Acting as the procurement arm for a group that includes ODNI, DOD and OMB, the Air Force issued a RFI asking vendors for strategies on how to meet Congress' 2009 deadline for improving the security clearance process.
The State Department's electronic passports should be considered a success despite long wait times and assertions that they are not being widely scanned, said a former State official.
Unisys will use vascular scanning technology to identify port workers. Verification is achieved when the blood flow pattern of the holder's hand matches the pattern of the scan stored on the card.
Steven Pecinovsky, director of DHS' GAO/Office of Inspector General Liaison Office, concurred with GAO's report findings, noting that Customs and Border Protection is moving to address some of the issues.
LaserCard Corp., a supplier of secure ID credentials used in biometric ID through a subcontract to General Dynamics Information Technology, has gotten a nod to extend its deal by another 12 months.
Although the U.S. began issuing electronic passports to U.S. citizens last October, few of the nation's airports or land and sea ports are using them as they should, according to a GAO report.
The 9/11 Commission bill awaiting the president's signature to become law sets up new credentialing requirements for first responders across the country, among its IT-related provisions.
Foreign visitors to the U.S. would be able to sign up voluntarily as international registered travelers under a provision in the DHS spending bill passed by the Senate last week.
Border security got an extra $3 billion, but Real ID spending took a hit, in Senate action on the Homeland Security Department fiscal 2008 appropriations bill yesterday.
GPO is asking the private sector for advice as it aims to lower costs and increase efficiency in the production of electronic identification credentialing systems such as e-passports and e-visas.
Washington State is moving forward on deploying the nation's first RFID-enabled driver's license that also will serve as a border crossing card under a pilot program authorized by DHS.
DOD has chosen a trusted identity network developed by the Federation for Identity and Cross-Credentialing Systems as the first enterprisewide solution for cross-credentialing between government and industry.
Continued weaknesses in IT controls at DHS are threatening efforts to maintain the integrity of financial data within the department, according to a new report.
