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 <title><![CDATA[When money moves]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Investigating agencies, such as the Treasury Department&#146;s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network and IRS-CI, use analytic software that can dig deeper and more broadly through the sea of data to discern patterns of money laundering and terror financing.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Intelligence units mine the benefits of public sources]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Sometimes the most useful information is in plain sight&#151;as long as you know where to look for it.]]></description>
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 <volume>25</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Defense's business transformation chugs forward]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[In sending Version 3.1 of its business enterprise architecture to Congress last week, the Defense Department took another incremental step toward better data standardization and interoperability.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/25_6/40159-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>25</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[EDITOR'S DESK: Fear of outsourcing]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Outsourcing is high on both private industry&#146;s and government&#146;s lists of concerns. No credible economic or social argument can be made against outsourcing. The difference in service doesn&#146;t depend on who&#146;s doing the work, but on who specifies and oversees it.]]></description>
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 <volume>25</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[EXECUTIVE SUITE: CIOs &#151; Be true to your name]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[It is not without irony that CIOs are named chief information officers. Ask any IT-savvy person what they think of when they hear the term CIO, and the answers will be the traditional ones.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/25_6/40110-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>25</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[TECHNICAL DIFFICULTIES]]></title>
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 <volume>25</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Army goes wireless on cargo handling]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Army&#146;s Program Executive Office for Enterprise Information Systems is aiming to streamline the process through a beta test under way at the Port of Beaumont, in Texas, that uses handheld scanners, 2-D barcodes and wireless technology.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/25_6/40103-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>25</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Incoming]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Defense Information Systems Agency CIO, decrying the injustice of troops in the battlefield being forced to do without the kinds of technolgies they had at home, called recently for renewed efforts toward meaningful acquisition reforms.]]></description>
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 <volume>25</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[GCN Insider: 3-D glasses not included ]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[We&#146;ve known for a while that you can insert short movies or audio segments into a Portable Document Format file&#151;it&#146;s great for when you want your document to talk to readers. The latest PDF multimedia enhancement from Adobe Systems Inc. impressed us.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/25_6/40121-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>25</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[GCN Insider: Flight control]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Athena Technologies Inc. of Warrenton, Va., hopes to commodify unmanned aerial vehicle operating systems in much the same way that Microsoft standardized the personal computer market with its one-size-fits-all OS.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/25_6/40122-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>25</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[GCN Insider: Sit 'n' sew]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Interior Department chief technology officer Daud Santosa is bullish on using architectural references to simplify system development and procurement.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/25_6/40123-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>25</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Tech Brief: Content management]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Xerox Corp. of Stamford, Conn., will soon release a companion to its DocuShare enterprise content management suite called DocuShare CPX.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/25_6/40124-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>25</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Tech Brief: Government software]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[NASA Ames Research Center has opened a repository of all the open-source software packages it has developed.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/25_6/40125-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>25</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Tech Brief: Network acceleration]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[RiverBed Technologies Inc. of San Francisco has released two small appliances that hasten wide area network throughput.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/25_6/40126-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <title><![CDATA[John Friend | In BlackBerry's battered shadow]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Like the folks who started BlackBerry&#146;s one-time nemesis, NTP Inc., John Friend is a patent holder. He&#146;s also CTO of Good Technology Inc. in Santa Clara, Calif., which makes wireless messaging systems that compete with the BlackBerry platform. Was he pleased to see his competition bogged down in a patent dispute with NTP? Not exactly.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/25_6/40107-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <title><![CDATA[Tiered SAN means better storage]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Storage Center from Compellent is a good example of the advantages a SAN can bring to your network. Its methods of data management and expandability bring network storage to a whole new level.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/25_6/40131-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <title><![CDATA[Project managers get a powerful tool]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[FastTrack Schedule 9 from AEC Software can help break down projects in terms of the human and financial resources, as well as  time, needed to complete different stages.|GCN Lab Reviewer's Choice|]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/25_6/40132-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>25</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Better security for client PCs]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[With hackers and viruses lurking around every digital corner, protecting users&#146; personal computers is second in importance only to protecting your servers.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/25_6/40133-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>25</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[PACKET RAT: CrackBerry ruling is just preciousssss]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[While much of America was waiting to see who would wear what for the Oscars, a certain subset of the population had something else entirely on their minds.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/25_6/40177-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <title><![CDATA[VIRTUAL SPACE: Crypto Cool]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The National Security Agency has introduced on its Web site a gang of hip cartoon characters that it hopes will entice kids into the field of covert data analysis&#151;or at least play some fun educational word games.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/25_6/40178-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>25</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[And another thing...]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Sun Microsystems Inc. chairman and CEO Scott McNealy is known for turning a phrase&#151;sometimes, even for twisting one. He was in fine form this month during his keynote speech at FOSE, which included his David Letterman-inspired &#147;Top 10 Ways the IT World is Like the Government.&#148;]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/25_6/40179-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>25</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[Data sharing is the missing link to trapping money launderers]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Agencies are beginning to share data they have collected and analyzed about money laundering and terror-financing activities, but they still have far to go, according to a recent Treasury Department report.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/25_6/40157-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>25</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[After delays, Senate set to move on GSA reorg bill]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The General Services Administration&#146;s reorganization received some much-needed support last week when a key member of the Senate Appropriations Committee said he was satisfied with the agency&#146;s reorganization plan.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/25_6/40160-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <title><![CDATA[FBI to make Sentinel share information more easily]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The FBI is taking steps to ensure its new case management system, dubbed Sentinel, will share information among the disparate systems at the Homeland Security Department, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, and other agencies.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/25_6/40161-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <title><![CDATA[Agencies seek cure for project management woes ]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Project management challenges and the means of overcoming them remain at the forefront of senior federal IT leaders&#146; agendas. Agency leaders soon will enjoy, or endure, additional oversight via the Office of Management and Budget&#146;s Program Assessment Rating Tool.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/25_6/40162-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <title><![CDATA[VA CIO resigns over pace of IT change]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Veterans Affairs Department CIO Robert McFarland has often referred to his job at VA as that of a change agent. But with VA&#146;s  leadership not moving fast enough  for him on IT reorganization, McFarland has resigned effective April 30.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/25_6/40163-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <title><![CDATA[Agencies see value in EVM, but struggle to cash in on it]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Although the government for the most part is embracing the concept of earned-value management, some agencies are going to be hard-pressed to meet upcoming Office of Management and Budget deadlines this month.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/25_6/40164-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <title><![CDATA[People on the move]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Deidre Lee , who left the Defense Department this past August to run the General Services Administration&#146;s Integrated Technology Solutions shop within the new Federal Acquisition Services, will move next month to the Federal Emergency Management Agency, sources within GSA said.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/25_6/40165-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <title><![CDATA[DOD can&#146;t get out from under commercial satellites]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[In recent years, military leaders have been vocal about the need for the government to become less dependent on commercial satellites for communications. These days, however, the military appears to be singing a different tune.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/25_6/40168-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <title><![CDATA[For DIA, interoperability begins with the data]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The intelligence community is moving beyond collaborative applications to achieve interoperability across its agencies with the help of a service-oriented architecture.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/25_6/40171-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <title><![CDATA[In the trenches of the CIO Wargame]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[I recently found out what it really means when a CIO&#146;s IT projects&#146; risks outweigh their rewards.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/25_6/40172-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <title><![CDATA[A look back at FOSE 2006]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Thousands of feds took to the floor for the 30th edition of FOSE.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/25_6/40173-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <title><![CDATA[The GCN Best of FOSE 2006 ]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Judges from GCN and sister publication Washington Technology examined roughly 200 nominated products to name 13 GCN Best of FOSE winners and two grand-prize Best of Show winners.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/25_6/40174-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <title><![CDATA[Evans, Barksdale honored ]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Karen Evans, OMB administrator for e-government and IT, received the 2006 government Azimuth Award; she&#146;s flanked by PostNewsweek Tech Media editor-in-chief Tom Temin, left, and OMB deputy director for management Clay Johnson III, who introduced Evans for the award.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/25_6/40175-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <title><![CDATA[Mixing the menu ]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[If there were ever a technology that seemed tailored to the needs of government, it&#146;s service-oriented architecture. With thousands of disparate systems needing to share information across organizational boundaries&#151;particularly homeland security information&#151;SOA offers agencies an attractive shortcut to their data-sharing goals.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/25_6/40129-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <title><![CDATA[Not your father's voice of America]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[If you think of the Voice of America or Radio Free Europe in terms of Cold War, short-wave radio broadcasts, consider this: Apple&#146;s iTunes service includes podcasts of six VOA programs among its product offerings.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/25_6/40114-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <title><![CDATA[Users of SELinux now have a choice on security ]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The release of a new open-source security package has sparked debate over how many Mandatory Access Control applications Linux really needs, and if more than one would just dilute volunteer efforts.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/25_6/40117-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <title><![CDATA[CYBEREYE: Security: Lots of  lessons, nothing learned]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The issues of personal data security and identity theft broke into the national consciousness a year ago, when Choice-Point reported that thieves had established accounts with the data broker to obtain sensitive information on 145,000 people.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/25_6/40118-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <title><![CDATA[A quantum leap for cryptography]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[An international team of government, academic and commercial researchers has made significant strides in their quest to accelerate secure quantum cryptography.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/25_6/40119-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <title><![CDATA[Taking aim at distance, cost of quantum crypto]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Earlier this month, MagiQ Technologies of New York City published a joint white paper with Verizon Communications Inc. describing what it claims are important findings for enabling deployment of quantum cryptography.]]></description>
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