Interior extends financial system recompete
The Interior Department has extended its deadline for proposals from vendors to work on the Financial and Business Modernization System.
TSA may chart new course for Registered Traveler
The Homeland Security Department's Transportation Security Administration is soliciting plans for a reborn Registered Traveler program, in a possible bid to expand the five-airport pilot that bloomed last year and faded this fall.
Web, security, wireless technologies rivet CIOs
A newly released survey of CIOs confirmed that Web issues and security, followed by wireless technologies, have held on to their positions as the leading technologies that concern federal IT professionals.
Giddens leads DHS' new border initiative
Greg Giddens, a former Coast Guard Deepwater program official, has been appointed as chief of the Homeland Security Department's program management office for the Secure Border Initiative, the department has confirmed.
Chertoff: RFPs for border security technology coming
Homeland Security secretary Michael Chertoff fleshed out details about the Secure Border Initiative today and the technologies the department will need to bolster security along the U.S. borders with Canada and Mexico.
Court blocks order cutting off Interior computer systems from Internet
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit has temporarily blocked an order issued last week by a lower court that would have forced the Interior Department to disconnect its computers containing Individual Indian Trust data from the Internet.
Virginia disaster expert to be DHS chief of emergencies
George W. Foresman, Virginia's assistant to the governor for commonwealth preparedness, has been nominated by President Bush to be the Homeland Security Department's undersecretary for preparedness.
DHS puts procurement house in order
The Homeland Security Department procurement is losing its baby teeth, moving briskly with border technology, a financial management project and two umbrella procurements on the heels of its recently signed fiscal 2006 appropriations bill. President Bush's signature making the bill law injects funds across the board into many of these projects.
DOJ appeals judge's order to pull Interior computer systems off Internet
A district court judge has directed the Interior Department to disconnect computer systems housing Indian trust data from the Internet, after computer specialists said they had been able to penetrate the systems without detection.
Mother Nature's storms postpone DHS' Cyber Storm
Damage caused by hurricanes Katrina and Rita has led the Department of Homeland Security Department to push back its Cyber Storm exercise until February 2006.
Bush signs $30 billion DHS spending bill
President George W. Bush has signed the fiscal 2006 Homeland Security Department appropriations bill, releasing funds for contractors that had been working "at risk" while awaiting the funding measure to become law.
Senate OKs controversial DHS appointee
The Senate Homeland Security Committee approved Julie Myers as assistant secretary of Homeland Security in charge of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
Strings attached to DHS 2006 budget
Porous borders and balky Homeland Security Department technology programs came under fire in a spending bill that House and Senate appropriators have sent for floor approval.
House, Senate approve final DHS budget bill
The Appropriations conference committee agreement provided $30.8 billion for DHS operations in 2006.
Suit could hinder e-passport rollout
Litigation filed by On Track Innovations Inc. over the rejection of its contactless chip technology for U.S. passports could further delay rollout of the documents.
TSA seeks technology to ID suspicious travelers
The Transportation Security Administration asked industry to suggest technologies for rounding up the usual suspects.
DHS releases RFP for multibillion-dollar Eagle project
The Homeland Security Department has released its request for proposals for the Eagle project, a program to purchase IT support services that is expected to garner billions of dollars of task orders over the next seven years.
BearingPoint removed from major integration job at Interior
The Interior Department has removed systems integrator BearingPoint Inc. from the Financial and Business Modernization System project to install a new enterprise resource planning system.
Pair arrested for creating Mytob, Zotob computer worms
Moroccan authorities arrested Farid Essebar, 18, who went by the screen name "Diabl10," while the Turkish Interior Ministry's National Police arrested Attila Ekici, 21, known online as "coder."
DHS, FBI initiate major IT procurement projects
The Homeland Security Department will launch two new programs for IT acquisitions, while the bureau will accept proposals for its Sentinel system.
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