President Donald Trump on Friday declared a national emergency allowing his administration to use billions of dollars towards constructing a wall along the southern border, including $6 billion in funds from the Pentagon’s military construction and drug interdiction accounts. A senior White House ...

Between the 2016 presidential election and the 2018 congressional midterm elections, the Department of Homeland Security boosted the number of sensors it deployed to state and local election networks to help detect unwanted intrusions, the department’s senior cyber security official told a House ...

The Coast Guard is set to start full-rate production of an overhaul program to extend the life of its Airbus H-65 Dolphins by 10,000 flight hours and at the same time upgrading the avionics on the short-range recovery helicopters. Service Life Extension Program (SLEP) work was done at the same time ...

Although the congressional spending deal for the Department of Homeland Security doesn’t give President Trump near what he wants to fund a physical wall along the southern border, budget negotiators have agreed to hefty increases overall in border security, particularly to inspect vehicles and ...

As part of government efforts to develop a system to track a burgeoning number of low flying small commercial drones, the Department of Homeland Security is supporting the development of technology that could help distinguish friendly from potentially unfriendly unmanned aircraft systems (UAS). ...

Republicans on Capitol Hill are urging President Trump to support a bipartisan agreement to fund the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and several other government agencies before time runs out Feb. 15. However, the bill’s specific language relating to Coast Guard procurement funds and border ...