, citing the growing importance to military operations of IP communications and networking, is creating a new cyberspace command, assigned to the 8th Air Force, headquartered at Barksdale Air Force Base in Louisiana and previously part of the Air Combat Command.]]></description>
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 <volume>25</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Sony tape topped ]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Sony Corp. this month released AIT-5, the new generation of tapes and tape drivers. ]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/25_33/42591-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <title><![CDATA[Books to shelve]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Publishers have been covering a variety of new technologies.]]></description>
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 <volume>25</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Google wants you]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Google has been trying to persuade agency Web managers to make their sites more accessible to data-extracting spiders.]]></description>
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 <volume>25</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Web apps]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Adobe Systems is adding support for Flash into version 7.0.2 of ColdFusion, its application server software.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/25_33/42595-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>25</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Enterprise architecture]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Troux Technologies Inc. of Austin, Texas, unveiled version 6 of its Metis enterprise architecture modeling tool.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/25_33/42596-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <title><![CDATA[Enterprise blogging]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Six Apart Ltd. of San Francisco has released version 1.5 of Movable Type Enterprise.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/25_33/42597-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <title><![CDATA[Daniel Brown | Plot the Web course]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Web site development documentation might not seem the most exciting of topics, but it is one that developers keep returning to, says consultant Daniel Brown. He may have a point.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[ Curbing surge]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[ZeroSurge&#146;s industrial-strength surge protector keeps voltage levels pure against big power fluctuations.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Patriot ready for duty]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Patriot scanner performs well, meets Trade Agreements Act.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[ISYS finds it your way  ]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[ISYS:desktop 8 lets you leave your files where they are and still let users search through them efficiently.GCN Lab Reviewer's Choice]]></description>
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 <volume>25</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[The key to mobile access]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[USB drive unlocks riches of office desktop from afar.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Virtual Space: CIS launches portal for immigration services]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Homeland Security Department&#146;s Citizenship and Immigration Services has launched a new portal at its Web site to help provide services to aspiring naturalized citizens as well as persons dealing with refugee, permanent residence and other immigration benefit processes.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/25_33/42626-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <title><![CDATA[R. Fink | Vista foreshadows help-ticket trouble]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The announcement of Microsoft Windows Vista&#146;s release to manufacturing came as something of a shock to the Rat, but not as much as the announcement of the new &#147;strategic partnership&#148; between Microsoft Corp. and Novell Inc. involving ... Linux.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Meyerrose, Grimes lead by example on sharing]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Old friends Dale Meyerrose and John Grimes are bringing the Office of the Director of National Intelligence and the Defense Department closer on IT functions.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/25_33/42575-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>25</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[New rules for FBI&#146;s Sentinel project]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Senate Appropriations Committee&#146;s draft of the fiscal 2007 spending bill, HR 5672, that covers the Justice Department and the FBI, includes both legal requirements limiting the bureau&#146;s freedom in managing its biggest software project, and tart report language criticizing the bureau&#146;s IT performance and slow response to congressional information requests.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/25_33/42607-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>25</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Attempts to recover money involve an uncertain legal landscape]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Angela Styles is a partner and federal contract law specialist in the Washington office of Miller &amp; Chevalier. She formerly was administrator of the Office of Federal Procurement Policy. Her explanation of some of the intricacies of contract termination follows.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Microsoft and Novell to play nice]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Under a recently announced partnership between Microsoft Corp. and Novell Inc., agencies will benefit from Windows and Linux applications that will work together more seamlessly.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/25_33/42611-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <title><![CDATA[OMB must sell e-gov to new 'in' party]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[If the White House couldn&#146;t sell e-government to its own party on the Hill, what chance will officials have now that the Democrats control Congress? According to industry observers and former government officials, it could be a pretty good chance.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/25_33/42612-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>25</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[PKI gets shot in the arm from HSPD-12]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[FIPS-201 and mandate give agencies means and motive to develop apps]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/25_33/42614-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>25</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Feds reach for better readers]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Current fingerprint technology is close, but agencies need smaller, faster machines.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/25_33/42616-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>25</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[CMS hires vendors for claims, call center support]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has awarded a contract worth as much as $9 billion to six vendors for contact center operations covering general Medicare and claims inquiries among all CMS communications channels.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/25_33/42617-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>25</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Forest Service finalizes deal for Recreation One-Stop.gov]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Forest Service expects to provide consolidated reservation services by early next year, now that a bidder has settled the legal dispute over the award of the $97 million National Recreation Reservation System.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/25_33/42618-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>25</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[FBI signs on with Arabic translator service]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The FBI now has access to an online service that its employees can use to screen TV broadcasts and receive alerts when specified words are used, either on English-language networks or networks broadcasting in Arabic.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/25_33/42619-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>25</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Managing volunteers' safety ]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Web tracking app keeps Peace Corps&#146; IG office abreast of cases around the globe]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/25_33/42620-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <title><![CDATA[People on the move]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Reynolds Cahoon, longtime CIO at the National Archives and Records Administration, left Nov. 10 for the private sector.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/25_33/42621-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <title><![CDATA[Apps can expand security scrutiny]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[On the heels of the Office of Management and Budget&#146;s June call for wider use of encryption to protect sensitive data when it leaves agency premises or is accessed remotely, agencies are taking several approaches.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/25_33/42623-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <title><![CDATA[NIST eyes new approach to securing its software]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[OS and applications present an increasingly complex challenge]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/25_33/42625-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>25</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Long view of IT oversight]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[FDA eases OMB 300 reporting requirements with portfolio management software.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/25_33/42601-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <title><![CDATA[Grid and bear it]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Although proven in academia and research, grid computing struggles to find a place in the enterprise.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/25_33/42588-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <title><![CDATA[Grid accelerates research]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Tools help deliver CERN data to labs worldwide]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Shawn McCarthy | Internaut: IPv6: It&#146;s a configuration management issue]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[For most federal agencies, IPv6 is emerging as more of a configuration management and IT services issue than a pure deadline issue. Even though some agencies are admittedly behind schedule in outlining their migration plans for the updated Internet Protocol, it&#146;s likely that most will be able to hustle and close the gap by the June 2008 deadline.]]></description>
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