Retailers are among industry groups being invited to join a recent incarnation of the federal Homeland Security Information Network (HSIN) intended for critical infrastructure owners and operators and designed to share unclassified information to guard against terrorism.
The number and sophistication of potential weapons such as password-cracking software, viruses and worms, key loggers and spyware demonstrate the risk, according to Chet Hosmer.
L-3 Communications Inc. today rebutted allegations by the inspector general of the General Services Administration that a company it owns mishandled a federal contract to install and integrate surveillance cameras and sensors along U.S. borders.
The Homeland Security Department has awarded a contract for Oracle Corp. software and services initially worth $23 million under the General Services Administration's SmartBuy program.
A Senate Appropriations subcommittee has approved a $30.8 billion budget for the Homeland Security Department for fiscal 2006?a cut of 3.5 percent from the $31.9 billion departmental budget passed by the House last month.
Officials in Europe now expect the United States to ease its requirement that all 27 visa-waiver countries begin issuing biometric passports by Oct. 26.
A new report from the Justice Department's inspector general said the government's center for consolidating information from various terrorist watch lists has suffered from poor IT management.
The Homeland Security Department is looking for ideas on how to launch a major enterprise-level Identity Management Project for its 180,000 employees, as well as for state, local and federal contractors and officials.
VeriSign Inc. said it has been approved by the Defense Department to issue digital certificates required for anyone who wants access to protected government Web sites and applications.
The Homeland Security Department is not adequately prepared to recover its IT systems following a disaster, according to DHS acting Inspector General Richard Skinner.
Four companies will share an indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity contract to provide engineering and technical services to the Air Force Operational Test and Evaluation Center.
A group of emergency management agencies and IT industry representatives, including the Federal Emergency Management Agency, are moving to refine their Extensible Markup Language protocol for emergency public warnings.
NEC Solutions America Inc. has entered into a partnership with Tropos Networks Inc. to provide wireless mobile data systems to police, fire and emergency medical personnel.
Major homeland security IT contracts awarded to Northrop Grumman, Accenture and Unisys are among IT programs coming under scrutiny by Homeland Security's Office of the Inspector General.
The Homeland Security Department will consolidate more than 20 portals and 150 Web sites into one enterprise portal serving the entire agency ? just as soon as commercial software catches up with its needs.
The Defense Department is trying to use its latest round of recommended base closures and realignments to consolidate operations and support Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld's transformation goals.
By federal standards, a $38 million price tag for a computer networking project is relatively small. But the Homeland Security Department's plan to expand information networks at its operations center next year could bring a substantial payoff to contractors down the road.
President Bush's decision to place Director of National Intelligence John Negroponte in charge of the Information Sharing Environment will reduce the powers of Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff, one critic says.
Harris Corp. won a $6.6 million research and development contract from the Army Communications-Electronics Command to develop and demonstrate the Jigsaw Laser Radar 3D-imaging test-bed system for use on an unmanned aerial vehicle.
