Posts Tagged ‘DHS’

• Safety of Whole Body Imaging

  • August 5th, 2011
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  A joint report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) in September 2008 found that the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) did not take proper care of some baggage-screening… Read More

• Building on HSPD-12

  • December 17th, 2010
  • Posted in Uncategorized
  • Tags: ARK Systems, biometric ID, card access, data networking, DHS, Federal ID cards, HSPD 12, ID cards, identity management, low-voltage systems, OMB, secure IDs, telephone access

  Last month the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced that they are working together on two memos regarding federal secure identity management cards. These are cards that were issued in accordance with HSPD-12, which we talked about in our last post. There’s not much info on what these memos will say, but this article offers some speculation about them.