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SRI International, Menlo Park, Calif., has announced it has been awarded a four-year $12.5 million contract by the Intell

It wasn’t too long ago that the Defense Department embarked on a Cybersecurity Discipline Implementation Plan identifying specific tasks that department's IT personnel must perform to reinforce basic cybersecurity requirements identified in policies, directives and orders across the agency. The plan segments tasks into four key "lines of effort" to strengthen cybersecurity initiatives. Read on to learn what they are and if they'll work.

The U.S. government wants in on the resurgence of developments in contactless biometric technology, seeing smart applications of such devices in places such as airport security. But before device deployment, officials need to make sure the scanners and sensors actually do what they say they do—safely and accurately.