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 <title><![CDATA[Health IT gets into gear]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[David Brailer is a doctor by trade, but as the national coordinator for health IT, he is proving to be more of an engineer.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Feds  fumble with FISMA performance]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[FISMA grades raise the visibility, and thus the importance, of cybersecurity issues, but some say the grades don&#146;t necessarily address whether cybersecurity has been improved in an agency.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[OMB steers clear of HSPD-12 group]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Turf battles and political maneuvering have led the Office of Management and Budget and the General Services Administration to disband a popular and successful interagency working group on identity management.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[EDITOR&#146;S DESK: FISMA challenge]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Last month&#146;s flogging of federal agencies by the House Government Reform Committee over network security weaknesses was a fresh reminder of the serious work that remains to be done&#151;and how character-building the job of federal CIO has become.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[ANOTHER VIEW: Move projects from possible to practical&#151;and then, inevitable]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[In any discussion of project success, there is the central question of uptake&#151;the ability to ramp-up transactions or market share or coverage or profit.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[TECHNICAL DIFFICULTIES]]></title>
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 <title><![CDATA[Neal Fox | Contracting in perspective: Door opens for  non-GSA deals]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Contracting via government- or agency-wide buying vehicles is running a bit wild. As more agencies  plan their own vehicles, GSA&#146;s historic near monopoly is threatened.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/25_7/40235-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <title><![CDATA[Rep. Jon Porter | Let federal employees lead the charge for electronic health records]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Breast cancer, AIDS and highway accidents are three of the leading causes of death. It is hard to believe that medical errors outpace them on that list.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Neal Fox | Contracting in perspective: DHS' Eagle&#151;Will it fly?]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Office of Federal Procurement Policy grants governmentwide acquisition contract authority to agencies annually but does not closely regulate agencywide contracts, which Eagle is purported to be. It remains to be seen whether OFPP continues to agree that Eagle is not a de facto GWAC once it is up and running.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Task force rolls DICE to keep lines open]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Various military services, the Department of Homeland Security and first responders such as police and fire departments are getting better acquainted with each other&#146;s communications systems during the Defense Department&#146;s Interoperability Communications Exercise.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Incoming]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Army plans in the coming weeks to award a number of big IT contracts for satellite services, hardware and software, and modernization of its infrastructure, senior officials have said.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Streaming desktops: Don&#146;t call them thin]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Dell knows how to find technology partners that add value to its systems. Among the most recent is Ardence Inc. of Waltham, Mass. Ardence makes server-based, application streaming software that provides the basis for Dell&#146;s  SmartClient virtual desktop products.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[When you can&#146;t trust the end point]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Senforce Technologies Inc. of Draper, Utah, develops end-point security software focused on laptop and tablet PCs running Windows 2000 and XP.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Trusted handhelds can be easy to manage]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Handheld devices, such as the BlackBerry and the Palm Treo, can be management headaches. No wonder there&#146;s so much software Advil on the market.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/25_7/40243-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <title><![CDATA[Motorola Mobile VPN]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Motorola Inc. of Schaumburg, Ill., has introduced Multi-Net Mobility, which is designed to provide mobile virtual private networking security across wireless networks. ]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Tumbleweed and PKI]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Federal Public-key Infrastructure Policy Authority&#146;s Path Discovery and Validation working group recently qualified the Tumbleweed Validation Authority and Desktop Validator products for agencies that need real-time digital certificate validation in a Federal Bridge-enabled environment.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Firetide: another mesh option]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Add another company to the list of folks you want to hear from when issuing a municipal WLAN RFP.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Bruce Brody | Waiting for &#145;Son of FISMA&#146;]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[More than two weeks before the House Government Reform Committee released its latest round of FISMA grades, Bruce Brody predicted there would be little improvement.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[2006: The year of desktop Linux?]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The GCN Lab pulled together the latest versions of several desktop Linux distributions to determine not only which was our favorite, but also to gauge what might be required to integrate these systems into an existing environment.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Red Hat Linux Desktop]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[If Windows is a family sedan and basic Linux is an armored car, then Red Hat Linux Desktop is a mainline battle tank.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Fedora Core 5]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Fedora Core 5 should be available by the time you read this. Think of Fedora as the standalone (and more user-friendly) flavor of Linux Enterprise Desktop, but without the enterprise support.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/25_7/40266-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <title><![CDATA[Ubuntu Linux 5.10]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Ubuntu represents the best and worst of open-source programming. On the one hand, there is a rather diverse community of people adding new productivity applications to this free program. But on the other, there does not seem to be any official support network if things go wrong.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Mandriva Linux 2006 ]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[After we finally wrestled Mandriva into place, we found the overall interface fairly crude compared with Fedora Core. While we had no trouble with Internet access, the Mandriva OS had trouble connecting and sharing files with our Windows network.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Novell SUSE Linux 10]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[SUSE 10 has many of the same features as version 9.1, but with a greater emphasis on security. The biggest addition is Novell&#146;s AppArmor, which, like SELinux, is a way the OS can detect unauthorized access to programs and system applications.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/25_7/40269-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <title><![CDATA[Xandros Desktop 3.0 Business Edition]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[If you&#146;re worried that users won&#146;t be able to adjust to a Linux desktop, given their Windows mind-set, then Xandros is the way to go. In fact, there are very few differences between a Xandros desktop and Windows 2000.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/25_7/40270-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <title><![CDATA[House looks at failure of eMerge2]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Homeland Security Department is to be commended for moving so swiftly last year to cancel eMerge2, the program to consolidate the numerous disparate financial systems scattered through the Homeland Security Department, according to members of two House subcommittees.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/25_7/40279-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <title><![CDATA[Workforce issues creep into LOB debate]]></title>
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 <title><![CDATA[Navy, EDS avert NMCI divorce at least for now]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Navy and EDS Corp. have worked out their differences and will stay married for three more years.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/25_7/40283-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <title><![CDATA[Under pressure, VA management begins IT reorg]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Veterans Affairs Department&#146;s CIO officially began to take over control of IT operations and maintenance late last month, despite resistance from agency top management.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/25_7/40285-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <title><![CDATA[USPS bar codes get smaller, smarter]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Postal Service is expecting its bar codes to do more with less.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/25_7/40286-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <title><![CDATA[GSA set to issue RFIs for new lines of business ]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The General Services Administration plans to release requests for information and hold industry days for the three new lines of business&#151;IT infrastructure, geospatial and budget formulation&#151;in the middle of this month.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/25_7/40287-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <title><![CDATA[DHS postpones IT services contract award]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Homeland Security Department will delay until June the award for the Enterprise Acquisition Gateway for Leading Edge solutions.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/25_7/40288-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <title><![CDATA[GSA to hold Networx transition conference for agencies]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Although the contracts will not be awarded until next spring and summer, the General Services Administration is planning a conference later this year to explore how agencies will transition to GSA&#146;s $20 billion Networx telecommunications vehicles, a key agency official has said.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/25_7/40289-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <title><![CDATA[North Carolina puts out a net for tracking diseases ]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The North Carolina Disease Event Tracking and Epidemiological Collection Tool is an example of the kind of biosurveillance system that the federal Health and Human Services Department is looking for as part of its early use of health IT.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/25_7/40291-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <title><![CDATA[CDC weaving national information web]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Health and Human Services Department&#146;s Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is expanding its nationwide BioSense biosurveillance program.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/25_7/40292-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <title><![CDATA[Feds look for common thread among medical info exchanges]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[When Jan Root talks about the potential of regional health information exchanges, it doesn&#146;t take her long to get to the possibilities of the real dollar savings.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/25_7/40294-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <title><![CDATA[Joint forces test net-centric tech]]></title>
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 <title><![CDATA[The next steps for Netcents ]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[As the Air Force heads into the third year of its massive, five-year Network Centric Solutions contract, the service is already planning the $9 billion vehicle&#146;s replacement.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/25_7/40296-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <title><![CDATA[People on the move]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[President Bush has nominated Molly O&#146;Neill to serve as the Environmental Protection Agency&#146;s assistant administrator for the Office of Environmental Information, replacing Kim Nelson, who left the agency late last year.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/25_7/40297-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <title><![CDATA[PACKET RAT: Second-hand security]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The United States doesn&#146;t hold a monopoly on government missteps with sensitive data.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/25_7/40298-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <title><![CDATA[THE COMMUNITY: On the money]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Gary Winkler, director of the Army&#146;s Governance Acquisition and Chief Knowledge Office, addressed a group of vendors at Input Market View 2006 last week in Falls Church, Va.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/25_7/40300-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <title><![CDATA[And another thing...]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The first two days of March Madness, also known as the NCAA men&#146;s basketball tournament, can be something of a distraction for workers in government and other offices.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/25_7/40301-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <title><![CDATA[When portal software is overkill]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[When the City and County of San Francisco Human Services Agency wanted to upgrade its intranet, Vakil Kuner, IT director and CIO for the agency, knew the new features would have to be as hassle-free as possible.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Lost in Transition]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Agencies are entering largely uncharted territory as they make plans for transitioning network backbones to the next version of the Internet Protocols. But they are making progress.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Don&#146;t look for rapid ROI from IPv6]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Transitioning networks to the next version of the Internet Protocols could be a bargain, according to a recent study by RTI Inter-national of Research Triangle Park, N.C.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[DOD turns to industry for the Internet it wants]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Defense Department recognizes Version 6 of the Internet Protocols as central to its concept of network-centric warfare. But enabling a worldwide network to pass IPv6 packets is not enough to realize its goal. It requires applications and tools.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[How exactly will you get your IPv6 addresses?]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The National Telecommunications and Information Administration is devising a plan to make sure agencies get their share of the billions and billions of addresses that will become available under IP Version 6.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/25_7/40239-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <title><![CDATA[INTERNAUT: What does it mean to build secure Linux?]]></title>
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 <title><![CDATA[Agencies find there&#146;s no single path to IPv6]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The FAA plans to set up three test beds to see how well data packets travel through its administrative network using IP Version 6. The Education Department, meanwhile, is linking its move to IPv6 to more than 200 IT business cases and using them to explain the impact of the new technology on each investment.]]></description>
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