The Homeland Security Department wants to streamline its IT infrastructure and clean up its network backbone, and its wants the integrator community to work together to meet the challenge.
The Center for Commercialization of Advanced Technology awarded grants worth about $260,000 to five companies and individuals to develop homeland security technologies.
Battelle Memorial Institute continues fielding calls about its Disaster Management Interoperability Service, a network backbone for connecting first responders that has quietly gained nationwide acceptance over the past year.
The security of the nation's ports is shifting from chain link fences and barbed wire to computers and other high-tech solutions as more ports modernize their facilities.
PEC Solutions Inc. won a $14.1 million contract from the Justice Department's Executive Office for Immigration Review to provide management services and information technology support for the agency's eWorld project.
Battelle Memorial Institute today demonstrated its Disaster Management Interoperability Service, a network backbone for connecting first responders that has quietly gained nationwide acceptance over the past year.
Market opportunity will be driven by dedicated short-range communications, like e-toll collection, and homeland security initiatives for logistical management and tracking and control.
BEA Systems North America Inc. and Northrop Grumman Corp. have received contracts to develop and test prototype systems for protecting commercial aircraft from shoulder-fired missiles.
A Senate committee's proposal for the Homeland Security Department's budget would increase spending in fiscal 2005 by 9.4 percent, a market researcher says.
The Homeland Security Department is moving forward on three IT procurements that will fill major needs for interoperable communications, general IT functions and advanced baggage screening systems.
ManTech International Corp. has won a five-year, $3.3 million contract from the Environmental Protection Agency to design, develop and implement a national security information program for the agency.
The Security and Transportation Technology division of Science Applications International Corp. will upgrade the Port of Miami's security gate facilities, officials of the San Diego company said today.
The Government Accountability Office today released a report acknowledging the progress the Homeland Security Department has made in developing an enterprise architecture but criticizing the blue print for lacking sufficient detail.
