Comptroller General Walker has decided to publicize an incomplete "preliminary report" on the Department of Homeland Security's (DHS) efforts in Hurricane Katrina without even bothering to talk to the senior leadership of DHS. The resulting report is premature and unprofessional.
In the hearing, the administration was represented by Karen Evans, the White House's administrator of e-government and DHS's undersecretary Robert Jamison.
The number of incidents reported to DHS's ICS-CERT has increased partly due to this increased communication.
Secretary Napolitano looked through -- her charge and DHS's charge was about detection capabilities and screening.
DHS's McGurk said the department's analysis of the code did not point to where it was developed.
The DHS's current cyber-monitoring program, known as Einstein, performs only basic traffic analysis without examining the contents of Internet traffic, Lewis says.
"In signing the contracts to proceed with construction of the NBAF's Central Utility Plant, DHS is confirming their commitment to moving forward with construction of the laboratory facility itself, " Brownback said in a release.
The mayor's office wouldn't offer a comment, but DHS Commissioner Seth Diamond says my experiment illustrates the city's point: His department needs the ability to screen out folks who have other options.
Congressional members also asked Alexander how he envisioned working out an attack by a separate country or a non-U.S.-based group, which directed the attack though U.S.-based computers, putting the electronic strike under the responsibility of DHS and raising privacy issues for U.S. citizens.
Now FEMA is just one of 22 organizations that make up DHS. As NPR's Ari Shapiro reports, some who work in emergency management are asking whether that's hurt the government's ability to respond to natural disasters like Hurricane Katrina.
Then, to cap it off, we find out that DHS, through the U.S. Army Forces Command, recently purchased and retrofitted 2, 717 Mine-Resistant Armored Protection (MRAP) vehicles formerly used for counterinsurgency in Iraq.
The need for private sector partnership was a new wrinkle in Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Michael Chertoff's speech on the cyber initiative at the conference--one of the first public discussions of the classified program.
On the very first morning of the sequester, the U.S Customs and Border Patrol, also under DHS Secretary Napolitano, reduced staffing at several major international airports, leading to wait times in excess of two hours for 70 flights arriving at JFK, and 55 flights at Miami International Airport.
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Laura Sweeney, a DHS spokesperson, countered that it's still too early to judge how the cyber initiative deals with the private sector--the project is still focused on securing government networks, she argued.
The DHS has a role in securing America's critical infrastructure which includes the internet.
Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Janet Napolitano and U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (CIS) Director Alejandro Mayorkas recently outlined steps that would lower restrictions and regulations on visas for highly skilled workers, entrepreneurs and investors.
Senators Joe Lieberman (I-CT) and Susan Collins (R-ME), Chairman and Ranking Member of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee respectively have included important language in S. 1546, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Reauthorization Act of 2011.
In response, Mr. Sutherland noted that DHS has established "strategic partnerships" with this country's Muslim community.
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) should work with the private sector to identify which parts of the nation's power grid and telecommunications infrastructure are critical to preserving the nation's core capabilities.
The U.S. Cyber Command also has more powerful tools to fight and defend against cyber attacks than does the DHS, a potential problem when time is of the essence during an attack.
"DHS has a mandate from the President to find cost-effective means to meet our nation's bio-and-agro security needs, " he said.
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