Kathy Dillaman faced a monumental task in February when she took on the job of clearing the Defense Department's backlog of security clearance investigations for federal employees and contractors.
The Federal Emergency Management Agency went through major changes while Meryl Justin Chertoff was chief of the disaster response branch at its Office of Legislative Affairs from 2002 to September 2003, when she joined a lobbying firm.
The Federal Emergency Management Agency went through major changes while Meryl Justin Chertoff was chief of the disaster response branch at its Office of Legislative Affairs from 2002 to September 2003, when she joined a lobbying firm.
When first responders began arriving in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina, one of the biggest coordination problems they faced was communicating with one another.
The General Services Administration is forming a national-level staff to oversee its 10-year, multibillion-dollar Alliant IT services contract and shifting the program's management center to Washington.
The General Services Administration is forming a national-level staff to oversee its 10-year, multibillion-dollar Alliant IT services contract and shifting the program's management center to Washington.
Editor's Note: Government Computer News Staff Writer Dawn S. Onley was embedded from Sept. 7 to Sept. 13 with an Army unit during its mission to areas affected by <BR>Hurricane Katrina.
The state of New York announced today that it is ready to begin work on a new statewide public safety radio network, and that the prime contractor will assume full risk on the mammoth project.
A Senate bill authorizing $3.3 billion to assist public safety agencies in making their communications systems compatible should be focused not just on voice but on data as well, says the chairman of the Emergency Interoperability Consortium.
First responders are getting help from the National Institute of Standards and Technology and the Homeland Security Department's Safecom program to assess whether new two-way radio equipment and systems available on the market meet the industry's interoperability standards, known as Project 25 (P25).
First responders in the nation's capital and surrounding jurisdictions are deploying a common text alerting system for emergency communications aimed at improving communications among jurisdictions and with citizens.
CompuDyne-Public Safety and Justice Inc., a subsidiary of CompuDyne Corp., has acquired Xanalys Corp., a provider of crime-solving and data-sharing tools.
Federal health officials and a Wisconsin medical IT company have set up a daily syndromic surveillance system for many of the hospitals and public health centers in the Gulf Coast disaster region to monitor for early warnings of disease outbreaks.
The nation's homeland security leaders have shown little or no progress in carrying out the recommendations for anti-terrorism emergency preparedness and response developed in July 2004 by the 9/11 Commission, according to a report card issued this week by former members of the panel.
President Bush's former counterterrorism chief yesterday called for the government to establish a system of open-source and transparent standards for a "federated" identity card system.
The nation's Emergency Alert System is inadequate and woefully outdated, according to a new report from the Congressional Research Service, the research arm of Congress.
A final rule mandates that contractors must affix the devices on tags or pallets to improve "visibility of DOD assets in the supply chain, increase accuracy of shipments and receipts and reduce the number of logistic 'touch points' in order to decrease the amount of time it takes to deliver material to the warfighter."
