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InternetNews
October 26, 2006
Roy Mark |
Most Countries Meet E-Passport Deadline Only three Visa Waiver Program countries failed to meet today's deadline for issuing electronic passports.   |
InternetNews
January 13, 2006
Roy Mark |
Biometric Passports Face Second Test E-passports now contain security features aimed at preventing 'skimming' of data embedded on chips. |
InternetNews
June 22, 2005
Roy Mark |
E-Passport Progress Still Stymied? Lawmakers lashed out today at Bush administration officials for their latest delay in implementing biometric passports. |
InternetNews
June 15, 2004
Roy Mark |
Biometric Passports: Not Ready for Prime Time Department of Homeland Security and State Department seek two-year extension of deadline for machine-readable passports with biometric identifiers. |
InternetNews
August 21, 2006
Roy Mark |
Infineon Wins E-Passport Order German chipmaker Infineon is the winning bidder to supply security chips for the new U.S. e-passports, which the Department of State began issuing earlier this month. |
InternetNews
October 23, 2006
Roy Mark |
U.S. E-Passports Hitting Market Four years in the making, RFID-embedded passports meeting milestones. |
InternetNews
July 27, 2004
Roy Mark |
Biometric Passport Program Hits Snag Lack of chips and interoperability standards force one-year extension of biometric passport compliance. |
PC World
February 2005
Andrew Brandt |
Biometric Passports Fail Early Privacy Tests The federal Department of Homeland Security spent the past six months testing biometric passport prototypes and wants to roll out the new technology as soon as possible. |
National Defense
January 2015
Stew Magnuson |
Renewed Push to Collect Exit Data at Airports, Land Crossings The United States has never required foreigners to present their travel documents before leaving so authorities can't be certain who is or isn't overstaying a visa, a flaw that Congress has mandated that the executive branch remedy. |
Reason
March 2005
Julian Sanchez |
No Passport to Privacy Travelers get chipped: In October the Government awarded contracts to produce a new generation of smart passports embedded with biometric RFID chips capable of transmitting data to readers dozens of feet away. |
InternetNews
December 7, 2005
Tim Gray |
Ridge: Terrorist Threats Spur Tech Former U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security and Governor of Pennsylvania Tom Ridge said today ongoing terrorist threats would continue to drive science and technology innovation in the United States and in the process make a better and stronger country. |
InternetNews
October 25, 2006
Roy Mark |
Security is in the Vicinity The feds have a deal for you: a new passport card that some security experts are already criticizing. |
InternetNews
October 26, 2005
Tim Gray |
E-Passports Will be a Reality in 2006 Americans holding U.S. passports issued after October 2006 will carry embedded radio frequency identification (RFID) chips inside the documents, according to the U.S. State Department. |
InternetNews
January 28, 2009
Richard Adhikari |
Napolitano Keeps DHS on the Hop With cybersecurity, information sharing and risk analysis on the agenda for next week, the new Homeland Security secretary is looking to patch holes, fast. |
National Defense
March 2005
Joe Pappalardo |
U.S.-Canadian Border Crossings to Tighten Security The bridges and border control stations on the U.S.-Canada border are undergoing strategic overhauls, not only to increase security but also to ensure rapid throughput of commercial traffic, leaders from both nations recently announced. |
National Defense
September 2010
Magnuson & Fugate |
Senators Have Low Regard for DHS Policy Reviews Republicans at a Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee hearing stridently criticized two DHS documents for lacking substance and stating grandiose ideals without delivering specifics. |
National Defense
July 2006
Harold Kennedy |
Biometric Check on U.S. Visitors Drawing Criticism A controversial effort by the Department of Homeland security to create a biometric computer system to keep tabs on all foreigners entering and leaving the country is drawing increasing flak at home and abroad. |
CIO
July 1, 2005
Thomas Wailgum |
Is Big Brother Coming to Your Wallet? Despite privacy worries, the march is on toward putting RFIDs in individuals' wallets, whether or not they want them. Whenever companies decide to deploy RFIDs containing personal data, CIOs will have to figure out what's going to be done with the data. |
Popular Mechanics
August 25, 2008 |
Obama, McCain Scout High-Tech Homeland Revamp Here is a breakdown of each candidate's positions on homeland security. |
InternetNews
April 4, 2005
Susan Kuchinskas |
Privacilla: RFID For Goods, Not People A conservative think tank came out against the U.S. proposal to place radio frequency identification (RFID) chips in all citizens' passports. |
InternetNews
January 14, 2005
Roy Mark |
EPassport Awards More RFID Contracts The U.S. Government Printing Office has awarded four more contracts for sample RFID computer chips to be used in the 2006 launch of electronic passports. |
National Defense
March 2010
Stew Magnuson |
Put the 'H.S.' Back in DHS, Says Leading Department Critic The Department of Homeland Security is still learning the ropes years after its creation because so much of what it does has nothing to do with homeland security and counterterrorism. |
InternetNews
June 1, 2004
Roy Mark |
Accenture Lands Potential $10B Federal Contract Company to employ biometrics as part of Department of Homeland Defense's virtual border program. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics
September 2004 |
DHS to Begin Biometric Exit Pilot as Part of US-VISIT Program Digital finger scans and digital photographs are the biometric technology currently in use under the US-VISIT program. Any foreign visitor with a visa who leaves the U.S. through one of the pilot locations is required to comply with the exit procedure. |
National Defense
January 2008
Stew Magnuson |
DHS Pressing On With Troubled Technology Programs Whether it is program delays, public uproars over its policies, court challenges or accusations of mismanagement, nothing ever seems to go smoothly for DHS. Many of these controversial programs involve the development of new technologies. |
National Defense
February 2009
Stew Magnuson |
DHS Leaders Inherit Litany of Procurement Woes There is a new administration and a new Congress. But will it be a new day for the way the Department of Homeland Security acquires technology? |
National Defense
November 2006
Stew Magnuson |
Fear of Terror Weapons Drives Tech Funding With the nation in the throes of the so-called "long war," it is no surprise that the bulk of the Department of Homeland Security's research dollars is going toward technologies designed to prevent terrorist attacks. |
InternetNews
December 3, 2004
Susan Kuchinskas |
EPassports Could Have Blocking Mechanism Late last week, the ACLU accused the U.S. government of rushing the rollout of insecure, RFID-enabled passports in hopes of creating a de facto global identification standard that could be used for surveillance. |
National Defense
August 2011
Stew Magnuson |
Where in the World Is Janet Napolitano? Since her first visit to Germany in March 2009, Department of Homeland Secretary Napolitano has been to 24 different countries, some multiple times, according to DHS press releases. |
National Defense
March 2010
Stew Magnuson |
Airlines Collecting Exit Data from Travelers Still Possible, DHS Official Says A controversial plan to have airlines collect biometric data from foreign passengers leaving the United States is still a possibility, a Department of Homeland Security official said. |
National Defense
September 2011
Eric Beidel |
Homeland Security Market 'Vibrant' Despite Budget Concerns The abundance of small, medium and large firms vying for DHS contracts is creating healthy competition. |
National Defense
August 2006
Stew Magnuson |
Homeland Security Mission Creates More Complications While the Defense Department has struggled for years to create a net-centric world where information flows seamlessly to those who need it, communicating with federal, state and local agencies in times of domestic crisis is creating even bigger headaches. |
National Defense
April 2010
Stew Magnuson |
First Homeland Security Review Garners Little Interest Appearing on budget day, and released a month past its congressionally mandated deadline, the first Quadrennial Homeland Security Review arrival was all but ignored by the mainstream media. |
National Defense
February 2013
Stew Magnuson |
DHS Pushes Back REAL ID Deadline Again to Accomodate Cash-Strapped States The Department of Homeland Security moved the goal posts back in December again when it granted a third extension for 37 states to comply with the REAL ID Act of 2005. |
National Defense
June 2004
Harold Kennedy |
Blueprint For Homeland Security The Defense Department is working on a comprehensive homeland defense strategy that will detail the Pentagon's emerging role in protecting the United States from terrorist attack |
BusinessWeek
June 14, 2004
Magnusson & McNamee |
Welcome To Security Nation Nearly three years after September 11, the feds are massively funding new anti-terror tools under development by America's technology wizards. |
National Defense
February 2004
Geoff S. Fein |
Security Beat Federal government gets 'D' in cyber-security... DHS awards multiple security contracts... Companies selected for air defense program... etc. |
National Defense
September 2004
Lawrence P. Farrell, Jr. |
Department of Homeland Security on the Right Track The Department of Homeland Security is taking aggressive steps to help the nation's state and local governments, as well as first responders, prepare for the worst-case scenario. |
InternetNews
March 2, 2007
Roy Mark |
REAL ID Deadline Evaporates Under Pressure The Department of Homeland Security postpones implementation of controversial law mandating standardized state driver's licenses linked in databases. |
National Defense
September 2012
Sandra I. Erwin |
Washington Insiders Question Federal Role In Homeland Security DHS' federal-centric governance is an outdated hierarchical model that is ill-suited to the post-industrial digital age, says John Fass Morton, author of a new book titled "Next-Generation Homeland Security: Network Federalism and the Course to National Preparedness." |
InternetNews
May 19, 2005
Roy Mark |
House Approves Cybersecurity Promotion Legislation aims to raise profile of protecting federal networks from cyber attacks. |
InternetNews
July 21, 2005
Roy Mark |
China Pleases Tech With Exchange Reform Beijing agrees to let yuan float in latest concessions to World Trade Organization obligations. Players in the US tech industry, which had accused China of enhancing its competitiveness in the world market by keeping the exchange rate artificially low, were pleased. |
National Defense
August 2006
Stew Magnuson |
Former staffer becomes leading DHS critic Former Department of Homeland Security Inspector General Clark Kent Ervin has emerged in recent months as one of the department's leading critics, and one with some credibility. |
National Defense
July 2009
Sandra I. Erwin |
Citizens Invited to Participate in DHS Major Review The Department of Homeland Security wants to harness the "wisdom of crowds" into a major strategic review that is due to Congress in December. |
National Defense
September 2013
Steff Thomas |
DHS Research and Development Under Scrutiny There are 35 cases of overlapping research-and-development programs totaling about $66 million at the Department of Homeland Security, the Government Accountability Office has found. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics
August 2005 |
Homeland Security Briefs Biometric system helps secure Iraq bases... ANSI launches Homeland Security Standards Database... Smiths Detection partners with Paladin Capital Group... International Biometric Group delivers iris- recognition test report... TSA to deploy new technology to additional airports... |
National Defense
October 2005
Joe Pappalardo |
Security Beat Chemical Plant Protection Legislation on the Way... DHS, State Department Wage Visa War... Document Requirements Waived for Hurricane Victims... U.S. Court Blocks Enforcement of Personnel Rules... etc. |
National Defense
February 2014
Stew Magnuson |
Personnel, Leadership Issues Continue to Plague DHS Government shutdowns and freezes in pay have taken their toll on the morale of federal workers -- particularly those at the Department of Homeland Security, according to a recent survey. |
InternetNews
April 21, 2005
Roy Mark |
House Panel Pushes Cybersecurity Post New legislation raises profile of the individual responsible for securing the nation against digital attacks. |
InternetNews
March 20, 2008 |
Bush Picks Security Aide With Wiretap Background U.S. President George W. Bush named a Justice Department official with experience in terrorism wiretap programs as his White House homeland security adviser on Wednesday. |
