SE Solutions acquires emergency response IT provider
Strategic Enterprise Solutions Inc. has completed its acquisition of Evolution Technologies Inc., which specializes in emergency and disaster process, systems support and electronic information exchange.
Deepwater costs hit $29B and rising, GAO says
It still is not smooth sailing for the Coast Guard's Deepwater program in which costs continue to go up, according to a new report.
US-CERT director resigns
Randy Vickers, head of the U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness Team, has reportedly resigned.
Mazer is Obama's choice for DHS' IG
The inspector general of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence gets picked for the open DHS IG job.
Lieberman tells FEMA to centralize IT
FEMA can't manage its IT systems with an uncoordinated approach to building systems, senator says.
Delta Solutions adds DEA contract to string of recent wins
Delta Solutions and Technologies Inc.'s five-year, $18 million contract with the Drug Enforcement Administration is the latest in a series of contract wins that total almost $66 million.
'Idiots' simplify hacking, CSC director tells news agency
A DHS experiment to test the ease of hacking shows more than half the people who find unknown computer discs or thumb drives will plug them into their office computers to see what's on them, exposing the systems to viruses and hacking.
HHS CIO to retire
HHS CIO Michael Carleton began public service during the Nixon administration.
Coast Guard accused of 20 Anti-Deficiency Act wrongs totaling $7M
The inspector general found that Coast Guard managers violated the Anti-Deficiency Act in the recent response boat acquisition.
General Dynamics wins $867M DHS infrastructure contract
GSA awarded an $867 million IT infrastructure contract to General Dynamics Corp. as the latest move in a highly competitive acquisition process.
DHS paid millions in SBInet invoices without sufficient details, GAO says
The Government Accountability Office said contractor invoices for the $780 million Secure Border Initiative Network program lacked details. Where did they fall short?
Secret Service red-faced by errant anti-Fox News tweet
Agency apologizes for tweet, but not before embarrassing tweet flies around the Web.
DHS cancels $450M financial system modernization, considers cloud instead
The Homeland Security Department cancels its second attempt at modernizing its financial systems. What is its new plan?
7 communities win $26M for cross-border SOS messaging
The Homeland Security Department names seven communities as winners of a one-time demonstration program to help communities on the Mexican and Canadian borders acquire new technologies for interoperable communications.
Twitter outpaces Facebook in terror alert sign-ups; also, federal virtual worlds conference coming up
More people are signing up for DHS' new terrorism alert system on Twitter than on Facebook. And you can attend the upcoming federal virtual worlds conference in the virtual world.
How many DHS contractors are there really?
In an addition mix-up, a consulting firm reported DHS contractors number more than 210,000. The real figure was later found to be about 100,000.
Terror alert system will use Facebook, Twitter
The Homeland Security Department is planning to scrap its color-coded terror alert system for a new system that relies on Facebook and Twitter in some cases, according to the Associated Press.
Industry needs to play bigger role in information sharing
Kshemendra Paul, program manager for the Information-Sharing Environment in the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, invited vendors to get more involved.
CACI's $450M DHS win gets thrown out by GAO
GAO upholds protest of CACI winning a financial management systems modernization contract at DHS and recommends a new competition.
GAO upholds cancellation of $2.6B Northrop DHS campus contract
The Government Accountability Office denies a protest from Northrop Grumman of what the company believed was an "unreasonable" termination of its contract.
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