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National Defense October 2014 Stew Magnuson |
Johnson Latest DHS Secretary to Waive 100 Percent Cargo Screening Mandate Despite a long string of secretaries and Customs and Border Protection commissioners speaking out against the practicality of the law, some members of Congress are still pushing DHS to fulfill the mandate.  |
National Defense November 2009 Wright & Magnuson |
Government Ignores Cargo Scanning Law, Port Operator Says The Department of Homeland Security is ignoring a law that calls on it to monitor, by 2012, every container that enters a U.S. port, an executive at one of the world's leading port-operating companies charged.  |
BusinessWeek November 4, 2010 Keane & Park |
The Terrorist Threat in Cargo Containers By 2012, all U.S.-bound cargo containers must be scanned for terrorist threats. Today, fewer than 1 percent are.  |
National Defense March 2009 Matthew Rusling |
After Six Years, Still No Tamper-Proof Shipping Containers After a six-year search for a tamper-proof shipping container, no product has been fielded and one major vendor has dropped out of the race, citing a lack of progress by the Department of Homeland Security.  |
National Defense November 2010 Stew Magnuson |
Former Customs and Border Protection Chief Slams Congress As deputy commissioner of Customs and Border Protection in the Bush administration, Jayson Ahern was the primary target of Congress' ire when it came to a mandate to screen 100 percent of all shipping containers bound for the United States for nuclear materials.  |
National Defense January 2006 Stew Magnuson |
Plan to Protect U.S. Ports Homes In on Contraband The challenge facing the DHS, importers and the shipping industry is to prevent weapons of mass destruction, would-be illegal immigrants and contraband from entering U.S. ports -- including overland traffic from Canada and Mexico -- without disrupting the flow of goods.  |
National Defense November 2005 Harold Kenneddy |
U.S. Customs Goes High-Tech for Cargo Security The gritty docks along the Dundalk Marine Terminal, in Maryland's Port of Baltimore, are among the last lines of defense in the multi-layered, global effort by the Department of Homeland Security's Customs and Border Protection (CBP) arm to intercept illegal cargo.  |
National Defense January 2008 Stew Magnuson |
DHS Pressing On With Troubled Technology Programs Whether it is program delays, public uproars over its policies, court challenges or accusations of mismanagement, nothing ever seems to go smoothly for DHS. Many of these controversial programs involve the development of new technologies.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics March 2010 |
DHS Seeks Enhanced Imaging Technology for Non-Intrusive Inspection of Shipping Containers The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has requested proposals for non-intrusive inspection technologies to enable Customs and Border Protection agents to inspect cargo containers without opening them.  |
National Defense November 2005 Joe Pappalardo |
Researchers Seek the `Perfect Shipping Container' An advanced materials container program is looking at sophisticated composites to create a sensor-studded container that would be 30% to 50% lighter than current equivalents. That would translate into savings for the shippers, as well as added security.  |
National Defense February 2009 Stew Magnuson |
DHS Leaders Inherit Litany of Procurement Woes There is a new administration and a new Congress. But will it be a new day for the way the Department of Homeland Security acquires technology?  |
National Defense June 2006 Sandra I. Erwin |
Weighing the Costs of Security A smorgasbord of legislation and policy directives aimed at patching up security at U.S. ports in recent years has resulted in expenditures of billions of dollars worth of protective systems and technologies.  |
National Defense December 2004 Joe Pappalardo |
If Ports Are Attacked, U.S. Lacks Plans to Deal With Aftermath The lack of a plan indicates the complexities of handling threats against maritime targets, and the government's emphasis on taking care of airline security and monitoring containers over planning a response in the event of a sea-based attack.  |
National Defense November 2007 Sandra I. Erwin |
Homeland Security Policies Overlook Essential Issues, Says Shipping Executive Security industry soothsayers have been sounding alarms about the prospect of a nuclear or biological weapon reaching U.S. shores in a shipping container.  |
National Defense January 2010 Stew Magnuson |
Bad News All Around for DHS Cargo Technology Programs The Department of Homeland Security's advanced radiation detection portal monitor program continues to struggle.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics July 2007 John McHale |
Homeland Security Budget and Market Show Steady Growth Nearly half a decade old, the U.S. DHS is showing moderate growth in its budget request, while funding for research and development focuses on more solutions for today than for programs 20 years in the future.  |
CIO March 1, 2006 Ben Worthen |
Customs Rattles the Supply Chain The government wants you to secure your supply chain. Right now, its program is voluntary. It won't stay that way for long. And the responsibility for collecting the data Uncle Sam wants is going to fall on the CIO.  |
National Defense April 2013 Stew Magnuson |
Napolitano Defends DHS Acquisitions on Department's 10-Year Anniversary As the Department of Homeland Security marked its first decade of existence in March, Secretary Janet Napolitano said its much-derided acquisition system had turned a corner.  |
National Defense October 2011 Stew Magnuson |
Former CBP Commissioner Has Few Kind Words for Congress The "two dumbest things" Congress asked former Customs and Border Protection Commissioner W. Ralph Basham to do was build a 2,000-mile fence in the Southwest and to "inspect every maritime container coming into this country before it left its port of origin."  |
National Defense February 2011 James R. Giermanski |
Military Supply Chain Tracking System Both Inefficient and Dangerous The U.S. system of technology and regulations falls apart because the Defense Department uses RFID systems to control and monitor its global container movement. The application of this technology to track cargo overseas is inefficient, dangerous and fundamentally flawed.  |
National Defense April 2004 Geoff S. Fein |
Security Beat The biggest challenge facing the maritime transportation industry is ensuring that legitimate cargo is not needlessly delayed as new security measures are implemented.  |
National Defense January 2015 Stew Magnuson |
Renewed Push to Collect Exit Data at Airports, Land Crossings The United States has never required foreigners to present their travel documents before leaving so authorities can't be certain who is or isn't overstaying a visa, a flaw that Congress has mandated that the executive branch remedy.  |
National Defense September 2010 Magnuson & Fugate |
Monitoring Small Vessels Still a Challenge for Coast Guard, Says GAO The Government Accountability Office has found that few resources are being devoted to the small vessel threat.  |
National Defense April 2008 Stew Magnuson |
DHS Will Miss Deadline to Set Up Port Security Hubs The future of pilot port security hubs remains uncertain as security officials wait for answers from the Department of Homeland Security.  |
BusinessWeek May 1, 2006 Michael Arndt |
Globalization In A Can "The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger" makes a strong argument that without the box, the global economy might not exist today.  |
Smithsonian January 2004 Fen Montaigne |
Policing America's Ports The 19,000 cargo containers flowing into the United States each day pose a needle-in-the-haystack challenge to security officials worried about hidden terrorist weapons.  |
National Defense February 2007 Stew Magnuson |
DHS Technology Chief to Focus on Explosives Threat The Pentagon will have some help in its ongoing effort to defeat improvised explosive devices if Jay Cohen, director of science and technology at the Department of Homeland Security, gets his way.  |
National Defense January 2009 Magnuson & Rusling |
Debate Over Next-Generation Radiation Portals Continues In the waning days of the Bush administration, the Department of Homeland Security and the Government Accountability Office were still trading barbs over the effectiveness of the next generation of radiation portals to be deployed at ports.  |
InternetNews June 1, 2004 Roy Mark |
Accenture Lands Potential $10B Federal Contract Company to employ biometrics as part of Department of Homeland Defense's virtual border program.  |
National Defense September 2011 Stew Magnuson |
Radiation Detection Portal Program Comes to an End One of the Department of Homeland Security's most troubled technology development programs came to an end in July, when the Advanced Spectrographic Portals, which were designed to ferret out nuclear material at ports, was terminated.  |
InternetNews June 18, 2004 Roy Mark |
House Approves $10B Accenture Deal One last effort to kill a potential $10 billion deal between Accenture and the Department of Homeland Security failed Friday on a largely partisan 221-182 vote in the U.S. House of Representatives.  |
National Defense September 2012 Stew Magnuson |
Firms That Help DHS Save Money Will Make Money, Analysts Say The days of big price tag, cutting-edge technology acquisitions at the Department of Homeland Security are over.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics July 2005 John McHale |
DHS turns to high tech to control borders Border agents cannot possibly check every car or every traveler. So U.S. Department of Homeland Security officials are relying on new technologies -- such as those noted here -- to tighten the country's borders.  |
Fast Company October 2008 Chuck Salter |
Rebuilding the Port of Los Angeles Shipping is a filthy, dangerous business, but Los Angeles, America's largest port, is making it greener, cleaner, and more secure.  |
Food Engineering May 1, 2005 |
Increasing the safety of the global food supply The US Bioterrorism Act may be the most familiar legislation to address the safety and security of the global food supply, but it is certainly not alone. There's also the CBP, C-TPAT, FAST, AMR, OSC, SST, WCO, and other European Union and Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation activities.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics March 2005 John McHale |
Aircraft countermeasure, Coast Guard DeepWater see big budget increases The U.S. Department of Homeland Security Fiscal Year 2006 budget request has significant increases for commercial aircraft countermeasures technology and the U.S. Coast Guard Integrated Deepwater System program.  |
Chemistry World February 17, 2014 Emma Stoye |
'Smart boxes' for greener, cheaper shipping Steel shipping containers may one day be scrapped in favor of lightweight, tamper-proof alternatives made of composite materials with embedded sensors.  |
IndustryWeek May 1, 2007 Jill Jusko |
Gotcha! Catching Counterfeits Seizures of counterfeit goods climbed 83% in 2006.  |
National Defense November 2006 Stew Magnuson |
Fear of Terror Weapons Drives Tech Funding With the nation in the throes of the so-called "long war," it is no surprise that the bulk of the Department of Homeland Security's research dollars is going toward technologies designed to prevent terrorist attacks.  |
National Defense July 2011 Stew Magnuson |
DHS Sharply Reduces Ambitions For Cybersecurity Surge The need to ramp up the DHS' cybersecurity expertise may become more acute after the White House in May proposed expanding the department's responsibilities.  |
National Defense March 2007 |
Security Beat Coast Guard Ponders Future, Delivers New Mission Statement... Border Patrol Reaching Out to Fill 6,000 Slots... etc.  |
National Defense March 2005 Joe Pappalardo |
U.S.-Canadian Border Crossings to Tighten Security The bridges and border control stations on the U.S.-Canada border are undergoing strategic overhauls, not only to increase security but also to ensure rapid throughput of commercial traffic, leaders from both nations recently announced.  |
IndustryWeek September 1, 2003 John S. McClenahen |
Shape Up To Ship Out New anti-terrorism rules will affect air, rail, ship and truck cargo beginning Oct. 1.  |
National Defense May 2004 Kennedy & Tiron |
Securitybeat U.S. Beefs Up Security On Railway Systems... Budget Amendment Good News for DHS... Air Force Adopts Biometrics Security Systems... etc.  |
National Defense June 2004 Harold Kennedy |
Blueprint For Homeland Security The Defense Department is working on a comprehensive homeland defense strategy that will detail the Pentagon's emerging role in protecting the United States from terrorist attack  |
National Defense September 2009 Stew Magnuson |
DHS Inspector General Slams Secure Border Initiative Oversight The Department of Homeland Security's inspector general has faulted Customs and Border Protection for failing to properly oversee work on the Secure Border Initiative.  |
National Defense December 2007 Stew Magnuson |
Port Worker ID Card Criticized as Wasteful and Ineffective The Transportation Security Administration and Coast Guard in October began enrolling port workers in a long delayed identity card program even though the technology to read the cards may be years away.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics February 2010 John Keller |
DHS Heads-up Initiative to Develop Revolutionary Homeland Security Technologies The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) in Washington is asking industry for revolutionary technologies to improve homeland security missions and operations.  |
National Defense September 2010 Stew Magnuson |
DHS Technology Chief to Reduce Number of Programs Eight months after taking over the division, Tara O'Toole's conclusion is that there are too many technologies in the pipeline, with most of them never reaching the hands of the first responders in the field who need them.  |
InternetNews July 26, 2007 Sean Michael Kerner |
Coverity Expands DHS Scans With Java Homeland security-backed effort expands to include more projects, including Java.  |