Some people may think the words “government” and “efficiency” don’t belong in the same sentence. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano does not agree.
Napolitano outlined plans Friday to “improve efficiency and streamline decision-making” in her department.
According to her, millions of dollars can be saved by making changes in such things as how the department [...]
A government list of “cleared” fliers, developed to cut airport hassles for people whose names are confused with suspects on the terrorist watch list, has grown to 80,000 names, records show.
The additions to the Transportation Security Administration’s “cleared list” reflect an influx of requests from people asking to be removed from the watch list. The [...]
Remember all those color-coded threat alerts from the feds on possible terrorist activity that kept citizens and local law enforcement scrambling after 9/11?
Well, new Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano doesn’t think they do much good, and they’ve disappeared from the front page of Homeland’s website.
Napolitano didn’t say she wanted to get rid of the alerts [...]
Mexicans desperate for an end to drug gang murders, abductions and extortion saw a glimmer of hope on Tuesday as the United States vowed to tighten security on the increasingly violent border.
U.S. officials announced a $184 million program to add 360 security agents to border posts and step up searches for smuggled drugs, guns and [...]
Thousands of UK workers are being trained to help respond to a future terror attack as part of an updated counter-terror strategy, ministers say.
Home Secretary Jacqui Smith said shop and hotel workers would be among 60,000 people able to deal with an incident.
The updated approach, aimed at tackling immediate terrorist threats and the causes of [...]
Homeland Security chief Janet Napolitano has dispatched her top cop to border cities under threat from Mexico’s insurgent cartels to gather on-the-ground intelligence for an aggressive security operation, drawing people from her agency, the Pentagon, the White House and the Justice Department.
Napolitano announced on Thursday that former Alabama sheriff Edmund “Ted” Sexton is spending two [...]
In a first of its kind, a report from The Heritage Foundation provides a fresh look at the billions of dollars in homeland security grants handed out to state and local governments. The report details the federal, state, and local spending from 2000 to 2007 in 26 states, the District of Columbia, and 85 cities [...]
The question from the 1984 Ghostbusters film — “Who ya gonna call?” — is a loaded one around here. One of my jobs as the director of the Command, Control and Interoperability Division at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Directorate for Science and Technology is to ensure that our heroes — emergency responders — [...]
You may have been patted down at airports or suffered the indignity of having your dirty laundry from a vacation searched at screening checkpoints. Now prepare yourself for security to get a little more personal.
Passengers making airline reservations soon will be required to provide their birth date and their sex in addition to their names [...]
Six years after the Homeland Security Department started operations, integrating the information technology systems of its 22 formerly separate agencies remains a primary, ongoing information security project for DHS’ senior leadership.
The integration and consolidation of DHS’ existing IT systems and architecture have proven difficult for many of the same reasons that other agencies have encountered. [...]