The U.S. Visitor and Immigrant Status Indicator Technology program should strengthen its oversight of the contracts it is using to build a computerized border control system, federal auditors said in an analysis of the multibillion-dollar Homeland Security Department project.
The Agriculture Department is seeking information about applications that can automate farm program business delivery, including eligibility for benefit payments.
The Homeland Security Department is looking to IT companies for ideas on building a second, redundant data center to supplement the one it operates under an agreement with the Navy.
The Task Force to Support Improved DOD Contracting and Stability Operations in Iraq will evaluate Defense business enterprise processes and systems in Iraq affecting contracting and other processes.
This is the second task order issued to EDS under the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services' $1.9 billion Enterprise Data Center contract, the hub of the CMS IT infrastructure modernization for the next decade.
The Office of Personnel Management tapped U.S. Investigative Services to provide back-office and administrative support for agency officials who perform background investigations on potential government employees and contractors.
Federal officials have incorporated a new rule on how agencies should implement an earned-value management system into the Federal Acquisition Regulation.
The General Services Administration is shopping for a contractor that has delivered a large-scale integrated biometric identity management system in the last three years to deploy its HSPD-12 initiative.
In a presolictation notice, GPO said it wants interested vendors to comment on its plan to host a facility in the Washington area to produce identification cards under Homeland Security Presidential Directive-12.
The federally run Homeland Security Information Network is ineffective in supporting information-sharing among federal, state and local officials as it was intended, according to a new report from DHS Inspector General Richard Skinner.
The General Accountability Office has pulled from its Web site personal information on certain government employees after discovering that the archived data had been inadvertently posted online.
<font color="CC0000">(Updated) </font>The Homeland Security Department has notified successful bidders for IT work under the multibillion-dollar Eagle acquisition that they will be able to start seeking work via task orders issued under the procurement tomorrow.
Homeland Security Department secretary Michael Chertoff has appointed Robert A. Mocny acting director of the U.S. Visitor and Immigrant Status Indicator Technology program.
Secretary Mike Johanns alerted employees in the Washington area that a hacker broke into a database at headquarters and may have stolen the names, Social Security numbers and photos of about 26,000 current and former workers and contractors.
The Homeland Security Department has never used the streamlined acquisition authorities granted by Congress when the department was created 2002, according to the Government Accountability Office.
Federally operated joint field offices will play a significant role in managing response following future natural disasters and other major incidents or attacks, according to several new documents released by the Homeland Security Department.
The Homeland Security Department has launched a simulation of terrorist incidents on the national capital region and a West Coast city, in a tabletop exercise that began yesterday and is set to continue through Thursday.
