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Counterfeit good seizures by the federal government during the past fiscal year included a significant rise in consumer safety and critical technology products, says a Jan. 9 report from Customs and Read more...

The Coast Guard has yet to fully implement a 2006 modernization plan that would move all information technology personnel under the chief information officer and give the CIO oversight of IT spending Read more...

Homeland Security Department components will integrate within the next 6 to 12 months databases containing information on foreigners who have potentially overstayed their visas, DHS officials told a Read more...

Information technology programs at the Homeland Security Department found a more sympathetic reception with Senate Appropriators than the House of Representatives. The Senate Appropriations Committee Read more...

Although the Homeland Security Department says it's been widely using independent verification and validation in its major information technology acquisition programs, Government Accountability Read more...

The Homeland Security Department's appropriations for the coming fiscal year could be reduced--in many cases significantly--under the House Appropriations Committee's markup of the department's Read more...

Customs and Border Protection has paid Boeing cost invoices for the now-canceled SBInet program without sufficient knowledge, alleges the Government Accountability Office in a May 25 report. The Read more...

Little information comes out from the Office of Management and Budget that isn't stage managed or carefully fed to media outlets that don't follow the workings of federal information technology Read more...

Customs and Border Protection plans for a successor to the canceled SBInet effort in Arizona are proceeding without a clear basis for deploying the chosen mix of technology, says the Government Read more...

By David Perera and Molly Bernhart Walker The fiscal 2012 annual spending request (.pdf) for the federal government delivered to Congress on Feb. 14 projects $3.73 trillion in spending for fiscal Read more...