Luke J. McCormack has been named the new Chief Information Officer (CIO) for the Department of Homeland Security. McCormack will lead and oversee DHS’s continuing efforts to implement information technology enhancements and security.

While preparing to travel abroad to report on the war in Syria, two reporters were questioned by officials from the Department of Homeland Security. 

The two departments are expanding their shared biometrics databases by adding iris scans.

Funds spent on an underwater robot for a landlocked Midwestern city, a hog catcher and a fish tank are among the DHS expenses being questioned by members of Congress.

The BioSwimmer robotic fish is designed to perform remotely controlled underwater surveillance and patrols.

The Philadelphia project has spent roughly $2.3 million since 2006, but little has actually been accomplished on the counterterrorism center.

Federal agencies have seized 132 domain names that were allegedly selling counterfeit items across the world.

Seventy-one of those tips required further action, such as interdepartmental investigation, as a result of the DHS-funded texting program.

The intelligence community's fusion centers are set up to share information between federal, state and local authorities, but the information seems to be about more innocuous behavior than actual terrorist activity.