Daily Briefings Newsletter – Emergency Preparedness and WMD
Interior Battles Disasters With Hand-Me-Down Drones
"We got some of these drones still in the shrink-wrap from the manufacturer because DoD had already moved on to the next one,” said Interior official.
Airport & Aviation Security
Trump Creates Multi-Agency National Vetting Center for Entry Into U.S.
Coordinating intelligence and law enforcement information will improve identification of "terrorists, criminals, and other nefarious actors trying to enter and remain," says White House.
Airport & Aviation Security
Crisis-Driven Policies and Technology Choices May Erode Cyber-Resilience
Report recommends governments make cyber policy using an ongoing iterative process in place of one that is "ad hoc and crisis-driven" and produces "patchwork legislation.”
ATF
Fifth CR to March 22, 1-Year DACA Extension In Play as Contractor Concern Mounts
Continuing resolutions are costing government suppliers money, and planning for the budget stopgap measures and foregone hiring sap current funds.
DHS
DHS Year of Leadership: MCPOCG Vince Patton on Diversity, Adversity & Success
HSToday sat down with the first African-American selected as the Coast Guard's senior-most enlisted ranking position to discuss his insights and lessons from his extraordinary 30-year career.
Border Security
Short Shutdown Has Little Impact on Defense Firms
Timing is everything. Three days — including a weekend — is not quite enough to cause production problems that really hurt.
Just days into the...
Airport & Aviation Security
EXCLUSIVE – Attention Contractors: Insider Threat Awareness Training Is Mandatory
On May 31, 2017, all cleared government contractors are required to complete insider threat employee awareness training prior to being granted access to classified...
Counterterrorism
Cybersecurity Order Mandates Federal IT Move to the Cloud – But Will that Solve Security Issues?
Varun Badhwar, CEO and co-founder of RedLock, a cloud infrastructure security company, said moving to the cloud alone will not solve the government's IT...
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