Rep. Tom Davis (R-Va.) insists that the Real ID Act, which outlines standards for issuing new driver's licenses, does not amount to an unfunded mandate, despite what state governments may say.
Pinkerton Computer Consultants Inc. won a contract to provide data governance support to the Homeland Security Department's U.S. Visitor and Immigrant Status Indicator Technology Program Office.
Companies specializing in driver's licensing and biometrics see rich opportunities in helping states comply with the Real ID Act passed earlier this year. But new opportunities may be slow to come, as states crunch cost estimates and wait for the federal government to offer guidance on how they should comply.
One of the priorities for newly installed National Security Agency Director Lt. Gen. Keith Alexander likely will be to bring under control the huge cost overruns and long delays in the agency's Trailblazer IT modernization initiative.
Hurricane Katrina recovery efforts are drawing legions of IT experts to assist the Gulf Coast region with data restoration and business continuity services.
A passenger screening program slated to go into effect for a limited number of airlines this month is still floundering, according to a report released this week from the Justice Department's Office of the Inspector General.
Raytheon Co. has won contract from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's National Weather Service to provide operations and maintenance for a nationwide weather data analysis and dissemination system.
A task force of academics is calling for homeland-security technologies in cyberspace that comply with existing legal and policy limitations in physical space.
Legions of IT experts are in the Gulf Coast region offering data restoration and business continuity services, emergency communications and restoration of IT infrastructures.
The Federal Emergency Management Agency will use Lockheed Martin facilities at the Stennis Space Center as agency headquarters for coordinating relief and recovery operations.
Booz Allen Hamilton Inc. won a contract to provide systems engineering technical assistance to the Science and Technology Directorate of the Homeland Security Department.
The Army is rushing satellite communications equipment to the devastated Gulf Coast region as part of the federal government's response to Hurricane Katrina.
The Justice Department has released its first Fusion Center Guidelines making recommendations about the centers' governance, connectivity standards, databases and security.
The White House announced that Air Force Maj. Gen. Dale Meyerrose will be nominated to serve as the first CIO of the newly created Office of the Director of National Intelligence.
Moroccan authorities arrested Farid Essebar, 18, who went by the screen name "Diabl10," while the Turkish Interior Ministry's National Police arrested Attila Ekici, 21, known online as "coder."
Randall Larsen occasionally wreaks havoc on the nation with small pox outbreaks, terrorist strikes that drive oil prices up to $154 a barrel, and anthrax attacks on our food supply.
Systems integrators should gear up for a busy 2006 as the federal government makes plans for major contracts from the Defense, Homeland Security, Justice and Veteran Affairs departments as well as the General Services Administration.
A little-noticed provision in Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff's reorganization plan for the agency creates a higher profile for telecommunications security, yet also raises questions about how that mission will be defined.
