DHS spending bill would fund SBInet, E-Verify — Federal Computer Week Several high-tech systems for the Homeland Security Department would be funded under legislation approved by the House Appropriations Committee. The committee approved several technology-related items in the fiscal 2010 spending bill for the Homeland Security Department, including $692 million for DHS’ Border Security, Fencing, […]
From radical Islamists planning to blow up two Bronx synagogues to a white supremacist attack on the Holotcaust Memorial in Washington to the World Health Organization’s declaration of an N1H1 Pandemic, businesses can no longer afford to be unprepared for crisis in their own communities. A Business Continuity Program, as we call it in the lexicon of homeland security, is no longer a “nice to have” option. It is a “must have” reality.
San Francisco City Tours: Air cargo explosives screening program to be piloted at San Francisco International Airport A pilot program to screen passenger aircraft cargo for explosives will be launched later this summer at San Francisco International Airport (SFO) by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS).Known as the Air Cargo Explosives Detection Pilot Program, […]
These in-line baggage systems will improve security and convenience for the traveling public. Once you check your bag, it travels by conveyor belt directly to your plane, with much less of a risk of getting lost. It also is x-rayed by CT technology, a technology originally developed by the medical field that was converted for airport use and mandated for all checked luggage by Congress after 9/11.
The Department of Homeland Security today launched a new blog called “The Blog @ Homeland Security.” For those of you who follow the Department’s current blog, Leadership Journal, you will be pleased to hear that this blog will offer a different perspective, tone and content base than Leadership Journal.
DHS is launching a significant change in its immigration worksite enforcement policies, and employers would be wise to understand how these changes could impact them. Here’s a primer on what you need to know.
Nextgov – Latest delay to E-Verify prompts doubts about program’s future “It is inexcusable that … the administration has delayed the requirement for federal contractors to use E-Verify,” said Rep. Hal Rogers, R-Ky., in a statement issued Wednesday. “Time after time we have heard congressional testimony supporting the credibility and importance of E-Verify, which is […]
While the American public’s attention has moved on to focus on the opening days of summer and vacation planning, researchers have begun to assess the lessons learned from the recent H1N1 Flu outbreak.
Craig Fugate made one of his first journeys to Capitol Hill today as FEMA Administrator to present and defend his Agency’s FY10 budget request. The 80 or so minutes of the hearing were free of fireworks and some of the previous finger pointing questioning that is often standard practice at FEMA hearings, but that does not mean that tough questions weren’t still asked of Fugate.
Ted Alden of the Council on Foreign Relations offers an excellent analysis of what’s wrong with our immigration process – or at least, one of the things that is wrong with our broken immigration process. In a nutshell, his is an argument – a desperate plea really – for a return to risk-based security procedures that use intelligence and information to prioritize threats rather than the hopelessly ineffective but increasingly popular notion on Capitol Hill that we can prevent 100 percent of all threats we may face.
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