Following President Joe Biden’s lecture on Wednesday to Russian President Vladimir Putin that cyber attacks on U.S. critical infrastructure are off limits, U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas on Thursday said he will update Congress on attempts by Russia and China and criminal ...

Building on a recent security directive to owners and operators of pipelines, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) is developing a new regulation to further strengthen cybersecurity within the pipeline sector, an agency official said this week. The second directive “will require more ...

The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee on Wednesday approved by unanimous voice vote to advance the nominations of two Biden administration cyber nominees to consideration by the full Senate. The nominations of Chris Inglis to be the first National Cyber Director (NCD) and ...

The chairwoman of a House cybersecurity panel is developing legislation that would require critical infrastructure owners to report cyber incidents to the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and also codify a voluntary pilot program that the agency uses with companies that ...

Eastern Shipbuilding Group (ESG) and Huntington Ingalls Industries [HII] have submitted bids to build the second tranche of medium-endurance offshore patrol cutters (OPCs) for the Coast Guard, the companies said. ESG and HII join Bollinger Shipyards in publicly disclosing bids for the OPC Stage 2 ...

The Coast Guard’s Research and Development Center (RDC) is planning a new set of evaluations of unmanned surface vessel (USV) technology to examine the ability of autonomous systems to avoid collisions at sea and conduct additional missions. The Coast Guard is working with Sea Machines to ...