DHS redo
Impending changes at the Homeland Security Department likely will energize its reorganization and reshape its funding priorities.
DHS to centralize operations centers
The Homeland Security Department may consolidate several technology-rich operations centers spread across the Washington metropolitan area at its Nebraska Avenue Complex headquarters campus.
DHS personnel system deal under fire from Thompson
Rep. Bennie G. Thompson has launched a critical inquiry of the Homeland Security Department's decision to award a blanket purchase agreement for the MaxHR personnel system.
DHS plans national IT security exercise in November
The Homeland Security Department plans to conduct the exercise, called Cyber Storm, with public and private-sector stakeholders.
House, Senate have meeting of minds on DHS budget
The House and Senate appropriations committees came out with close figures on overall Homeland Security discretionary spending in their draft bills for fiscal 2006.
DHS on cusp of immigration IT makeover
The Homeland Security Department's Citizenship and Immigration Services agency soon will unveil major acquisitions that will reshape its technology and business processes, according to CIO Terrazzia Martin.
DHS' Emerge2 program temporarily suspended
The Electronically Managing Enterprise Resources for Government Effectiveness and Efficiency program was supposed to create a new financial backbone for DHS.
Mythics Inc. lands $23 million SmartBuy pact with DHS
The Homeland Security Department has awarded a contract for Oracle Corp. software and services initially worth $23 million under the General Services Administration's SmartBuy program.
Terrorist watch list IT management feeble, Justice IG says
A new report from the Justice Department's inspector general said the government's center for consolidating information from various terrorist watch lists has suffered from poor IT management.
House panel: FBI 'scrambling' to launch VCF project
A House Appropriations Committee report says the FBI is hastening to prepare its latest attempt at a case file system and is cutting corners to do.
Slimming from 170 to one
The Homeland Security Department will consolidate more than 20 portals and 150 Web sites into one enterprise portal serving the entire agency ? just as soon as commercial software catches up with its needs.
Pragmatics wins DHS deal for software testing
Pragmatics Inc. has been awarded a blanket purchasing agreement by Homeland Security's Customs and Border Protection agency for software testing services.
Congressman calls for synergy between security technology, productivity
The chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee has called on technology vendors to develop products that would assist both safety and productivity.
BearingPoint feels the heat
Delays in two high-profile Homeland Security Department programs have prime contractor BearingPoint Inc. facing criticism from government and congressional officials.
Sentinel system will replace FBI's Virtual Case File
The FBI is poised to launch the Sentinel program to build, among other things, a case management system to replace the defunct Virtual Case File project, officials said.
U.S. Visit ID system may be missing the mark
Researchers contend the U.S. Visitor and Immigrant Status Indicator Technology program's method for matching fingerprints with images may have a detection probability of only 53 percent.
New system to replace FBI Virtual Case File
<font color="CC0000">(UPDATED) </font color>The FBI is poised to launch what it calls the Sentinel project, a procurement that will build, among other things, a case management system to replace the defunct Virtual Case File project, officials said.
New system to replace FBI Virtual Case File
The FBI is poised to launch what it calls the Sentinel project, a procurement that will build, among other things, a case management system to replace the defunct Virtual Case File project, officials said.
Congress poised to smite DHS' technology programs
Congress is moving to clip the wings of the Homeland Security Department's CIO and punish the department for ignoring demands from lawmakers for information.
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