Registered Traveler set to go nationwide
07/24/08 -- 02:12 PM The Transportation Security Administration will expand Registered Traveler to all U.S. airports beginning next week and eliminate a TSA-conducted screening that it considers duplicative.
L-1 wins border-crossing card deal
07/22/08 -- 02:17 PM L-1 Identity Solutions has won a contract from the State Department to issue border-crossing cards as part of an expansion to the U.S. Passport Card program.
A strong pulse
07/14/08; Vol. 23, No. 12 Contractors boost capabilities to address expected health care reforms under the next administration.
Senators criticize DHS over foreign visitor system
07/09/08 -- 03:12 PM Appropriations Committee report concludes that efforts to enable checks of foreign visitors’ identities as they exit the country should be postponed until a new administration takes office in 2009.
Army seeks facial-recognition, fingerprinting technologies
07/07/08 -- 09:42 AM The Army wants 3-D facial-recognition and multispectral fingerprinting technologies for its Biometrics Automated Toolset program managed by the Language and Technology Center.
News briefs
06/30/08; Vol. 23, No. 11 The House Appropriations Committee’s Homeland
Security Subcommittee has approved a 6 percent
increase for the Homeland Security Department in
fiscal 2009 — $2.3 billion more than the Bush
administration requested, said the committee’s
chairman, Rep. David Price (D-N.C.).
More growing pains
06/30/08; Vol. 23, No. 11 Contractors can help DHS smooth wrinkles in trusted-traveler programs.
Foreign offer for Digimarc stirs controversy
06/25/08 -- 12:34 PM The pending sale of government ID card maker Digimarc is becoming controversial after the chairman of prospective buyer L-1 Identity Solutions, suggested that a competing offer by a French bidder raises national security concerns.
Final roster
06/16/08; Vol. 23, No. 10 Roles and responsibilities of the NGI Team.
All differences aside
06/16/08; Vol. 23, No. 10 Protest resolved, Lockheed will double FBI fingerprint, biometrics database.
DHS wants biometric helping hand
06/16/08; Vol. 23, No. 10 But call for input meets skepticism over feasibility and costs for next phase of US-VISIT.
Rule mandates E-Verify for contractor employees
06/13/08 -- 12:50 PM About 168,000 federal contractors and subcontractors will need to enroll 3.8 million employees in E-Verify next year under a new proposed rule.
Arizona lawmakers give Real ID cold shoulder
06/12/08 -- 01:54 PM The Arizona legislature voted yesterday to prohibit the state from complying with the Real ID Act of 2005.
DHS tests Global Entry program
06/11/08 -- 10:24 AM DHS initiated pilot projects at three airports this week to test its new Global Entry program for pre-registered U.S. citizens and permanent residents returning from travel abroad.
Bush: Companies required to confirm employee legal work status
06/11/08 -- 10:03 AM The Bush administration is requiring that all federal contractors use an electronic verification system to ensure that employees are eligible to work in the U.S.
DHS to issue new Sentri cards
06/09/08 -- 03:48 PM Travelers along the border between the United States and Mexico participating in the Homeland Security Department’s SENTRI identification card program will be receiving new, upgraded ID cards by July.
Ontario considers enhanced driver’s licenses
06/06/08 -- 01:28 PM Ontario would become the second Canadian province to issue enhanced driver’s licenses that also serve as border-crossing cards for travel to the U.S. under new legislation.
N.Y. opts for hybrid driver’s licenses
05/28/08 -- 02:20 PM New York State has reached an agreement with federal authorities to issue enhanced drivers licenses that double as U.S. border-crossing cards.
Newsbriefs
05/26/08; Vol. 23, No. 09 The wait is over — Booz Allen Hamilton Inc.
will split into two businesses with the sale of
its government unit to the Carlyle Group.
On the edge
05/26/08; Vol. 23, No. 09 The IronKey USB flash drive is designed specifically
for the needs of sensitive military, government and
enterprise networks.
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