Federal Emergency Management Agency news from FierceGovernmentIT

The lifesaving power of social media was dramatically underscored in the wake of the Haitian earthquake. And it's a lesson that first responders and the federal government should pay attention to as Read more...

The Department of Homeland Security is working on ways for emergency officials to quickly receive aerial images of disaster areas in a format easily integrated into geographic information systems Read more...

There's a pleasant surprise waiting for you at http://www.dhs.gov/journal/theblog/. It's the Department of Homeland Security's blog that gives a daily update about what's going on at one of the most Read more...

In the eight years since the 9-11 attacks, the government has done plenty of work to upgrade security systems. But it has never tackled any effort to modernize the U.S. emergency alert system. A Read more...

Four years after Hurricane Katrina devastated the Gulf coast, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has no centralized computer system set up to quickly obtain goods needed to respond to Read more...

The State Department discovered something remarkable this week: You don't have to use the old diplomatic pouch to get a secret message across to another country. Instead, the world is watching the Read more...

Federal officials were well-prepared last week when the swine flu scare hit the United States; after all, they had plenty of experience from previous outbreaks of SARS and avian flu a few years Read more...

Editor's Note: This one was so good, it even got us! Twitter has come of age. Beginning next January, individuals in distress will be able to use Twitter to help send their calls for help. The Read more...

President Obama has inherited a $30 billion Comprehensive National Cyber Initiative (CNCI) from the Bush administration, an ambitious project designed to plug the holes that have led to security Read more...

With every new administration, the chess pieces are always moved around. In one of the latest cases, there is a debate over whether the Federal Emergency Management Agency should remain a part of the Read more...