When it comes to IT consolidation projects, what works in the private sector doesn't always work for government agencies, a Homeland Security Department official said today.
A year after the government pulled together 22 different federal agencies under the aegis of the Homeland Security Department, IT directors are now zeroing in on eight priorities.
A group of IT vendors, government agencies and academic institutions today released specifications for a system that could help federal, state and local governments share sensitive homeland security data.
The challenge for first responders and other groups concerned with public safety is to determine which information sharing system is the best suited to their needs, an official says.
Booz Allen Hamilton Inc., Sytex Inc., Arrowhead Global Solutions Inc. and Communications Technologies Inc. had the ceiling on their contracts with the Homeland Security Department expanded by $108 million, taking the ceiling from $64.5 million to $172.5 million.
More details on the second version of the Homeland Security Department's enterprise architecture should become known over the next three months, a DHS official said earlier this month.
Unless state and local governments adhere to technical standards and protocols, they won't get any grant money from the Homeland Security Department, said Chief Information Officer Steve Cooper.
PricewaterhouseCoopers' federal practice has won a blanket purchase agreement from the Department of Homeland Security for a range of program and project management services.
The Department of Homeland Security sets up a task force to address concerns from local officials that they aren't receiving federal first-responder funds quickly enough.
Congressman wants assurances that border crossing cards are an acceptable substitute for the U.S. Visitor and Immigrant Status Indicator System at the border with Mexico.
The Homeland Security Department will issue approximately $6.9 billion in grant funding to state and local governments in 2004, according to a report released today by research firm Input Inc.<br>
The Homeland Security Department's Safecom program will release a broad agency announcement in the next 30 days for demonstration projects in wireless communications interoperability.
A homeland security program that guards 30 cities against possible biological attack represents the high standards the Homeland Security Department wants from its projects, an agency official said today.
