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- WidePoint's iSYS Awarded Second Task Order under FSSI TEM Contract for DHS Customs and Border Protection: DoD's WHS Renews and Expands Order with iSYS
- New Orders Add $4 Million in Revenue; iSYS Orders Generating Nearly $30 Million Since April WASHINGTON -- WidePoint Corporation (AMEX:WYY), a leading provider of advanced information technology, identity assurance and protection and mobile telecom management services MTEM, announced today that its subsidiary, iSYS, has been awarded a second task...
- Research articles 2008-10-02
- Danieal Kelly lawsuit against DHS is filed
- The law firm that represents Danieal Kelly filed an intended class-action lawsuit yesterday against the city and state on behalf of 28,000 children and their 56,000 parents who receive services through the embattled Department of Human Services. The federal suit, brought by Mildenberg & Stalbaum, calls DHS "an unsafe agency...
- Research articles 2008-08-26
- Pa. couple sue federal agencies over no-fly list
- Seeking to have their names stricken from the U.S. government's antiterrorist watch list, a Schuylkill County Muslim man and his wife filed suit yesterday against a host of federal agencies. Erich Scherfen, 37, and his wife, Rubina Tareen, 50, say they were unfairly added to the million-name Terrorist Screening Database...
- Research articles 2008-08-20
- Nutter suspends 7 DHS workers
- Vowing that the starvation death of 14-year-old Danieal Kelly would not be in vain, Mayor Nutter yesterday suspended seven more workers at the Department of Human Services and said "no child will again face the same fate." Speaking with obvious emotion, Nutter repeatedly excoriated the city workers involved in Kelly's...
- Research articles 2008-08-05
- Editorial: Danieal's Death
- The city took another much- needed step toward revamping its dysfunctional Department of Human Services yesterday by suspending seven employees implicated in the neglect of a young disabled girl who starved to death, rotting away in her own feces and covered in maggot-infested bedsores. The grand jury indicted nine others...
- Research articles 2008-08-05
- Elmer Smith: In Danieal nightmare, it's right to get furious, but vital to get results
- MICHAEL NUTTER put on one of his mayor suits and positioned himself behind a podium emblazoned with the seal of the city of Philadelphia.He was flanked by city officials as other members of his cabinet stood close by. They all wore the same frozen expressions as the painted portraits of...
- Research articles 2008-08-05
- US security agency defends border agents' right to seize laptops
- WASHINGTON AFP — A key US national security agency on Friday defended the right of border officials to seize laptops from travelers even if they are not suspected of criminal activity, as lawmakers and rights activists slammed the policy as unconstitutional and alarming. "Since the founding of the republic,...
- Research articles 2008-08-01
- Editorial: New DHS Commissioner Protecting the children
- After a national search, Mayor Nutter made an excellent choice in tapping an experienced child advocate to lead the troubled city Department of Human Services. Ann Marie Ambrose will fill one of the last major open slots in the Nutter administration, and one of the most vital positions. She faces...
- Research articles 2008-06-09
- WidePoint Company iSYS Awarded Contracts with Three Federal Agencies
- Contract Awards Valued at More Than $7 Million Over the Next Year WASHINGTON -- WidePoint Corporation (AMEX:WYY), a leading provider of advanced information technology, identity assurance and mobile telecom expense management services, today announced expanded contract awards for its iSYS subsidiary by the Department of Homeland Security DHS, Washington...
- Research articles 2008-04-23
- FedBid Reports Record First Quarter
- VIENNA, Va. -- FedBid, Inc., The Buyer-Driven Online MarketplaceSM for commodity buys, today announced that the company recorded its strongest first quarter ever, with exponential growth over first quarter 2007. Following a year in which FedBid realized new and expanded business with Army Contracting Agency; Army Medical Department; the Department...
- Research articles 2008-04-22
- Homeland Security preps for presidential transition
- OAKLAND -- From a 12th-floor desk at the regional Federal Emergency Management Agency office in downtown Oakland, Nancy Ward can survey a swath of her FEMA territory where millions of people, from downtown Oakland to San Francisco and beyond, live and work atop earthquake faults. Soon, Ward's...
- Research articles 2008-04-21
- Federal agencies planning for White House handoff
- OAKLAND -- From a 12th-floor desk at the regional Federal Emergency Management Agency office in downtown Oakland, Nancy Ward can survey a swath of her FEMA territory where millions of people, from downtown Oakland to San Francisco and beyond, live and work atop earthquake faults. Soon Ward's...
- Research articles 2008-04-18
- Oakland-based FEMA official gets interm position
- OAKLAND -- From a 12th-floor desk at the regional Federal Emergency Management Agency office in downtown Oakland, Nancy Ward can survey a swath of her FEMA territory where millions of people, from downtown Oakland to San Francisco and beyond, live and work atop earthquake faults. Soon, Ward's...
- Research articles 2008-04-18
- Border Patrol may get bigger personnel boost.(SECURITY BEAT: HOMELAND DEFENSE BRIEFS)
- * One of the Department of Homeland Security's goals is to double the size of the Border Patrol during the remainder of the Bush presidency. DHS Secretary Michael Chertoff said the agency is on track to meet that objective by the end of this...
- Research articles 2008-04-01
- Safe harbor? DHS will miss deadline to set up port security hubs.(Port Security)(Department of Homeland Security)
- [ILLUSTRATIONS OMITTED] CHARLESTON, S.C. -- Every morning, representatives of the Coast Guard, Department of Justice and Customs and Border Protection gather in a meeting room in a secure port facility here to plan the day's operations. Joining them at the table...
- Research articles 2008-04-01
- BearingPoint Awarded HSPD-12 BPA by Department of Homeland Security
- Largest Civilian Cabinet Agency selects experienced ID management partner MCLEAN, Va. -- BearingPoint, Inc. (NYSE: BE), one of the world's largest management and technology consulting firms, announced today that the Department of Homeland Security has awarded it a Blanket Purchase Agreement BPA for Homeland Security Presidential Directive 12 (HSPD-12)...
- Research articles 2008-02-27
- Feds streamline processing of green cards
- WASHINGTON -- In a major policy shift aimed at reducing a ballooning immigration backlog, the Department of Homeland Security is preparing to grant permanent residence to tens of thousands of applicants before the FBI completes a required background check. Those eligible are immigrants whose fingerprints have cleared...
- Research articles 2008-02-11
- MORE BAD NEWS FOR AGENCY
- It's called a fatality review -- a way for the Colorado Department of Human Services to learn more about the death of a child who has been on its radar in the past five years. Last year, Colorado had so many child deaths requiring a fatality review...
- Research articles 2008-02-01
- U.S. has strategy for homeland security, but are we ready?(PRESIDENT'S PERSPECTIVE)
- One big question in many people's mind is whether, despite repeated assurances from public officials, the U.S. government is really prepared to cope with these threats. In October, the White House issued an updated "National Strategy for Homeland Security," which is intended to guide,...
- Research articles 2008-02-01
- DHS Agencies Announce Enrollment Dates for TWIC in 13 Ports
- The Department of Homeland Security DHS today announced that enrollment in the Transportation Worker Identification Credential TWIC program will begin at 13 more locations in the coming weeks. This program ensures that any individual who has unescorted access to secure areas of port facilities and vessels has received a thorough...
- Research articles 2008-01-25
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