On Jan. 31, the Idaho Kootenai tribe’s identification document officially became a valid form of identification to enter the U.S. The tribe, whose lands straddle the U.S./Canadian border in Idaho,...
A privacy rights group told the Federal Trade Commission that the FTC should suspend facial recognition technology’s deployment by commercial users until privacy and other safeguard standards are...
The leaders of the Senate Homeland Security Committee welcomed news from the GAO that trade sanctions against Iran seem to be working to limit that country’s ability to support nuclear and terror...
Building Protection Systems, Inc. (BPSI), of San Francisco, CA, announced on Feb. 1 that another building owner has chosen BPSI’s next generation Alpha Sentry One toxin detection system to protect...
ObjectVideo, a software company that has developed numerous video analytic tools which have been protected by more than 40 patents granted worldwide, has launched a sweeping patent enforcement...
The man who oversaw the purchase and smuggling of the semi-automatic rifle that killed ICE HSI agent Jaime Zapata a year ago was sentenced to almost 10 years in prison on Jan. 30 in Houston, TX, on...
The agencies in charge of regulating the safety of nuclear power plants in the U.S. released a new study of seismic activity in the eastern and central U.S. aimed at updating a 20-year-old seismic...
Two men pleaded guilty in a south Texas federal court to trying to smuggle thousands of rounds of automatic weapon ammunition into Mexico from Texas. According to federal agents, the men bought 17,...
In the coming months, the Department of Homeland Security hopes to reform some administrative practices to ease the visa process for highly-skilled immigrants who want to enter, or remain in, the U.S...
The next generation public safety communications network should be managed by a non-governmental, non-profit organization that could impartially reconcile the myriad standards and procedures...
The Iranian plot uncovered last year to assassinate the Saudi Arabian ambassador in the U.S. could show an increased willingness by Iran to attack the U.S. homeland in response to perceived...
McAfee and the Security & Defence Agenda, a Brussels-based security and defense policy forum, revealed on Jan. 30 the findings from a new report, Cyber-security: The Vexed Question of Global...
U.S. Customs and Border Protection in Savannah, GA, signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) on Jan. 30 with the Georgia Ports Authority (GPA) agreeing to share radio communications. The agreement...
A group of U.S. Senators asked DHS to reconcile its approach to immigration enforcement in light of Cook County, Illinois’ refusal to enforce federal detention requests there.
The agency responsible for developing new technology for the Department of Defense is looking to the public for new ideas on how to power computers that control reconnaissance, surveillance and...
