A Defense Department-funded group that helps to accelerate commercializing military technologies is accepting applications from government laboratories, academic researchers and small entrepreneurs and businesses that have developed new technologies.
Raytheon Technical Services Company LLC won a contract from the Transportation Security Administration to deliver a system that communicates data and images to airports across the country.
McDonald Bradley Inc. won a contract from the Defense Intelligence Agency to work on a project that aims to improve intelligence data sharing and management across intelligence communities and the Defense Department.
The White House published an ambitious, new national space policy that lays out goals for exploration and addresses the need to enhance homeland security by collecting intelligence imagery using high-resolution government satellites.
IBM Corp. has been awarded the Interior Department's National Business Center's highly anticipated contract to provide Homeland Security Presidential Directive-12 services.
Congress included a drastically shortened version of the WARN Act emergency public warning legislation in the port security bill approved Sept. 30, according to a prominent emergency warning expert.
Computer systems that tracked 66,200 National Guard and civilian responders deployed after Hurricanes Katrina and Rita need to be improved and better integrated, according to a just-released 2005 Hurricane Season Response After-Action Report.
Homeland Security Department officials cited progress in securing IT systems across the sprawling organization and expressed confidence that the department would receive a passing grade for the first time in next year's federal IT security report card.
Northrop Grumman Corp. won a Homeland Security Department contract potentially worth $750 million over five years to scan and record the fingerprints of foreigners applying for U.S. residency and citizenship.
Merlin International Inc. plans to open a new facility for national security work with the federal government in February, as well as delve deeper into state and local government business, the company's president and chief executive officer said.
The sign must have said: "Only the hard-driving, logistically inspired and tech-savvy need apply," because that's who caught the brass ring this month.
