Digital Government
Do agencies still have year-end spending sprees?
We tried to find out what agencies are spending their year-end money on, but it might not work like that anymore.
Cybersecurity
DHS tests cyber response plan in global drill
The Homeland Security Department began its second day of a three-day global cybersecurity exercise intended to test readiness for large-scale cyberattacks.
Cybersecurity
Lawmakers pressure DHS on financial modernization program
Two House Democrats have written the White House to criticize a Homeland Security Department financial system upgrade expected to cost as much as $1 billion.
Cybersecurity
DHS gets average grade on public transit info sharing
The Homeland Security Department could do a better job of streamlining the security information flow to public transit agencies, according to a new GAO report.
Digital Government
American Security Challenge to honor Gen. Alexander
This year's American Security Challenge will feature a ceremony to honor Gen. Keith Alexander with the 2010 Patriot Award.
Digital Government
Culture, management issues continue to affect consolidation efforts
The success of data center consolidation initiatives will be determined more by culture and management issues than technology, according to federal managers and industry experts speaking at a recent conference on data center optimization.
Digital Government
DHS to combine databases for immigration management
A new Homeland Security Department system will combine data from multiple databases to detect fraud more readily and respond to information requests more quickly.
Cybersecurity
DOD, DHS earn failing grades in foreign language
The Defense and Homeland Security departments don't have enough specialists who are fluent in Middle Eastern and Asian foreign languages. Can technology help bridge the gap?
Digital Government
US-CERT systems riddled with vulnerabilities, audit finds
Scans of the IT systems of lead Homeland Security division for cybersecurity found numerous vulnerabilities, according to a report from the DHS Inspector General.
Cybersecurity
DHS starts Predator UAV flights in Texas
The Homeland Security Department on Sept. 1 began flying regularly scheduled unmanned Predator aircraft surveillance flights from Corpus Christi, Texas, expanding the department’s total unmanned air surveillance capabilities to the entire Southwest land border.
Cybersecurity
DHS restructures IT workforce
The Homeland Security Department is restructuring its workforce to achieve a more even balance between federal information technology personnel and contractors.
Digital Government
DHS offers e-mail services via private cloud
The Homeland Security Department will provide e-mail as a service through a private cloud platform to its various components and agencies as part of data-center consolidation efforts.
Digital Government
Five years after Katrina, government IT still feels storm's fury
Five years after Hurricane Katrina ravaged the Gulf Coast, the region continues to rebuild and the federal government is still trying to fix information technology-related problems that the storm and its aftermath exposed.
Digital Government
DHS manager slammed by IG for aiding relative
A Science and Technology Directorate manager violated ethics policies by plotting to deliver agency-funded software to a relative, according to an audit by the DHS inspector general.
Cybersecurity
DHS to automate watch list feeds
The Homeland Security Department and the Terrorist Screening Center will use a program to simplify how DHS receives information from the government's centralized terrorist database.
Cybersecurity
Government, industry fall short in sharing cyber threat data
Government and industry need to do a better job of sharing information about cybersecurity threats to U.S. critical infrastructure, according to the Government Accountability Office.
Cybersecurity
US-VISIT tests of limited value, GAO finds
The Homeland Security Department should incorporate more than the results of two recent pilot programs to decide whether and how to pursue a biometric-based air exit system for non-U.S. citizens.
Cybersecurity
DHS wants more teams that respond to cyber threats
The Homeland Security Department wants to expand its cadre of teams that help factories and power plants protect against cyber threats to their supervisory control and data acquisition systems.
Cybersecurity
U.S. approach to global cybersecurity falls short, GAO says
White House Cybersecurity Coordinator Howard Schmidt should take action to deal with problems posed by global cyberspace policy questions, a report says.
Modernization