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DHS accepts Project 28
After months of delays, the department has accepted the first task order for SBInet, a multibillion-dollar project to use technology and fencing to secure the border.
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To rev recruitment, CBP turns to NASCAR
Customs and Border Protection plans to sponsor a car in 29 NASCAR races this year as a way to remedy its shortage of agents.
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TSA's CISO to join Unisys
After more than five years at the agency, Patricia Titus will step down next month.
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Case closed after DHS drops labor relations plan
After DHS promised to drop its plans to revamp some labor regulations, a federal district court closed a case between the department and unions that opposed the plans.
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New tech improves communication for employees with loss of hearing
The Library of Congress has begun a new video relay service to improve how deaf and hard-of-hearing employees can communicate with each other and with hearing employees.
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DHS handoff worries lawmakers
Department refuses to share presidential transition document with lawmakers.
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A new threat, a new institution: The fusion center
Rich Kelly, head of New Jersey’s Regional Operations Intelligence Center, is building a new type of facility to improve threat information-sharing and coordination.
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Chertoff: DHS likely to accept Project 28 within days
DHS' secretary told lawmakers that after months of delays the department would likely accept the first task order of the department's multiyear, multibillion-dollar SBInet program to secure the U.S. southern border.
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DHS' IG: Legacy IT systems pose a major challenge
Problems could happen after a major disaster.
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Judge to let group explore Office of Administration's workings
A federal District Court judge has agreed to allow "very limited discovery" to answer whether the OA should be considered an agency and thus subject to FOIA requests.
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FBI awards NGI contract to Lockheed Martin
Under the contract, potentially worth $1 billion, the company will develop the bureau's Next Generation Identification system.
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Justice Department files charges in espionage cases
The two cases involve the alleged passing of government and trade secrets to the Chinese government.
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DHS' annual privacy report later than expected, again
Document chronicles the work of the department's privacy office
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Bush asks to boost State and USAID budgets for information technology
The administration wants to spend $414 million on the department's IT Central Fund in fiscal 2009.
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EPA uses Web 2.0 to clean up the environment
Officials traveled to Washington last week to unveil information for cleaning up Puget Sound they collected in November.
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Budget takes aim at Justice earmarks
Bush's request would consolidate state and local law enforcement assistance grants and boost funding for counterterrorism activities.
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Border security, immigration would get budget boost in '09
But the Bush administration proposes cutting funding of some state and local grants, a move Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.) opposes.
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Are White House e-mails gone for good?
Major differences between COOP and e-mail archiving systems are center stage.
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