"When I was in school and you were caught cheating on a test ... you flunked," Rep. Edolphus Towns said. "It seems that seventh-graders are held to higher standards than nuclear security contractors."
State and local governments received awards in fiscal 2007 federal funding this week for counterterrorism, emergency preparedness and interoperable communications.
Continued weaknesses in IT controls at DHS are threatening efforts to maintain the integrity of financial data within the department, according to a new report.
"We need to look at when and under what circumstances is it appropriate to be contracting and when is it not ... ," U.S. Comptroller General David Walker told a Senate committee.
To improve accountability in government procurement, two Democratic lawmakers are promoting the creation of a centralized database that tracks contractor performance and fraud.
Agencies have sent more contracting dollars to service-disabled veteran-owned small businesses than in past years, but they're still falling short, an SBA official told a House subcommittee.
Lawmakers would like to know why NOAA awarded a bonus fee to a contractor working on satellite programs that suffer from schedule delays and cost overruns.
The Transportation Workers Identification Credential missed its July 1 rollout partly because its systems are undergoing extra testing, a TSA official testified Thursday.
President Bush has nominated Nortel Networks Corp. President and Chief Executive Mike Zafirovski to the National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee.
In a July 10 memo, Paul Denett, administrator of OFPP, asked agencies to review their IT requirements and check GSA's Veterans Technology Services Governmentwide Acquisition Contract for services.
Public safety agencies should have the final word on whether to accept or reject a proposed sharing of a block of radio spectrum expected to be auctioned for use as a national broadband network for public safety, according to a council of public safety communications advocates.
Affiliated Computer Services Inc. will pay the federal government $2.6 million to resolve allegations that it had submitted inflated charges for services it provided via programs run by and through several departments and agencies.
Despite more than a year of planning and reviews, the nation's critical infrastructure sectors still fall short on providing incentives to private owners to assess vulnerabilities and risks, according to the Government Accountability Office.
One of every four senior leadership positions is vacant at the Homeland Security Department, thus presenting a risk to national security, according to a new report from the House Homeland Security Committee.
