Court raps Interior, EDS over Indian trust system
The attorney appointed by U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth to oversee the Interior Department's overhaul of its American Indian trust fund accounting systems charged that the department and its contractor collaborated to hide the system's flaws.
Tracking system on fast track
The Homeland Security Department has renamed the Entry-Exit System for tracking people who cross the border into the United States the U.S. Visitor and Immigration Status Indication Technology system, or US Visit.
Homeland information sharing improving, officials say
The Homeland Security Department's emerging enterprise architecture is beginning to harmonize information sharing, officials told the House Government Reform Committee this morning.<br>
IRS official will oversee HSD's entry-exit system
James Williams, an IRS deputy associate commissioner, now is on detail at the Homeland Security Department to help with a system to track border crossers.<br>
Senate panel demands merged terror watch lists
The Senate Select Committee on Intelligence has approved an intelligence authorization bill that calls for increased information sharing and data consolidation.<br>
Terror attack mock-up has a cyber angle
The Homeland Security Department and dozens of federal, state and local agencies will launch a simulated five-day terrorist attack on May 12 designed to include a small role for cyberwarfare.
Bell tolls for state e-gov department
Wisconsin's legislature this week gave preliminary approval to Gov. Jim Doyle's proposal to close down the state's 2-year-old Electronic Government Department. <br>
Aggregating data helps, but raises privacy concerns
Data mining is one way homeland security analysts can generate aggregate data sets. But cultural practices have not kept up with technology.
Agencies must dine on alphabet soup
Like laborers on the tower of Babel, state and federal IT officials are frustrated in their efforts to share information for homeland security purposes, in part because they speak different languages.
HSD signs on to e-signatures for immigration
The Homeland Security Department last week issued an interim rule clearing the way for the use of electronic signatures for filing immigration benefits applications.
How data is used creates culture gulf
If terrorists and other criminals benefit from a culture of sharing information, shouldn't government agencies trying to stop them be able to do the same?
GAO: Merge terror watch lists
The federal government's 12 terrorism watch lists, which are spread across nine agencies, should be consolidated into one comprehensive, unified database of individuals who are considered to be threats to the country, the General Accounting Office said.<br>
Online extra: Is the data for spies or for cops?
Some cultural barriers to information sharing for homeland security reflect a fundamental conflict: Intelligence agencies gather secret information for purposes of preventing terrorist acts; law enforcement agencies prosecute offenders.
Justice will study terrorism's impact at state, local levels
Amid controversy over the burden that homeland security expenses have imposed on state and local governments, the Justice Department announced plans for a survey of international crime and terrorism.<br>
Significa
IT advancements have often been driven by the needs of the space program. In the 1960s and 1970s, NASA sparked the trend for small, light systems. Now commercial requirements have overtaken and nearly eliminated circuitry built only for government use.
Renamed Entry Exit system gathers steam, Ridge says
The Homeland Security Department has renamed its system for tracking persons crossing the border and plans to begin contracting for the US Visit system shortly.<br>
Homeland Security will accept electronic signatures
The Homeland Security Department's Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement today issued an interim final rule clearing the way for applicants to submit electronic signatures on immigration benefit documents.<br>
Homeland Security to take immigration filings online
Beginning May 29, the Homeland Security Department will accept some immigration filings online. <br>
NOAA sites get Web botox
The National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration gave face-lifts to two sites this week.<br>
Interior yanks Norton's e-mail server overnight
The Interior Department last night disconnected one of two e-mail servers in the office of secretary Gale Norton because of concerns that the system did not comply with court orders in the American Indian trust litigation.<br>
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