From The Hill: Many of the nation’s most-at-risk “critical infrastructure” sites – like power plants and chemical facilities – have analog redundancies in place that ensure catastrophic cyber-attacks won’t halt operations. For now. But as connectivity increases and as electric grids become “smarter” through efficiency and automation measures, they will only become more and more […]
From Businessweek: The 1,000 Texas National Guard troops Governor Rick Perry will send to the Mexican border will augment almost 10,000 federal agents already there, part of an unprecedented buildup guarding a line with more physical obstacles than ever.
From The National Review: Some Border Patrol agents have been told to work fewer hours since the influx of Central American children at the border began a few months ago, sources tell National Review Online…Spokespeople from the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agency referred NRO to the Department of Homeland Security. DHS officials did […]
From Federal News Radio: Two congressional leaders want to know whether USIS’ history was considered when the Homeland Security Department awarded the company a new contract…The awarded contract is worth up to $190 million to provide field office support to the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, a component of DHS.
HSToday: Fifty-eight management and disaster relief fund audit reports by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Inspector General (IG) identified $88.6 million in questioned costs and $8.9 million in funds that could be put to better use…The IG made 325 recommendations to improve DHS programs and operations “in which we identified waste and vulnerabilities,” the […]
From HSToday: Amid rising tensions between the United States and China over numerous allegations of Chinese hacking aimed at US companies and the government, a Chinese businessman is facing charges of conspiring to obtain unauthorized access to the computer systems of The Boeing Company, a leading aerospace company, and other US companies in an attempt […]
From Politico: Texas lawmakers Republican Sen. John Cornyn and Democratic Rep. Henry Cuellar on Tuesday said they are aiming to pass legislation aimed at stemming the border crisis before the August recess. “On the House side, we’re going to try to do our best to move this quickly,” Cuellar said of the bill he is […]
From Roll Call: A spate of sudden firings at the House Homeland Security Committee last month adds to a pattern of extensive turnover that has left members and staffers questioning the panel’s leadership and its commitment to border security and counterterrorism policy.
From The Hill: Can you imagine reporting directly to dozens of different bosses? The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) does just that…Congressional oversight is, of course, both desirable and necessary. But the byzantine system of accountability under which the DHS operates is, to quote a favorite phrase of Congress itself, “bloated, inefficient, and seriously dysfunctional.”
From The Washington Post: Hackers may have breached the Office of Personnel Management’s network, a Department of Homeland Security official confirmed Thursday. According to the DHS official, who asked not to be identified, the agency’s National Cybersecurity and Communications Integration Center became aware of a “potential intrusion” of the network, and has been working with […]
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