According to a new report, the state and local market for justice, public safety and homeland security technology will see an influx of $800 million in new spending over the next five years. Law enforcement officials looking to adopt both cutting-edge and back-office solutions ranging from predictive analytics to court case automation will push the [...]
Getting face time with the boss when it comes to information security is a hard thing to do in government. Much like the electricity that keeps lights on in our homes, we only begin to think of cyber security when there is a breach or a high-volume displacement of data. CivSource recently sat down with [...]
In an effort to modernize the state’s criminal immigrant policies, Colorado has joined the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Secure Communities initiative. According to Governor Ritter, the new program will help the state leverag existing information sharing capabilities between the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the Department of Justice (DOJ) to identify [...]
The County of Monterey, California has signed a $15 million contract with Harris Corp. to design and deploy a new public safety radio system that will improve coverage, reliability and communication interoperability between local, county, state and federal first responders, the company said Wednesday.
The number of public safety interoperable communications (PSIC) projects is expected to increase according to a new report from INPUT. The deadline for projects under the Federal Communications Commission’s narrowbanding initiative is on the horizon and INPUT estimates that state and local spending on PSIC projects will reach $38.7 billion by 2015.
During October, Deloitte and NASCIO worked together on a survey that examined cybersecurity initiatives in state governments nationwide. The report, “State Governments at risk: A Call to Secure Citizen Data and Inspire Public Trust,” painted a grim picture for cybersecurity at the state level. More recently, CivSource spoke with Srini Subramanian director of state government [...]
In this edition of The Gallery, Pam O’Neal Vice President at BreakingPoint Systems discusses the pressing need for serious action on cybersecurity in the United States. Despite military superpower status, the United States is more vulnerable to cyber attack than any other country today with key financial, communications, and military operations networked via infrastructures riddled [...]
Several Maryland counties will now be able to share sensitive geospatial information and maps through a new interoperable data exchange (INDEX) developed by Lockheed Martin. Emergency responders and county governments in Montgomery, Frederick and Prince George’s Counties are now linked through INDEX which publishes data and reports on demand. The exchange is designed to facilitate [...]
A new suite of security capabilities will be available for cities and states to protect people, property and critical infrastructure, Cisco said in an announcement today. The new technology includes a camera-based video analytics solution, a unified command and control application and the industry’s first plug and play surveillance architecture.
According to a new survey, many states lack the proper resources to adequately protect some of their citizen’s most personal information. The NASCIO / Deloitte survey also found that internal and external threats to personal identifiable and personal health information are growing.
