Cybersecurity
Registered Traveler: Data privacy, security prompts chairman’s inquiry
A House committee chairman is questioning TSA on its handling of personal data for the Registered Traveler program.
Cybersecurity
Verified Identity Pass shuts down Registered Traveler lanes
Transportation Security Administration declines to comment on closure.
Cybersecurity
Napolitano endorses PASS ID bill
Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano has backed proposed legislation that would repeal part of the Real ID Act.
Cybersecurity
Obama names DHS management honcho
President Barack Obama has named Rafael Borras as DHS under secretary for management.
Digital Government
House backs biometrics in DHS 2010 spending bill
The House endorsed a spending increase on DHS' largest biometrics program in the fiscal 2010 spending bill it has passed.
Cybersecurity
Coast Guard seeks new IT directorate
To fully carry out its modernization plans — including a new command structure for IT — the Coast Guard must obtain additional authorization from Congress, GAO says.
Cybersecurity
DHS to kill satellite surveillance program
The Homeland Security Department is going to halt a controversial program to make intelligence and military satellite imagery available to civilian agencies for domestic purposes.
Cybersecurity
E-Verify extension in contention
The Senate and House would each extend the E-Verify program in their Homeland Security appropriations bills, but they differ on by how long.
Cybersecurity
New bill seeks to replace Real ID with PASS ID
Legislation that proponents say could revitalize the moribund Real ID program would do so by removing expensive and controversial information technology requirements from current law. However, critics said the new bill would not really solve the problems they see with the program.
Cybersecurity
Lawmakers differ on DHS data center funding
House and Senate bills to fund the Homeland Security Department in fiscal 2010 are at odds over how much money to give DHS for its data center consolidation program.
Cybersecurity
DHS centralizes cybersecurity programs
Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said DHS' many cybersecurity functions have been centralized under Philip Reitinger.
Cybersecurity
Deepwater watch: Coast Guard Acquisition Directorate gets new leader
The Coast Guard Acquisition Directorate has a new rear admiral in charge — Ronald Rábago.
Modernization
Bill would fund DHS data center consolidation
A Senate Appropriations Committee subcommittee today approved a bill that would give DHS "significant" money to continue its data center consolidation program.
Cybersecurity
DHS funds IT-related projects
Some of the $1.8 billion in DHS grants will go to state and local governments' technology projects.
Cybersecurity
DHS spending bill would fund SBInet, E-Verify
The DHS spending bill approved by the House Appropriations Committee would fund several technology programs.
Cybersecurity
Official: Gates still considering cyber command
A new Defense Department cyber command would not lead to a military takeover of cyberspace, says Deputy Defense Secretary William Lynn.
Cybersecurity
DHS resists security clearance improvements
The inspector general recommended several ways for DHS officials to improve the security clearance process, but agency leaders have objected.
Cybersecurity
Senate bill would loosen IT requirements under Real ID
Senators introduced a bill today that would loosen some information technology requirements under the REAL ID law.
Cybersecurity
Homeland Security keeps cybersecurity role
The Homeland Security Department's proposed budget for fiscal 2010 and recent public statements show the Obama administration's new cybersecurity strategy isn't cutting out DHS.
Cybersecurity