GAO testimony: Feds clearly failed with Katrina response
Federal authorities furnished inadequate leadership, advance planning and logistics systems in response to Hurricane Katrina, congressional investigators reported today.
DHS plans distance learning pilots for border patrol
The Homeland Security Department is looking for vendors of interactive distance learning solutions to train as many as 40,000 customs and border patrol employees.
DHS, agencies plan joint Cyber Storm exercise
The Homeland Security Department will test how well it works with other federal agencies and private IT companies to protect cybersecurity in a national exercise from Feb. 6-10.
Porn activity detected at DHS (maybe)
The Homeland Security Department's internal computer network generated 6.5 million security alerts that may be linked to employees accessing pornographic words or materials, according to the DHS inspector general.
Metadata dreams adrift
With Michael Daconta gone from the Homeland Security Department, info-sharing hangs in balance
Burden of proof
Identity rules may slow first responders, as well as interoperable communications
Russack steps down from National Intelligence post
John Russack, program manager for the Information-Sharing Environment in the office of the Director of National Intelligence, is leaving the post, according to a statement released today by Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill.
DHS re-examines iris scans for Registered Traveler
The Homeland Security Department will decide soon on whether to re-establish iris scans within the Registered Traveler program, a measure it had dropped from the program's nationwide rollout, a department official said this week.
DHS interoperability effort hits snags
The Homeland Security Department is making slow progress in its efforts to achieve interoperability in first responder communications, Andrew Maner, the department's chief financial officer, said at an academic conference today.
DHS vows to protect info on national database
The Homeland Security Department has stepped up assurances that it will maintain the confidentiality of critical infrastructure information submitted to the National Asset Database.
DHS readies smart cards for Registered Traveler
Establishing formats for frequent flier smart cards, as well as the readers and biometric data storage for the cards, that are interoperable between vendors is one challenge for contractors interested in operating the Homeland Security Department's nationwide Registered Traveler program.
Group objects to driver's license RFID
A coalition of conservative groups and privacy advocates is urging the Homeland Security Department not to include the use of RFID contactless chips in its regulations for implementing the Real ID Act for state driver's licenses.
Homeland Security launches e-passport contactless chip pilot
Live testing of passports containing radio-frequency identification contactless chips began this week at San Francisco International Airport for selected incoming visitors from Australia, New Zealand and Singapore.
Four key questions greet DHS in 2006
Many IT contractors for the Homeland Security Department have seen new initiatives bogged down by policy issues and political concerns. Four persistent policy questions are likely to affect major upcoming IT programs in 2006.
DHS grant kit offers cybersecurity guidance
The Homeland Security Department's new preparedness unit is urging governors to take exhaustive precautions deemed necessary to protect state IT resources in the war on terrorism.
DHS seeks dispatch system for security guards
The Homeland Security Department unit that supervises 12,000 security guards at federal buildings is looking to create a comprehensive electronic dispatch system for the first time.
Homeland Security awards open source audit grant
The Homeland Security Department has awarded a grant for a daily audit of major open source software to Coverity Inc., Stanford University and Symantec Corp.
North American market for biometrics to triple by 2008
The North American market for biometric applications is expected to rise to $1.4 billion by 2008, nearly triple the $527 million generated in 2004, according to Frost & Sullivan.
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