DHS Web site makeover trips up users
<font color="CC0000">(UPDATED) </font color> The Homeland Security Department debuted a new Web site this week, and discarded most of its old Web addresses, to mixed reactions by users.
GAO cites staffing issues with Sentinel
The FBI's Sentinel program for IT modernization needs to be staffed more strategically, according to a new report from the Government Accountability Office.
Capgemini captures $400M UK database deal
Capgemini UK plc has won a contract from the United Kingdom's Education and Skills Department to design a national database covering all 11 million children in England.
Customs and Border set to resume UAV patrols
U.S. Customs and Border Protection expects to have a Predator B unmanned aerial vehicle flying along the U.S.-Mexico border again in November, officials announced in a new report.
IG: Security still lax in DHS systems
The Homeland Security Department still has information security gaps that make its computer systems vulnerable to threats, according to a DHS inspector general Richard Skinner.
SAIC raises $1.13B after IPO
Shares of Science Applications International Corp. stock are trading at about $17.98 per share, 98 cents above today's opening price on the New York Stock Exchange, following the company's initial public offering Thursday.
Buying power
Flow of federal funds helps states expand homeland security programs.
Fine tuning needed
Complexity, lack of standards stymie common operating picture efforts.
Congress: TSA must toe small-biz line
The Transportation Security Administration now must adhere to the same small-business procurement goals as other federal agencies, according to a provision adopted by Congress in the fiscal 2007 homeland security appropriations bill.
Space policy touts satellite imagery for homeland security
The White House published an ambitious, new national space policy that lays out goals for exploration and addresses the need to enhance homeland security by collecting intelligence imagery using high-resolution government satellites.
WARN Act gets chop job
Congress included a drastically shortened version of the WARN Act emergency public warning legislation in the port security bill approved Sept. 30, according to a prominent emergency warning expert.
Report: Emergency management needs synchronicity
Computer systems that tracked 66,200 National Guard and civilian responders deployed after Hurricanes Katrina and Rita need to be improved and better integrated, according to a just-released 2005 Hurricane Season Response After-Action Report.
Northrop Grumman lands DHS biometrics deal
Northrop Grumman Corp. won a Homeland Security Department contract potentially worth $750 million over five years to scan and record the fingerprints of foreigners applying for U.S. residency and citizenship.
IG audit reveals own laptop security lapses
The Homeland Security Department's shortcomings in information security extend to its own Office of the Inspector General.
Congress approves $3.4B for port security
Congress passed a $3.4 billion port security bill before adjourning Saturday that will send more funding and technology to the nation's ports.
Sandy Levine | Survival Guide: Perspectives from the field
The intricacies of cybersecurity can be difficult enough for IT experts to explain to each other. How effective are IT executives and the federal government at explaining it to the public? Not as good as they could be, said public relations expert Sandy Levine.
Map the money
GIS providers face down advances by Microsoft, Google.
Homeland watch: In brief
DHS hands out infrastructure cash ? Facial recognition at 60 feet? ... Open standards urged for SBI-Net.
Homeland watch: In brief
DHS hands out infrastructure cash ? Facial recognition at 60 feet? ... Open standards urged for SBI-Net.
More questions than answers
Homeland Security Department Secretary Michael Chertoff answered one big border surveillance question last month by naming the Boeing Co. as the prime contractor for the Secure Border Initiative Network. But in answering that question, he raised a raft of new ones.
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