Phil Reitinger, deputy undersecretary of the agency’s National Protection and Programs Directorate, will leave his position June 3.
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Why do they keep calling us the INS?
- By Ali Cheung · April 18th, 2011
“After all, the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) has not existed since March 1, 2003,” says an exasperated official blog posted on the USCIS website on April 13. USCIS correctly noted that most of the functions that had been performed traditionally by the INS were transferred in 2003 to three newly-created components of DHS: USCIS, Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
GSA policy chief takes on acquisition regulations
- By Ali Cheung · February 27th, 2011
Now, as GSA’s associate administrator for governmentwide policy, Kathleen Turco wants to apply the same tough deadlines to regulatory reform proposals that budget officials face for closing their financial books on time.
Share your ideas and insights with the GovSecurity audience
- By GovContracts · January 31st, 2011
Contribute to a brand new feature of GovSecurity. Our active audience of contract professionals, government buyers and sales execs want to read your ideas and insights about government business and procurement on our seven different channels. Occasional posts just fine. We’ll include your author bio and link back to your company, agency or personal site.
IDIQs and GSA Schedules – Understanding the Contract Vehicles
- By Linda Rodden · January 26th, 2011
With all of the talk about IDIQs and the vehicles available for Federal buyers, do you understand the terms now in use? There are IDIQs that are GWACs, MACs, EWACs and these are different from GSA Schedules. So what do these terms mean?
GSA will soon restart Homeland Security contract competition
- By Travis Wheeler · January 20th, 2011
The General Services Administration is preparing to restart a multibillion-dollar competition to design, install, test and maintain a data network on the new Department of Homeland Security campus at St. Elizabeths.
Napolitano cites DHS achievements in 2010
- By Travis Wheeler · December 22nd, 2010
International partnerships for aviation security, humanitarian disaster aide, increased border security and smarter information gathering programs were among the highlights of the Department of Homeland Security’s year, DHS secretary Janet Napolitano told a gathering of the agency’s employees Dec. 21.
Pistole stays firm on new TSA screening procedures
- By Travis Wheeler · November 17th, 2010
Appearing before the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation, TSA administrator John Pistole defended his agency’s use of both AIT and more aggressive physical pat-downs as the most effective deterrence to terrorist attempts to bomb aircraft.
DHS tallies billions in ARRA funding
- By Travis Wheeler · October 13th, 2010
“Our Recovery Act dollars are being used to hire hundreds of first responders; rebuild fire stations, ports of entry, and bridges; and deploy thousands of critical aviation and border security technologies across the country,”
Iris imaging technology trial has layers of privacy protection
- By Travis Wheeler · September 22nd, 2010
A two-week long Department of Homeland Security technology test slated to begin in October at a U.S. Customs and Border Patrol (CPB) station in McAllen, TX, will use commercially-available eye scanners to collect iris images from illegal immigrants, but will also include multiple layers of privacy protection.
