The Transportation Workers Identification Credential missed its July 1 rollout partly because its systems are undergoing extra testing, a TSA official testified Thursday.
Computer Sciences Corp. has unveiled WorldBridge, a new outsourcing service that will provide applicants wishing to enter the United Kingdom with comprehensive visa information and process their biometric data.
Digimarc Corp. and a Russian partner have won a $4.5 million contract to help the Russian Federation roll out digital driver's licensing to 744 locations.
DHS yesterday postponed a requirement for U.S. travelers to show passports or the new government-issued passenger ID card upon returning home at land or sea borders until the summer of 2008.
Imposing a mandatory Electronic Employment Verification System for employers to check Social Security numbers of workers could cost up to $470 million a year and increase identity theft, according to testimony at a congressional hearing Thursday.
DHS is looking for a contractor to process up to 28 million government ID cards a year for existing programs and for new cards such as in the proposed Temporary Worker Program.
The State and Homeland Security departments are pushing forward with a controversial program to upgrade border security by creating a passport card system for the Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative (WHTI).
The planned border-crossing ID card does not require strong privacy protections because the only data it can transmit wirelessly is a reference number, according to the director of NIST.
A GAO audit has warned that despite measures the FBI has implemented to tighten IT security, its critical networks for exchanging law enforcement data remain at risk.
DHS this week gave final approvals to the IT industry's approach to protecting the Internet and other national IT-related infrastructures by focusing on critical functions.
An industry group is accusing NIST of failing to properly evaluate the technologies to be used in DHS' and State's upcoming border-crossing identification card.
<font color="CC0000">(UPDATED) </font color> The FBI wants its new Next Generation ID biometric information system to furnish faster and more high-quality links to other such repositories.
