Eastern Shipbuilding Group (ESG) and its industry partners this week commissioned a new production facility to support the build-up, integration and testing of the C5ISR system of the Coast Guard’s offshore patrol cutter (OPC) before installation on the ship. The shipbuilder said that co-locating ...
Homeland Security
The House on Wednesday overwhelmingly passed a bipartisan measure meant to improve the way the Department of Homeland Security acquires software to strengthen security. The DHS Software Supply Chain Risk Management Act of 2021 (H.R. 4611), which passed by a vote of 412 to 2, requires a bill of ...
Some Republican senators on the Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee have asked the Transportation Security Administration to reconsider its plans to issue mandatory cybersecurity requirements for the rail, rail transit and aviation industries without first discussing these directives ...
Delivery of the first new Coast Guard heavy polar icebreaker has slipped a year to 2025 due to the fact that it’s been 45 years since the last heavy icebreaker was built in the U.S. and impacts from the COVID-19 pandemic, Adm. Karl Schultz, the service’s commandant, said on Tuesday. The first ...
A recently launched public-private cyber defense center stood up in August is already strengthening its bonds and will be expanding its initial focus on ransomware and incident response to cloud providers to include some critical infrastructures, the director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure ...
The Senate Appropriations Committee on Monday introduced a fiscal year 2022 spending bill for the Department of Homeland Security that would provide more than a half-billion dollar increase in proposed spending for the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), demonstrating strong ...