Department of Homeland Security
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DHS wants to make sure employees at the Counter Weapons Office of Mass Destruction stay feds, even if Congress lets the office's authority terminate.
October 24, 2023 -
Agencies are supposed to protect their data systems from cybersecurity threats, especially those known as high value asset systems. The Homeland Security Department office of inspector general looked at a high value asset system operated by the Transportation Security Administration.
October 19, 2023 -
Defense and national security community officials, speaking Wednesday at the Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology (ICIT)’s AI DC conference in Arlington, Virginia, said their agencies see AI as an essential way to maintain an information advantage against malicious actors.
October 04, 2023 -
"The employees are upset that they're going into this again." Staff at TSA and other DHS components are preparing to go to work without pay."
September 29, 2023 -
The departments of Commerce and Homeland Security are among the agencies that emailed employees today telling them a government shutdown was expected and they should plan accordingly.
September 28, 2023 -
A Department of Homeland Security (DHS) initiative called "the Joint Requirement Council" hasn't gone very far in 10 years. The Council is supposed to discover capabilities multiple DHS components have in common, in order to avoid duplication and redundancy. But the Council doesn't meet very often and no one at the top seems to pay any attention, according to the Government Accountability Office (GAO).
September 27, 2023 -
A shutdown would potentially leave CISA with a skeleton crew to respond to cyber attacks on the networks of federal agencies and critical infrastructure.
September 26, 2023 -
The Office of Intelligence and Analysis has come under criticism for both overreaching in its authorities, while failing to heed information about the 2021 Capitol riot.
September 25, 2023 -
DHS' recommendations come amid a growing patchwork of cyber incident reporting rules and regulations.
September 19, 2023 -
In today's Federal Newscast: After three crashes, two of them deadly, the Marines halt aviation for two days. A DHS threat assessment warns of "likely" cyber-attacks on America's 2024 elections. And GAO has given its employees several hybrid and remote work options.
September 19, 2023 -
The Oversight hearing comes after months of pressure from committee leaders for agencies to share more granular data on federal telework and productivity of employees.
September 15, 2023 -
In DHS and NIST labs, researchers study known knowns but also unknown unknowns on the cyber horizon. We talk to three such researchers to learn about their work and about helping agencies become agile and resilient in the face of such cyberthreats.
September 15, 2023 -
DHS has a new AI policy, while Chief Information Officer Eric Hysen has been named as the department's first-ever "chief AI officer."
September 14, 2023 -
Agencies have until Oct. 13 to submit requests to OPM for new special salary rate approvals. But bigger budget concerns may discourage agencies from requesting or even implementing them.
September 13, 2023 -
The cybersecurity team at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), is about to finalize a new version of a signature document: The Cybersecurity Framework. Next week it holds a workshop to get one last round of input on the new framework draft. For more, Federal Drive Host Tom Temin spoke with Kevin Stine, the Chief of NIST's Applied Cybersecurity Division.
September 11, 2023