Department of Homeland Security
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Russ Deyo, DHS’ undersecretary for management, is holding each of the department’s components accountable for specific plans, milestones and approaches that focus on root causes of employee dissatisfaction.
April 08, 2016 -
Leaders of R&D components of DHS detailed technological projects and innovation processes at a Senate Homeland Security Subcommittee budgetary hearing.
April 08, 2016 -
The Government Accountability Office found that the Homeland Security Department still has work to do in finding out whether the new administrative leave policy is having any effect. Andrew Von Ah, GAO's acting director for Homeland Security and Justice Issues, offered his insight on Federal Drive with Tom Temin.
April 04, 2016 -
If you're a company operating a piece of critical infrastructure, you can get a no-charge assessment of your cybersecurity and your security practices courtesy of the Homeland Security Department. Federal Drive with Tom Temin talked to Greg Touhill, deputy assistant secretary for cybersecurity and communications at DHS, about the latest developments in the National Cybersecurity Assessment and Technical Services program.
April 04, 2016 -
The Homeland Security Department’s chief privacy officer is mandating mobile apps go through the vetting process known as the car wash before they can be deployed on the network.
April 04, 2016 -
Janet Stevens, the chief information officer of the Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) in USDA, said her bureau will join APHIS in testing out new cyber tools and sensors under the continuous diagnostics and mitigation (CDM) program.
April 01, 2016 -
Soraya Correa, chief procurement officer for the Department of Homeland Security, joins host Roger Waldron to discuss her vision for the DHS acquisition workforce, procurement operations, and government-industry communications. March 29, 2016
March 30, 2016 -
Vendors are submitting bids on the next set of tools under phase 2 of the continuous diagnostics and mitigation program while DHS is preparing for phase 3.
March 28, 2016 -
DHS promotes Danny Toler and brings on GSA veteran Emile Monett to work on the CDM program.
March 28, 2016 -
Kevin Boshears, director of the Homeland Security Department's Office of Small and Disadvantaged Business procurement program, outlines how small business can get involved in contracting with DHS.
March 24, 2016 -
Now that Congress has funded the Coast Guard's largest acquisition budget ever, Adm. Paul Zukunft, the Coast Guard commandant, said the barometer is rising and the storms have abated.
March 22, 2016 -
Mike Horton, the chief information officer of the DHS IG’s office, said his top priority is transitioning their current local data center to a federal cloud, and that move opens the door to other priorities, including a laptop refresh, migrating their public website to a public cloud that is more agile and extending the capabilities of their email-as-a-service.
March 18, 2016 -
Jeh Johnson, the DHS secretary, certified March 17 that the agency met the requirement in the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act to accept and provide cyber threat data in real time with the private sector.
March 17, 2016 -
Lisa Schlosser, the federal deputy CIO, will take over on an interim basis as the acting CIO at the Office of Personnel Management. Margie Graves, the DHS deputy CIO, will move to OMB on a detail.
March 17, 2016 -
The Office of Information Policy published data on FOIA request processing from the annual reports of 100 agencies.
March 15, 2016