The Homeland Security Department cannot yet guarantee that its top-secret intelligence systems are out of reach from hackers, according to a new report from the department's inspector general, Richard Skinner.
The federal government's ineffective response to Hurricane Katrina was partly a failure of technology, according to a critical report released by a House Select Committee.
The Homeland Security Department has been so slow in assessing and testing basic system security and privacy controls for the U.S. Visit system that it may be jeopardizing the success of the program, according to the Government Accountability Office.
More than a dozen U.S. IT companies are interested in bidding on the United Kingdom's proposed biometric national identity card scheme, according to anew report by a U.K. non-profit environmental advocacy group.
The Defense Interoperability Communication Exercise 2006 started last week to test communications equipment and systems for use among DOD services and agencies and with the Homeland Security Department and first responders.
The Homeland Security Department is determined to deploy advanced technology along U.S. borders to stem illegal immigration, drug smuggling and increasing violence against Border Patrol agents.
The Homeland Security Department's Secure Flight program to screen airline passengers against terrorist watch lists is "at serious risk" of being ineffective, according to a new report from the Government Accountability Office.
Of 65 million security alerts generated for the Homeland Security Department's WAN over three months, 6.5 million were "detect.misuse.porn" alerts that may be linked to employees accessing pornography, said a report from DHS inspector general Richard Skinner.
With all the attention on federal lobbying, it seemed like a good time to check the records on Homeland Security Department contractors. Of the firms holding the largest IT contracts, the lobbying leader is Northrop Grumman Corp., which spent $12.6 million in 2004, according to the Center for Public Integrity, a nonpartisan group monitoring political financing.
The White House is seeking a 21.2 percent increase in the IT budget for the Homeland Security Department in fiscal 2007, bringing the total to $4.41 billion, according to budget documents released by the Office of Management and Budget.
Robbins-Gioia LLC won a five-year, $112.5 million blanket purchase agreement from Customs and Border Protection to provide support for the agency's Office of Information Technology.
Secretary Michael Chertoff is expected today to ask for a 7 percent budget increase for the Homeland Security Department for fiscal 2007, raising the department's funding to $35.6 billion, according to budget documents to be released today.
A strengthened policy office with sweeping powers to unify program control is one of several recommendations made to Homeland Security secretary Michael Chertoff.
The newly formed federal information-sharing environment is at risk of losing steam because its director, John Russack, has resigned after only six months on the job, Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) said at a hearing yesterday.
The Homeland Security Department is looking for small businesses specializing in IT to help it create an Internet portal for department employees at locations in the Washington area.
Federal authorities furnished inadequate leadership, advance planning and logistics systems in response to Hurricane Katrina, congressional investigators reported today.
The Homeland Security Department is looking for vendors of interactive distance learning solutions to train as many as 40,000 customs and border patrol employees.
