Training and simulation technology married with lessons learned in the Middle East over the past 18 months have improved dramatically ? enough to assist military forces set to deploy to Afghanistan later this year.
Yesterday fingerprint system vendors were told by officials of the Homeland Security Department's U.S. Visitor and Immigrant Status Indicator System program to modify their software and hardware in line with the government's evolving criteria.
L-3 Communications Inc. will supply the Transportation Security Administration with refreshed explosive detection systems through a contract worth $40 million.
The Homeland Security Department is forming an advisory panel to help improve its underused information-sharing network, which links the department to state and local agencies, according to a Federal Register notice.
