The measures are designed to strengthen cyber security, promote greater sharing of unclassified information and prevent the over-classification of information.
The Transportation Security Administration will expand Registered Traveler to all U.S. airports beginning next week and eliminate a TSA-conducted screening that it considers duplicative.
A new enterprise software licensing program will help knock down barriers to information sharing, while saving agencies money, said ODNI's associate director of national and CIO.
Unisys Corp.'s British unit will build and run a public information network and security service for England's Kent County Council under a $63 million contract.
Information technology security gaps created a material weakness in the U.S. Customs and Border Protection financial audit statements for fiscal 2007, according to a report released by the Homeland Security Inspector General Richard Skinner.
State governments should take an enterprisewide approach with an established IT governance structure to preserve e-records, according to the National Association of State Chief Information Officers.
The goal of the new Suitability and Security Clearance Performance Accountability Council is to standardize procedures for checking the backgrounds of government employees and contractors governmentwide.
The House and Senate Appropriations committees have approved different measures to fund DHS in fiscal 2009, and each would provide more money for cybersecurity than the Bush administration requested.
