Cybersecurity

GAO: DHS has mixed record on FOIA

Some DHS agencies are falling behind on their Freedom of Information Act requests, while others saw improvement in the past two years, GAO says.

Cybersecurity

2010 budget adds to DHS immigration programs

The Obama administration has requested a 6.5 percent increase for the Homeland Security Department, which would raise the department’s discretionary budget to $42.7 billion.

Modernization

TSA checks out systems for waiting time data

The agency wants information on systems to collect hourly data on waiting times for passenger security checkpoints at airports.

Cybersecurity

DHS gets IT money in stimulus

The Homeland Security Department will get about $2.8 billion from the stimulus package; about half of that money will go for IT-related items such as scanners and surveillance systems.

Modernization

Senate to vote on Stimulus cut for IT

Sens. Nelson and Collins are promoting an amendment that would cut $83 billion from the stimulus package, including reductions in major IT items.

Cybersecurity

House again passes traveler redress bill

The House has again passed a measure that would require enhanced redress processes for passengers misidentified by databases or terrorist watch lists.

Cybersecurity

Deadlines loom for ITIP contract

Bidders prepare to fight for TSA infrastructure contract.

Cybersecurity

Letter: Airport employees are not beyond temptation

A reader writes to say that it took 13 years after the Pan Am Flight 103 bombing over Lockerbie, Scotland, and the 2001 terrorist attacks to address airport security.