The Homeland Security Department's Federal Emergency Management Agency is looking to purchase software to set up donation clearinghouse IT capabilities permanently within the federal government.
The Homeland Security Department's IT department is capturing 44 percent of all new IT spending proposed by the White House for fiscal 2007, according to a new report from Input Inc.
The Homeland Security Department must set up a new National Operations Center to integrate federal agency response and give a unified view of disasters, the White House recommends in a report issued today.
Existing privacy protections are outdated and inadequate to safeguard citizens from possible government intrusions made possible by new information technologies, according to the Center for Democracy and Technology.
The National Security Agency is now sponsoring intelligence data mining with massive databases that are growing as fast as four petabytes per month, according to a new report published by the Congressional Research Service.
Northrop Grumman Corp., Lockheed Martin Corp. and Raytheon Co. each are putting teams together to compete for the Homeland Security Department's contract to set up an integrated network of sensors and cameras along U.S. borders.
The Homeland Security Department cannot yet guarantee that its top-secret intelligence systems are out of reach from hackers, according to a new report from the department's inspector general, Richard Skinner.
The federal government's ineffective response to Hurricane Katrina was partly a failure of technology, according to a critical report released by a House Select Committee.
The Homeland Security Department has been so slow in assessing and testing basic system security and privacy controls for the U.S. Visit system that it may be jeopardizing the success of the program, according to the Government Accountability Office.
More than a dozen U.S. IT companies are interested in bidding on the United Kingdom's proposed biometric national identity card scheme, according to anew report by a U.K. non-profit environmental advocacy group.
Health authorities fighting a pandemic flu outbreak would benefit greatly from access to robust, real-time, electronic medical records, according to several health experts who testified before Congress.
The Homeland Security Department's Secure Flight program to screen airline passengers against terrorist watch lists is "at serious risk" of being ineffective, according to a new report from the Government Accountability Office.
With all the attention on federal lobbying, it seemed like a good time to check the records on Homeland Security Department contractors. Of the firms holding the largest IT contracts, the lobbying leader is Northrop Grumman Corp., which spent $12.6 million in 2004, according to the Center for Public Integrity, a nonpartisan group monitoring political financing.
Health and Human Services Department IT would rise by 4.8 percent in fiscal 2007 under the White House's budget plan, buoyed in part by bioterrorism spending and IT infrastructure initiatives.
The White House is seeking a 21.2 percent increase in the IT budget for the Homeland Security Department in fiscal 2007, bringing the total to $4.41 billion, according to budget documents released by the Office of Management and Budget.
Secretary Michael Chertoff is expected today to ask for a 7 percent budget increase for the Homeland Security Department for fiscal 2007, raising the department's funding to $35.6 billion, according to budget documents to be released today.
The newly formed federal information-sharing environment is at risk of losing steam because its director, John Russack, has resigned after only six months on the job, Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) said at a hearing yesterday.
The Homeland Security Department is looking for small businesses specializing in IT to help it create an Internet portal for department employees at locations in the Washington area.
