Customs and Border Protection awards Accenture $380M IT modernization contract
The consultancy firm will carry out work at CBP’s field offices and Washington, D.C. headquarters.
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Charles Armstrong joins FEMA as chief information officer
He has three decades of tech experience in IT operations including seven years as CIO of U.S. Customs and Border Protection.
CBP promotes Scott Davis to chief information security officer
Davis took up the new appointment in August after previously serving as deputy CISO.
DHS buying personal data from govt contractors pushes Congress to pass legislation curtailing 3rd party data brokers
The Fourth Amendment Is Not For Sale Act would ban the police and government agencies from buying 'illegitimately obtained information'.
CBP looking to boost bot deployments by end of calendar year
Chief technology officer Sunil Madhugiri says the agency is already using 150 bots to streamline operations in the back office and on the front line.
National Vetting Center piloting automation of citizenship verification
“We want to make sure that we are protecting privacy, to the extent we’re supposed to, when it comes to U.S. persons," said a DHS official.
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2 DHS agencies mostly handled ‘major’ privacy incidents effectively
CBP failed to report its most recent risk assessment findings.
Customs and Border Protection cloud migration RFP coming in 2022
The Enterprise Cloud and Integrated Services contract will also cover systems maintenance.
Agencies seek double the $1B allotted to the Technology Modernization Fund for projects
The TMF Board will only select projects leading to playbooks and best practices, per one member.
USCIS pursuing broader data-sharing agreements with other agencies
Existing agreements are often old and fail to account for agencies' need to repurpose and reuse the data.