Homeland Security

Last year, the U.S. Coast Guard began receiving regular data and information from unmanned surface vessels (USVs) in the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. While the data provided the service more […]

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 […]