Border Protection
The growth of illegal immigration across the nation's borders, particularly those with Mexico, has led DHS to begin erecting a fence across hundreds of miles of open land, beef up the Border Patrol, promote its SBInet program and engage CBP in a huge effort to encourage legal immigration while staunching the flow of illegal migrants.
DHS announces enhanced, streamlined air security screening
April 28th, 2008
The Department of Homeland Security unveiled a series of improvements aimed at strengthening aviation security while decreasing the hassle factor for travelers. Among the key improvements, DHS and the Transportation Security Administration will now permit airlines more flexibility to allow passengers to check in remotely, even if they have been unable to do so in the past because they have a name similar to someone on a watch list.
IT security problems seen at key CBP facility
April 28th, 2008
The DHS Inspector General’s Office has examined the IT security operations and procedures underway at the Customs and Border Protection’s offices in Laguna Niguel, CA, and found a handful of problems, ranging from inadequate cooling in the server/telecommunications room to the lack of a backup electrical generator in the server room to insufficient precautions taken against potential "insider" threats.
Border fence "Project 28" scrapped; DHS vows new effort
April 23rd, 2008
The Department of Homeland Security has decided to scrap the virtual border fence it has been developing in Arizona, known as Project 28.
The cancellation came less than two months after DHS Secretary Michael Chertoff had announced his approval of the project, being built by Boeing Co.
Electronic snooping planned at U.S./Mexican border
April 15th, 2008
The Drug Enforcement Agency wants to find a small business with a Top Secret security clearance that can snoop on Spanish language conversations transmitted over foreign communications systems and "instantaneously" translate those conversations from Spanish into English.
What’s inside a First Responder Bag?
March 20th, 2008
Ever wonder what supplies might be found inside a "First Responder Bag" used by Customs and Border Protection?
It turns out CBP is planning to procure 3,000 such first responder bags, made of red nylon, measuring 10 inches high by 20 inches wide by 15 inches deep, which will contain the following...
Their own words...
March 13th, 2008
Aircraft arriving from south must land at San Antonio International Airport
March 12th, 2008
San Antonio International Airport in Texas will soon be added the list of designated airports at which certain small, unscheduled aircraft arriving from the south, across the U.S./Mexican border, must land for Customs and Border Protection processing.
DNDO to test portable maritime radiation detection devices
March 12th, 2008
The Domestic Nuclear Detection Office within DHS is planning a major test program for portable gamma-ray and neutron detection systems which can be mounted on small boats at the Savannah River National Laboratory test site in Aiken, SC, this May.
