DHS team remotely hacked a Boeing 757
A Department of Homeland Security official admitted that a team of experts remotely hacked a Boeing 757 parked at an airport. During a keynote address at the 2017 CyberSat Summit, a Department of Homeland...
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DHS/TSA’s : 578 M$ to Peraton to Sustain Security Equipment
Company will provide critical integrated logistics support services for security screening equipment that helps detect threats to aviation safety. Peraton has been selected to provide performance-based integrated logistics support services to help sustain security...
Croatian Ministry of Interior Border Police: extention of Coastal Surveillance System
The coastal surveillance system will provide real-time information from state-of-the-art radar sensors, advanced long range and thermal closed circuit television cameras plus Automatic Identification System (AIS). The system will be supplied by Saab (Traffic...
America’s Coast Guard in the 21st Century: budget driven by strategy
A Conversation with Admiral Paul Zukunft, Commandant, U. S. Coast Guard at the Center for Strategic and International Studies Admiral Paul Zukunft spoke on this topic at the Center for Strategic and International Studies on January...
Airbus Demonstrates New, Portable Threat Detection System
Around the world, threats to densely populated locations such as subways, train stations and airports underscore the need for new counterterrorism methods – especially the capability to investigate suspicious objects that may contain weapons...
US CBP Signs Public-Private Partnership Agreements for Expanded Services
U.S. Customs and Border Protection today finalized the agreements for five public-private partnerships during an official signing ceremony. Under authority from the Consolidated and Further Continuing Appropriations Act, 2013, CBP created a reimbursable fee agreement...
DHS: up to $6 billion contract for cyber continuous diagnostics and mitigation services
Early August, the Department of Homeland Security has awarded contracts to 17 firms to provide continuous diagnostics and mitigation services, also known as CDM, to the federal government, creating a potential model for private...
Border security proposal gives Napolitano new waivers
Analysts looking through the new border security deal in the Senate say it includes waivers that would let Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano refuse to build any new fencing or install the new technology...
DHS: The new US border security plan.
The new version removes flexibility, ordering to place new systems in different locations. For example, it requires to deploy 685 ground sensors, 50 towers and 73 fixed cameras to Arizona’s two sectors, with similar...
USGC: FLIR’s Optical Sensor System for H-60 and H-65 helicopters
FLIR Systems, Inc. has received an order to support the U.S. Coast Guard valued at $23 million. The order is for the Coast Guard’s Electro-Optical Sensor System (ESS) configuration of FLIR’s commercially developed military...
Saab’s MEDAV: Brazilian border security program contract
Defence and security company Saab’s subsidiary MEDAV GmbH has received an order for the electromagnetic signal-sensor part of the Brazilian border security program Sisfron. Deliveries will take place during 2013 to 2016. Sisfron is...
NGC & DHS: MOU for US Critical Infrastructure
Enhanced Cybersecurity Services (ECS) is an information-sharing program to assist critical infrastructure owners and operators in enhancing the cybersecurity protections of their information systems from unauthorized access, exploitation and data exfiltration. Under ECS, DHS...
CBP Announces PEA and FONSI for Low Energy X-Ray Inspection Systems
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) announced that a final Programmatic Environmental Assessment (PEA) and a Finding of No Significant Impact (FONSI) for Low Energy X-Ray Inspection Systems (LEXRIS) at CBP operational areas have...
ManTech: $9 M to Continue Supporting US CBP
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security has awarded ManTech International Corporation a contract to provide program management and technical support to the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), Office of Field Operations, Non Intrusive...
Hurricane Sandy is an example of a cyberattack chaos
Department of Homeland Security SecretaryJanet Napolitano said the destruction caused by Hurricane Sandy should serve as an example of the scale of chaos that could result from a cyberattack on U.S.critical infrastructure. “One of...
BAE to Provide Strategic Program Management and Technical Support Services for the DHS
BAE Systems has been awarded a multi-year $27.4 million contract to provide program management and technical support services to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Office of the Chief Financial Officer (OCFO). BAE Systems’...
The Importance of Early Detection of a Potential Biological Attack
“We all know the importance of early detection in the treatment of diseases and medical emergencies. Routine screenings and monitoring as well as rapid response save thousands of lives every year. The same principles...
Using Lessons Learned in Afghanistan to Protect the Homeland from IEDs
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations National Security Investigations Division Assistant Director John Woods addresses how ICE is at the forefront of the nation’s civilian efforts to disrupt, dismantle, and investigate...
The US Federal Maritime Domain Awareness Programs
U.S. Coast Guard Deputy Commandant for Operations Vice Admiral Peter Neffenger addresses the Coast Guard’s efforts to improve our Nation’s maritime security through Maritime Domain Awareness. The maritime environment is inherently dangerous, complex, and...
How Can DHS Better Leverage State and Local Partnerships?
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Director John Morton addresses ICE’s Secure Communities strategy which improves and modernizes the identification and removal of criminal aliens and other high priority aliens from the United States....