HSToday Executive Leadership Interview: CBP’s John Wagner on Myths, Future of Biometrics at the Border
Introducing HSToday's new Leadership Interview series to increase clarity on the law and your government. Keep Reading
Diane Sabatino to be New CBP Deputy Executive Assistant Commissioner, Office of Field Operations
Sabatino currently serves as Director, Field Operations, Miami/Tampa, overseeing a combined workforce of over 2,900 employees and 22 ports of entry throughout the State of Florida. Keep Reading
CBP Biometrics Leader John Wagner Announces Retirement
Deputy Executive Assistant Commissioner Wagner has been assigned to CBP headquarters in D.C. since 1999 and was appointed to his current role in the Office of Field Operations (OFO) in April 2014. Keep Reading
CBP Moving Forward with Algorithm Update, MOU with NIST on Facial Recognition Evaluation
Wagner said "there may be a small handful" of false positives, but "we are just not seeing that." Keep Reading
Updated: CBP and Privacy Groups Discuss Biometric Entry-Exit Mandate
The meeting was the third in an ongoing series of discussions about measures that CBP is taking to protect traveler privacy during the biometric facial comparison process at U.S. ports of entry. Keep Reading
Contractor ‘Potentially’ Could Face Criminal Charges for Hacked Biometric Data, Says CBP’s Wagner
"We apparently did not have the same level of controls and audit capabilities on that because it was a standalone, closed system," lawmakers told of compromised pilot program. Keep Reading
CBP, TSA Leaders Confident of ‘Great Support’ for Biometrics at Turbulent DHS
Wagner said one question is how to weave tech advances into the “gauntlet of checks” already being conducted at congested ports of entry. Keep Reading
CBP Celebrates 15 Years
Today, CBP employs about 60,000 men and women who each day process more than 1 million passengers and pedestrians and $6.5 billion worth of imported goods arriving into the U.S. Keep Reading