GSA Makes Changes to Key IT Personnel
GSA has appointed Jessica Salmoiraghi as associate administrator for the Office of Government-wide Policy (OGP) and made some other key changes to IT personnel. Keep Reading
PERSPECTIVE: Communications Advancement Marches Forward
The growing desire to combine every task into one device is creating an even bigger window for software in Homeland Security and other public sectors. Keep Reading
DHS Coastal Surveillance System Has Evolved Into Information Sharing Platform
The IMDE concept has already fared well with U.S. Coast Guard and the Customs and Border Protection (CBP), Air and Marine Operations (AMO), and Air and Marine Operations Center (AMOC) as an initial testbed. Keep Reading
WHO Global Emergency Response Fund Receives Extra $15.3 Million
This will enable the rapid financing of health response operations in the coming months, filling a critical gap between the moment the need for an emergency response is identified and the point at which funds from other sources can be released. Keep Reading
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BPC Offers Overview of Information DHS Can Share With Other Agencies
It dispels fears that the citizenship question, which is likely to be included in the 2020 census, will lead to data being passed on to enforcement agencies with the purpose of deporting undocumented immigrants. Keep Reading
GAO: Report Outlines Restructuring Options and Challenges Within Immigration Courts
GAO interviewed 10 experts and stakeholders who stated that they generally supported one of three scenarios for restructuring the immigration court system, all of which would require a statutory change to implement. Keep Reading
GAO: ICE Could Improve Cost Estimates on Immigration Detention
GAO found some inconsistencies and errors in ICE's calculations for its congressional budget justifications. Keep Reading
New Petition Demands That AXA Insurance Divest From Israeli Weapons Maker Elbit
Elbit Systems is a major contractor on the construction of the border wall, having been awarded substantial contracts to build and maintain radar and surveillance towers along the Arizona/Sonora border. Keep Reading
Coast Guard Authorization Act Filibustered Over Environmental Concerns
The legislation included the Vessel Incidental Discharge Act, which would limit states' power to regulate ballast water discharges. Keep Reading
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Global Piracy Attacks Jump in First Quarter of the Year
Worldwide in the first three months of 2018, 100 crew were taken hostage and 14 kidnapped from their vessels. A total of 39 vessels were boarded, 11 fired upon and four vessels hijacked. IMB received a further 12 reports of attempted attacks. Keep Reading
OPM Releases New Cyber Workforce Guidance
Agencies will need to report annually until 2022 on cyber-related work roles of critical need in the workforce and describe the roles identified and substantiate the critical needs designation. Keep Reading
Global Cyber Alliance Releases Free Cyber Tools
GCA DMarc Risk Scanner lets organizations see if critical partners, such as trading partners or supply chain, are protecting their own email domains from being spoofed or phished. Keep Reading
PERSPECTIVE: Civil Air Patrol Provides Viable Asset to Bolstered Border Reconnaissance
Potential partner has performed various missions since its inception in support of homeland security. Keep Reading
Supreme Court Strikes Down Part of Immigration Law as Too Vague
The court's 5-4 decision — in an unusual alignment in which new Justice Neil Gorsuch joined the four liberal justices — concerns a catchall provision of immigration law that defines what makes a crime violent. Keep Reading
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FEMA Releases Affordability Framework for National Flood Insurance Program
The framework suggests that both policyholders and non-policyholders with the lowest median incomes live in the highest hazard areas. It proposes several options for developing an affordability program for flood insurance and offers models of the costs of each option. Keep Reading
Sessions Announces Changes in DEA Opioid Limit Rules
“Under the proposed rule, DEA’s opioid production limits would be more responsive to the risk of drug abuse by explicitly taking diversion into account. It’s a common sense idea: the more a drug is diverted, the more its production should be limited." Keep Reading
Researchers Develop Algorithm to Locate Fake Users on Social Media
Researchers at Ben-Gurion University previously developed the Social Privacy Protector to help users evaluate their friends list in seconds and identify which have few or no mutual links and might be “fake” profiles. Keep Reading
Pentagon Releases Second Draft RFP for $10 Billion JEDI Cloud
According to the latest draft, published on FedBizOpps, the cloud contract will be a single award. "This Draft RFP #2 captures the totality of the JEDI Cloud requirement to date and previous iterations should not be referenced," it says. Keep Reading
INFOGRAPHIC: Mass Attacks in the United States
The Secret Service National Threat Assessment Center has documented characteristics of mass attacks between January and December 2017. Keep Reading
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Russian State-Sponsored Cyber Actors Targeting Network Infrastructure Devices
FBI has high confidence that Russian state-sponsored cyber actors are using compromised routers to conduct man-in-the-middle attacks to support espionage, extract intellectual property, maintain persistent access to victim networks, and potentially lay a foundation for future offensive operations. Keep Reading
Small Actors and Cyber Warfare: Cyber Allows ‘David’ Nations to Take on Goliaths
It's not just an offensive tool deployed by rogue states but a deterrent in rough neighborhoods. Keep Reading
China’s ZTE Blocked from Exporting Telecommunications Products After False Statements in Sanctions Violation Deal
These false statements covered up the fact that ZTE paid full bonuses to employees that had engaged in illegal conduct, and failed to issue letters of reprimand. Keep Reading
Preston Werntz New Chief Data Officer at DHS Office of Cybersecurity and Communications
Werntz was previously head of the technology services section at the National Cybersecurity and Communications Integration Center, and has held a role at DHS since 2009. Keep Reading
Lucky Mariner 18 Focuses on Threats Against Shipping, Deconflicting
U.S. Naval Forces Central Command (NAVCENT), representatives from Naval Cooperation and Guidance for Shipping (NCAGS) and the commercial shipping industry completed exercise Lucky Mariner on April 11. Keep Reading
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Resch to be Executive Assistant Director at Criminal, Cyber, Response and Services Branch
Wray also announced the appointment of Andrew W. Vale as executive assistant director of the Human Resources Branch and Nancy McNamara as assistant director in charge of the Washington Field Office. Keep Reading
