DHS is looking for a contractor to process up to 28 million government ID cards a year for existing programs and for new cards such as in the proposed Temporary Worker Program.
To advance information sharing against terrorism, Boeing Co. expects to be among the first major corporations to assign its own analyst to the Seattle FBI Fusion Center intelligence sharing office.
The planned border-crossing ID card does not require strong privacy protections because the only data it can transmit wirelessly is a reference number, according to the director of NIST.
The Homeland Security Department's Privacy Office produced more than double the number of privacy impact assessments in 2006 than it did two years before, but it still has a huge backlog of programs to assess, according to the Government Accountability Office.
A senior official at Lockheed Martin in charge of the Deepwater contract refused a meeting with one of his employees to discuss shortcomings in the program's converted patrol boats, charges Deepwater whistleblower Michael DeKort.
The $120 billion Iraq War supplemental spending bill passed by Congress Thursday provides an additional $917 million for homeland security and also tightens restrictions on the Coast Guard's Deepwater program.
DHS this week gave final approvals to the IT industry's approach to protecting the Internet and other national IT-related infrastructures by focusing on critical functions.
An industry group is accusing NIST of failing to properly evaluate the technologies to be used in DHS' and State's upcoming border-crossing identification card.
DHS is initiating a Cyber Security Research Development Center program that entails soliciting input from industry, government labs and academia on how to protect data against threats.
The Coast Guard is seeking a refund for eight patrol boats under its Integrated Deepwater Systems procurement. The boats were built through a joint venture of Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman.
To prepare for the upcoming hurricane season, the Federal Emergency Management Agency is beefing up its emergency communications capabilities and logistics systems.
A revised technology design for the Homeland Security and State departments' upcoming border-crossing identification card now meets international security standards.
