The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee on Wednesday approved the Biden administration’s nominee, Ed Gonzalez, to lead Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and five bipartisan cybersecurity bills. The vote on Gonzalez was along party lines with seven Democrats in ...

The Coast Guard on Tuesday released an updated cybersecurity strategy that outlines three lines of effort amid increasing cyber threats to the nation’s maritime transportation system. The previous cybersecurity strategy, released in 2015, established cyberspace as a new operational domain for the ...

A roughly $550 billion spending bill being considered by the Senate for investment in the nation’s infrastructure includes at least $1 billion for cybersecurity, mostly for state and local grants but also a sliver to help the new executive Office of the National Cyber Director (NCD) staff up. The ...

L3Harris Technologies [LHX] on Tuesday reported strong second quarter financial results with a double-digit gain in earnings and solid organic growth and the company announced the sale of two defense electronics businesses in deals that signaled the end is near with divestitures of non-core units. ...

Leidos [LDOS] on Tuesday posted strong second quarter results driven primarily by gains in its federal health solutions and defense businesses but despite a strong first half to 2021 the company didn’t raise its financial outlook for the year given uncertainties due to concerns over a surge in a ...

Homeland Security Report, Wednesday, August 4, 2021 Top Story Briefing The Department of Homeland Security Science and Technology Directorate has awarded TRX Systems, Inc. and Epiq Solutions, Inc. a combined $1.6 million to continue development of user-friendly in-building coverage analysis systems ...