Homeland Security

Congress should expand current laws to state and local law enforcers that the Departments of Homeland Security and Justice enjoy to detect and counter potential drone threats in the homeland […]

On Nov. 18, President-elect Trump responded, “True!”, to a post on his Truth Social network by the president of the right wing organization, Judicial Watch, that praised a possible national […]

The Coast Guard last week awarded a $125 million contract to Offshore Service Vessels, LLC, to acquire a commercially available polar icebreaker (CAPI) that will help bridge a gap in […]

The Coast Guard last Friday announced its preferred alternative to modernize and expand its port facilities in Seattle to eventually accommodate up to eight polar icebreakers. The service after mid-December […]

The Coast Guard expects the Department of Homeland Security next month to green light the start of production of the nation’s first new heavy polar icebreaker in nearly 50 years, […]

Officials from the U.S., Canada, and Finland on Wednesday signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) that formally launches a trilateral effort to share resources and knowhow to develop and produce […]

The Coast Guard last Friday issued a new posture statement, a document that outlines the relentless pace of operational demands on the service, the need to make priorities within its […]

Austal USA last Thursday said it has begun construction of the Coast Guard’s fifth offshore patrol cutter (OPC), the future Coast Guard Cutter Pickering, under a potential $3.3 billion contract […]

Booz Allen Hamilton [BAH] has received a $421 million task order to continue to support the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) for a program that protects federal agencies from […]

The estimated cost to procure three new heavy polar icebreakers is $5.1 billion, 60 percent higher than the Coast Guard’s current estimate, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) says. The first […]