NASA UAV finds fire hot spots
High-tech sensors on an unmanned aerial vehicle flown remotely by pilots based at NASA'S Dryden Flight Research Center help firefighters find and eliminate lingering hot spots in fire-ravaged Souther California.
FEMA bureau sends IT gear south to fire zone
Emergency agency's Pacific Northwest regional office to send a convoy of disaster relief equipment, goods and personnel to California's wildfire zone.
Google-eye view of fires
The general public now has access to detailed maps of areas affected by the fires in Southern California, thanks to Google Earth's map posted on San Diego County's Emergency Home Page.
IT on front line of Calif. conflagration
FEMA, state agencies, vendors step up to help firefighters' IT infrastructure.
New software could improve military radio communication
Designers of military radios who face the task of designing equipment that can communicate among the hodgepodge of gear used could benefit from upgraded signal processing software for the transceivers.
New systems to help FBI and L.A. analyze, share intel
The FBI and Los Angeles County police have chosen different approaches to obtaining systems for handling criminal, gang and terrorist data.
Air Force GIS developers honored
Project team feted for creating Situational Awareness Geospatial Enterprise system.
Auditors give FBI tech fixes mixed marks
The Justice Department's Inspector General Office concluded that the FBI has improved its system security since the Robert Hanssen spy debacle but pointed out areas where improvements are incomplete or lacking.
Agency Award'Defense Intelligence Agency | DIA makes contact
2007 GCN Award: Alien project helps intell community share and analyze data worldwide.
Justice IT pilots cover photo sharing, GIS
The Justice Department has targeted grant funds to pilot projects for driver's license photo sharing and the use of geospatial information systems in law enforcement work.
DHS spams own news list
Pointless e-mail messages prompt ire, mirth
Last train to Clarksville stops at new data center
Vendors have refused to tell outsiders the site for DHS' new data center. But one indicator for the new data center surfaced in the Triangle Business Journal.
In search of a tree full of owls
DHS looking for a few cybersecurity brainiacs.
DHS sets IT course
<font color="CC0000">UPDATED'</font color> The Homeland Security Department has awarded an $800 million, eight-year contract to EDS for the second of two major data centers, according to the company and industry sources.
FBI to automate wiretap database
The FBI is working to build an automated system to track its National Security Letter wiretap cases in a bid to eliminate cumbersome, error-prone manual entry of data about the eavesdropping projects.
Watch list hobbled by data errors
Four years after the federal government launched the interagency Terrorist Screening Center and assigned it the daunting task of harmonizing more than a dozen separate watch lists, balky technology and quirky business practices still combine to introduce gaps and errors in the critical database.
Justice IG: Terrorist database still riddled with flaws
The interagency Terrorist Screening Center has failed to redress the technology flaws that have choked its systems, Justice Department auditors said.
Federal court cancels Patriot Act's wiretap, gag orders
A federal district court today struck down the Patriot Act's provisions that allow DOJ and the FBI to eavesdrop on telecommunications and Internet traffic without obtaining court approval, and to impose perpetual secrecy about NSL wiretaps.
DHS upgrades databases
Immigration, travel systems to get boost
State CIOs focus on data center consolidation
State chief information officers list consolidation of enterprise data centers as their most important task for the coming year.
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