The Homeland Security Department has awarded a contract to Rapiscan Systems Inc. to develop a radiation detection system to identify radioactive materials in cargo and vehicles.
Fingerprint scans for all 10 fingers for new visitors, an assistant secretary post for cybersecurity and reorganization moves are all part of DHS Secretary Michael Chertoff's plan for revamping the department.
The Homeland Security Department's Citizenship and Immigration Services agency soon will unveil major acquisitions that will reshape its technology and business processes, according to CIO Terrazzia Martin.
The White House is objecting to language in the Senate Homeland Security Appropriations bill that eliminates funding for the use of commercial databases in the department's Secure Flight passenger screening program at airports.
The Homeland Security Department is showing major weaknesses in ensuring information security for its computer systems, according to a new Government Accountability Office report.
Cybersecurity spending is the fastest-growing category of homeland security spending for 2005 through 2010, according to a new Frost & Sullivan report.
A top European Union official is proposing a $165 million (?140 million) critical infrastructure protection budget for Europe for 2007 through 2013 ? a sum that is only a fraction of what the U.S. plans to spend.
Computer Sciences Corp. won a five-year, $71 million contract from the Naval Sea Systems Command to provide program management and ship systems engineering support for the Navy's DD(X) Destroyer Class Program Office.
Members of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee are co-sponsoring legislation to authorize $3.9 billion to create a national architecture enabling first-responder agencies to communicate wirelessly.
Data-mining technology used in the Computer Aided Passenger Prescreening System II program should have been more closely scrutinized to ensure it protected privacy before it was granted full protection from legal liability, according to Rep. Martin Olav Sabo.
The Electronically Managing Enterprise Resources for Government Effectiveness and Efficiency program was supposed to create a new financial backbone for DHS.
The California Assembly next week will begin considering a partial ban on radio frequency identification that would allow its use for certain types of identification cards.
Several senators are co-sponsoring legislation to authorize $3.9 billion for a national architecture to enable wireless communication among first-responder agencies.
<font color="CC0000">(UPDATED) </font>Scott Charbo, the CIO at the Agriculture Department since September 2002, will replace Steve Cooper, who left in April to become the CIO and executive vice president of the American Red Cross.
The new ID cards will be interoperable smart cards that can be used across agencies, and will incorporate a common set of identity proofing and issuing standards and technologies.
Creating a new Domestic Nuclear Detection Office that reports to the Homeland Security secretary is a "stovepiped" strategy that is likely to undermine DHS' existing scientific research, according to Sen. Joseph Lieberman (D-Conn.).
