Department of Homeland Security
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As of July, facial recognition technology is scanning departing travelers in 32 airports and all arriving air travelers.
August 01, 2022 -
In today's Federal Newscast: More than 50 victims handed over millions of dollars to scammers posing as feds. A new bill would try to make it easier to fire federal employees.
August 01, 2022 -
Shane Barney, the chief information security officer at the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service in the Homeland Security Department, said knowing what and who is on your network is a critical first step in the zero trust journey.
July 29, 2022 -
Every organization talks about innovating and hiring innovators, but how to you find such people? Sabra Horne, an entrepreneur-in-residence at BMNT and former CISA innovation hub chief joined the Federal Drive to give her view.
July 29, 2022 -
CISA is about to get its own procurement authority but could they grow too large too fast? Alan Thomas, the former commissioner of the GSA's Federal Acquisition Service, now the chief operating officer of Intellibridge talked with Tom Temin on the Federal Drive.
July 26, 2022 -
In today's Federal Newscast: The OPM Director has a warning about not offering telework to federal employees. The House passes a bill to fund IRS customer service. And the Coast Guard is modifying its medical requirements.
July 22, 2022 -
U.S. Customs and Border Protection sometimes faces distrust, even antagonism, among citizens and non-citizens officers encounter. To help ease this problem, CBP created a new position called senior community relations manager. The person taking on that job is Nawar Shora. Tom Temin talked to Mr. Shora on THE FEDERAL DRIVE.
July 20, 2022 -
The Homeland Security Science and Technology directorate works to develop new technologies and get them into commercial production. A lot of work has focused on technologies to speed up airport screening and make it more accurate. Now a unit of Science and Technology has won an interagency partnership award from the Federal Laboratory Consortium. Specifically, high definition advanced imaging and shoe scanner technology. Federal Drive host Tom Temin talked with the program manager John Fortune.
July 20, 2022 -
AFGE has begun the process to separate its union chapter for ICE officers, essentially dissolving the council's collective bargaining agreement.
July 18, 2022 -
In today's Federal Newscast, some agency leaders are taking a closer look at improving cooperation with unions.
July 13, 2022 -
Employee engagement and satisfaction dropped by 4.5 points in the Partnership for Public Service’s 2021 “Best Places to Work in the Federal Government” rankings.
July 13, 2022 -
A provision in the omnibus spending bill for 2022 requires the Homeland Security Department to submit a report to Congress on the impact of most pilot programs.
July 11, 2022 -
In today's Federal Newscast, the fiscal 2023 spending bills making their way through the House would give more money to the DHS St. Elizabeth's West Campus.
June 30, 2022 -
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services’ backlog has nearly 5.2 million cases and approximately 8.5 million cases are pending, according the agency's Ombudsman Phyllis Coven.
June 22, 2022 -
The federal government has world class engineering expertise in its ranks. The same is true of public health expertise. What it does not have is a standing capability to fuse those two disciplines together with behavioral science to help inform agency's response to crises, at least until now. A brand new organization called the Engineering for Public Health and Human Factors Center or EPH is now up and running within the Army Corps of Engineers.
June 22, 2022