Secretary of Homeland Security Tom Ridge asked high-tech companies to keep making suggestions about technology solutions for securing the nation's borders and ports.
Secretary of Homeland Security Tom Ridge gave a pep talk to a thousand of his biggest fans at the Northern Virginia Technology Council's annual spring banquet, asking them to keep making suggestions about technology solutions for securing the nation's borders and ports.
The Homeland Security Department "is not constructed properly" to counter biological terrorism, said Dr. Tara O'Toole, director of the Johns Hopkins University Center for Civilian Biodefense Strategies.
Amid controversy over the burden that homeland security expenses have imposed on state and local governments, the Justice Department announced plans for a survey of international crime and terrorism.<br>
The Homeland Security Department is providing $165 million in grants to help state and local governments to better respond to hazard preparedness activities and emergency management.
The Homeland Security Department will develop and use an electronic database to track and protect the information companies and other organizations voluntarily submit about the nation's critical infrastructure. Protecting the information is required under the Homeland Security Act of 2002.
State and local governments can improve their ability to respond to terrorist attacks by conducting exercises, much like the military does, using simulations to test joint operations and plan for war, a panel of homeland security experts said at the midyear conference of the National Association of State Chief Information Officers in Pittsburgh.
President Bush today signed a supplemental budget bill allotting $79 billion for the war on terrorism. The bill provides funding for Operation Iraqi Freedom, international assistance and Iraqi relief and reconstruction, and homeland security.
Computer Sciences Corp. won the first task order, for mainframe support, under the Starlight contract, a multi-year program worth up to $1.2 billion. The task order, worth $36.1 million over five years, was awarded this month by the Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, formerly part of the Immigration and Naturalization Service.
The Center for Commercialization of Advanced Technology is soliciting industry, government labs and academia for new technologies that can be used in homeland defense, the center announced April 15. It will supply funds and expertise to winning applicants so they can bring their technologies to a wider market, including the Defense Department and civil homeland security agencies.
The Department of Homeland Security will provide an additional $100 million from the fiscal 2003 budget to seven major urban areas to strengthen their ability to respond to possible terrorist attacks, the department announced Tuesday.
In response to criticism from some members of Congress that states aren't spending first-responder funds in a timely fashion, the nation's governors are calling for reforms to the funding process.
Rep. Mac Thornberry, R-Texas, was named chairman of the new House Homeland Security subcommittee on Cybersecurity, Science and Research and Development. Rep Zoe Lofgren, D-Calif., was named ranking minority member.
At Anniston Army Depot, more than 2,600 employees perform maintenance on combat vehicles and their components, as well as weapons, including land combat missiles and small arms. Software is helping them do it more efficiently.
Unisys Corp. and the Transportation Security Administration IT teams are deploying integrated Internet-ready applications throughout airports, seaports and other TSA-run facilities
Administration officials sought to reassure information technology industry executives that the federal government has not lost its focus on cybersecurity during a Capitol Hill forum today.
