On Wednesday, March 11, 2009, the House Subcommittee on Transportation Security and Infrastructure Protection convened a hearing, “The Mumbai Attacks: A Wake-Up Call for America’s Private Sector.” It was quite unusual in that it was a hearing that lived up to its name.
DHS forms new research centers — Federal Computer Week The Homeland Security Department has hired two not-for-profit organizations for up to $712 million for up to five years to run two new research and development centers. The centers will both be Federally Funded Research and Development Centers (FFRDCs).
DARPA awards Lockheed nano-copter contract – HS Daily Wire Both the military and law enforcement are interested in tiny helicopters — 8 grams in weight and the size of a coin — for intelligence missions inside buildings; three years ago Lockheed had a development program for such a device, and it now comes back to […]
While DHS officials have been reluctant to provide details on the future of DHS’ E-Verify in the early stages of the Administration, President Obama’s just released “A New Era of Responsibility” outlining the President’s FY 2010 Federal Budget vision may provide an early indicator of the Administration’s support for DHS program.
Yesterday, the White House called in Homeland Secretary Napolitano to chair one of the breakout sessions at the President’s “fiscal responsibility summit.” Her session focused on what the government buys. AP published a summary of the discussions. Most of the talk focused on rules and policies for hiring government contractors.
The congressional mandate to scan 100 percent of all cargo coming into the United States has questionable security value and will assuredly disrupt the global supply chain process, further undermining American commerce, jobs and the economy at a time when the U.S. economy is already struggling.
There was a small, but significant, flurry of reporting of what was effectively a non-event in the legal prosecution of the Blackwater Worldwide (now Xe) employees in relation to the Nisoor Square incident of September 2007.
TARP and the wider push to stimulate the economy have little, at first blush, to do with homeland security or counterterrorism. However, for the companies in this space, the contractors, it could have a significant impact.
Congressman Lamar Smith of Texas, the ranking Republican on the House Judiciary Committee, raised alarms today that E-Verify provisions may have been stripped from the massive stimulus bill that will soon face a final vote before going to President Obama’s desk.
Homeland Security Today interviews Security Debrief contributor Vance Taylor about his involvement in a new report outlining security metrics for the water infrastructure sector’s Information Sharing and Analysis Center (ISAC), the first industry sector to release such a review.
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