FBI nears $1B surveillance deal
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The FBI is gearing up to create a massive computer database of people's physical characteristics, all part of an effort the bureau says to better identify criminals and terrorists.
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In a sign that the  federal airwaves police may ratchet up their campaign against  racy programming, the FCC on Friday determined that a woman's  naked backside is indecent enough to net ABC a proposed fine of  $1.43 million.
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The agreement will allow the U.S. to continue a once secret program to obtain banking records from a consortium for use in counterterrorism investigations.
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Metier Ltd. of the District won a one-year, $2 million contract for software and services for the FBI's Enterprise IT Portfolio Management Program. The new initiative will improve oversight of the FBI's information-technology systems, applications and assets by the agency's IT management and staff, the company said.
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A $170 million computer system intended to allow the FBI to better manage criminal and terrorism cases will have to be scrapped or require a lot of additional work, the Justice Department's inspector general said Thursday.
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President Bush has agreed conditionally to let a court review his eavesdropping operations under a deal that, for the first time, would open an important part of his once-secret terrorism surveillance to a constitutional test.
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As more firms install software to keep tabs on workers, start-ups and heavy hitters alike spy an opportunity in surveillance products.
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The US Department of Justice has targeted a group known as the Underground Network for its first criminal investigation into intellectual property piracy over peer-to-peer (P2P) networks.
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AT&amp;T, the US telecoms group, and a team of subcontractors have won a contract valued at up to $1bn to design, build and manage a secure IP-based global network for the US government
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President Bush has agreed conditionally to a court review of his antiterror eavesdropping operations under a deal that, for the first time, would open an important part of his once-secret surveillance to a constitutional test.
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WASHINGTON - The FBI has spent more than a year covertly investigating, including with the use of electronic surveillance, whether a Pentagon analyst funneled highly classified material to Israel, officials said Saturday. Prosecutors were still weighing whether to bring the most serious charge of espionage...
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The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation has awarded Lockheed Martin a $1 billion contract to build a next-generation biometrics-based identification system.The biometric collection system and database, which has raised concerns of privacy groups, would include imaging of irises, faces and other identifying characteristics, the FBI said in a news release late Tuesday. Lockheed Martin will design, develop, test, and deploy the Next Generation Identification System over the 10-year life of the contract.The new system will expand on the FBI Criminal Justice Information Services Division&#39;s Integrated Automated Fingerprint Identification System (IAFIS), primarily a fingerprint-based identification system operated in Clarksburg, West Virginia, the FBI said.&quot;IAFIS has been a fantastic tool in support of criminal justice and the war on terror,&quot; Thomas E. Bush III, assistant director of the FBI&#39;s CJIS Division, said in a statement. &quot;[The new system] will give us bigger, better, faster capabilities and lead us into the future.&quot;The American Civil Liberties Union has raised concerns about the biometric database, saying it&#39;s part of the U.S. government&#39;s efforts to collect more and more information about residents.The new system will expand fingerprint capacity, doubling the size of the FBI&#39;s current database, and will also include palm prints, iris and facial recognition, Lockheed Martin said in a news release. The system will be designed to be flexible enough to accommodate future biometric technologies, the company said.Among the companies working with Lockheed Martin on the contract will be Accenture and BAE Systems Information Technology.Lockheed Martin will provide program management and oversight as well as development of biometric and large systems, the company said. Accenture&#39;s responsibilities will include interoperability and change management. BAE will work on external interface requirements engineering and security design.The FBI contract was awarded through an open bidding process. Northrop Grumman and IBM also bid on the contract.
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The FBI said on Thursday it may have  to scrap a new $170 million computer program designed to allow  agents to share information instantly and fix a main problem  identified after the Sept. 11 attacks.
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The FBI pursues a tough new anti-terror strategy in the runup to November
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The FBI wants to pay the major telecommunications companies to retain their customers' Internet and phone call information for at least two years for the agency's use in counterterrorism investigations and is asking Congress for $5 million a year to defray the cost, according to FBI officials and...
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NEW YORK At first glance, it might seem like the simple extension of a standard tool in the fight against the bad guys. But in fact, wiretapping Internet phones to monitor criminals and terrorists is costly
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The FBI has seized equipment as part of the first copyright action taken against file-sharing networks.