The Homeland Security Department announced today it has finished on schedule installing biometric entry capabilities at the nation's 104 land border ports.
The Homeland Security Department's Chief Information Officer doesn't have the authority to integrate the department's IT infrastructure throughout, according to the DHS inspector general.
The Homeland Security Department is working with the departments of Defense and State, the FBI and the Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and Technology as well as technology vendors to develop a new generation of 10-finger "slap capture" units for fingerprint collection.
Pragmatics Inc. won a $4 million task order from the Justice Department to provide systems engineering, design and development for the system that helps federal law enforcement agencies electronically book, identify and share data about people in federal custody.
The FBI faces special risks in developing the Sentinel case management system because it plans to do so at the same time that it is rolling out its new enterprise architecture, according to a letter issued this week by Government Accountability Office auditors.
The Homeland Security Department's Transportation Security Administration is soliciting plans for a reborn Registered Traveler program, in a possible bid to expand the five-airport pilot that bloomed last year and faded this fall.
The Senate is seeking vendors to help it establish a portable credentialing and identification system that will produce photo ID badges linked to a database containing information about the badge holder.
A new report from the Homeland Security Department's inspector general concludes that DHS' border surveillance procurement has been marred by delays, cost overruns and ineffective oversight.
The General Services Administration took an important step toward getting the blanket purchase agreement in place by May 2006 for agencies to buy approved products and services to meet Homeland Security Presidential Directive-12.
Greg Giddens, a former Coast Guard Deepwater program official, has been appointed as chief of the Homeland Security Department's program management office for the Secure Border Initiative, the department has confirmed.
The Transportation Security Administration is seeking help in implementing two of its biometric ID card programs?one for pre-screened airport passengers and another for transportation workers.
The federal government's biennial Top Officials exercise for homeland security would be more effective if IT systems were developed to track and share information more openly and efficiently among participating agencies and with the private sector, according to a new report from the Homeland Security Department Inspector General Richard Skinner.
The immigration bill expected to begin House debate this week contains a controversial provision that would dramatically expand use of a Homeland Security Department IT program that employers use to verify Social Security numbers for prospective employees.
ManTech International Corp. won a five-year, $10.5 million contract from the Transportation Security Administration to provide analytic services for the vetting of non-U.S. citizens who request flight training in the United States.
