The Coast Guard and Navy said VT Halter Marine‘s winning design for the new Polar Security Cutter (PSC) “meets or exceeds all threshold requirements” in the ship specification and includes incentives to deliver early. On Tuesday, VT Halter won a potential $1.9 billion contract to start ...
Homeland Security
The Coast Guard and Navy on Tuesday awarded VT Halter Marine a potential $1.9 billion contract to begin detailed design and eventually construction on up to three Polar Security Cutters (PSCs) for the Coast Guard, the first new heavy polar icebreakers for the service in more than 40 years at a time ...
Despite some additional detail about cyber hacking by Russia during the 2016 U.S. presidential election, there were no surprises in Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s report last week given what was already uncovered by the intelligence community, the top cyber security official at the Department ...
The Coast Guard on Monday released its new strategic outlook for the Arctic, pointing to increasing competition in the region from China and Russia and making the case for new polar icebreakers and investments in other assets and personnel to obtain the capacity and capabilities for assured access ...
The use of biometric technology to verify the departure of foreign nationals from U.S. airports on international flights in accordance with their visa terms is showing positive results so far in limited deployments, the Department of Homeland Security says. Through Sept. 30, 2018, Customs and ...
Acting Homeland Security Secretary Kevin McAleenan on Monday named John Sanders as the acting commissioner of Customs and Border Protection, filling a week-old vacancy created when President Donald Trump put McAleenan in charge of DHS after firing Kirstjen Nielsen. Sanders had been chief operating ...
