All 19 of Delaware’s public school districts and charter schools will benefit from a nearly $1 million investment effort from the Delaware Emergency Management Agency (DEMA) to improve school mapping, threat assessment and reporting applications.
These efforts are meant to strengthen school... Read More »
The Department of Justice (DOJ) is allocating $370 million in grant funding to reduce violent crime while bolstering law enforcement support.
The allocations -- which come through the DOJ's Office of Justice Programs (OJP) Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) and National Institute of Justice... Read More »
To close out his congressional career, United States Sen. Rob Portman (R-OH) has been taking a defense-focused tour of Ohio, and last week he made his sixth stop, visiting the Wright Patterson Air Force Base and the newly formed National Space Intelligence Center (NSIC).
The concept of the NSIC... Read More »
With the Russian invasion of Ukraine still raging on, a collection of House chairs, co-chairs and ranking members introduced non-binding legislation last week meant to encourage President Joe Biden to support the creation of an international tribunal to punish crimes undertaken against Ukraine.... Read More »
A pair of lawmakers have introduced a measure they said seeks to designate New York's Plattsburgh International Airport and Valley International Airport in Texas as Ports of Entry (POE).
Reps. Elise Stefanik (R-NY) and Mayra Flores (R-TX) recently introduced the Border Airport Enhancement Act,... Read More »
The Department of Justice (DOJ) has earmarked $139 million in grant funds for 180 law enforcement agencies nationwide, which enables the hiring of 973 additional full-time personnel.
The initiative is offered through the Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS Office) COPS Hiring... Read More »
The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) recently outlined a New York fentanyl and weapons seizure.
DEA personnel and Office of the Special Narcotics Prosecutor for the City of New York officials noted the seizure resulted in the confiscation of 300,000 rainbow fentanyl pills, 20 pounds... Read More »
Although the Internet was, at one time, deemed to be one of the last frontiers, its uses have changed and multiplied exponentially over the years – and now, a collection of 13 members of Congress have written social media companies asking for evidence of response to violent threats and harmful... Read More »
A new partnership united BioFire Defense, LLC, and the U.S. Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA) last week under a contract to develop a pan-coronavirus test panel for known, novel, and emerging human coronaviruses.
This panel, known as the BioFire Emerging CoV Panel,... Read More »
Together, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) National Institute for Biomedical Research (INRB) and the United States National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) are co-leading an evaluation trial of TPOXX, an antiviral drug for monkeypox.
With this year’s worldwide... Read More »
U.S. Sen. Rob Portman (R-OH) recently detailed the Senate FY 2023 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), outlining 13 critical priorities within the legislation.
“I’m pleased to announce that several of my initiatives to further protect our homeland have been included in the FY 2023... Read More »
Effective immediately, Venezuelans who enter U.S. ports of entry without authorization will be deported to Mexico, according to new enforcement rules laid out by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security this week.
The announcement came alongside declarations of new agreements between DHS and its... Read More »
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) recently announced efforts to issue a regulation making an additional 64,716 H-2B temporary nonagricultural worker visas available for fiscal year (FY) 2023.
The effort is focused on providing a supplemented number of visas to employers in... Read More »
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) recently initiated its fifth Hacking for Homeland Security (H4HS) program.
“We’re excited to provide this unique opportunity for students who’ll bring fresh ideas to real-world government problems,”... Read More »
Following reports that the Chinese Communist Party was actively opening and utilizing overseas police departments, U.S. Rep. Jim Banks (R-IN), with an additional 20 Republican lawmakers, penned a letter to Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Attorney General Merrick Garland demanding... Read More »
