Cloaking is a means by which hostile intelligence organizations or terrorists can exploit the ability of IP addresses to reveal the physical location?and frequently the organizational identity?of a user visiting a Web site.
The State Department started pilot production of electronic passports earlier this month and plans to roll out e-passports for the general public this summer.
The Homeland Security Department is determined to deploy advanced technology along U.S. borders to stem illegal immigration, drug smuggling and increasing violence against Border Patrol agents.
Although civilian agencies' overall budgets will decrease under the president's budget plan, many technology related programs are scheduled for increases.
Many civilian agencies' overall budgets are scheduled to decrease under the president's budget plan, but close scrutiny shows that spending for IT-related programs may actually rise.
A strengthened policy office with sweeping powers to unify program control is one of several recommendations made to Homeland Security secretary Michael Chertoff.
The Homeland Security Department's flagship program for tracking travelers at ports of entry could get an early funding boost from the Senate Appropriations Committee.
The Homeland Security Department's forlorn IT security came in for another pasting this month from the department's inspector general and from Sen. Judd Gregg (R-N.H.), chairman of the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Homeland Security.
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Homeland Security secretary Michael Chertoff detail a joint strategy for strengthening technology at the border, expediting travel and beefing up counterterrorism programs.
The Transportation Security Administration plans to seek proposals for technical assistance with the Transportation Threat Assessment and Credentialing Screening Gateway.
A federal judge has set aside the Government Printing Office's decision to eliminate On Track Innovations Ltd. from competing to provide radio-frequency identification tags for U.S. passport.
The Homeland Security Department is working with the departments of Defense and State, the FBI and the Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and Technology as well as technology vendors to develop a new generation of 10-finger "slap capture" units for fingerprint collection.
The FBI faces special risks in developing the Sentinel case management system because it plans to do so at the same time that it is rolling out its new enterprise architecture, according to a letter issued this week by Government Accountability Office auditors.
