SBInet news from FierceGovernmentIT

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...

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...

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...

As a program, SBInet may be dead, but the concept of a virtual border fence based on multi-sensor, integrated fixed towers feeding information into a common operating picture remains apparently Read more...

The Homeland Security Department's new border security technology approach in Arizona differs from its SBInet predecessor largely in a move away from integrated sensor towers in favor of Read more...

The SBInet program is no more, the Homeland Security Department announced January 14. Instead, the department will launch a new border security technology approach, "which will utilize existing, Read more...

Boeing submitted "anomalous" data making its work on SBInet look better than it actually was, says the Government Accountability Office. In a report dated Oct. 18, the GAO says that during a 21-month Read more...

Customs and Border Protection lacks the capability to support SBInet technology already deployed along the southwestern border, says the Homeland Security Department. According to the "Border Read more...

Tactical communications along the southwest border gained a funding boost with President Obama's August 13 signing of a $600 million supplemental spending border security bill--a boost paid for in Read more...