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The Coast Guard has long worked to boost its capabilities of operating in the Arctic, an area of increasing importance to national security. Now the Homeland Security Science and Technology Directorate will fund research aimed at helping other Department of Homeland Security (DHS) components operate in the Arctic.
CISA has hired about 80 people through the "cyber talent management system," while FEMA is also about to start using CTMS.
Among the uglier mass human-rights violations going on in the world today, is forced labor imposed on the Uyghur minority by China. Congress, in the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act, gave U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) the job of gathering and publicizing where this forced labor exists in the worldwide industrial supply chains.
Lots of things have days, like National Ice Cream Day. Lots of things have whole months, like USDA Invasive Plant Pest Month. So why not emergency communications? Emergency Communications Month is in fact going on right now.
The Homeland Security Department’s procurement shop was busier than ever last year, spending almost $24 billion on about 60,000 transactions.
DHS IG Joseph Cuffari's lawsuit takes issue with probes launched by the Council of Inspectors General on Integrity and Efficiency into his conduct.
The 1.1-point decrease on the employee engagement and satisfaction index indicates many agencies are still struggling with challenges like return-to-office uncertainty, the Partnership for Public Service said.
No cybersecurity measure is 100% reliable. That's why agencies need a dose of resilience -- the ability to get back to normal — if a cyber attack were to succeed.
If you buy or approve the acquisition of software for the government, you probably already know. You're going to have to deal with something called a software bill of materials, or S-BOM as part of understanding what you're getting.
The Office of Personnel Management will soon launch a pair of cyber workforce dashboards to try to help agencies better understand gaps in their cyber workforce, while also trying to attract more job candidates to open cyber positions.
Human migration patters, the billowing drug trade, allies nervous about China, it's all picked up the pace for the U.S. Coast Guard.
The great Solar Winds breach back in 2020 prompted many agencies to improve their cybersecurity. Even the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) found it had to improve its own ability to detect threats.
CISA hired hundreds last year, and it plans to hire even more this year, as the agency looks to keep up with a growing stack of cyber responsibilities.
The Biden administration sees a major opportunity to sell office space the federal government no longer needs, now that much of the federal workforce has adapted to working from home.