The House passed legislation Thursday to redistribute $2 billion in first-responder grants in 2006 so that more funding goes to high-risk and border states such as New York and California, and less to states at low-risk of terrorist attacks.
Identix Inc. has won a contract from Missouri to provide statewide electronic fingerprinting services and related processing for licensing and employment purposes.
ObjectVideo Inc. won two contracts worth up to $3.2 million over the next three year to develop next-generation capabilities for intelligent video surveillance systems.
Advocates for open government and the environment are sounding alarms about a sweeping provision in the Iraq war supplemental bill, granting the Secretary of Homeland Security virtually unlimited authority to waive laws related to border construction.
European Union countries will create new IT systems and networks to integrate their management of cross-border travel and to jointly fight terrorism under a new five-year Action Plan for Freedom, Justice and Security.
L-3 Communications Security and Detection Systems has won a five-year, $250 million contract from the Transportation Security Administration to continue providing maintenance for explosive detection systems.
The Homeland Security Department's $337 million network for sharing top-secret data was developed in a rush, and as a result is inadequate and does not meet the needs of its users.
When Stephen O'Keeffe introduced members of the newly formed advisory board of the Chief Information Security Officers Exchange at an April 5 press conference, the initiative seemed to have all the elements for success.
When a homemade bomb explodes in downtown Baghdad, its reverberations are felt as far away as Fort Polk, La., where U.S. soldiers train for duty in Iraq. The lessons learned on the ground about how insurgents use improvised explosive devices are transmitted immediately to Fort Polk's Joint Readiness Training Center.
Six more products and services won Safety Act certifications and designations in April as the Homeland Security Department picks up the pace of approvals.
Congress is moving to clip the wings of the Homeland Security Department's CIO and punish the department for ignoring demands from lawmakers for information.
State Department officials are considering additional security measures as they prepare to implement new U.S. passports with embedded radio frequency identification chips.
State chief information officers want Congress to prod the Homeland Security Department into developing a formal state cybersecurity assessment and strategy process.
Strengthening federal-state relations and improving information sharing will top the agenda at the meeting of state chief information officers in Washington this week.
The Analysis Corp. won a five-year, $3.7 million contract from the State Department to provide critical homeland security-related information to embassies, consulates and border security officers.
Corporate chief executives must take individual and collective responsibility for the nation's cybersecurity, but they may need more management tools to do that effectively.
BAE Systems North America Inc. won a $3.3 million contract from the Coast Guard's Research and Development Center to build a port security alert system.
Florida is considering creating a successor to the controversial Multistate Anti-Terrorism Information Exchange law enforcement database that shut down April 15 after its federal funding expired.
