State chief information officers want Congress to prod the Homeland Security Department into developing a state cybersecurity assessment and strategy process.
Edward Hammersla isn't bothered by the prospect of handing over his name and birth date to airport screeners under the Homeland Security Department's new "Secure Flight" passenger screening program that launches this summer.
IT industry representatives are urging the Senate to reject a provision approved by the House requiring the Homeland Security Department to use primarily U.S.-made components in all products it buys.
The National Institute of Standards and Technology has released a request for proposals for key components of a crowd-behavior simulation model prototype.
Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff suggested the private IT sector could help develop and operate traveler screening databases for the government.
Science Applications International Corp. will provide consulting services to the Homeland Security Department's Office of State and Local Government Coordination and Preparedness.
The House has approved $34.2 billion for the Homeland Security Department and its programs, paving the way for fuller congressional oversight of the department.
The California Senate has approved the first legislation in the country to block state and local government agencies from issuing identification cards containing radio frequency identification tags.
The House of Representatives has approved a $31.9 billion budget for the Homeland Security Department in fiscal 2006, and is preparing to pass the first legislation to authorize the department since it was created in 2002.
The Center for Commercialization of Advanced Technology announced a solicitation to help fast-track commercialization of technologies for the Defense and Homeland Security departments.
Most homeland security IT initiatives may be near completion for federal agencies governmentwide, according to the new 2005 Federal IT Marketing Report.
The Defense Information Systems Agency is in the market for enterprise tools to sift through the hundreds of terabytes of security-related data it collects.
Researchers contend the U.S. Visitor and Immigrant Status Indicator Technology program's method for matching fingerprints with images may have a detection probability of only 53 percent.
The vast majority of the nation's 361 seaports will not be eligible for funding from the Port Security Grant program from the Homeland Security Department under new risk-based eligibility rules.
The Defense Department will release a request for proposals to obtain technologies that would add bandwidth to the Defense Information Systems Network.
<font color="CC0000">(UPDATED) </font color>The FBI is poised to launch what it calls the Sentinel project, a procurement that will build, among other things, a case management system to replace the defunct Virtual Case File project, officials said.
The FBI is poised to launch what it calls the Sentinel project, a procurement that will build, among other things, a case management system to replace the defunct Virtual Case File project, officials said.
