Modernization
Google-eyed users flood SEC site
Downloading volumes increased tenfold on the SEC's site after Google filed for an IPO.
People
Bush issues Biodefense Directive
Officials want to better integrate efforts to combat bioterrorism.
People
Portland group simulates crisis
A nonprofit organization uses game tech to train officials in reacting to disasters and terrorist attacks.
People
GAO finds holes in HUD records
Auditors say Housing and Urban Development didn't properly account for purchases of computer equipment.
People
Firm resolve but no easy resolution
Federal officials wrestle with homeland security problems
People
CopLink vendor focuses on interoperability
A Tucson, Ariz.-based company announced the creation of an interoperability certification program to accelerate future deployments.
People
DHS funds think tank
Analytic Services has been hired to run the Homeland Security Institute.
People
FEMA to test continuity plans
An exercise next month will show well 45 federal departments and agencies fare with their continuity of operations plans.
Digital Government
Texas center encrypts with NeoScale
The University of Texas Health Science Center spent $400,000 for a NeoScale system to encrypt and store data.
People
Ridge, Powell back extensions of biometric passport deadline
The two secretaries urged Congress to give visa-waiver countries more time to build biometric features into their passports.
People
DHS debuts info portal
The Lessons Learned Information Sharing system was unveiled in Oklahoma City on the ninth anniversary of the 1995 terrorist bombing.
Digital Government
Emergency alerts delivered intelligently
The Pennsylvania Southwest Emergency Response Group uses Prodigent for Emergency Management.
People
DHS funds control systems research
Eleven small-business research grants recently awarded deal with secure supervisory control and data acquisition systems.
People
Tech building Safe Cities
DHS to unveil initiative for implementing Homeland Security technologies and systems in local communities and regions.
Modernization
LAS software parses names
Language Analysis Systems is developing a product to search for names and their variations across databases with foreign documents.
Acquisition
USmax wins NOAA deal
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration will pay USmax $2.6 million to support the NOAA Network Operations Center.
People
HHS gets CIO
Charles Havekost will become chief information officer for Health and Human Services.
Modernization
Industry day set for wireless network
Scheduled for April 27, the Industry Day for the Integrated Wireless Network Program will be in Arlington, Va.
People
Input sees 12 percent growth for DHS tech in 2005
An analyst for the market research firm expects DHS to get $4.6 billion for IT in the next fiscal year.
Modernization
Northrop wins network deal
The company will get $350 million to create the Homeland Security Data Network.
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