A new bill that would combat drug trafficking through streamlined hiring at the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) was introduced this week in Congress. U.S. Rep. Vince Fong (R-CA)... Read More »
GenAI.mil, the U.S. Department of Defense's enterprise AI platform, recently surpassed 1 million unique users with adoption spanning every military service. The platform launched two months ago, and its popularity can be attributed to a decisive cultural and technological shift, the department... Read More »
The watchdog office for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) launched an audit Feb. 4 into the department’s data practices, including those used by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), in response to serious concerns about potential data privacy abuses and the misuse of sensitive... Read More »
Legislation introduced by U.S. Reps. August Pfluger (R-TX) and Rob Menendez (D-NJ) would strengthen telecommunication networks against cyberattacks, officials said. The bill, the AI for Secure Networks Act, would address the increase in cyberattacks that threaten the security of Americans’... Read More »
A new report from the VIPRE Security Group finds that cybercriminals are using trust and urgency to continue to ensnare victims in fraud schemes. The report, Q4 2025 Email Threat Trends Report, looked at 1.5 billion emails and 500,000 spam messages to identify the trends in security threats for... Read More »
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul announced her state had received $9 million in federal grants to support the delivery of Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) hard tokens to counties, municipalities, school districts and public authorities across the state. MFA requires two or more proofs of identity to... Read More »
The Office of Small Business Programs (OSBP) of the U.S. Department of Defense, referred to by the Trump administration as the U.S. Department of War, recently announced the launch of a new digital platform for small businesses, LYNX. The LYNX system will strengthen supplier readiness, improve... Read More »
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) is telling critical infrastructure organizations to take action against threats from insiders. As part of CISA’s “Assembling a Multi-Disciplinary Insider Threat Management Team” report, the agency is supporting efforts to... Read More »
The U.S. Army 4th Infantry Division at Fort Carson, Colo., completed Ivy Sting 4, a demonstration of the Army’s Next Generation Command and Control (NGC2) program on Feb. 6. The exercise focused on command and control and addressed critical areas … Read More
Legislation introduced by U.S. Rep. Tony Gonzales (R-TX) would expand existing resources for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to upgrade law enforcement vehicle protection. The legislation, the Bulletproof Law Enforcement Vehicles Act, would allow law enforcement organizations to make … Read More
Legislation recently re-introduced in the U.S. Senate would enhance criminal money laundering statutes. The Combating Money Laundering, Terrorist Finance and Counterfeiting Act would update counterfeiting laws to prohibit state-of-the-art counterfeiting methods and the Federal Deposit Insurance Act’s recordkeeping requirements to … Read More
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has issued a new directive to federal agencies to take action against rising cyber security threats. The Binding Operational Directive 26-02, Mitigating Risk from End-of-Support Edge Devices, requires Federal Civilian Executive Branch (FCEB) … Read More
The U.S. Coast Guard’s Operation Pacific Viper has seized more than 200,000 pounds of cocaine in the Eastern Pacific Ocean since it launched in August. A potentially lethal dose of cocaine is 1.2 grams, meaning the seizures are the equivalent … Read More
Virginia-based HII, the largest shipbuilder in the United States, announced its Newport News Shipbuilding (NNS) division recently completed sea trials of John F. Kennedy (CVN 79), the second Gerald R. Ford-class nuclear-powered aircraft carrier. NNS shipbuilders, John F. Kennedy sailors … Read More
The last remaining arms control treaty limiting U.S. and Russian nuclear arsenals, New START, expires on Feb. 5 – a cause for concern, advocates said recently. Christine Wormuth, president and CEO of the Nuclear Threat Initiative (NTI), a non-proliferation advocacy … Read More
U.S. Department of Defense recently invited 25 vendors to compete in phase one of the Drone Dominance Program. The program is an acquisition reform effort designed to rapidly field low cost, unmanned one-way attack drones at scale as part of … Read More
