Homeland department sets an enterprise architecture timetable
The Homeland Security Department must build a systems infrastructure from the network backbones as well as bits and pieces of IT in use at its 22 component agencies.
FBI's Dallas office fields first-alert service
To shore up law enforcement communications, agencies are looking to piggyback on successful data-sharing efforts. One such project is the Dallas Emergency Response Network.
Intelligence and military look to XML to share data
The Defense Department and the government's intelligence agencies are turning to Extensible Markup Language tags, registries and schemas as a way to share data across disparate systems.
First responders get homeland security network
The Justice Department and FBI are expanding their sensitive but unclassified law enforcement networks to share homeland security data across levels of government.
Agencies try tiered links to trade info
Federal, state and local agencies all agree that data sharing is vital to effective homeland defense. They've also come to realize that it's a supremely difficult task from a technical standpoint.
Homeland department gets into the cyberwar game
The Homeland Security Department is simulating cyberattacks and biological assaults to help prepare for the possibility of the real thing.<br>
IG audit slams NASA's software review process
NASA's software testing center has been reviewing only a portion of the agency's systems, exposing others to potential catastrophic failure, the space agency's inspector general has reported.<br>
Court raps Interior on American Indian trust system
A special master overseeing the Interior Department's efforts to overhaul its Indian trust fund accounting systems charged that the department and its contractor collaborated to hide flaws in the system.<br>
Significa
As the Iraq war reaches its final stages, the U.S. government is focusing its efforts on rebuilding Iraq's economy and providing the institutional underpinnings for a functioning democracy.
NASA analyzes Columbia's sensor recorder
NASA space shuttle engineers are analyzing the output from a sensor data recorder that survived the Columbia's fatal crash into an East Texas debris field.
Online extra: Legal impediments to data sharing
While the administration plans to assign intelligence analysis activities to the Terrorist Threat Integration Center, the Homeland Security Department retains responsibility for gathering information about vulnerabilities in the nation's infrastructure.
Homeland Security starting over with Safecom
With more than 53,000 public-safety groups using largely incompatible radio networks, Project Safecom was a long shot to finish in the 18- to 24-month time frame the Office of Management and Budget laid out.
Who has the information you need?
Around the office, around the city, around the state, around the nation, around the globe'agencies have struggled to share information since, well, the country's founding. Computers haven't removed the hurdles, just changed the nature of the challenge. 'There is a ton of information out there. The question is, who will share it with whom?' Justice's Richard H. Ward III says.
HSD seeks to secure data it gets from the private sector
The Homeland Security Department has proposed rules under which it would protect systems information it receives from the private sector. <br>
Crash probe panel urges in-flight shuttle imagery
The Columbia Accident Investigation Board today recommended that NASA arrange for the National Imagery and Mapping Agency to obtain images of shuttles in flight. <br>
State rolls out embassy Web pages
The State Department has started to launch secure Web sites for its embassies on the Open Source Information System, a senior department official told GCN. <br>
HSD names privacy officer
Nuala O'Connor Kelly, a veteran of senior privacy assignments in the public and private sectors, will become the first privacy officer of the Homeland Security Department, HSD officials said this afternoon. <br>
Homeland Security gains IT funds from supplemental bill
The Homeland Security Department reaped millions in additional funds for IT from its $6.71 billion slice of the fiscal 2003 supplemental appropriations bill. <br>
NSA has three-pronged systems plan
ORLANDO, Fla.'The National Security Agency is no longer an information agency in an industrial world, as it was when created in 1952, NSA's director said.
HSD lowers threat level
The Homeland Security Department this morning lowered the nation's threat advisory level to yellow from orange, secretary Tom Ridge said. <br>
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