Bioscrypt Inc., a provider of identity verification technology, announced that its Bioscrypt Core algorithm has been licensed by 3M-AiT for use in the Belizean Machine-Readable Passport System.
Several state and local jurisdictions have established intelligence centers to fuse terrorist threat information from multiple sources and different levels of government.
SI International Inc. of Reston, Va., completed its $75 million acquisition of Shenandoah Electronic Intelligence Inc., a contractor with strong ties to the Homeland Security Department.
The Homeland Security Department this month began an evaluation of technologies and vendor products as it prepares for a March request for proposals for its enterprise portal initiative.
The nation's top cybersecurity official does not have to have an office in the White House to be effective, said Jamie Gorelick, former Justice Department official and member of the 9-11 Commission.
A new baggage-screening system unveiled at the Demo@15 Conference is hailed as "the most important product to take the Demo stage" in the trade show's 15-year history.
Although President Bush's fiscal 2006 budget proposal calls for a 7.7 percent bump in spending at the Homeland Security Department to $41.1 billion, it also demands that DHS take steps to consolidate systems.
The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network will launch a system March 1 so law enforcement and financial institutions can transmit information about people they suspect of financing terrorist activities or laundering money
Over the next six weeks, the Homeland Security Department will start evaluating technologies and vendor products in preparation for a March request for proposals for its enterprise portal initiative.
Asa Hutchinson, who was the first undersecretary for border and transportation security, is leaving the Homeland Security Department March 1. He is among more than a dozen senior DHS officials recently to leave the agency.
"An error of misconfiguration" at the Energy Department exposed dozens of sensitive Homeland Security Department documents on a public Internet site for several days, according to an Energy Department spokesman.
State and local governments will concentrate this year on improving how they collect, analyze and use threat information on terrorism, according to the members of a homeland security panel speaking at a conference in Washington this week.
President Bush last night gave a nod to two federal IT initiatives in his fifth State of the Union address: the federal health IT architecture and the government's entry-exit system.
The National Institute of Standards and Technology today will release specifications that will firm up biometric plans for governmentwide personal-identity-verification cards.
Thales e-Security Inc. is finishing work on an encryption appliance to secure legacy process control systems that regulate much of the nation's critical infrastructure.
Because of an apparent security glitch at the Energy Department, dozens of sensitive Homeland Security Department documents have been available on a public Internet site for several days.
The Homeland Security Department yesterday announced that undersecretary for border and transportation security Asa Hutchinson would leave his post on March 1.
The Senate Appropriations subcommittee on Commerce, Justice and State likely will hold hearings Feb. 3 on the FBI's Virtual Case File project, a troubled $170 million project that the Justice Department's IG called a failure.
Michael Chertoff, the appeals court judge nominated by President Bush to become Homeland Security Department secretary, was an early advocate of using data mining to pinpoint terrorists.
