DHS is at risk for losing support for funding because it is not doing a good enough job of sharing information with state, local and federal homeland security officials.
<font color="CC0000"><b>UPDATED</b></font color>?Stanley Inc. and Analysis Corp. were named as the contractors involved in the improper accessing of the passport file of presidential candidate Barack Obama.
The Coast Guard is struggling to meet its homeland security missions in addition to its traditional missions, according to a new report from Homeland Security Inspector General Richard Skinner.
Nortel Government Solutions Inc. will continue to provide information technology support for the U.S. Postal Service's automated mail-handling system under a contract extension.
During the last week of February, the U.S. Court of Federal Claims ordered the Defense Department not to exercise any future options that extend a support services contractwith Lockheed Martin Corp. for DOD's Tricare medical services program. The order follows a decision last year that the contract award violated organizational conflict of interest rules.
Nortel Government Solutions has prevailed in a protest of its $300 million contract to build a voice-over-IP network for the Social Security Administration.
Computer Sciences Corp. has won a task order from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to provide software support to its National Electronic Disease Surveillance System's base system.
But Thomas McNamara says cultural and administrative challenges still impede getting government to better share homeland security, law enforcement and intelligence data.
State and local law enforcement agencies are moving to strengthen their links with the National Counter Terrorism Center's classified online information repository.
The Homeland Security Department wants a contractor to supply integrated off-the-shelf products that will gather IP routing data for technical studies and analyses.
Information sharing needs to improve between the U.S. and Canada, and between public agencies and the private sector, to prepare for the 2010 Winter Olympics, an industry expert told Congress.
