Federal authorities furnished inadequate leadership, advance planning and logistics systems in response to Hurricane Katrina, congressional investigators reported today.
The Homeland Security Department is looking for vendors of interactive distance learning solutions to train as many as 40,000 customs and border patrol employees.
The Homeland Security Department will test how well it works with other federal agencies and private IT companies to protect cybersecurity in a national exercise from Feb. 6-10.
The Homeland Security Department's internal computer network generated 6.5 million security alerts that may be linked to employees accessing pornographic words or materials, according to the DHS inspector general.
John Russack, program manager for the Information-Sharing Environment in the office of the Director of National Intelligence, is leaving the post, according to a statement released today by Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill.
The Homeland Security Department will decide soon on whether to re-establish iris scans within the Registered Traveler program, a measure it had dropped from the program's nationwide rollout, a department official said this week.
The Homeland Security Department is making slow progress in its efforts to achieve interoperability in first responder communications, Andrew Maner, the department's chief financial officer, said at an academic conference today.
The Homeland Security Department has stepped up assurances that it will maintain the confidentiality of critical infrastructure information submitted to the National Asset Database.
Establishing formats for frequent flier smart cards, as well as the readers and biometric data storage for the cards, that are interoperable between vendors is one challenge for contractors interested in operating the Homeland Security Department's nationwide Registered Traveler program.
A coalition of conservative groups and privacy advocates is urging the Homeland Security Department not to include the use of RFID contactless chips in its regulations for implementing the Real ID Act for state driver's licenses.
Live testing of passports containing radio-frequency identification contactless chips began this week at San Francisco International Airport for selected incoming visitors from Australia, New Zealand and Singapore.
Many IT contractors for the Homeland Security Department have seen new initiatives bogged down by policy issues and political concerns. Four persistent policy questions are likely to affect major upcoming IT programs in 2006.
The Homeland Security Department's new preparedness unit is urging governors to take exhaustive precautions deemed necessary to protect state IT resources in the war on terrorism.
The Homeland Security Department unit that supervises 12,000 security guards at federal buildings is looking to create a comprehensive electronic dispatch system for the first time.
The Homeland Security Department has awarded a grant for a daily audit of major open source software to Coverity Inc., Stanford University and Symantec Corp.
The North American market for biometric applications is expected to rise to $1.4 billion by 2008, nearly triple the $527 million generated in 2004, according to Frost & Sullivan.
