Phone calls made over VoIP to 911 numbers will have the same access and protections as other 911 technologies under a measure recently signed by President Bush.
DHS has announced a total of $1.8 billion in grants, primarily to states and cities, to fund equipment, training and exercises for terrorism preparedness.
The Transportation Security Administration will expand Registered Traveler to all U.S. airports beginning next week and eliminate a TSA-conducted screening that it considers duplicative.
A new enterprise software licensing program will help knock down barriers to information sharing, while saving agencies money, said ODNI's associate director of national and CIO.
With the changes in Congress and the presidency, and a tougher budget environment ahead, companies will have to be even more flexible and agile to maintain growth during the coming years.
The politically charged issue of illegal immigration has entered the federal procurement arena, and the result likely will be a new compliance obligation for many contractors, along with workforce turnover for those employing illegal aliens.
To keep prices stable on its Multiple Award Schedules contracts, GSA should continue to rely on pre-award audits as much as pricing policies, GAO officials told a Multiple Award Schedule Advisory Panel this week.
L-1 Identity Solutions has won a contract from the State Department to issue border-crossing cards as part of an expansion to the U.S. Passport Card program.
Two senators have alleged that FEMA officials are ignoring a potential conflict of interest and other possible ethics violations with regard to the multimillion-dollar contract.
The federal government's regulations on organizational conflicts of interest in contracting need to be restructured to avoid a "one-size-fits-all" approach, PSC has recommended.
The chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee requested information on 14 concerns about the outsourcing of management of TSA's Integrated Hiring Operations and Personnel Program.
The FBI must establish more stringent controls over contractor expenses on the $425 million Sentinel automated case-management system to keep close tabs on project costs, government auditors say.
