Homeland Security News

REDWOOD CITY, Calif. & LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Reach Power and Gambit win OECIF funding to combine wireless power and AI autonomy, enabling persistent drone swarm operations....

DALLAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--AECOM (NYSE: ACM), the trusted global infrastructure leader, today announced it has been selected to continue providing architecture and engineering (A/E) services to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) for its critical infrastructure modernization initiatives. Under this contract, AECOM will support mission-critical renovations and upgrades for government facilities across all 50 U.S. states, as well as Puerto Rico, Guam and the U.S. Virgin Islands.“We are pr...

JACKSON, Miss.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Hinds County government, business, and law enforcement officials today announced the Hinds County Safety Camera Initiative, making it the first county in the U.S. to implement a comprehensive public safety technology initiative leveraging 911 Camera Sharing. Speaking at a press conference at the Hinds County Emergency Operations Center, officials said the collaborative effort unites government, educational institutions, churches, businesses, and neighborhood org...

MCLEAN, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Booz Allen has released a new report, What's In America's Code?, examining the national security implications of popular Chinese large language models (LLMs) used in software development and security workflows. Using its AI-native testing platform, Booz Allen evaluated four Chinese frontier models and one American model to assess code quality, security, and model behavior. Following comparative testing and scenario-driven analysis across more than 2,800 trials and...

LYNCHBURG, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--BWX Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: BWXT) announced today that its TRISO nuclear fuel has powered Antares Nuclear Inc.’s reactor through the first successful criticality milestone under the Administration’s Executive Order 14301, Reforming Nuclear Reactor Testing at the Department of Energy. BWXT also processed the high assay low enriched uranium (HALEU) feedstock material used to manufacture the Antares TRISO fuel compacts from scrap materials provided by NNSA, under...

CENTENNIAL, Colo.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--DHI Group, Inc. (NYSE: DHX) announced today that ClearanceJobs, its leading online community for security-cleared professionals in the defense and intelligence sectors, has reached 2 million registered candidates. The milestone reflects both the accelerating demand for cleared talent and the growing role of the platform, founded in 2002, at the center of the national security workforce. While it took more than a decade for ClearanceJobs to reach its first 500...

THOUSAND OAKS, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Teledyne Technologies Incorporated (NYSE:TDY) announced today that Teledyne FLIR Defense, a global leader in intelligent sensing and unmanned systems, has won an $11.2 million contract from the U.S. Army’s Capability Program Executive for Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear Defense (CPE CBRND) to deliver more than 45 advanced CBRN unmanned aerial system (UAS) kits. The kits were developed under the Army’s Chemical, Biological, Radiological, and...

SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Latino Community Foundation (LCF), the nation’s largest Latino-serving community foundation, today announced a new round of investment of $350,000 through its Community Protection Fund (Fund), a national philanthropic initiative launched earlier this year to strengthen accountability and oversight of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and protect immigrant families harmed by abusive and unconstitutional government actions. This grantmaking comes at a p...

BOCA RATON, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Verix Equity Partners, a lower middle market private equity firm focused on national security, announced its formal launch today. Founded by Jeff Hart, former Partner at AE Industrial, and Sean Battle, a national security entrepreneur and operator, Verix was formed to enable founder-led businesses to scale in markets where technology, mission requirements, and national resilience are converging. Having previously worked together to build numerous national secu...

BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--A joint team comprised of the U.S. Air Force, Autonodyne, LLC, and the F-35 Joint Program Office Future Capabilities and Technology team – along with General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Lockheed Martin, the 309th Software Engineering Group, the 461st Flight Test Squadron (FTS), and the 370th FTS – partnered to complete a Human-Machine Teaming (HMT) and beyond-line-of-sight (BLOS) datalink demonstration between a ground-based F-35 Lightning II and an airborne MQ-20 Ave...