New U.S. passports with radio-frequency identification tags will be protected by a physical barrier, protections on the equipment used to read the tags and possibly encryption technology.
Treasury notified the Government Accountability Office in a letter May 20 that it intended to terminate the Treasury Communications Enterprise contract with AT&T.
The chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee has called on technology vendors to develop products that would assist both safety and productivity.
The United States and the Netherlands are launching a "trusted traveler" program to speed up security checks for selected travelers between Amsterdam's Schiphol and John F. Kennedy International airports.
The chairman of the House Government Reform Committee wants additional measures to supplement and strengthen existing security policies for contractor-provided IT systems.
As the intelligence community undergoes a period of transformation, contractors can help intel agencies promote information sharing capabilities and bring new technologies to bear on national security issues.
When Washington Technology set out to write this issue's feature story, we envisioned an article that would examine new opportunities in the privacy arena for integrators and security specialists. Instead, we discovered the main point of concern today is not what can be done to protect privacy, but what should be done.
Under new risk-based eligibility rules, only 66 of the nation's 361 seaports can apply for $141 million in the Homeland Security Department's Port Security Grant program.
Under new risk-based eligibility rules, only 66 of the nation's 361 seaports can apply for $141 million in the Homeland Security Department's Port Security Grant program.
State chief information officers want Congress to prod the Homeland Security Department into developing a state cybersecurity assessment and strategy process.
Edward Hammersla isn't bothered by the prospect of handing over his name and birth date to airport screeners under the Homeland Security Department's new "Secure Flight" passenger screening program that launches this summer.
Federal agencies and contractors are swelling enrollment at IT boot camps, the intense training courses that drive students through 10 to 12 grueling hours of daily instruction over a few days.
General Dynamics Corp. won contracts worth $7 million from the U.S. Army to modernize the communications and data infrastructure at Ford Drum, N.Y., and Fort Lewis, Wash.
The Center for Commercialization of Advanced Technology announced a solicitation to help fast-track commercialization of technologies for the Defense and Homeland Security departments.
Most homeland security IT initiatives may be near completion for federal agencies governmentwide, according to the new 2005 Federal IT Marketing Report.
The Defense Information Systems Agency is in the market for enterprise tools to sift through the hundreds of terabytes of security-related data it collects.
