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IG: No Undue Access for Makers of Bin Laden Film
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TSA reports progress in port identification card program
January 23, 2008 House Democrats acknowledged that the Transportation Security Administration has made some progress in rolling out its identification card program for workers at the nation's ports, but said the agency needed to establish firm timelines for its remaining milestones. The Transportation Worker Identification Credential program was established in December 2001 to ...
'Erased' personal data on agency tapes can be retrieved, company says
January 23, 2008 Personal and sensitive government data -- including employees' personal data -- on magnetic tapes that federal agencies erase and later sell can be retrieved using simple technology, according to an investigation conducted by a storage tape manufacturer. The findings contradict a report released by the Government Accountability Office last year ...
Plan to require travel documents at border crossings could be delayed
January 23, 2008 The Homeland Security Department has made progress rolling out its program for monitoring border crossings, but deploying and testing the technology will pose significant challenges that could cause delays, according to a report from the Government Accountability Office released on Jan. 22. DHS, consulting with the State Department, has developed ...
Changes for FirstSource?
January 18, 2008
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The Homeland Security Department may be considering some changes to FirstSource, its indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity small business contract for purchasing of commodity IT goods. The contracting vehicle, which complements the Enterprise Acquisition Gateway for Leading Edge Solutions (EAGLE) contract for acquiring IT services solutions, was awarded to 11 businesses ...
OMB orders agencies to report on efforts to protect private data
January 18, 2008 Changes to the Federal Information Security Management Act will require federal agencies to report on how they are protecting private information, starting at the end of this fiscal year, according to a memo released from the Office of Management and Budget Friday. FISMA, which took effect in 2002, requires agencies ...
CIA official: North American power company systems hacked
January 18, 2008 Hackers have targeted computers that operate power companies worldwide, causing at least one widespread electricity outage, a Central Intelligence Agency senior analyst told North American government and public works representatives in New Orleans this week. The SANS Institute, a nonprofit cybersecurity research organization in Bethesda, Md., planned to release a ...
Missing e-mails should be on backup tapes, White House CIO says
January 16, 2008 E-mails from the White House, which watchdog groups alleged to be improperly deleted between 2003 and 2005, may exist on backup tapes, the White House chief information officer claims in court documents filed yesterday. During the 2006 Valerie Plame incident, in which presidential aides were found to have leaked Plame's ...
Microsoft offers feds support for online services
January 16, 2008 Microsoft Corp. announced Wednesday that it would provide federal agencies services to host its software products such as Microsoft Office and e-mail in an effort to mirror Google's popular approach of offering hosted Web-based applications. Traditionally, federal agencies purchase software such as Microsoft Office through enterprise licenses that allow an ...
DHS revamps driver's license rules to cut costs to states
January 11, 2008 The Homeland Security Department today announced revamped guidelines for its program of how states issue driver's licenses that the government hopes will curb the criticism from states that previous approaches cost too much and by extending the deadline to issue the more secure licenses by six years to 2014. The ...
Administration faces big challenge in records preservation
January 10, 2008 By Feb. 1, the National Archives and Records Administration and the White House must provide congressional watchdogs with an update on preparations for the transition of all presidential records to the National Archives by January 2009. Concerns over progress might be well-founded: Proper handling of electronic documents, the need to ...
