Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Homeland Security secretary Michael Chertoff detail a joint strategy for strengthening technology at the border, expediting travel and beefing up counterterrorism programs.
Many IT contractors for the Homeland Security Department have seen new initiatives bogged down by policy issues and political concerns. Four persistent policy questions are likely to affect major upcoming IT programs in 2006.
The Homeland Security Department's new preparedness unit is urging governors to take exhaustive precautions deemed necessary to protect state IT resources in the war on terrorism.
Open-source project leaders could use these results to fix software defects, while agency and critical infrastructure IT shops could monitor them to evaluate or take corrective action on applications.
The Homeland Security Department unit that supervises 12,000 security guards at federal buildings is looking to create a comprehensive electronic dispatch system for the first time.
The General Services Administration is seeking information to help agencies meet identity credentialing standards under Homeland Security Presidential Directive 12 Federal Information Processing Standard 201.
The Homeland Security Department has awarded a grant for a daily audit of major open source software to Coverity Inc., Stanford University and Symantec Corp.
The North American market for biometric applications is expected to rise to $1.4 billion by 2008, nearly triple the $527 million generated in 2004, according to Frost & Sullivan.
The Transportation Security Administration plans to seek proposals for technical assistance with the Transportation Threat Assessment and Credentialing Screening Gateway.
Advanced Technology Systems Inc. won a five-year, $11.9 million contract from the Homeland Security Department to support the development of an integrated network for border patrol field agents.
The Homeland Security Department has published specifications for advanced video cameras it is looking to install along thousands of miles of Mexican and Canadian borders.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's recent proposal to set up a new passenger database to track possible disease vectors and bioterrorism outbreaks may overlap with other databases as well as raise privacy concerns.
A report released this week by the National Governors Association's Center for Best Practices calls on states to give public health more attention in homeland security planning.
Michael Daconta spent much of the last year revising the Federal Enterprise Architecture's Data Reference Model, becoming a central figure in shaping how agencies will share, categorize and describe data.
A federal judge has set aside the Government Printing Office's decision to eliminate On Track Innovations Ltd. from competing to provide radio-frequency identification tags for U.S. passport.
President Bush has appointed Jack Thomas Tomarchio, a former Army prosecutor and colonel in the Army reserve, as the principal deputy assistant secretary of Homeland Security for information analysis.
