The measures are designed to strengthen cyber security, promote greater sharing of unclassified information and prevent the over-classification of information.
Phone calls made over VoIP to 911 numbers will have the same access and protections as other 911 technologies under a measure recently signed by President Bush.
DHS has announced a total of $1.8 billion in grants, primarily to states and cities, to fund equipment, training and exercises for terrorism preparedness.
The Transportation Security Administration will expand Registered Traveler to all U.S. airports beginning next week and eliminate a TSA-conducted screening that it considers duplicative.
A new enterprise software licensing program will help knock down barriers to information sharing, while saving agencies money, said ODNI's associate director of national and CIO.
L-1 Identity Solutions has won a contract from the State Department to issue border-crossing cards as part of an expansion to the U.S. Passport Card program.
Two senators have alleged that FEMA officials are ignoring a potential conflict of interest and other possible ethics violations with regard to the multimillion-dollar contract.
The chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee requested information on 14 concerns about the outsourcing of management of TSA's Integrated Hiring Operations and Personnel Program.
U.S. Genomics Inc. is developing a sophisticated biological sensor that detects airborne pathogens and improves national security under contract from DHS.
The Senate Appropriations Committee's fiscal 2009 spending bill would give the Coast Guard funds to hire additional acquisition employees to help oversee the Deepwater program.
Information technology security gaps created a material weakness in the U.S. Customs and Border Protection financial audit statements for fiscal 2007, according to a report released by the Homeland Security Inspector General Richard Skinner.
Unisys has filed a protest with GAO objecting to being left off the list of finalist bidders for the estimated $2 billion contract for TSA's Information Technology Infrastructure Program.
The management consulting firm will assist the Coast Guard's Logistics Transformation Program Integration Office by providing services aimed at improving logistics operations.
