With about 125 of its 600 employees deployed across the United States, computer password problems and lockouts were a major issue for the Treasury Department's Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau.
The Treasury Department's plan to reopen bidding on its $1 billion Treasury Communications Enterprise contract drew criticism from Rep. Tom Davis (R-Va.), chairman of the House Government Reform Committee.
The Treasury Department's plan to reopen bidding on its $1 billion Treasury Communications Enterprise contract drew criticism from Rep. Tom Davis (R-Va.), chairman of the House Government Reform Committee.
High-profile biometrics contracts such as U.S. Visit, Registered Traveler and the Transportation Workers Identification Credential program grab all the headlines, but they're not where all the money is.
About 200,000 first responders in the Washington metropolitan area will receive biometric smart card IDs that will allow secure cooperation at sites where federal, state and local first responders are mobilized.
Government privacy employees, and contractors and vendors that serve federal and state agencies, can seek a new privacy credential under a program backed by major IT companies.
BearingPoint Inc. won a contract from the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey to implement the third phase of a program to improve security procedures for cargo entering the United States.
Lockheed Martin Corp. won a $212 million prime contract from the New York Metropolitan Transportation Authority to upgrade its electronic security operations infrastructure.
The Homeland Security Department's IT systems continue to be plagued by weak access controls and a lack of contingency planning, according to department's inspector general.
The National Plan for Research and Development in Support of Critical Infrastructure Protection establishes nine themes that aim to encompass physical and cyber security concerns and be integrated with other national-security strategies.
Four more products and services have won liability protections from the Homeland Security Department through the Safety Act, bringing the total number of awards to 23.
There could be "pre-emptive achievement of military objectives strictly by information-warfare techniques," according to an Auburn University professor.
Cybersecurity standards expected to be adopted within weeks by the North American Electric Reliability Council are likely to become mandatory for power utilities.
The National Science Foundation awarded $36 million in grants for cybersecurity research projects to protect computer operations and critical infrastructure networks.
MTC Technologies Inc. won a five-year, $10 million prime contract to provide maintenance and technical support to the Air Force Technical Applications Center.
