While Seattle sleeps, port officials in Puget Sound are on their second cup of double-jolt espresso, keeping cargo safe in the nation's third-largest center for containerized imports and exports.
The four companies that have received limited legal liability protection from the Homeland Security Department for an anti-terrorism product or service have an advantage that their competitors don't: assurance that they won't be sued for unlimited damages if a terrorist attack causes their technologies to fail.
Nearly three years after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, federal, state and local agencies are still deciding how best to collaborate and share vital information. The good news: emerging cooperative efforts such as the one engineered by this team from Science Applications International Corp., which negotiated the sharing of health data.
Winning the Homeland Security Department's multibillion-dollar U.S. Visit contract May 28 ? one of the largest federal IT projects ever ? is just the start of the battle for Accenture LLP.
Unisys Corp. acquired Baesch Computer Consulting Inc., which provides software and systems engineering to the federal defense and intelligence communities.
L-3 Communications Corp. won a three-year task order to provide mission support and information technology for the multibillion-dollar U.S. Visit program.
A coalition of public safety and health organizations is sponsoring a program to create an electronic directory of the nation's first responders and emergency personnel.
The Homeland Security Department is moving forward on major contracts to build a human resources system and a financial management system for the agency.
The Homeland Security Department and two congressional supporters are rallying around Accenture Ltd. and defending the decision to award the U.S. Visit contract to a company headquartered outside the United States.
NCI Information Systems Inc. of Reston, Va., has won six contracts worth a total of more than $7 million in the intelligence, defense and homeland security arenas.
