Homeland Security Report

Now that it has begun a slow rollout of a biometric-based system to verify the departure of travelers from the U.S. on international flights, Customs and Border Protection (CBP) is […]

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) last Friday selected Northrop Grumman [NOC] as the prime contractor to create a new multimodal biometric identity management system meant ultimately designed to provide the department’s […]

Immigration and Customs Enforcement has awarded a one-year, $2.1 million contract to Nlets, the International Justice and Public Safety Network, to add functionality for the Sexual Offender Notification service. The […]

DHS Schedules Third Strategic Industry Day for Oct. 19 The Department of Homeland Security has set Thursday, Oct. 19 as the date for its Strategic Industry Day III. The event […]

Leidos Nabs DHS Secure Data Network Support Contract Leidos [LDOS] won a potential $684 million contract from the General Services Administration (GSA) to support the Department of Homeland Security’s secure […]

Analogic’s New CT Screening System Can Be Demonstrated following TSA Certification Analogic [ALOG] says the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has certified the company’s computed tomography-based checkpoint screening system, ConneCT, clearing […]

Unlike its original electronic fingerprint database that went more than a decade without upgrading its fingerprint matching software, the FBI’s new multimodal biometric database is being enhanced along the way, […]

Any day now the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is about to award a contract to replace its existing biometric repository with a more robust and scalable system but the […]

Next February, Customs and Border Protection (CBP) expects to have the robust information technology network backbone ready so that it can scale to handle the ramp up of a biometric-based […]