Federal purchasing officers may spend up to $10 million in goods and services for Hurricane Katrina recovery using <a href="http://www.acqsolinc.com/emergencycontracting/advisories_emergency.cfm">simplified procedures</a> with limited competition, according to a new white paper
The nation's homeland security leaders have shown little or no progress in carrying out the recommendations for anti-terrorism emergency preparedness and response developed in July 2004 by the 9/11 Commission, according to a report card issued this week by former members of the panel.
The nation's Emergency Alert System is inadequate and woefully outdated, according to a new report from the Congressional Research Service, the research arm of Congress.
The Transportation Security Administration falls short in developing and implementing processes such as security testing, monitoring with audit trails, configuration and patch management, and password protection, according to the inspector general.
The federal government's official e-government portal?Firstgov.gov?slid from first to ninth place in a ranking of the top federal government Web sites for 2005.
One of the priorities for newly installed National Security Agency Director Lt. Gen. Keith Alexander likely will be to bring under control the huge cost overruns and long delays in the agency's Trailblazer IT modernization initiative.
A passenger screening program slated to go into effect for a limited number of airlines this month is still floundering, according to a report released this week from the Justice Department's Office of the Inspector General.
A task force of academics is calling for homeland-security technologies in cyberspace that comply with existing legal and policy limitations in physical space.
Legions of IT experts are in the Gulf Coast region offering data restoration and business continuity services, emergency communications and restoration of IT infrastructures.
The Federal Emergency Management Agency will use Lockheed Martin facilities at the Stennis Space Center as agency headquarters for coordinating relief and recovery operations.
Lockheed Martin Corp. and Northrop Grumman Corp. have shut down their Gulf Coast facilities temporarily following the region's devastation by Hurricane Katrina.
The sponsor of controversial legislation that would ban most uses of radio-frequency identification in California is making a final push for passage of his bill.
The Justice Department has released its first Fusion Center Guidelines making recommendations about the centers' governance, connectivity standards, databases and security.
A little-noticed provision in Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff's reorganization plan for the agency creates a higher profile for telecommunications security, yet also raises questions about how that mission will be defined.
IT recruiter Greg McElroy returned from a job fair in a Washington suburb recently with resumes from a handful of top candidates for Northrop Grumman Corp.'s 1,200 vacant positions. The candidates' most striking qualification: All of them hold federal security clearances.
Government privacy employees, and contractors and vendors that serve federal and state agencies, can seek a new privacy credential under a program backed by major IT companies.
The Homeland Security Department's IT systems continue to be plagued by weak access controls and a lack of contingency planning, according to department's inspector general.
