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 <title><![CDATA[Step-by-step migration]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[With the Office of Management and Budget expecting more agencies to migrate over the next few years to shared-services providers&#151;otherwise known as centers of excellence&#151;for human resources and financial management, the Housing and Urban Development Department's successful migration to the Treasury Department&#146;s HR Connect presents a valuable case study.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[DOD shakes up JTRS program]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Pentagon is reshaping its controversial Joint Tactical Radio System program with an eye toward curbing costs and centralizing management. The Defense Department&#146;s acquisition chief recently restructured JTRS to create an enterprisewide structure comprising three domains: ground; airborne, maritime and fixed (AMF); and network enterprise, each reporting to the JTRS Joint Program Executive Office under Kenneth Krieg, Defense undersecretary for acquisition, technology and logistics.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Wyatt Kash | Editor's Desk: Pure serendipity]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Technology breakthroughs are often not rooted in the invention of new devices as much as they are in the exploitation of new insights into the way people and processes work. All those white ear buds sprouting from commuters&#146; ears offer one case in point.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Robert Gellman | @Info.Policy: 72-hour rule could foster a web of deceit]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[A coalition trying to curb the passage of legislation without effective public notice is pushing to have Congress post each bill on the Web for 72 hours before it can be brought up for debate on the floor.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/25_9/40451-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <title><![CDATA[TECHNICAL DIFFICULTIES]]></title>
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 <issue>9</issue>
 <title><![CDATA[Neal Fox | Contracting in Perspective: Will Eagle fly?]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[One of the most highly anticipated new contracts scheduled for award in 2006 is Homeland Security&#146;s Enterprise Acquisition Gateway for Leading Edge solutions (Eagle). DHS views Eagle as its premier procurement vehicle for agencywide consolidation of IT services, replacing the numerous legacy contract vehicles now used by DHS component agencies.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Rep. Todd Platts | Systems requirements law key to improved management]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[I chaired a hearing on implementation of OMB's Financial Management Line of Business initiative. The general consensus from that hearing was that the ideal of a governmentwide shared-services model is a worthy goal.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Multinational force tests collaboration]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[In the world of massively multiplayer online role-playing games, it is common for thousands&#151;even tens of thousands&#151;of players to participate. By that measure, the Joint Forces Command&#146;s recent three-week exercise, Multinational Experiment 4, or MNE4 for short, was small potatoes; it had about 800 participants. On the other hand, MNE4&#146;s participants were Australia, Canada, Finland, France, Germany, Sweden, the United Kingdom  and the United States, plus NATO.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[GCN Insider | HSPD-12 with a single-sign-on twist]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Single sign-on is one of those security technologies that makes perfect sense but always seems to play second fiddle to more pressing concerns.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/25_9/40468-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <title><![CDATA[GCN Insider | Quick, protect that 10-Gbps network traffic]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Unless you work at a government lab, or some other high-performance-requiring agency, you might not have a 10-gigabit network. But chances are you will; it&#146;s just a matter of when.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[GCN Insider | Welcome your new data overlords]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Categorically defining data as structured, semistructured and unstructured will increasingly become irrelevant, predicts Robert Markham, principal analyst at Forrester Research Inc.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/25_9/40470-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <title><![CDATA[Tech brief: Space-saving desktop]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[MPC Computers Inc. of Nampa, Idaho, has unveiled its new ClientPro 212 all-in-one desktop computer.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/25_9/40471-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <title><![CDATA[Tech brief: Sigaba gets Common Criteria]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Sigaba Inc. of Reston, Va., last month said its SigabaNet Authentication Server and Key Management Server products had received Common Criteria Evaluation Assurance Level 2 certification from the National Information Assurance Partnership. SigabaNet solutions are used for secure messaging, including e-mail and instant messaging.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Tech brief: Gateway&#146;s new Profile]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Gateway Profile 6 is the latest in the company&#146;s successful all-in-one line and it tackles an issue that normally hinders adoption of sealed systems&#151;serviceability.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/25_9/40473-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <title><![CDATA[Tech brief: Chilled out]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Workstation shoppers might consider Alienware Inc.&#146;s new Aurora ALX computer, which includes the new Liquid Chilled Quad Nvidia SLI Graphics subsystem.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/25_9/40474-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <title><![CDATA[Ray Ozzie | Behind Microsoft&#146;s Groove-iness]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Little more than a year ago, something happened that used to happen frequently in IT: Microsoft Corp. snapped up a promising company. But Groove Networks Inc. was more than just a collaboration software developer; it was increasingly well known for its government deployments, including data-sharing projects at the Defense and Homeland Security departments.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[GCN Lab Review | Battleship gray no more]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[If there&#146;s one thing our latest foray into color workgroup printers taught us, it&#146;s that you can overpay for decent output&#151;but you shouldn&#146;t. Any gulf between high-volume color printing and, let&#146;s say, small workgroup printing has started to disappear.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[GCN Lab Review | Xerox Phaser 6350DP]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Don&#146;t blink when you print a document on the Xerox Phaser 6350DP or else you might miss it. The printer is blazingly fast in both color and black-and-white printing.|GCN Lab Reviewer's Choice|]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/25_9/40479-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <volume>25</volume>
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 <title><![CDATA[GCN Lab Review | Sharp AR-C360P]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[When the Sharp AR-C360P arrived at the GCN Lab, the size of the unit made us think perhaps it was a higher class of printer than we wanted to review. ]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[GCN Lab Review | Oki Data C7350n]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Oki Data C7350n is relatively easy to set up and has a small footprint. It&#146;s also a quiet printer, which is nice. But this is probably not the color workgroup printer for you.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/25_9/40482-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <title><![CDATA[GCN Lab Review | Lexmark C920n]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Although slightly more expensive than the average printer in this review, the C920n combines advanced features and top-notch quality to help justify the cost.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[GCN Lab Review | Kyocera Mita FS-C5030N]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The FS-C5030N is ideally suited to offices where almost all the printing is in color and details matter a lot.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/25_9/40484-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <title><![CDATA[GCN Lab Review | HP Color LaserJet 4700n]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The HP Color LaserJet 4700n would be just as comfortable in a small- to medium-sized workgroup as it would be with a more active, large set of users.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/25_9/40485-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <title><![CDATA[PACKET RAT: It takes a village to patch an OS ]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Microsoft&#146;s latest &#147;Patch Tuesday&#148; fixes had the Rat and his crew scrambling to test the 10 patches before pushing them out to the unwashed masses, er, users.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/25_9/40507-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <title><![CDATA[THE COMMUNITY: Children&#146;s Inn benefit]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The public and private IT sectors got together early this month at the Mayflower Hotel in Washington for &#147;A Night for the Children,&#148; the ACFEA Bethesda Chapter&#146;s annual benefit for Children&#146;s Inn.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/25_9/40508-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <title><![CDATA[And another thing...]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[&#147;This leaves me with no alternative but to challenge you to a public duel.&#148;]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/25_9/40510-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <title><![CDATA[People on the move]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[President Bush has nominated former congressman Rob Portman to take the helm at the Office of Management and Budget.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/25_9/40489-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <title><![CDATA[Q&amp;A: NSF looks to the FastLane for Grants]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[When the Office of Management and Budget named three consortia to lead the Grants Line of Business initiative, it marked a clear direction for the program. Agencies will have to use one of three shared-services providers for grants management systems or justify to OMB their rationale for building their own systems. GCN asked program managers from the Administration for Children and Families in the Department of Health and Human Services, the Department of Education and the National Science Foundation to describe their focus and how they are different from each other.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/25_9/40494-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <title><![CDATA[Q&amp;A: Education working from the ground up]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[When the Office of Management and Budget named three consortia to lead the Grants Line of Business initiative, it marked a clear direction for the program. Agencies will have to use one of three shared-services providers for grants management systems or justify to OMB their rationale for building their own systems. GCN asked program managers from the Administration for Children and Families in the Department of Health and Human Services, the Department of Education and the National Science Foundation to describe their focus and how they are different from each other.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Q&amp;A: Administration for Children and Families ready to serve]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[When the Office of Management and Budget named three consortia to lead the Grants Line of Business initiative, it marked a clear direction for the program. Agencies will have to use one of three shared-services providers for grants management systems or justify to OMB their rationale for building their own systems. GCN asked program managers from the Administration for Children and Families in the Department of Health and Human Services, the Department of Education and the National Science Foundation to describe their focus and how they are different from each other.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Private sector gets into the game]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[As more and more agencies consider the move to centers of excellence under the Office of Management and Budget&#146;s Lines of Business initiatives for human resources and financial management, some are finding the private sector a viable alternative.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/25_9/40499-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <title><![CDATA[DHS courts new border technology]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Homeland Security Department has given IT vendors wide latitude to design systems for improved border security under the Secure Border Initiative-Net program. SBI.net will form the technology leg of the overall Secure Border Initiative, which is aimed at gaining operational control of the borders with enhanced enforcement, surveillance, more personnel and better-integrated operations. SBI.net could amount to more than $2 billion in spending over several years, according to industry estimates.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Defense Messaging System hits its stride]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Things appear to have leveled out a bit with the Defense Message System. Last year, DMS became fully operational at more than 500 locations worldwide, and the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Network Integration and Infrastructure last May gave the OK to enter the sustainment phase of its lifecycle. Most recently, the Defense Information Systems Agency awarded a contract, potentially worth $750 million, to Lockheed Martin Corp. to maintain and support the program.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/25_9/40501-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <title><![CDATA[Agencies debate how much data is needed on HSPD-12 cards]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Agencies are banding together to try to get the White House not to include the electronic National Agency Check indicator on the Homeland Security Presidential Directive-12 identification smart card.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/25_9/40503-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <title><![CDATA[Avian flu prep takes flight slowly]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The prospect of a mass disease outbreak puts a new spin on continuity of operations plans generally prepared for terrorist attacks or natural disasters. Federal IT leaders are aware of the need to prepare for a pandemic but, according to specialists, haven&#146;t grasped the scale and subtleties of the problem.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[TSA at odds with DHS IG over audit]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Homeland Security Department inspector general&#146;s office recently released a report critical of the Transportation Security Administration and Unisys Corp. for their execution of a $1 billion IT services contract to get TSA off the ground. But the IG report acknowledges only in passing that the Information Technology Managed Services contract was conceived as a $3 billion to $5 billion program. And it holds TSA and Unisys responsible for $834 million in costs incurred to date, while mentioning only in a footnote that DHS itself spent some of that money on department programs not included in the scope of the project.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[PKI doesn&#146;t have to be perfect to be worthwhile]]></title>
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 <title><![CDATA[Online extra | Florida case offers lessons-learned for outsourcing]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[While Florida&#146;s contract with Convergys Corp. of Cincinnati to consolidate and process human resource services for 32 state agencies has produced substantial benefits, it also serves as a stark example of what can go wrong when a government agency outsources certain functions to the private sector.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Online extra | Moving to a COE easier through change management]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Part of Treasury&#146;s overall plan to migrate to HR Connect was a two-pronged change management plan.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Online extra | Federal Health Architecture gets Version 1.0 ready for release]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Federal Health Architecture, established in June 2003 as a Line of Business, aims to align federal health IT investments with the president&#146;s health IT plan.]]></description>
 <link>http://www.gcn.com/print/25_9/40556-1.html?topic=&amp;CMP=OTC-RSS</link>
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 <title><![CDATA[Online extra | Justice to make Case Management more inclusive]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[While the Justice Department was bogged down in awarding a $305 million contract for its do-over case management system called Sentinel, the Line of Business Consolidation initiative for a similar effort was treading water.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Online extra | Financial management ahead of the pack]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Office of Management and Budget hopes the Financial Management Line of Business initiative will improve the cost, quality and performance of agencies&#146; financial systems.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Online extra | Security initiative looking for direction]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Office of Management and Budget plans to focus on training and Federal Information Security Management Act reporting over the next eight months under the Security Line of Business Consolidation initiative.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[A bang for its buck]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau has a $100 million operating budget, yet it generates revenues of between $13 and $14 billion a year. That&#146;s an impressive return on investment. When the agency became its own entity in 2003 (it was broken off from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms under the Homeland Security Act) TTB wanted to get the same kind of ROI from its IT infrastructure.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Inside the project: IT Asset Management]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[CHALLENGE: When the Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau became a standalone entity in 2003, it didn&#146;t have its own IT infrastructure. The following year, it had to build one from scratch. But with just five full-time IT professionals, TTB needed an efficient, cost-effective way of managing its brand-new assets.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[At your service]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Over the past year, publicly available government information has been appearing all over the Web&#151;on Google Maps. When the search giant posted its own mapping Web service, it did something unusual. It published the application programming interfaces&#151;the code that delivers maps, pointers and associated features&#151;to the Web page.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[INTERNAUT: A problem in search of an IT solution]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[Controlling labor costs and tracking worker time and productivity is a big challenge for any office, including government offices. But tracking worker hours and controlling overtime budgets in particular has becomea major hot-button issue for local government agencies.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[FEC experiments with utility computing]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[The Federal Election Commission is dipping its toe into utility computing, in which IT services are provisioned from a pool of resources rather than from a dedicated infrastructure.]]></description>
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 <title><![CDATA[Online Extra | Meet the SOA Builders]]></title>
 <description><![CDATA[While we haven&#146;t seen a lot of Web services-based deployment in the government sector yet, there is certainly no shortage of vendors offering tools that would help agencies move to component-based architectures, both as integrated platforms and as stand-alone applications.]]></description>
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