Technical Communities Breaks Sales Records for 2011
- January 10th, 2012
Company again reports double-digit growth and record results in all 5 revenue categories
Ali Cheung
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Cyberspace strategy announced by Defense Department
- July 25th, 2011
The military’s strategy for cyberspace was defined July 14 as the U.S. Defense Department aired its long anticipated scheme for operating in the electronic ether. Speaking at a news conference at the National Defense University in Washington, DC, Deputy Defense Secretary William J. Lynn III acknowledged that the connection of cyberspace to the military’s mission to protect the security of the nation is ambiguous.
Lulzsec hits Arizona law enforcement computers
- June 28th, 2011
Fresh after breaching Sony and FBI-related computers and Websites, the hacker group that calls itself LulzSec said it had breached Arizona law enforcement computers and posted internal police documents to protest a state law aimed at illegal immigrants.
DHS hungry for private input and expertise
- June 24th, 2011
Like any eight-year-old, the Department of Homeland Security is learning how to talk to others about what it needs to get by, according to the agency’s head of commercialization. The agency is developing an understandable, coherent way to talk to private industry about its technology needs.
GSA tightens IT security requirements for its future acquisitions
- June 20th, 2011
The General Services Administration announced an “interim rule” on June 15 that would require vendors who supply Information Technology (IT) products, services or systems to the GSA — or the federal agencies that GSA serves — to comply with an expanded list of IT security requirements.
U.S. counterterrorism chief, Michael Leiter, resigns
- June 13th, 2011
Michael Leiter, 41, will resign in July as head of the National Counterterrorism Center, which he has helmed for four years, the White House announced June 9.
House homeland security leaders lament appropriations bill passage
- June 10th, 2011
Although the House of Representatives passed a $42.3 billion homeland security appropriations bill late on June 2, the leadership of the House Homeland Security Committee voted against the measure that would cut funding of the department by about 10 percent.
Top DHS Cybersecurity Official Quits
- May 24th, 2011
Phil Reitinger, deputy undersecretary of the agency’s National Protection and Programs Directorate, will leave his position June 3.
DHS plans ‘Technology Day’ on over the air tactical communications
- May 20th, 2011
DHS is hosting a Technology Day event in Washington, DC, on May 24-26 at which experts from CBP’s wireless systems program office and the DHS Science & Technology Directorate will provide briefings on possible over the air tactical communications requirements.
House subcommittee approves three transportation security bills
- May 13th, 2011
The House Homeland Security’s transportation subcommittee on May 12 approved legislation aimed at streamlining the security paperwork of transportation industry workers, expediting security screening for military personnel and establishing an official assistant for TSA workplace issues.
