A leading Democratic representative says the latest round of grants to protect U.S. urban areas is insufficient to guard those most threatened by terrorist attacks.
Improvement in the performance and reliability of face recognition biometrics is likely to encourage further deployment of the technology, a consulting firm predicts.
The FBI must delay taking Trilogy, its enterprisewide investigative system, fully live because Computer Sciences Corp. has missed a delivery deadline for a component of the final phase. GSA's Federal Systems Integration Management Center, the contracting agency for the project, announced the delay Nov 3.
Electronic Data Systems Corp. has won three task orders totaling more than $51 million from Sytel Inc., to help support the Department of Homeland Security Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement's Starlight program.
Boeing Co. was selected by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey to implement a Department of Homeland Security Operation Safe Commerce pilot program.
The federal government should move quickly to set interoperability standards so that emergency communications and public safety agencies can coordinate effective responses to terrorist attacks and disasters, according to research released this week.
The Homeland Security Department released the request for information this week for Project Safecom, the initiative to connect wireless first-responder systems across federal, state and local agencies.
Rep. Tom Davis, R-Va., is asking whether the General Services Administration's e-authentication initiative will be completed by March, and how the project's delays are affecting other e-government initiatives.
The exchange of information between the Defense and Homeland Security departments is essential to national security, but the departments still are struggling to share information within their organizations, government officials said Oct. 22 at the Federal Information Assurance Conference at the University of Maryland in College Park.
The government's plan for giving limited liability protection to homeland security products and services is coming under fire from contractors and some lawmakers, who said the government is unnecessarily requesting detailed information about the companies and their products.
A new report warns that the government's planned effort to overhaul its border controls could easily run over budget and suffer lengthy delays, but that isn't scaring off contractors eyeing the big-ticket project. "What we saw, what we wanted to get on the record, was to make abundantly clear to everybody that this is fraught with risk. Get on top of it now, or face the consequences," said <b>Randall Hite</b>, GAO's director of information technology architecture and systems issues, who directed the report.
The Homeland Security Department awarded a three-year contract to International Biometric Group LLC for research into the effects of identity determination systems and processes on international travel, border management and homeland security.
In his debut speech as director of the new Homeland Security Advanced Research Projects Agency, David Bolka asked a packed house to help the agency hire technology experts and leaders. "This is a great opportunity for recruitment," he said Monday.
