<font color="CC0000">(UPDATED)</font color> Authorities have arrested an IBM subcontractor who was providing computer services to the Homeland Security Department on charges that he distributed child pornography on the Internet.
The PC contained unencrypted personal information on 33,000 participants in the Registered Traveler program and has caused TSA to suspend new enrollments for the company.
DHS has announced a total of $1.8 billion in grants, primarily to states and cities, to fund equipment, training and exercises for terrorism preparedness.
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.
L-1 Identity Solutions has won a contract from the State Department to issue border-crossing cards as part of an expansion to the U.S. Passport Card program.
Two senators have alleged that FEMA officials are ignoring a potential conflict of interest and other possible ethics violations with regard to the multimillion-dollar contract.
The federal government's regulations on organizational conflicts of interest in contracting need to be restructured to avoid a "one-size-fits-all" approach, PSC has recommended.
The chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee requested information on 14 concerns about the outsourcing of management of TSA's Integrated Hiring Operations and Personnel Program.
The Senate Appropriations Committee's fiscal 2009 spending bill would give the Coast Guard funds to hire additional acquisition employees to help oversee the Deepwater program.
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.
