Defense Systems

Satellite Data Could Boost Border Security, Disaster Response

Homeland Security relies on satellite imagery for its missions—and it wants more.

  • Lauren C. Williams
Threats

Today's D Brief: Ukraine’s hypersonic claims; US boosts Gulf patrols; Border buildup; Dirty-bomb drug; And a bit more.

  • Ben Watson and Bradley Peniston
Threats

Today's D Brief: Border troops, ID’d; Mass shootings at record pace; Russia’s incendiary airstrikes; Former SecDef proposes experiment; And a bit more.

  • Ben Watson
Threats

Today's D Brief: Biden orders troops to the border; US forges deal with Mexico; Alleged drone attack on the Kremlin; New MidEast air defense plans; And a bit more.

  • Ben Watson and Jennifer Hlad
Threats

Today's D Brief: China's Xi blames US; Beijing warns of conflict with US; Ukraine digs in at Bakhmut; Border security changes loom; And a bit more.

  • Ben Watson and Jennifer Hlad
Ideas

Biden's New Border Crackdown Flouts US Treaty Obligations

A law professor explains how.

  • Karen Musalo
Threats

Today's D Brief: Putin hearts China; Russia's Ukraine invasion, one year on; Pentagon's cloud forecast grows hazy; New US border policy?; And a bit more.

  • Ben Watson and Jennifer Hlad
Threats

Today's D Brief: NORAD missed prior balloons, General says; Recovery effort, in photos; Border politics on the Hill; SOTU preview; And a bit more.

  • Ben Watson
Policy

Biden Vows to Add Feds at Border, Boost Efforts to Reduce Crossings

The administration will also expand humanitarian programs, though staffing shortfalls could hurt implementation.

  • Eric Katz
Policy

DHS Cancels Two Border Wall Contracts

These are the first cancellations under DHS's month-old plan for unobligated border wall funds. 

  • Courtney Bublé
Threats

Documents Show Trump Officials Used Secret Terrorism Unit to Question Lawyers at the Border

Newly disclosed records show that conspiracy theories were used to justify interrogating immigration lawyers with a special terrorism unit.

  • Dara Lind, ProPublica
Policy

Biden Administration Cancels Border Contracts, Returns Funds to Pentagon

The administration is also looking to repair damage in border communities. 

  • Courtney Bublé
Ideas

The Border Mess That Trump Left Behind

Reversing the previous administration’s cruelties isn’t the same as an unconditional welcome.

  • Juliette Kayyem, The Atlantic
Policy

Lawmakers Fire Back at Trump’s Plan to Divert Military Funds to Border Wall

But the bipartisan team of Smith and Thornberry have attracted few other GOPers to the effort.

  • Katie Bo Williams
Science & Tech

Inside America's First All-Biometric Airline Terminal

At Hartsfield-Jackson Airport in Atlanta, facial-recognition cameras and other ID systems plug into a data backbone installed by Customs and Border Patrol.

  • Brandi Vincent
Threats

Harassing Journalists Is ‘Absolutely Unacceptable’: Acting CBP Commissioner

Morgan spoke several days after a passport control officer at Dulles airport held up a Defense One editor until he said he wrote "propaganda."

  • Bradley Peniston
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