The fifth annual Towards a More Safe and Secure World leadership program will see international participants from 56 countries meet with their counterparts in 16 U.S. cities to increase efforts to combat transnational crime and counter terrorism. Keep Reading
"All it’s going to take is one bad day" with "mass confusion within the upper ranks," warns former CSO. Keep Reading
Claire Grady started her third-in-command post on Aug. 8, 2017. She was acting deputy secretary and should have been next in line to replace Nielsen. Keep Reading
FEMA awarded more than $22 billion in grants for four major disasters in 2017 alone. It manages these and other grants in numerous, disparate information technology systems that it has been attempting to modernize. Keep Reading
Coast Guard Chief Petty Officers Association met its greatest challenges in the past couple of years: service members with no pay and families devastated by hurricanes. Keep Reading
"Nielsen will be leaving her position, and I would like to thank her for her service," Trump tweeted. Keep Reading
"The political and economic environment makes it very difficult to compete for the people we need to do these jobs," one DHS official said. Keep Reading
Carranza serves as a principal advisor to Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin and oversees the Office of Consumer Policy. Keep Reading
Since 2003, GAO has made about 2,800 recommendations to DHS to strengthen its management efforts, among other things. DHS has implemented more than 75 percent. Keep Reading
RAND found that experiences with poor leadership can cause women to leave and participants said there is a scarcity of female role models. Women reported feeling stress related to perceived unfairness of weight standards and procedures for measuring body fat. They also had concerns about discrimination, sexual harassment and assault, and reported experiencing “burnout” due to being undermanned and overworked. Keep Reading
