Joanne Artz, a State policy adviser for biometrics in the Bureau of Consular Affairs, said earlier this week that the team will finish evaluating sample passports with embedded contactless chips and antennas from nine vendors and start producing electronic passports this spring. State and GPO will award one or more contracts, but Artz could not say exactly how many.
Weiterlesen: USA: State to award e-passport contracts shortly
For government and industry workers, the office of the future will be wherever they want or need it to be. With handheld computers, wireless networks, Web conferencing and encrypted virtual private networks, an office can already be almost anywhere.
Weiterlesen: USA: Better Privacy Protection Starts With Smart Cards
Die US-Bundespolizei FBI [Federal Bureau of Investigation] hat am Dienstag offiziell bestätigt, dass sein 170 Millionen Dollar teures Software-Projekt "Virtual Case File" eingestampft wird.
Hits on government Web sites are soaring. Document requests under the Freedom of Information Act, or FOIA, have hit all-time highs. And online archives collecting everything from court decisions to spies' names are seeing vast growth in numbers of visitors.