What has changed since Sept. 11, 2001? There are the obvious answers: federal employees in airport screening lines, memorable declines in market capitalization of public companies, demise of the worst of the dot-com hucksters and the most widespread attack by government lawyers on federal civil rights in more than half a century.
The Senate is expected to take up legislation establishing a Department of Homeland Security this month. The House has already passed its version of the legislation, called the Homeland Security Act of 2002.
Just two weeks before Sept. 11, a team of employees from SRA International Inc. handed over control to the Navy of a command center the team had built.
IBM Corp., in partnership with federal, state and local public safety and transportation agencies, will build a public safety and data communications network for the Washington metropolitan region.
The nation's governors have developed a unified homeland security strategy intended to strengthen coordination between federal and state efforts and reduce the vulnerability of states to terrorist attacks.
After a year of continuous construction, the section of the Pentagon destroyed Sept. 11, 2001, stands ready to reopen officially on the anniversary of the terrorist attacks.
Sept. 11, 2001 - 8:46 a.m. American Flight 11 hits the north tower of World Trade Center. 9:05 a.m. - United Flight 175 hits the south tower. 9:38 a.m. - American Flight 77 hits the Pentagon.
After American Airlines Flight 77 crashed into the Pentagon, Veridian Corp.'s employees rushed to the windows at their Pentagon City headquarters, where they could see the smoke rising into the sky. Many were ex-military, and they watched, frustrated, champing at the bit for a chance to strike back.
The Pentagon fires were still burning when Tom Buonforte and his team at General Dynamics Network Systems began sifting through the rubble, trying to figure out how they would rebuild the computer and telecommunications networks in the damaged wing.
PeopleSoft Inc. has developed two new homeland security solutions to assist government and higher education organizations, the company announced at its software user conference in New Orleans.
The Homeland Security Act (H.R. 5005) passed by the House in July is a massive piece of legislation that not only will restructure the government, it will reshape dealings between government and the private sector on a variety of security-related issues.
For the second time in two weeks, the Bush administration has asked federal agencies targeted for the Department of Homeland Security to halt IT spending with an eye toward consolidating duplicative investments as the new department is set up.
Government officials are optimistic Congress will approve the president's request for a $45 million e-government fund in the fiscal 2003 budget this fall.
The administration's e-government strategy got a strong endorsement from the Senate last month, when the chamber approved a comprehensive e-government bill.
How big is the e-government opportunity for integrators? Judging by the $5 million the White House is spending on its much-ballyhooed 24 initiatives, not very. But those projects are just the tip of the iceberg ? models and catalysts for more ambitious, big-dollar programs on the horizon. We uncover real opportunities for making money.
Information sharing and data mining are integral IT components of the White House's newly released national strategy for homeland security, said Steve Cooper, chief information officer of the Homeland Security Office. Three pilot projects have already been identified by the office to ramp up new technologies, he said.
Industry and government officials are responding with mixed feelings to the July 19 freeze on selected information technology infrastructure and modernization projects imposed by Office of Management and Budget Director Mitch Daniels Jr.
Northrop Grumman Corp., Los Angeles, and Lockheed Martin Corp., Bethesda, Md., have both been awarded contracts worth up to $35 million each to develop electro-optical equipment for the Defense of U.S. Aircraft System.
