Countermeasures
On Tuesday, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) announced it was inviting the scientific and technical communities to propose research and development projects that will support national security.
The program, the Long Range Broad Agency... Read More »
On Thursday, U.S. Sens. Mark Warner (D-VA) and James Lankford (R-OK) introduce legislation they said will strengthen federal cybersecurity by forcing federal contractors to adhere to cybersecurity guidelines.
The legislation, the Federal Contractor Cybersecurity Vulnerability Reduction Act of... Read More »
On Friday, the U.S. Air Force announced it had reached a price agreement with Boeing for the E-7A Wedgetail weapon system rapid prototype program.
At a total contract value of $2.5 million, the agreement paves the way for the delivery of two operationally representative prototypes of the E-7A... Read More »
On Thursday, U.S. Sens. Bob Casey (D-PA), Rob Wyden (D-OR), Cynthia Lummus (R-WY), Sherrod Brown (D-OH), and Susan Collins (R-ME) introduced legislation to combat illicit goods, including fentanyl, from entering the country.
The legislation, the Fighting Illicit Goods, Helping Trustworthy... Read More »
U.S. Reps. August Pfluger (R-TX) and Jimmy Panetta (D-CA) announced they had introduced legislation to thwart terror threats from cloud-based apps like TikTok.
Pfluger, chairman of the House Homeland Security Subcommittee on Counterterrorism, Law Enforcement and Intelligence, said the... Read More »
U.S. Sen. Gary Peters (D-MI) announced Tuesday that the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee had passed legislation to reauthorize the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Joint Task Force’s authority.
The bill would extend the task force’s authority for two... Read More »
On Monday, the U.S. Department of Defense said it had awarded $11.8 million to Lithium Nevada Corporation to accelerate the extraction and processing of lithium carbonate.
The award, made via the Defense Production Act Investment office, directly supports the 2024 National Defense Industrial... Read More »
A recent DARPA competition is working to develop tools to help build national security workforce training programs, officials said.
As part of DARPA’s “Building an Adaptive and Competitive Workforce,” six teams received cash prizes to kickstart and refine solutions showing promise in... Read More »
On Thursday, officers with the U.S. Customs and Border Protection agency seized more than half of a ton of fentanyl pills, the largest singular fentanyl seizure in the agency’s history.
The seizure of an estimated 4 million pills at the Port of Lukeville, AZ was part of Operation... Read More »
On Tuesday, in the light of Cuban spy Manuel Rocha pleading guilty to anti-American espionage, U.S. Sens. Marco Rubio (R-FL), John Cornyn (R-TX) and James Lankford (R-OK) introduced legislation to remove the statute of limitations on espionage charges.
The Congressmen said they hoped that the... Read More »
U.S. Rep. Blake Moore (R-UT) introduced legislation that would advance U.S. semiconductor research and development initiatives through tax credit initiatives.
The legislation, the Semiconductor Technology Advancement and Research (STAR) Act, would create an investment tax credit for... Read More »
On Friday, U.S. Sens. Mike Rounds (R-SD) and Jon Ossoff (D-GA) introduced legislation that would help advance the development of the country’s federal cyber workforce.
Rounds, the ranking member of the Senate Armed Services Committee’s Subcommittee on Cybersecurity said the legislation, the... Read More »
More than 100 public safety and military personnel participated in the 2024 “Ravens Challenge," New York Gov. Kathy Hochul said Saturday.
“Ravens Challenge” is the world’s largest annual training exercise for public safety bomb squads and military explosive ordnance disposal teams. The... Read More »
On Thursday, U.S. Rep. Blaine Luetkmeyer (R-MO), chair of the House Financial Services Subcommittee on National Security, Illicit Finance, and International Financial Institutions, joined U.S. Rep. John Moolenaar (R-MI), chair of the House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), to... Read More »
On Wednesday, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security announced the inaugural members of the Federal School Safety Clearinghouse External Advisory Board.
The group, school safety experts and education leaders, will provide recommendations on how to enhance school safety and security. Officials... Read More »
On Monday, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) announced it was expanding enforcement efforts against Transnational Criminal Organizations (TCOs).
Troy Miller, senior official performing the duties of Commissioner said the agency would be expanding Operation Plaza Spike to the El Paso and... Read More »
On Monday, the U.S. Department of Defense announced it had awarded Constellium Muscle Shoals LLC $23 million to increase annual aluminum casting production capacity.
The award will also help the Muscle Shoals, Alabama-company secure the capability to supply U.S. mills with aluminum casting and... Read More »
On Friday, U.S. Sen. Gary Peters (D-MI) introduced legislation to reform screening practices at airports and ports of entry that can affect individuals who may pose no danger to national security.
The Enhanced Oversight and Accountability in Screening Act would require the Secretary of the... Read More »
On Thursday, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security announced that the alleged leader of an international human smuggling ring responsible for bringing thousands of migrants into the country had been arrested in Mexico.
The defendant, Abdul Karim Conteh, 42, a Sierra Leone national, was... Read More »
On Wednesday, U.S. Sens. Gary Peters (D-MI) ad Joni Ernst (R-IA) introduced legislation that would require the U.S. Department of Defense to better understand the risk of relying on foreign suppliers for critical medications.
The legislation, the Pharmaceutical Risk Assessment and Mitigation... Read More »
On Tuesday, U.S. Sen. Gary Peters (D-MI) chair of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, introduced legislation to prevent defense contracting waste and fraud.
The legislation, Denial Reporting in the Federal Awardee Performance and Integrity Information System Act, would... Read More »
On Monday, U.S. Sens. John Hoeven (R-ND) and Kyrsten Sinema (I-AZ) introduced legislation to support Shadow Wolves agents and strengthen border security.
The legislation, the Shadow Wolves Improvement Act, would provide career mobility opportunities to Shadow Wolves law enforcement officers and... Read More »
On Thursday, U.S. Sens. Gary Peters (D-MI) and James Lankford (R-OK) introduced legislation that would establish a comprehensive framework for cybersecurity regulations across the federal government.
The bill, the Streamlining Federal Cybersecurity Regulations Act, seeks to address sometimes... Read More »
The Department of Homeland Security’s Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) announced Wednesday it had published a final rule to implement Federal Flood Risk Management Standard (FFRMS).
The final rule provides a flexible framework to increase resilience against flooding and help protect... Read More »
On Tuesday, legislation to extend federal programs aimed at helping to support local fire departments across the country was signed into law.
The Fire Grants and Safety Act, authored by U.S. Sens. Gary Peters (D-MI), Susan Collins (R-ME), Tom Carper (D-DE), and Lisa Murkowski (R-AK),... Read More »
On Monday, Lockheed Martin announced the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) had awarded it a $4.6 million contract to develop Artificial Intelligence tools for dynamic, airborne missions.
Part of DARPA’s Artificial Intelligence Reinforcements (AIR) program, the 18-month... Read More »
In late June, U.S. Reps. Brad Wenstrup (R-OH) and Dan Kildee (D-MI) joined several of their colleagues to introduce legislation that would temporarily ensure U.S. titanium manufacturers have access to the global titanium marketplace.
The Securing America’s Titanium Manufacturing Act would... Read More »
On Wednesday, U.S. Rep. Mark Green, M.D. (R-TN) held four cyber roundtables with Jen Easterly, director for the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) for industry, higher education and healthcare stakeholders.
The discussion followed hearings by the House Homeland Security... Read More »
On Monday, a bipartisan group called for Congress to swiftly pass legislation to raise the pay for federal wildland firefighters in advance of wildfire season.
U.S. Reps. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (D-WA), Joe Neguse (D-CO), Ruben Gallego (D-AZ), and Jack Bergman (R-MI), met with wildland... Read More »
More than 650 projects across the country were selected to receive $1 billion in climate resilience funding, officials announced Tuesday.
President Joe Biden, U.S. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas and FEMA Administrator Deanne Criswell said the 656 projects will... Read More »
On Monday, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) announced it would be making an innovative new fire safety tool available to fire departments across the country for testing.
The tool – a helmet-mounted indoor visualization and navigation device... Read More »
On Friday, the U.S. House of Representatives voted 212 to 203 to approve the Homeland Security Appropriations Act, 2025.
The $64.8 billion provides $600 million for southern border wall construction and forces Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas to build the physical barriers... Read More »
A new unmanned aerial systems (UAS) initiative focused on practical military drone applications, Project ULTRA, debuted last week with a simulation of the unmanned movement of cargo payloads for over 100 km.
It was the Department of Defense’s (DoD) first task order related to the project,... Read More »
A bipartisan group of senators this week introduced the Military and Educational Data Integration Act, which would mandate a program granting state education systems access to enlistment data to potentially let high schools more accurately track the outcome of military careers.
“The military... Read More »
As a first round of additional funding from the Biden administration, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) this week announced that $160 million would go to faith-based institutions and nonprofit organizations to better protect them from targeted attacks.
This funding, pulled from the... Read More »
