People

NOAA opens coastal portal

Officials say nowCOAST collects weather and water-related conditions in their communities.

People

XML deal inked for responders

DHS and the Emergency Interoperability Consortium formally agreed to jointly develop XML standards for emergency response.

People

Washington overhauls Medicaid system

State health officials hired a Rockville, Md.-based company to modernize Washington's '70s-era Medicaid system.

People

Terror response research to get center

DHS wants to establish a university center to study event preparedness and response.

Modernization

HUD org charts go online

TimeVision's software will create Web-based organizational charts for HUD.

Cybersecurity

DHS, DOJ plan cybercrime survey

Officials plan to ask 36,000 businesses about computer security incidents.

People

Expect electronic cargo seals

A customs and border official is cautiously optimistic that containers with tamper-evident electronic seals will be deployed in 2005.

Digital Government

Battelle predicts $312B in 2005 R&D

It would be a 3.6 percent increase from the 2004 estimate for U.S. research and development funding.

People

M/A-COM to build Va. comm system

The company will install an 800 MHz digital system for the Rockingham-Harrisonburg Emergency Communications Center.

People

UMD gets DHS grant

The University of Maryland will receive $12 million from the Homeland Security Department to study terrorism.

Cybersecurity

Mind your own business

The best way to safeguard personal information? Don't collect it.

Cybersecurity

GAO calls for security strategy

Officials say the committee in charge of coordinating protection of fed facilities needs a strategic plan.

People

Johnson plans DHS departure

Jack Johnson Jr., the Homeland Security Department's chief security officer, announced he will resign effective Feb. 19.

People

DHS offers stadium tool

As the NFL playoffs begin, security managers can use an online app to find vulnerabilities at public venues.

People

National Response Plan debuts

It will provide a standardized federal response coordinated with state, local and tribal jurisdictions to any man-made or natural disaster or incident.

People

EDS wins DHS travel deal

DHS hired the company to develop a Web-based reservation service.

Acquisition

American Indian company grows in the public sector

The small company is one of many competing for the government's information technology business.

People

DHS puts its money on standards

Homeland Security Department officials join an industry standards group that has developed a facial recognition standard.

Cybersecurity

DHS buys information assurance

Homeland Security Department officials have awarded a contract to Northrop Grumman and Q1 Labs for software that analyzes and mitigates cyberthreats.

Modernization

Sandia upgrades digital media management

Planning for the lab's Web-based system started about 18 months ago because the current client-server system had become archaic, Sandia's database administrator says.