Daniel Verton

High Tech Van Gives Enforcement Agents Network Access From Just About Anywhere

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While the White House and Congress squared-off last month on how best to solve the problems facing first responder communications, a team of IT experts at McLean, Va.-based MorganFranklin unveiled a new mobile communications vehicle that is already helping a major component of the Department of Homeland Security operate in places where IT infrastructure either does not reach or does not exist.

In an exclusive tour of the new Mobile Communications Vehicle, designed to custom specifications for the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency (ICE), the team at MorganFranklin showed Breaking Gov how they have integrated a wide variety of IT and communications systems to effectively expand the agency’s enterprise network to any geographic location in which it needs to operate – even those where there is little or no infrastructure in place. Keep reading →

 /  Published August 1, 2011 at 11:01 AM

Budget Crisis Threatens DHS Tech Innovation

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If the fiscal 2012 Homeland Security Appropriations bill now under consideration in the Senate becomes law, it would slash research and development funding by 81%, effectively ending the Department of Homeland Security Science & Technology Directorate’s ability to innovate across a multitude of critical technology areas.

That’s the warning from Paul Benda, the newly-appointed Director of the Homeland Security Advanced Research Projects Agency (HSARPA). Keep reading →

 /  Published July 26, 2011 at 11:00 AM