The Homeland Security Department will begin testing an International Registered Traveler program at three airports starting June 10 to expedite airport clearances for prescreened travelers.
The FCC yesterday adopted an order allowing transmission of emergency alerts via text message to cell phone users nationwide, but the plan could falter without an agency to head it.
Water utilities should begin work immediately to secure their systems against catastrophic cyberattack, the threat of which is growing, a new report said.
The pace of task orders coming out of the Eagle IT contract at the Homeland Security Department slowed in the first half of fiscal 2008, according to new data.
The Homeland Security Department's new rule for foreign students more than doubles the number of months that a foreign student may stay in the U.S. after graduation while applying for a work visa.
The Homeland Security Department's infrastructure and cyber units are interviewing candidates for more than 300 job openings, a top DHS official testified this week.
DHS ought to install more ground and air radars along the U.S.-Canada border and boost the number of manned and unmanned aircraft patrols over the area, Sen. Jon Tester has said.
Federal agency recordkeeping on contracting for advisory and assistance services is such a mess that the records are practically worthless, concludes a new report.
A new academic statistical study includes several small municipalities on the list of U.S. cities most vulnerable to terrorist attack while omitting major ports on the West Coast.
Congress might want to evaluate whether DHS' plan to use domestic spy satellites for counterterrorism and law enforcement is worth cost and risks, according to a new report.
DHS' strategy for creating unique biometric identities for individuals under the U.S. Visitor and Immigrant Status Indicator Technology is incomplete, auditors say.
Advocacy groups have asked the Federal Communications Commission to investigate claims that an official adviser asked for millions of dollars in fees that might have scared off bidders for the D Block of radio spectrum.
Opposition is building in Arizona's Legislature to a plan to authorize a hybrid driver's license that also would serve as a border-crossing card and would comply with the Real ID Act.
The Coast Guard is struggling to meet its homeland security missions in addition to its traditional missions, according to a new report from Homeland Security Inspector General Richard Skinner.
