The investigation found that instead of holding facilities accountable through financial penalties, ICE issued waivers to facilities with deficient conditions, seeking to exempt them from complying with certain standards. Keep Reading
In addition to airline security, the Transportation Security Administration is also responsible for securing the nation's nearly 3-million-mile pipeline system carrying oil, natural gas, and other resources. This episode of the watchdog report explores this TSA function. Keep Reading
The strategic environment is changing rapidly, and the United States faces an increasingly complex and uncertain world in which threats are becoming ever more diverse and interconnected. Keep Reading
The previous administration cited climate change as a “top strategic risk” in its 2015 National Security Strategy and stated that climate change is an urgent and growing threat to U.S. national security, contributing to increased natural disasters, refugee flows, and conflicts over basic resources like food and water. The current administration does not discuss climate change in its 2017 National Security Strategy. Keep Reading
And House Homeland Security Committee Chairman Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.) did not mince words in his disapproval of the report. Keep Reading
GAO says the National Guard lacks detailed procedures and processes for the states to implement the National Guard counterdrug program, such as how to conduct cross-state aerial reconnaissance. Keep Reading
The report says China is actively pursuing an intensive campaign to obtain critical, dual-use technologies through imports, foreign direct investment, industrial and cyberespionage, and establishment of foreign research and development centers. Keep Reading
There continues to be disagreement about whether FPS is currently in the best place to achieve its objectives. Agency and stakeholder opinions vary about where and whether FPS should move. Keep Reading
Office of Inspector General uncovered more than $175.1 million in questioned costs and more than $58.7 million in recovered assets. Keep Reading
Over the next five years, TSA plans to spend about $73 million in physical access control system implementation with the bulk of these funds ($51 million) going toward the acquisition of new systems from the Approved Products List. Keep Reading
