security
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The deadline for implementation of Transportation Worker Identification Credentials (or TWIC cards) has officially passed. Now, the Coast Guard is working to develop requirements for the card readers that will be deployed at ports across…
May 07, 2009 -
I almost felt like the headline of this post should be: Did you hear what I heard? I mentioned that federal CIO Vivek Kundra spoke last week at AFCEA’s Bethesda chapter. (In fact, I’m going…
April 28, 2009 -
Not only was the administration telling people about the new chief performance officer/OMB deputy director of management and the Obama chief technology officer/director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, but… the…
April 19, 2009 -
Airlines are rushing to add flights to Cuba after the Obama Administration announced changes in travel restrictions to the country. But are there any homeland security implications due to the change in policy? Dr. Dave…
April 17, 2009 -
By Jane Norris FederalNewsRadio Are Facebook and Twitter essential to national security? Two researchers at the National Defense University say the answer is yes and they are calling on the Pentagon to use social media…
April 17, 2009 -
The White House has named the nation’s first “border czar.” Former federal prosecutor Alan Bersin was named to the post yesterday. James Carafano is an expert in homeland security and defense at the Heritage Foundation.…
April 16, 2009 -
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How secure are the 98,000 desktop and laptop computers at the Internal Revenue Service? Peggy Begg is the Assistant Inspector General for Security and Information Technology Audits with the Treasury Department. She joins us to…
April 08, 2009 -
How do you strike the balance between safe travel and security? Biometric appears to be the way. Biometrics involves technologies that measure and analyze human body characteristics, such as fingerprints, eye retinas and irises, voice…
April 03, 2009 -
In the past few months, we’ve heard multiple stories about space debris causing a ruckus in outer space. Space junk almost hit the International Space Station last month and it was just over two months…
April 02, 2009 -
Dr. Ron Ross Project Leader, FISMA Implementation Project NIST March 31st, 2009
March 31, 2009 -
The president new strategy for Afghanistan includes an additional 4,000 troops to train the Afghan army and police force. The troops will work alongside hundreds of civilian specialists, including agricultural experts, educators and engineers, but…
March 30, 2009 -
After intense criticism about his political views, Ambassador Charles Freeman Jr. has requested that his selection to be Chairman of the National Intelligence Council not proceed. Director of National Intelligence Dennis C. Blair says he…
March 11, 2009 -
The DorobekInsider has learned that Rod Beckstrom, DHS’s director of the agency’s National Cybersecurity Center, has resigned. His letter is posted below: The move comes as a surprise to many. While friends know that he…
March 06, 2009 -
Michael Dominguez –Acting Undersecretary for Personnel and Readiness was charged with cleaning up the mess after the military health scandal at Walter Reed hospital broke two years ago is about to leave office. What was…
March 04, 2009