The House of Representatives voted overwhelmingly, 425-2, to approve $29.4 billion for the first full budget of the Department of Homeland Security, but companies in the federal information technology sector should not expect major new IT initiatives to begin soon.
<font color="CC0000> UPDATED </font> Bureaucratic red tape and a lack of standards have resulted in woefully inadequate funding for first responders, according to a study released Monday by the Council on Foreign Relations.
Sen. Susan Collins is asking for an investigation to determine if government employees have been getting tuition reimbursement for credentials received from unaccredited organizations.
The Labor Department knew Laura Callahan, its former deputy chief information officer, had suspect credentials, but took no action, according to letter from a congressman pushing an investigation of Callahan and the use of diploma mills by government officials.
The House Government Reform Committee wants the General Accounting Office to investigate whether the government is able to prevent civil servants from using inflated academic credentials to advance their careers.
Military commanders want to see where their troops and equipment are at all times. Tax bureaus want to flag suspicious returns when they are filed. The Homeland Security Department wants to assemble data from numerous sources to pinpoint where terrorists might strike.
Ten states will receive a portion of nearly $400 million in grants from the Department of Homeland Security to enhance response and preparedness capabilities.
The Department of Homeland Security today placed a senior official on administrative leave while officials continue to investigate reports that she got her academic degrees from a diploma mill in Wyoming.
Two House members have asked the Office of Personnel Management to explain or create provisions the agency has to guard against federal employees embellishing their resumes with degrees from diploma mills.
The Homeland Security Department's Science and Technology Directorate has received more than 500 e-mail messages to science.technology@dhs.gov, many offering research proposals for homeland security projects, Charles McQueary, the department's undersecretary for science and technology, told the House Select Committee on Homeland Security.
Frank McDonough, longtime systems policy-maker with the General Services Administration, has taken a job with the consulting firm Guerra, Kiviat, Flyzik and Associates of Oak Hill, Va.
Several members of Congress are seeking to learn how background checks and security clearances failed to flag the questionable academic credentials of a senior official at the Department of Homeland Security.
A senate committee chairwoman today turned up the heat on the Homeland Security Department's investigation of a senior government career official's claim of a Ph.D. from a Wyoming university that, according to its literature, requires no attendance and scant course work.
Nine in 10 Americans think today's students may not have the math and science skills required for homeland security and economic leadership in the 21st century, according to a new survey.
