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Although not claiming victory, the DHS has made some serious headway in improving cybersecurity, according to panelists discussing the topic at the DHS 2012 Information Technology Industry Day in Washington, D.C. Experts said the threats have not disappeared but rather have changed, and various DHS agencies have been learning how to better handle them.

Responding to an emergency is just as crucial--and as technically complicated as--preventing one. Members of the final panel for the DHS 2012 Information Technology Industry Day discussed the importance of communications capabilities to mitigate the effects of a manmade or natural disaster and restore normalcy to an area.

TASC Incorporated, Chantilly, Virginia, has named Lisa Donnan vice president and customer executive for Strategic Capabilities and T

Teaming with researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Stanford University, the APIC Corporation recently announced a scientific breakthrough that could lead to computer chips powered by light pulses rather than electronics.

U.S. federal agencies conducting the 2011 test of the Emergency Alert System saw results and failures, and are working to coordinate improved social media connection and involvement.

Harris Corporation, Lynchburg, Virginia, is being awarded a firm-fixed-price, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity base year contract plus four options years with a possible maximum value of $49 mi

L-3 Services Incorporated, Mount Laurel, New Jersey, is being awarded a $9,536,470 modification to a previously awarded indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract to exercise an option for techn

Raytheon Integrated Defense Systems, Sudbury, Massachusetts, is being awarded a $106,454,603 contract modification for the production of two AN/SPY-1(D)V radar transmitter groups and one missile fire

Sensor and Antenna Systems Incorporated, Lansdale, Pennsylvania, is being awarded a $38,956,741 modification to a previously awarded firm-fixed-price contract to exercise an option for 48 low band tra

Northrop Grumman Information Technology, McLean, Virginia, is being awarded an $11,607,556 task order under previously awarded firm-fixed-price contract to exercise option year one for Computer Networ