Claraview Inc. has won a contract from the Kentucky Education Department to provide services to support a data system that will help meet the requirements of the No Child Left Behind Act.
The FBI is seeking proposals to develop and integrate gang intelligence analysis and workflow capability for its National Gang Intelligence Center to support law enforcement.
The planned border-crossing ID card does not require strong privacy protections because the only data it can transmit wirelessly is a reference number, according to the director of NIST.
A GAO audit has warned that despite measures the FBI has implemented to tighten IT security, its critical networks for exchanging law enforcement data remain at risk.
An industry group is accusing NIST of failing to properly evaluate the technologies to be used in DHS' and State's upcoming border-crossing identification card.
IT experts intensified the controversy over the Real ID Act this week with warnings that the huge database required may never be secure from ID theft and privacy invasions.
DHS and DOJ have spent $893 million on information-sharing networks in the last two years but still do not have effective networks in place, GAO reported.
Terrorists are using the Internet to spread radical ideologies. Countering that movement will require sophisticated communications and online investigations, experts testified at a Senate hearing today.
Rep. Carolyn McCarthy is promoting her legislation to make improvements to a national database used to check potential gun buyers for criminal records or mental illness.
The Army will spend as much as $2.3 billion on its Future Combat Systems initiative in fiscal 2008 and hundreds of millions more on initiatives designed to better integrate its forces, a top Army official said.
Washington and other states should be more involved in choosing technologies for meeting the Real ID Act of 2005 requirements, according to an industry group.
