TSA taps firms TWIC competition
The Transportation Security Administration has selected eight vendors to compete to provide enrollment and help-desk services for Transportation Worker Identification Credential.
U.S. Visit CIO to resign
Scott Hastings, CIO of the Homeland Security Department's U.S. Visitor and Immigrant Status Indicator Technology program, has announced plans to retire later this fall.
USAID picks teams to vie for $300m in IT work
The U.S. Agency for International Development has awarded blanket purchase agreements to four contractor teams that will compete for up to $300 million in software task orders over the next five years.
TWIC card on hold
The Transportation Worker Identification Credential program faces a delay of one of its most important security requirements.
FBI plans major database upgrade
Bureau outlines interoperability plans and considers adding biometric data.
Ed Baker | New growth for nuclear power
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has been out of the spotlight, while the industry and the 103 nuclear power plants it oversees have remained static.
DHS launches project to digitize immigration records
The agency said the digitization project would form a cornerstone of its business transformation project; the facility is to be built in the home district of Rep. Harold Rogers.
Airplane bombing plot spurs targeting technology
Technologies for pinpointing risky passengers drew renewed attention from Homeland Security Department officials following the recent terrorist airliner bombing plot.But wrangling over privacy policy remained a pivotal factor in evaluation of the data-mining technology.
DHS awards small-business Eagle contracts
The Homeland Security Department is in the process of announcing the winners of contracts in the small-business phase of the Eagle IT services procurement, sources inside and outside the government said.
State to issue e-passports despite criticism
Electronic passports began flowing to citizens this week in spite of the continuing kerfuffle over a range of technology and policy issues surrounding border security. The rollout of the new e-passport has brought the credibility of smart-card identification units into sharper focus, as procurement and legislative disputes simmer.
FEMA issues $135m systems support pact
The Federal Emergency Management Agency has tapped Applied Computing Technologies Inc. in a $135 million deal to assist the agency as it prepares its systems support procurement for future disasters.
DHS to field additional data mining tools in wake of bomb plot
The Homeland Security Department will deploy additional computerized methods of pinpointing threats in airports in response to the newly uncovered plot to blow up aircraft flying from London to the U.S.
DHS seeks information on role-based access control
The Homeland Security Department's CIO office and central IT purchasing organization have asked the public for advice on how to adopt role-based control of access to computer systems.
GPO issues contracts for e-passports
The Government Printing Office has issued two contracts to producers of contactless smart chips to furnish large-scale quantities of electronic passport covers.
Clouds gather over PASS card delay proposal
Legislation that would delay a pending requirement that citizens re-entering the country present secure citizenship and ID credentials took a hit today as an influential senator pledged opposition against the measure.
U.S. Visit to expand border screening
Legal permanent residents and some other foreigners would be added to the U.S. Visitor and Immigrant Status Indicator Technology program's border screening process under a newly proposed regulation.
Administration presses its case for the PASS card
The administration and other proponents of new border credential requirements circulated talking points to quash changes the Senate has adopted for its Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative, set for debate in a conference committee on the Homeland Security Department appropriations bill.
PASS card debate enters next round
The bell rang last week for a new round in the tag-team wrestling match over the best technology for border crossing credentials. The border credential smackdown will reach its climax after Congress' August recess, when a conference committee on the Homeland Security Department appropriations bill is set to decide the matter.
GAO rejects protest of DHS Eagle contract award
The Government Accountability Office earlier this month closed Indus Corp.'s bid protest over the Homeland Security Department's multibillion-dollar Eagle contract for IT services.
Interior nears settlement of Indian Trust case
The multibillion-dollar settlement could spare the department from additional court-ordered shutoffs of its Internet links.
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