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 <title><![CDATA[E-Rate Ripoffs]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Arlene Ackerman, the San Francisco Independent School District&#146;s superintendent, didn&#146;t like the looks of a $50 million project proposal submitted for her approval shortly after her appointment in 2000. As she delved into the project application&#151;made under a program known as E-Rate&#151;Ackerman began a five-year journey into the sordid maze of a well-intentioned but disastrous effort to provide hard-pressed schools and libraries with access to broadband service.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Agencies close net on illicit use of government IT]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[When federal agents last month seized the office computer of a NASA official for allegedly trafficking in child pornography on the Internet, a key piece of evidence came from technology developed at the agency to identify that kind of content. A special agent in the computer crimes division in NASA&#146;s inspector general&#146;s office analyzed data captured by a Web activity monitoring application to build the case against NASA program executive James Robinson.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Editor's Desk | Fight the Slack]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The recent annual Information Processing Interagency Conference featured an astronaut as a speaker. Seeing that on the agenda, I thought, do they still have astronauts? The astronauts&#146; heyday ended with 8-track tapes, or thereabouts. But this guy was different. Mike Mullane, retired Space Shuttle crewmember, was critical of NASA, frank, profane and direct.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Federal Contract Law | A Procurement System in Crisis]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[I&#146;ve worked in procurement for over three decades. In all that time, the public perception of federal procurement has never been worse than now. Bad news just keeps piling up. The Darleen Druyun scandal reached high into the ranks of government and business. On its heels came allegations of questionable contracting practices in Iraq, including outright bribery. Then we learned of sole-source contracts for Katrina response.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Technical Difficulties]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Cartoon]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Guest Column | A Full Plate]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Federal security teams might need some Alka-Seltzer before 2006 is over. This year promises a full plate of challenges for federal chief information security officers. ]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Guard fields sensor fusion at Super Bowl]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Amid the passes and tackles, punts and blocks, Jagger and Stones&#151;and all those bizarre commercials that signify Super Bowl frenzy&#151;a select group at Detroit&#146;s Ford Field was carrying out a more subtle activity during the NFL championship game in February. Members of the Michigan National Guard&#146;s 51st Civil Support Team were testing an innovative sensor technology for use, in this case, in a security setting at a public event attended by 65,000 people.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Incoming]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Air Force and Army plan to replace legacy weather systems with an integrated system under the Joint Environmental Toolkit program.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[GCN Insider |  RAM on!]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[If you&#146;re a system administrator, we bet you have  a box of old Random Access Memory modules. Well, make some room for 184-pin DDR modules as well. Just as the original Double Data Rate memory replaced the standard SDRAM chips, so too will DDR2 modules replace DDRs.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[GCN Insider | Cross Match does 10 prints in a hurry]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[It's not every day you set a record. Jim Ziglar, CEO of Cross Match Technologies, said GCN might have set one. And Jim's a former Senate Sergeant at Arms and Commissioner of the Immigration and Naturalization Service, so we trust him. In an impressive prerelease demonstration, we used Cross Match's new LSCAN Guardian scanner to capture 10 digital fingerprints in only eight seconds.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[GCN Insider | Tape is dead ... at least for audio]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Analog is out and digital is in when it comes to permanently preserving audio recordings, according to a report commissioned by the Library of Congress.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Tech brief | Virtual private networking]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Exceedium Inc. of Jersey City, N.J., has introduced a new version of its Exceedium gatekeeper, a VPN appliance devoted to handling IT operations.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Tech brief | Hughes on the Net]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Hughes Network Systems LLC of Germantown, Md., last month threw its hat into the government networking ring with the launch of HughesNet Managed Network Services. ]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Tech brief | Flexible supercomputing]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Cray Inc. of Seattle announced that its future supercomputers will be built on a uniform, modular platform, starting sometime in 2007.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Eugene Kaspersky | When Criminals Stalk the Internet]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Eugene Kaspersky was working for the Soviet Defense Ministry in the late 1980s when his computer became infected with the Cascade virus. His fascination with the malicious program eventually led to commercialization of what became the Kaspersky Anti-Virus tool. Today he&#146;s head of antivirus research for Moscow-based Kaspersky Lab, which he co-founded in 1997.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[WordPerfect-ly Impressive]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Chances are you&#146;re a Microsoft Office shop. But some of you might still be running the WordPerfect suite. Or maybe, now that Microsoft is preparing its next version of Office, you&#146;re open to the possibility of a new product, rather than an upgraded one. WordPerfect Office X3 is Corel&#146;s latest in a long line of suites. We grabbed a copy of it in the GCN Lab and were not disappointed.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Apple&#146;s New Dynamic Core Duo]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The new Intel-based, dual-core iMac is a slick machine, and underneath the glitz and gloss beats the heart of a heavy-duty workstation. It&#146;s the first Apple desktop we have seen in years that we can comfortably recommend for general-purpose use in the government. |GCN Lab Reviewer's Choice|]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Scrub Your Data, not Your Career ]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Tools such as Microsoft Word, PowerPoint and Excel are wonderful ways to express information. But until the fruits of their labor are made public, users treat them like personal workspaces, which can lead to problems when data that wasn&#146;t intended for public consumption leaks out. |GCN Lab Reviewer's Choice|]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Packet Rat | Left at the Altar]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[LinuxWorld has become another one of those snoring boring trade shows ever since Linux became a corporate darling (thanks to IBM and Hewlett-Packard). There are no more FreeBSD booth babes in painted-on red devil costumes, no more T-shirted and top-hatted codephreaks wandering the aisles, no one hacking into the demo servers on the show floor.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[And Another Thing...]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[IRS&#146; BOTTOM LINE DANCE. When an agency inspector general&#146;s office releases a report, it usually sets off a chain of events as routine and predictable as a line dance. The IG finds plenty wrong, the agency program executives agree with most of it, sometimes disagree with some of it, and then say they will correct the problems. (Sing it: &#147;And that&#146;s what it&#146;s all about.&#148;) And that&#146;s why a recent report from the Treasury IG for Tax Administration stopped us in our tracks. ]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Virtual Space: Tour de Force]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Tomorrow (April 18) marks the 100th anniversary of the great San Francisco earthquake. The Geological Survey has developed an extensive look back,]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[The Tangled Web of E-Rate]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Congress created the E-Rate program as part of the Telecommunications Act of 1996 in a bid to provide Internet access to schools and libraries that otherwise would not have been able to afford broadband cabling and associated equipment, such as routers and servers. In the years since, the E-Rate program has come under fire partly because of its arcane and incestuous administrative structure.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[GSA struggling to regain momentum]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Lurita Alexis Doan is about to have her hands full. After she was nominated by President Bush to take over the struggling General Services Administration, government and industry experts said that both restoring the agency&#146;s morale and winning back customers will be chief among several high priorities.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[OPM uses its buying power to support health IT]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Office of Personnel Management is pushing the adoption of health IT from the inside. With the weight of its 8 million-member Federal Employee Health Benefits program behind it, OPM earlier this month said it will make the implementation of health technology&#151;including electronic health records, e-prescribing and linking disease management to health IT&#151;part of the performance plans for its contracted carriers. The change will take two to four years, officials said.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[OMB wants EAs integrated]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Agencies are drowning in the alphabet soup of cross-agency initiatives&#151;from IPv6 to HSPD-12 to LOBs to e-government&#151;trying to figure out how they fit in with their overall missions. For the past four years, the Office of Management and Budget has pushed and prodded CIOs and their staffs to complete their enterprise architectures to show how their systems fit together, what technologies are being used and how the agency plans to improve their missions using new technology. But somewhere amid the flood of administration mandates, the ability to combine them into their EAs either was lost or just didn&#146;t develop.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Deals &amp; Deadlines]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The General Services Administration has issued requests for information for the Geospatial and IT Infrastructure Lines of Business and set industry days in Washington April 18 and 19. ]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Agencies shore up as hurricane season looms]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[This hurricane season, things will be different, federal officials are promising.For one thing, information sharing will improve, they say: from the Federal Emergency Management Agency&#146;s use of the Global Positioning System to track the flow of food, water, medical supplies and other important items, to weekly meetings of law enforcement officials across all levels of government.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[People on the Move]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Jeanette Thornton, the government&#146;s policy lead for E-authentication and Homeland Security Presidential Directive-12, is leaving government for the private sector.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[RFID in the cards at the border?]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The recent extension of radio frequency identification testing at border crossings would seem to boost the prospects for getting widespread systems in place. But the Homeland Security Department still faces significant hurdles in integrating, particularly for border crossing, RFID applications and standards, government officials and IT experts said.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[State begins work on PASS cards]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The State Department is planning a procurement to begin the process of issuing millions of PASS cards, which U.S. citizens crossing the border will be able to use in lieu of passports.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Cross-Agency Exercise Proves HSPD-12 Model]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Defense and Homeland Security departments, along with first responders from Maryland and Virginia, recently showed just how important trust is under Homeland Security Presidential Directive-12.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Intel Fusion Centers are Catching On]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[At least 28 states and U.S. territories are making it a top priority to open intelligence fusion centers, according to a survey of homeland security directors compiled by the National Governors Association. Forty directors from states and territories responded to the survey.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Qui Tam Law: The Whistleblower's Sword]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Frauds committed against the E-Rate program often are addressed under federal and state qui tam, or whistleblower, laws that allow private citizens to recover part of the funds that a company or individual has taken from the government by fraud.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[SIM city and the network]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Bill Geimer, program manager in the Chief Information Security Office at the Agency for International Development, has a huge security problem.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[RFP checklist: Security information management]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Looking to deploy a security information management solution? Before sending out an RFP or RFI, experts say you should consider the following.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Please sign on the digital line]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[In the latest sign that the public sector hasn&#146;t exhausted all the possibilities of e-government, Pennsylvania recently began the nation&#146;s first state-sanctioned program to let notaries digitally sign electronic documents. ]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Cybereye | Time to focus on security, not compliance]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[It is hard to avoid the conclusion that the Federal Information Security Management Act is not working. I am not a big fan of the A-through-F report cards handed out each year by the House Government Reform Committee, because they are not very meaningful indicators either of FISMA compliance or actual IT security posture. But after a five-year drumbeat of Ds and Fs, it&#146;s hard to argue that much real progress is being made.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Tech Blog from GCN.com]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Imagine you're a spammer getting ready to launch a spam campaign. It doesn't matter where you got your e-mail addresses, you know a chunk of them will be no good. Those messages are going to bounce back&#151;and you don't want them bouncing back in your direction. So you substitute other, legitimate return addresses. One of them is Info@AFedAgency.gov.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[DHS Bug Hunt Returns Mixed Reaction]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The results of a Homeland Security Department-funded bug hunt spanning 40 popular open-source programs has thus far met ambivalence from the open-source community. While many projects are using the results to improve their software, others are bemoaning the high number of false positives.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[E-Rate Probes Target Texas Vendor]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The flap over how value-added reseller Micro System Enterprises Inc. and the Houston and Dallas school districts may or may not have abused the E-Rate program shows the pattern of the civil and criminal cases due to emerge over the coming months.]]></description>
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