Customs and Border Protection

Sen. Markey calls for ‘glitchy asylum app’ to be shutdown at the border

In today’s Federal Newscast: A Massachusetts senator calls for a glitchy asylum app to be shut down at the border. The GAO reports that the VA is failing…

Federal Newscast

(AP Photo/Eric Gay)

FILE - Border Patrol agents hold a news conference prior to a media tour of a new U.S. Customs and Border Protection temporary facility near the Donna International Bridge in Donna, Texas, May 2, 2019. A special Customs and Border Protection unit used sensitive government databases intended to track terrorists to investigate as many as 20 U.S.-based journalists, including a Pulitzer Prize-winning Associated Press reporter, according to a federal watchdog. (AP Photo/Eric Gay, File)

Customs and Border Protection launches latest update to a very old system

Automation

Amelia Brust/Federal News Network

Watchword for 2023: Resilience

Tom Temin Commentary

A TSA worker checks an identification card, Friday, Jan. 25, 2019, at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport in Seattle. Yielding to mounting pressure and growing disruption, President Donald Trump and congressional leaders on Friday reached a short-term deal to reopen the government for three weeks while negotiations continue over the president's demands for money to build his long-promised wall at the U.S.-Mexico border. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)

From airports to immigration to emergency relief, DHS urged to improve ‘customer experience’

Management

U.S. Customs and Border Protection/Federal News Network

30-by-30: CBP shoots for a much larger female workforce

Hiring/Retention

Homeland Security struggles with screening border crossers who get transferred inland

Agency Oversight

FILE - In this May 28, 2010, file photo, a Global Entry Trusted Traveler Network kiosk awaits arriving international passengers who are registered for the service at the Tom Bradley International Terminal at Los Angeles International Airport. On Thursday, July 23, 2020, the Department of Homeland Security announced that New Yorkers would once again be allowed to enroll and re-enroll in Global Entry and other federal travel programs that allow vetted travelers to avoid long security lines at the U.S. border. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon, File)

Customs and Border Protection adopts new technology to make traveling easier

Artificial Intelligence

Customs and Border Protection pledges to hire more women by 2030

Federal Newscast

CBP, TSA expanding facial recognition for traveler identity verification

Technology

The new DHS headquarters, which GSA is managing, includes green roofs, and other green buildings features.
green roofs, green buildings, St Elizabeths, GSA

This federal construction project has dragged on through four administrations

Facilities/Construction

New CISOs come on board at VA, Transportation

Reporter's Notebook

A Transportation Security Administration officer checks travelers as they make their way through security at Love Field in Dallas, Tuesday, April 19, 2022. The major airlines and many of the busiest airports dropped their requirements after a Florida judge struck down the CDC mandate and the TSA announced it wouldn't enforce its 2021 security directive. (AP Photo/LM Otero)

Customs and Border Protection feels the return to international travel

One sign that the world is sort of back to normal, more people than ever are signing up for the various Trusted Traveler programs.

Workforce

Even Customs and Border Protection is getting into the green movement

U.S. Customs and Border Protection seeks to strengthen enforcement against what it calls environmental bad actors and to foster a greener worldwide supply…

Workforce

Millionaire status is fleeting for thousands of TSP participants

Federal Newscast

Also in today’s Federal Newscast, the Marine Mammal Commission has its ethics called into question, and GAO is concerned the Navy is trying to impede Congressional oversight.