The Secure Border Initiative project is at its most tranquil stage right now. The bids are in, teams are in place. Everyone is talking about what they can do and why they can do it better than anyone else.
With billions of dollars, major corporate reputations and thousands of contracting jobs at stake, the Secure Border Initiative Network is off to a running start.
The state of Texas will spend $5 million to place hundreds of video cameras along its border with Mexico that will broadcast surveillance footage on the Internet to help prevent crime and illegal border crossings.
For the most part, DHS has failed in its mission to secure the country from attacks in a number of key security areas, said Clark Ervin, the department's former inspector general in a keynote speech at the Management of Change conference today.
Boeing Integrated Defense Systems will team with DRS Surveillance and Reconnaissance Group, Kollsman Inc., L-3 Government Services Inc., Perot Systems Corp. and Unisys Global Public Sector.
Two of the nation's largest federal contractors announced today that they have submitted separate proposals to build the Secure Border Initiative Network for the Homeland Security Department.
The federal government needs to apply a more integrated approach to declassifying records, a new report from the National Archives and Records Administration recommends.
ManTech International Corp. won a four-year, $7.1 million contract to support the Homeland Security Department's efforts in sharing information with its state, local and private sector partners.
Scott Charbo's appointment as acting undersecretary for management and the confirmations of three senior DHS appointees filled notable gaps in the senior ranks of a department that has wrestled with leadership turnover.
A centralized information network will be created to aggregate, store and distribute data to all entities participating in Registered Traveler, according to a new business model for the program released by the Transportation Security Administration.
As Congress prepares to approve increased funding for port security grants, contractors said the money is likely to pay for more comprehensive surveillance, domain awareness and information-sharing IT systems which, in many cases, systems integrators are installing.
When asked to offer his finger or palm for a biometric vein scan, Claudio Casuccio balks. "That's looking inside your body," Casuccio said. "It is very invasive, in my opinion." His view underscores the cultural differences that can arise as companies take their biometric solutions around the globe.
An internal advisory group within the Homeland Security Department is making incorrect generalizations about radio frequency identification technology and has offered no scientific evidence to back up its claims, according to an IT industry trade group.
Led by Northrop Grumman Corp., six of the nation's largest federal prime contractors have formed a team to pursue the Homeland Security Department's upcoming $2 billion Secure Border Initiative Network contract.
The Homeland Security Department has made little progress in recent years in improving its aging IT systems for tracking the detentions and removals of illegal aliens, according to a new report from DHS inspector general Richard L. Skinner.
The Homeland Security Department's controversial new border-crossing identification card initiative would be postponed for 17 months under an amendment adopted by the Senate this week, as part of the immigration reform package.
Federal agencies are falling short in protecting privacy when performing data mining, according to congressional testimony from a senior Government Accountability Office official.
The Homeland Security Department plans to request proposals for a Transportation Worker Identity Credential systems integrator soon, deputy secretary Michael P. Jackson said in testimony before the Senate.
