Forty-six U.S. cities should have interoperable communications in place for first responders by the end of 2007, Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff said Tuesday.
The Homeland Security Department will need a new, short-term bridging strategy if it wants to move quickly to achieve operational control of the U.S. southern border, two leading scholars recommend in a newly published memorandum.
Details of an emergency-responder electronic health record as another early use for health IT are being developed by the Health and Human Services Department.
The Homeland Security Department has made insufficient progress in developing its information-sharing network and common operating picture, two key senators wrote in a letter to Secretary Michael Chertoff this week.
The Homeland Security Department has been lax in following basic contracting rules, according to a private consultant's report obtained by the Washington Post.
Standards being developed for intelligence information sharing are expected to be fully incorporated into federal enterprise architecture reviews and budgets by fiscal 2009, according to a schedule submitted by National Intelligence Director John Negroponte.
A new report has found that federal agencies are not testing their security controls with any consistency or timeliness and may not be aware of the systems' weaknesses.
Plans for protecting the nation's critical information technology networks and systems are focused on developing resiliency and quick recovery, according to a new report.
The development and sharing of open-source information may be the first area where real collaboration among agencies in the intelligence community is accomplished.
DHS' upcoming Secure Border Initiative Network surveillance system is at risk of spiraling costs, delays and over-reliance on contractors, according to a new report</u></a>.
The Education Department met the Homeland Security Presidential Directive-12 Oct. 27 deadline, but now it wants to make issuing cards to employees simpler.
