The homeland security market is expected to be worth $85 billion by 2014 across federal, state and local, intelligence agencies, and private-sector organizations.
Vendors are looking over changes that the Homeland Security Department plans for a contracting vehicle that its agencies have used to buy information technology worth billions.
Business analytics software and services company SAS has acquired Memex, a provider of intelligence management solutions with a strong presence in the law enforcement and homeland security markets.
Computer Sciences Corp. will help the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services manage its electronic records by conducting scanning, indexing and file management operations at a CIS records digitization facility.
Verizon and the Utilities Telecommunications Council energy trade group in September will issue a report on a study they're doing to determine the communications and information technology needed to support the nation's utilities.
The Homeland Security Department's SBInet border surveillance system is likely to be reduced in scope once the first initial 53 miles of construction is completed, the system's chief said today.
Science Applications International Corp. will help the Air Force improve the service's overhead intelligence gathering efforts under a five-year follow-on contract potentially worth more than $49 million.
The Transportation Security Administration wants information on products it could use to deal with insider cyber threats, data leakage and misuse of IT assets.
Northrop Grumman Corp. will provide operational support for the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s regional preparedness exercises under a 20-month, $5.5 million task order.
The Defense Department is considering deploying the Einstein network protection systems to private-sector networks to protect the nation's critical infrastructure.
Hewlett-Packard Corp. will help the Homeland Security Department speed internal processing of immigration status under a $41.6 million DHS Eagle contract.
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Guident will provide emergency management assistance to the Environmental Protection Agency under a two-year task order that could be worth as much as $8 million.
The National Treasury Employees Union has complained to Congress that Federal Protective Service relies far too much on private contractors armed with too little training, too little funding, and too little proper management to protect federal buildings.
