The airline industry is opposed to DHS' plan to put airlines in charge of fingerprint checks for foreign passengers departing the U.S., the president of a major airline trade association said.
DHS' most recent enterprise architecture shows improvements but is still missing key pieces and is only of limited usefulness, according to a new GAO report.
The percent of federal contracts that should go to small businesses has changed as different House committees considered a contracting-related bill. Each change has caused concern among officials.
IT experts intensified the controversy over the Real ID Act this week with warnings that the huge database required may never be secure from ID theft and privacy invasions.
Successful IT consolidation in state government usually means culture change, and that can require the deft use of carrots and sticks to overcome resistance.
The Real ID Act of 2005 raises serious concerns about privacy, data security, cost, fairness and so-called mission creep that should be fully scrutinized before it is implemented, says an advisory committee to the Homeland Security Department.
DHS and DOJ have spent $893 million on information-sharing networks in the last two years but still do not have effective networks in place, GAO reported.
Symantec's director of product certifications charged that it might be more relevant if software vendors had input into the standard's development process.
The FCC invited public comments this week on a proposal advanced by Frontline Wireless LLC to set aside a 22 MHz block of radio spectrum for a wireless broadband network for first responders.
State CIOs want the federal government to restore the amount of homeland security funding available to them in the president's proposed budget for fiscal 2008 to its fiscal 2007 level.
Despite revenue growth across state government in recent years, funding for IT will face stiff competition with other priorities over the next several years.
Terrorists are using the Internet to spread radical ideologies. Countering that movement will require sophisticated communications and online investigations, experts testified at a Senate hearing today.
Civil liberties and consumer groups have started a campaign against the Real ID Act regulations issued by DHS, believing the new ID system will have negative impacts on civil rights.
DHS plans to select a vendor this summer to build a second cross-agency data center, and has directed prospective contractors to propose locations in the Western U.S. to help shield the facility from any major East Coast blackout.
Rep. Carolyn McCarthy is promoting her legislation to make improvements to a national database used to check potential gun buyers for criminal records or mental illness.
