Homeland Security

The Senate on Tuesday approved by a vote of 56 to 43 the nomination of Alejandro Mayorkas to be the next Secretary of Homeland Security. Mayorkas is the first Senate-confirmed […]

CISA Issues RFI for Threat Hunting Task Management Tracking System The Department of Homeland Security Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has issued a Request for Information for a service contract […]

CBP Awards Amentum’s DynCorp $1.3 Billion for Aviation Support After first winning the contract, and then losing it following protests by losing bidders, DynCorp International once again has won a […]

Aware Introduces New Multimodal ABIS System Aware, Inc. [AWRE] has released AwareIS, an automated biometric identification system for large-scale biometric identification and deduplication. Aware says its new ABIS system is […]

OSI Systems [OSIS] 2Q21                   2Q20 Sales                    $276M                $305.3M Net Inc.               $20M, $1.10      $21M, $1.12 Sales fell 10% on a 28% decline at the Security segment to $145.2 million due […]

More than 75 percent of major homeland security acquisition programs reviewed are meeting their most recent cost and schedule baselines though risks are present, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) says […]

The Department of Homeland Security Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction (CWMD) Office has successfully advanced its plan for a next-generation national bio-detection system to the second stage of its acquisition […]

President Joe Biden issued a proclamation terminating former President Donald Trump’s national emergency at the southern border and directed that no more U.S. tax money go to building a wall […]

The Coast Guard late last Friday began asking for bids for the second round of design and construction of its Offshore Patrol Cutter (OPC) with a contract award for up […]

The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee on Tuesday approved the nomination of Alejandro Mayorkas to be the Biden administration’s Secretary of Homeland Security, with the next stop being […]