Most of EU will miss biometric passport deadline
Only six European Union countries that currently enjoy visa-free travel to the United States are expected to meet an Oct. 26 deadline for initiating biometric passports.
DISA awards contract to upgrade telecom network
The Defense Information Systems Agency has hired Nortel Networks Federal Solutions division to improve the Defense Switched Network under a $20 million contract.
Oracle buys into ID management
Buying Oblix gives Oracle the ability to provide secure access control over heterogeneous environments.
Pentagon takes over major Air Force buys
Michael Wynne, undersecretary of Defense for acquisition, technology and logistics, has temporarily taken over 21 major acquisitions.
Auditors: Questions hang over passenger-screening system
Homeland Security's fledgling passenger-screening system faces uncertainties in schedule, cost, functionality and privacy impact, a new GAO report concludes.
NIST offers HIPAA security guidance
The National Institute of Standards and Technology has issued a new guide on securing health information.
Feds face more complex cyberattacks
Attacks and probes of government networks are becoming more sophisticated, and hackers may be looking for backdoors into vulnerable computers, according to Symantec's latest Internet Security Threat Report.
Feds still value WordPerfect
Word processing software a good fit for legal, government work.
Retirement having little effect on IT skills, survey finds
Retirement is not diluting the skills of the federal IT workforce, according to a new study by the CIO Council and the Office of Personnel Management.
Financial management program director retires
Karen Alderman is leaving the Joint Financial Management Improvement Program'a program she led for seven years.
Army heading toward paperless forms
By fall, the Army will automate its first forms applications to run over a single, integrated system.
Future of immigration systems makeover unclear
Citizenship and Immigration Services has apparently set aside its plans for a sweeping systems integration project.
For DOD, one in 1,048,000 is not unique enough
A simple math problem related to serial numbers assigned to active Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) required the Defense Department to update 20 major logistics management information systems and just over 1,500 RFID workstations world-wide over the past year.
Navy adds more to IT maintenance contract
The Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center in Charleston, S.C., has awarded a $46.7 million IT maintenance and services contract.
SEC's weak security puts data at risk: GAO
The Securities and Exchange Commission needs to strengthen its controls over financial and other sensitive data, the Government Accountability Office said in a new report.
Navy hires General Dynamics for combat systems project
The service has awarded a five-year, $95 million contract to General Dynamics to help design a systems integration strategy for specialized combat applications.
Grants.gov team considers awardee database
'It's easy to do,' program manager Rebecca Spitzgo says. 'We just have to come up with a schema for award data and expand our use of Web services."
Betis, CDW land Air Force work
Officials at CDW's Government business unit announced earlier this week they will work with Betis Group to provide hardware, software and information technology services to the Air Force's Air Education and Training Command.
GSA delays release of Networx final RFP
The agency is modifying the vendor requirements for billing, reporting and verification of operational support systems for the next-generation telecom network.
Report: U.S. Visit needs database integration to succeed
Homeland Security is hampered in its efforts to verify the identities of visitors at U.S. borders by the need to check multiple databases, a new IG report concludes.
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