Homeland Security

U.S. owners and operators of critical infrastructures that use drones in their operations should purchase “secure-by-design” unmanned aircraft from approved domestic vendors and not use Chinese-made drones due to security […]

The Court of Federal Claims in early November rejected a protest by one of the losing bidders for the second stage of the Coast Guard’s offshore patrol cutter (OPC) program, […]

The Department of Homeland Security Science and Technology (S&T) Directorate plans to host a demonstration of counter-drone technologies next spring in Texas near the border with Mexico. S&T’s National Urban […]

The Coast Guard this week issued a Request for Proposals for a new contract to provide contractor-owned and operated unmanned aircraft system (UAS) services aboard its larger cutters. The Maritime […]

Recently completed testing of technologies for detecting drones and mitigating potential threats at five domestic airports showed mixed results in terms of vendors’ systems that were able to complete the […]

The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) is already resource constrained when it comes to helping the nation’s airports meet security requirements and it is only going to get worse, the agency’s […]

The Coast Guard recently delivered a fleet mix analysis to Congress that show it needs eight to nine polar icebreakers to fulfill its missions in the Arctic and Antarctic regions, […]

Customs and Border Protection’s (CBP) Air and Marine Operations (AMO) branch this week began operating one of its MQ-9 Predator unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) that was modified by prime contractor […]

QinetiQ US on Monday said it has received a potential $170 million contract from Customs and Border Protection Air and Marine Office to operate and maintain the agency’s tethered aerostats […]

The Coast Guard’s ability to fully carry out its missions are being hurt by new manpower shortages coupled with long-standing resource constraints, Republican and Democrat lawmakers said last week. In […]