US Marshals Service set to buy SIC Biometrics fingerprint scanners
The U.S. Marshals Service (USMS), the agency of the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) that oversees the classified Witness Security…
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USAID launches ‘digital policy’ to guide it through next decade
This past week, U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) Administrator Samantha Power announced the agency’s new $14.6 million digital policy…
Login.gov deployment at US tax agency still on rocky ground
For more than a year between December 2022 and March 2023, the Personally Identifiable Information (PII) of more than 57,000…
IT systems for US security clearances at risk, GAO says
As the four-year-old U.S. Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency (DCSA) continues to build out the National Background Investigation Services (NBIS)…
NIST updates federal PIV standards to better align with FIPS 201
This week, the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) issued revisions to two of its special publications which…
IDGA Border Technology Summit
IDGA Border Technology Summit San Diego, CA September 24-25, 2024 IDGA is proud to present the return of the Border…
Controversial US privacy bill rewritten again, but path still unclear
The already controversial American Privacy Rights Act of 2024 (APRA), which was originally introduced in April by U.S. Senate Commerce…
US government transitions Veteran’s Affairs, IRS to Login.gov or ID.me
The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) says it will implement a more streamlined login process for veterans to access…
US Social Security transition to Login.gov authentication already past 5M accounts
The U.S. Social Security Administration is transitioning to Login.gov as its user authentication system to provide safe access control and…
Lawmakers try again to kill diversion of TSA screening tech funds
Because of Washington partisan politics, the U.S. Transportation Security Administration (TSA) doesn’t expect to be able to field upgraded and…
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