The Homeland Security Department's $337 million network for sharing top-secret data was developed in a rush, and as a result is inadequate and does not meet the needs of its users.
RS Information Systems Inc. has captured one of the first information services jobs for a young federal tax agency, winning a contract valued at nearly $50 million to provide technology support services to the Treasury Department's Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau.
Six more products and services won Safety Act certifications and designations in April as the Homeland Security Department picks up the pace of approvals.
State Department officials are considering additional security measures as they prepare to implement new U.S. passports with embedded radio frequency identification chips.
Sixty-eight percent of U.S. corporate IT executives said complying with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 is having a major impact on their IT operations.
Corporate chief executives must take individual and collective responsibility for the nation's cybersecurity, but they may need more management tools to do that effectively.
GAO's report on how federal contracts were awarded to private companies to provide military support services in Iraq, did not take into account the severe battle conditions at that time.
Florida is considering creating a successor to the controversial Multistate Anti-Terrorism Information Exchange law enforcement database that shut down April 15 after its federal funding expired.
The European Union's head office is proposing $7 billion in spending on research and information technology in fiscal 2006 under a new budget submitted this week.
RS Information Systems Inc. won a $50 million contract to provide technology support services to the Treasury Department's Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau.
Covenant Aviation Security has received Safety Act designation from the Homeland Security Department for its airport passenger and baggage screening services.
The Small Business Administration now is responsible for establishing the certification of small businesses as small disadvantaged, 8 (a) certified or HUBZone-certified.
A new cybersecurity operations center at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia has been set up to continuously monitor and report cyberattacks against privately owned computer networks related to critical infrastructure.
The Office of Management and Budget is not adequately monitoring $22 billion worth of mission-critical federal IT projects, according to a new Government Accountability Office report released today.
Amit Yoran, former Homeland Security Department cybersecurity chief, is slated to testify Wednesday before a House subcommittee regarding legislation to create a new assistant secretary position overseeing a National Cybersecurity Office at DHS.
The Homeland Security Department was "a day late and a dollar short" in posting its annual mandated performance review on its Web site in December, according to a new study of performance-based accountability for 23 federal agencies.
