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Justice bureau deploys more predictive analytics software
Tools can cross-check crimes with similar characteristics, idenitfy suspects who behave in similar ways and spot anomalies in collected data.
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Law enforcement net goes IP
The 41 million-plus transmissions carried by the National Law Enforcement Telecommunication System each month can now be encrypted.
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Ciber gets aerospace contract
The consulting firm will help a NASA center develop a curriculum for its engineers.
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Blum gets competitive OMB post
Federal competitive sourcing initiative manager Mathew Blum will become OMB's new associate administrator for competitive sourcing.
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IG: Inadequate IT hobbled DHS’ 2004 hurricane response
The IG cites an unintegrated IT environment that sometimes required paper-based workarounds devised at the last minute, but FEMA's CIO defends the agency.
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OMB to add internal controls requirements to PMA scorecard
The Office of Management and Budget will add implementation of milestones for tighter internal controls to federal agencies’ ratings for the President’s Management Agenda scorecard during fiscal 2006. <@SM>
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WIN-T system design works
General Dynamics and Lockheed Martin demonstrate key technologies for the Army’s future battlefield comms system.
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CSC, Unisys win IT support work
Integrators get new military orders for Web development and software support.
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Bonner to retire from Customs and Border Protection
As former customs commissioner, Robert Bonner oversaw the merger of three agencies and 42,000 employees into the U.S. Customs and Border Patrol.
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Harris County sheriff uses new integrated biometric solution
Motorola teams with Viisage for facial recognition and other capabilities for Texas law enforcement.
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DHS privacy officer to depart
Nuala O’Connor Kelly, the first chief privacy officer at the Homeland Security Department, announced today that she is leaving her position.
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Senate looks for lessons from alternative pay systems
Senator says lawmakers and agency managers should study how alternative systems are working before changing to unproved systems.
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Justice helps police with free mapping software
Earlier this month, the Justice Department handed out free software to police as part of a new crime prevention system.
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Kentucky and New Mexico authenticate political campaign sites
The new technology creates a registry of genuine sites to make it easier to spot fakes set up to defraud donors or misinform voters.
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Service-oriented components advance transformation
The government’s vision for IT architecture that focuses more on citizen services than agency functions will become slightly clearer next week with the release of two new descriptive service components, said Dick Burk, the government’s chief architect.
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Boeing gets more FCS funds
The Army awards the company a $219.2 million increment under a $17.4 billion contract.
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GAO raps procurement data system
The next-generation system is hard to use and information is out of date, analysts found.
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DOD signs Symantec enterprise deal
The company’s products and services are now available at reduced prices.
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