Articles Tagged with ''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. 

Although grant money is tight this year, the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach are pulling in some of the most funding.

The DHS is adding to screening procedures at 14 overseas airports with U.S.-bound flights in a project to keep terrorists from ever boarding the plane.