A lack of clear strategies and concepts of operation is one of the major barriers holding up progress in information-sharing within homeland security, Martin Smith, director of information sharing for the Homeland Security Department's Office of the Chief Information Officer, writes in a new report.
Transportation Security Administration officials made misleading statements in 2003 and 2004 about their collection and transfer of personal information on 12 million airline passengers in order to test a new screening system, according to a report by DHS's inspector general.
Cars paying electronically as they zip through a toll booth might be just the tip of the iceberg of the many ways state and local governments can use radio frequency identification technology.
At the sentencing of former Boeing Co. executive Mike Sears, who pled guilty for his role in the Darleen Druyun case, U.S. Attorney Paul McNulty announced the formation of a new procurement-fraud task force. This is just the latest example of how ethics in government contracting has drawn the spotlight as never before.
The prospect of people carrying many different biometric identification smart cards, each recognized by a single workplace or venue, doesn't seem so smart.<p> That's why the federal government is nudging ? some say pushing ? the biometrics industry toward greater interoperability, to make the cards scannable by multiple systems.
The House Government Reform Committee is investigating whether the special regulations giving Alaska Native corporations an edge in federal contracting are benefiting the government or Alaska natives.
Two years ago, Congress gave a new IT contracting vehicle a boost by including it in the E-Government Act of 2002. Share-in-savings contracts were supposed to revolutionize government IT procurements by unleashing contractor creativity and entrepreneurial spirit.
The Bush administration's dramatic boost in IT spending at the Homeland Security department may be a signal that the sprawling, two-year-old department is ready to consolidate some of its major programs and systems.
If you're a government contractor, you might want to consider what your office design conveys to your clients, according to Joseph Boggs of Boggs & Partners Architects Inc. of Annapolis, Md.
By Joseph Boggs, Partners Architects Inc. and Lead design architect at Boggs
Source: CDW-G Inc., based on a survey of government and industry executives attending the Information Processing Interagency Conference in early March in Orlando, Fla.
Congress is considering giving the Homeland Security Department secretary authority to loosen privacy regulations with an eye to creating a national identification card, a move the DHS privacy chief opposes.
The General Services Administration is combing the Federal Supply Service's IT schedule for smart-card vendors whose products and services meet a new governmentwide standard.
The State Department and the Government Printing Office in the next few weeks will decide which and how many companies will provide electronic passports for U.S. citizens.
The Homeland Security Department has spent $1 billion on the Automated Commercial Environment, but delays and defects have muddled its deployment, a new Government Accountability Office report said.
The coastal communication system is at risk for spiraling costs and schedule slippage because it requires hundreds of coastline towers to be built on environmentally sensitive sites.
Criticism of the General Services Administration's planning for the Networx telecommunications contract could force the agency to delay the awards beyond their April 2006 schedule.
The Department of Homeland Security's plan to combine nine major screening programs under one office makes sense on paper, but it's got a lot of contractors worried about what it means for programs.
