Archive: March 2, 2008 - March 8, 2008
Counting Countdown
Remember the story about how the census in 2010 might have to rely on paper -- Holy Moly! -- because of an apparently botched $624 million contract for handheld data collection devices? The overall budget for the census was originally set at about $12 billion. That was before cost...
By Robert O'Harrow | March 7, 2008; 7:00 AM ET | Comments (52)
Domestic Intelligence, Commercial World
Police around the country are working with commercial technology companies to create information-sharing networks, anchored to data warehouses, that open the way for new ways of enforcing the law and looking for signs of terrorist threats. Federal plans call for a national network that eventually will link those systems...
By Robert O'Harrow | March 6, 2008; 11:39 AM ET | Comments (0)
Tanker Deal Backlash
The Pentagon's remarkable decision last week to stiff Boeing and award a $40 billion deal for refueling tankers to rivals Northrop Grumman and European Aeronautic Defence and Space continues to roil Congress. A Boeing win was a foregone conclusion -- or so it seemed. As Loren B. Thompson, a...
By Robert O'Harrow | March 5, 2008; 6:12 AM ET | Comments (26)
Nuke Detection
The Department of Homeland Security's multibillion-dollar plans for nuclear detection will come under scrutiny again tomorrow, during a House Homeland Security Committee hearing. At issue now is a report by an independent group formed by DHS Secretary Michael Chertoff after Congress, the Government Accountability Office and others raised questions....
By Robert O'Harrow | March 4, 2008; 7:00 AM ET | Comments (56)
