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Mayorkas Launches Initiatives Focused On China Threat, Artificial Intelligence

By Cal Biesecker

Friday, April 21st, 2023

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Mayorkas Launches Initiatives Focused On China Threat, Artificial Intelligence

Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas. Photo: DHS

Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas last Friday announced two new initiatives, one aimed at better positioning his department to deal with threats to the homeland posed by China and the other to leverage artificial intelligence (AI) in support of homeland security missions. The Department of Homeland Security is conducting a 90-day sprint that will analyze the evolving threat from the People’s Republic of China and how the department can continue to defend against this threat, Mayorkas said during his State…

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