GCN Insider | Cross Match does 10 prints in a hurry
It's not every day you set a record. Jim Ziglar, CEO of Cross Match Technologies, said GCN might have set one. And Jim's a former Senate Sergeant at Arms and Commissioner of the Immigration and Naturalization Service, so we trust him. In an impressive prerelease demonstration, we used Cross Match's new LSCAN Guardian scanner to capture 10 digital fingerprints in only eight seconds.
JTRS office says streamlined development could save billions
Study suggests R&D costs could be cut up to $6B by moving to an incremental approach to development.
DHS still gearing up response to cyberthreats
The nation faces a real threat to its critical infrastructure while the Homeland Security Department still struggles to develop the systems needed to assess and respond to those risks, the department's head of cybersecurity said today.
TSA names privacy director
The Transportation Security Administration today announced that Peter Pietra has been named the agency's director of privacy policy and compliance. He now is TSA's assistant chief counsel for information law.
EEOC hires Interior's NBC for finance management
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has re-upped with the Interior Department's National Business Center for financial-management services.
Incoming
The Air Force and Army plan to replace legacy weather systems with an integrated system under the Joint Environmental Toolkit program.
Virtual Space: Tour de Force
Tomorrow (April 18) marks the 100th anniversary of the great San Francisco earthquake. The Geological Survey has developed an extensive look back,
Packet Rat | Left at the Altar
LinuxWorld has become another one of those snoring boring trade shows ever since Linux became a corporate darling (thanks to IBM and Hewlett-Packard). There are no more FreeBSD booth babes in painted-on red devil costumes, no more T-shirted and top-hatted codephreaks wandering the aisles, no one hacking into the demo servers on the show floor.
Intel Fusion Centers are Catching On
At least 28 states and U.S. territories are making it a top priority to open intelligence fusion centers, according to a survey of homeland security directors compiled by the National Governors Association. Forty directors from states and territories responded to the survey.
Cross-Agency Exercise Proves HSPD-12 Model
The Defense and Homeland Security departments, along with first responders from Maryland and Virginia, recently showed just how important trust is under Homeland Security Presidential Directive-12.
State begins work on PASS cards
The State Department is planning a procurement to begin the process of issuing millions of PASS cards, which U.S. citizens crossing the border will be able to use in lieu of passports.
RFID in the cards at the border?
The recent extension of radio frequency identification testing at border crossings would seem to boost the prospects for getting widespread systems in place. But the Homeland Security Department still faces significant hurdles in integrating, particularly for border crossing, RFID applications and standards, government officials and IT experts said.
Agencies shore up as hurricane season looms
This hurricane season, things will be different, federal officials are promising.For one thing, information sharing will improve, they say: from the Federal Emergency Management Agency's use of the Global Positioning System to track the flow of food, water, medical supplies and other important items, to weekly meetings of law enforcement officials across all levels of government.
Deals & Deadlines
The General Services Administration has issued requests for information for the Geospatial and IT Infrastructure Lines of Business and set industry days in Washington April 18 and 19.
OMB wants EAs integrated
Agencies are drowning in the alphabet soup of cross-agency initiatives'from IPv6 to HSPD-12 to LOBs to e-government'trying to figure out how they fit in with their overall missions. For the past four years, the Office of Management and Budget has pushed and prodded CIOs and their staffs to complete their enterprise architectures to show how their systems fit together, what technologies are being used and how the agency plans to improve their missions using new technology. But somewhere amid the flood of administration mandates, the ability to combine them into their EAs either was lost or just didn't develop.
OPM uses its buying power to support health IT
The Office of Personnel Management is pushing the adoption of health IT from the inside. With the weight of its 8 million-member Federal Employee Health Benefits program behind it, OPM earlier this month said it will make the implementation of health technology'including electronic health records, e-prescribing and linking disease management to health IT'part of the performance plans for its contracted carriers. The change will take two to four years, officials said.
GSA struggling to regain momentum
Lurita Alexis Doan is about to have her hands full. After she was nominated by President Bush to take over the struggling General Services Administration, government and industry experts said that both restoring the agency's morale and winning back customers will be chief among several high priorities.
The Tangled Web of E-Rate
Congress created the E-Rate program as part of the Telecommunications Act of 1996 in a bid to provide Internet access to schools and libraries that otherwise would not have been able to afford broadband cabling and associated equipment, such as routers and servers. In the years since, the E-Rate program has come under fire partly because of its arcane and incestuous administrative structure.
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