The Transportation Security Administration has addressed fully only one of the 10 areas of congressional interest related to development of its Secure Flight airline passenger screening system.
Transportation Security Administration officials made misleading statements in 2003 and 2004 about their collection and transfer of personal information on 12 million airline passengers in order to test a new screening system, according to a report by DHS's inspector general.
The Homeland Security Department is hampered in its efforts to verify the identities of visitors at U.S. borders by the need to check with multiple database systems, the department's Inspector General Richard Skinner said in a new report.
The Pentagon intends to shift to a more centralized "global force management" model so it could quickly expand available troops anywhere in the world, according to the department's new National Defense Strategy.
The prospect of people carrying many different biometric identification smart cards, each recognized by a single workplace or venue, doesn't seem so smart.<p> That's why the federal government is nudging ? some say pushing ? the biometrics industry toward greater interoperability, to make the cards scannable by multiple systems.
The Bush administration's dramatic boost in IT spending at the Homeland Security department may be a signal that the sprawling, two-year-old department is ready to consolidate some of its major programs and systems.
The coastal communication system is at risk for spiraling costs and schedule slippage because it requires hundreds of coastline towers to be built on environmentally sensitive sites.
The bill allocates money for high-tech hardware for the troops as well as homeland security programs, and provisions to regulate government-issued ID cards.
Contractors in the Falls Church, Va., office complex that was closed because of suspected anthrax are waiting on test results to confirm whether contamination occurred and when they can return to their offices.
Contractors in the Falls Church, Va., office complex that was closed because of suspected anthrax are waiting on test results to confirm whether contamination occurred and when they can return to their offices.
Report reveals the Homeland Security Department has spent $1 billion on an import and export processing system, but its deployment has met with delays and defects.
An independent task force recommends the countries create a common North American security perimeter by 2010 with a common biometric border pass to expedite passage through customs, immigration and airport security.
In the year since terrorists bombed commuter trains in Madrid, the Bush administration "has done next to nothing to protect passenger rails," Sen. Joseph Biden says.
Anteon International Corp. won a five-year, $47 million contract to provide program management and other support services to the Naval Sea Systems Command.
