Department of Homeland Security
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Initially created in reaction to the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, the Department of Homeland Security is at another inflection point, former DHS and national security experts say. The coronavirus pandemic is another opportunity to reimagine and refocus the department to handle the ongoing health crisis in the short term and other non-military challenges later.
August 19, 2020 -
Five of 10 agencies responded to Sen. Maggie Hassan’s (D-N.H.) request for details and plans for how they will modernize outdated systems and what Congress can do to help.
August 18, 2020 -
A congressional watchdog agency has found that the top two Trump administration officials in the U.S. Department of Homeland Security were improperly appointed to the posts under federal law
August 14, 2020 -
Grant Schneider, the federal chief information security officer, said the Federal Acquisition Security Council continues to work on its interim final rule detailing how it will share supply chain risk information with government and industry.
August 14, 2020 -
In today's Federal Newscast, the White House threatens to veto the House's minibus to fund a large amount of agencies.
August 03, 2020 -
As telework gets old, leadership needs to remember the whole employee. That's why some agencies are taking steps for the care and feeding of their employees' psyches as this wears on.
July 31, 2020 -
In today's Federal Newscast, agencies have spent almost $18 billion on goods and services in response to the coronavirus pandemic from March to June, and 47% of that was not competed among vendors.
July 30, 2020 -
In today's Federal Newscast, about 4,000 federal employees have filed workers' compensation claims with the Labor Department due to COVID-19.
July 28, 2020 -
In today's Federal Newscast, the American Federation of Government Employees is making a renewed push in court to score hazard pay for federal employees working on the frontlines of the pandemic.
July 24, 2020 -
The work resulted in the rescue of 25 children and the arrest of the site administrator. Team members are finalists in this year's Service to America Medals program.
July 22, 2020 -
In today's Federal Newscast, the General Services Administration publishes a colorful guide to a complicated issue -- the ban on Chinese telecommunications gear.
July 20, 2020 -
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, under an emergency directive, is giving agencies until 2 p.m. Friday to apply a patch released Tuesday — or a “temporary registry-based workaround” — for Windows Servers running DNS.
July 17, 2020 -
In today's Federal Newscast, Defense Secretary Mark Esper bans photographs from being used in the process to promote officers and enlisted service members.
July 16, 2020 -
The federal fourth quarter spending spree is in full swing with agencies expected to spend more money during the last three months of 2020 than they have spent in the previous five years during the final quarter of the fiscal year.
July 14, 2020 -
In today's Federal Newscast, Homeland Security Committee chairman Bennie Thompson wants to know what DHS is doing to keep employees safe.
July 13, 2020