Registered Traveler will require applicants to provide 10 fingerprints, a facial photograph and an optional iris scan, according to a technical specification submitted by the Registered Traveler Interoperability Consortium.
The Government Accountability Office has closed Indus Corp.'s bid protest over the Homeland Security Department's multibillion-dollar Eagle contract for IT services.
The first large-scale test of the technology that will put Homeland Security Presidential Directive-12 into practice is slated to be in place by Oct. 20.
Nearly five years after 9/11, reports show the federal government has made limited progress on sharing terrorism information because of uncertainty about what to share, and how to do so without infringing on civil liberties.
President Bush's recent executive order to upgrade the nation's emergency warning system lays out an ambitious plan to coordinate a patchwork of federal, state and local alert systems.
Democrats on the House Homeland Security Committee charge that the Bush administration is failing to implement the technology-related recommendations of the 9/11 Commission and falling short on other homeland security priorities.
Democrats on the House Homeland Security Committee charge that the Bush administration is failing to implement the technology-related recommendations of the 9/11 Commission and falling short on other homeland security priorities.
Democrats on the House Homeland Security Committee charge that the Bush administration is failing to implement the technology-related recommendations of the 9/11 Commission and falling short on other homeland security priorities.
A little-publicized credentialing system is intended to assist in identifying which responders should be allowed to enter an incident scene after a natural disaster or terrorist attack.
Raytheon Co. officials today pledged to move quickly, offer the best value and use only proven technologies if they win the contract for the $2 billion Secure Border Initiative-Network border surveillance system from the Homeland Security Department.
In a move that will help push the company into the federal market, newly formed smart-card provider Gemalto N.V. will make Washington the headquarters for its North America operations and its security and identity line of business.
The federal government's final National Infrastructure Protection Plan fails to address matters of funding and concerns over protecting sensitive information, according to a new report
On June 20 DOT and DHS officials will run an exercise with less than 200 port workers and seafarers at ports in Baltimore, Jacksonville, Fla., and Norfolk, Va., to see how identification cards with different types of tokens work in disparate environments.
The retooled Web site reflects the department's philosophy gained in experiences with hurricanes and other disasters that a well-prepared citizenry can dramatically lighten the burden on first responders.
The Homeland Security Department would be required to set up a new IT system and database for tracking missing persons and reuniting families following major disasters under an amendment approved by the Senate last week.
The federal government should develop an "authorized use" standard to improve information-sharing in counterterrorism, according to the Markle Foundation Task Force on National Security in the Information Age.
