Online extra | DHS needs to win over some employees
Homeland Security Department employees as a whole hold relatively low opinions of their department's performance in several respects, according to an Office of Personnel Management survey.
DHS Special Report | Forward Motion
Even as the Homeland Security Department has stumbled through project failures, stalled during leadership vacuums and withstood withering criticism, DHS has delivered some projects that serve as exemplars of technology management and are improving prospects for better project performance.
Justice narrows IWN race to two
The Justice Department is ready to enter the thicket of federal, state and local government radio interoperability. Justice earlier this month awarded General Dynamics Corp. and Lockheed Martin Corp. two separate contracts to compete in a 'bake-off' for the nationwide law enforcement voice and data radio system under the Integrated Wireless Network program.
Registered Traveler program revs for takeoff
The Homeland Security Department's Transportation Security Administration is filling the IT gaps in its Registered Traveler program, which it plans to roll out at up to 20 airports by year's end. The program is intended to let travelers who have agreed to background checks move through airport screening points more quickly.
Agencies tap Lockheed, General Dynamics for IWN contracts
The Integrated Wireless Network is designed to provide secure voice, data and multimedia communications to federal law enforcement agencies.
Homeland Security CTO Holcomb to retire
Lee Holcomb, the Homeland Security Department's longtime chief technology officer, yesterday informed federal CIOs via a memo that he plans to retire June 30.
DHS to keep score on local comm plans
Like security and e-government managers before them, radio interoperability managers in cities across the country soon will receive scorecards on their performance.
Charbo's promotion adds punch to DHS IT
Technology management will be a different game at the Homeland Security Department now that CIO Scott Charbo has been promoted to the additional position of acting assistant secretary for management. Charbo's promotion could spur the department's IT reform, but Charbo himself now will have less time to allocate to systems issues.
Justice awards bellwether case system contract
The Justice Department has awarded a $42 million contract to Computer Sciences Corp. for the Litigation Case Management System, a standardized environment that is intended improve management of legal resources and allow attorneys to share and manage trial information.
Justice taps CSC for bellwether case management system
The Justice Department has a new contract with Computer Sciences Corp. for the Litigation Case Management System, a standardized environment intended to improve management of legal resources and trial information.
Hord Tipton | Interior redesign
Interior Department CIO Hord Tipton has wrestled with some of the most daunting challenges in federal IT: When he took the job in an acting role in mid-2002, the department was reeling from a December 2001 court order that disconnected almost all Interior systems from the Internet.
DHS' Charbo promoted
The appointment and Senate confirmations filled notable gaps in the senior ranks of a department that has wrestled with leadership turnover for more than a year.
TSA proposes Registered Traveler business plan
The Transportation Security Administration has issued a proposed model for the Registered Traveler program to clarify the roles of the various organizations that jointly would run the operation.
TSA pushes forward with worker ID plan
The Transportation Security Administration has supercharged its project to vet port workers and give them secure credentials. Homeland Security Department deputy secretary Michael P. Jackson told skeptical senators that TSA is launching two rulemakings and a procurement for the Transportation Worker Identification Credential.
Auditors: DHS should spur use of critical infrastructure data
The Homeland Security Department should increase use of sensitive information it receives from private companies about vulnerable assets including utilities, private IT networks, and energy production and distribution facilities, according to the Government Accountability Office.
DHS privacy office slams RFID technology
The Homeland Security Department's Privacy Office has issued a draft report from a technology analysis group that strongly criticizes the personal privacy and security risks of using radio frequency identification device units for human identification and says the technology offers little performance benefit over competing methods.
CIS gets new technology chief
The Homeland Security Department's Citizenship and Immigration Services agency has brought on Jeff Conklin as CIO.
Jackson: TWIC procurement, reprogramming due soon
The Homeland Security Department plans to request proposals for a Transportation Worker Identity Credential systems integrator as early as today, according to deputy secretary Michael P. Jackson.
USAID taps five teams for $4 billion in technology work
The PRIME 3.2 contracts cover a wide range of IT services, including project management, systems integration, network engineering and security, and worldwide communications.
Justice to buy new data-sharing system
The Justice Department is laying the groundwork for acquisition of the National Data Exchange system'a 'card catalog' of criminal incident information from federal, state and local law-enforcement agencies.
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