A year after the London terrorist bombings of July 7 and 21, 2005, the lessons learned have not all followed a straight track to security implementation.
The Office of Personnel Management tapped U.S. Investigative Services to provide back-office and administrative support for agency officials who perform background investigations on potential government employees and contractors.
Microsoft Corp. said it is working on a set of plug-ins that would allow Microsoft Office applications to open and save documents in the Open Document Format.
IBM Corp. will assist the province of Alberta, Canada, in deploying an electronic health records system under a contract worth $10 million over two years.
Technologies to be used in the Transportation Workers Identification Credential card program need more real-life testing, according to the American Association of Port Authorities (AAPA).
EMC Corp. will acquire RSA Security Inc., a provider of technology for protecting and managing identities and digital assets, for about $2.1 billion in cash.
State and local government IT executives said that price, service and response time are their most important criteria when making IT purchasing decisions, according to a recent survey.
A common thread runs through adverse events ranging from theft of a data-laden laptop to granting disaster housing money to prison inmates. That thread is poor data governance, according to the Data Governance Council.
<font color="CC0000">(Updated) </font>The Homeland Security Department has notified successful bidders for IT work under the multibillion-dollar Eagle acquisition that they will be able to start seeking work via task orders issued under the procurement tomorrow.
The federal government and private sector have not developed a coordinated plan for restoring the Internet and maintaining confidence in financial markets following a major breach in functioning, according to the Business Roundtable.
Apogen Technologies Inc. won the Field Operations Authoring Support contract from Commerce Department to help census takers with computer-assisted interviewing systems.
Wireless equipment provider Ericsson Inc.'s proposal for the massive Secure Border Initiative Network includes video analytics, which are algorithms to help identify unusual events occurring in real time.
