Tag Archives: Customs and Border Protection

Monte Hawkins, director of the National Vetting Center for the U.S. Customs and Border Protection, delivered the keynote address during Potomac Officers Club's Security Vetting Process Modernization Forum Update

Potomac Officers Club will host its 4th Annual Army Forum on Oct. 2nd at 2941 Restaurant in Falls Church, Va. Thus far, Dr. Bruce Jette of the U.S. Army will be featured as a keynote speaker for the forum.

Casie Antalis, the chief of staff of the National Vetting Center for the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), will be featured as a panelist during Potomac Officers Club’s Security Vetting Process Modernization Update on August 14th. Click here to register for the Security Vetting Process Modernization Update. During the …

Sam Robinson, deputy director with the Department of Justice for the National Vetting Center (NVC), will be featured as a panelist during Potomac Officers Club’s Security Vetting Process Modernization Update on August 14th. Click here to register for the Security Vetting Process Modernization Update. During the event, GovCon leaders from …

Leidos agreed to purchase IMX Medical Management Services, a consulting firm that offers independent medical evaluation, case management and record review services to state and local government agencies. The terms of the deal were not disclosed, but the company expects to close the transaction in the third quarter, pending customary approvals. In …

On August 14th, Potomac Officers Club will host the Security Vetting Process Modernization Update at the 2941 Restaurant in Falls Church, Va. Monte Hawkins of the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) will be the keynote speaker for the event. Gator Harvey of Northrop Grumman Technology Services will serve as the moderator for an expert panel featuring Casie Antalis and Eric Peters of CBP, Sam Robinson of the FBI and Lori Vislocky of DHS. 

This article was written by Clay Goldwein and John Nemoto of CGI Federal.  Innovation is arguably one of the most discussed, yet misunderstood, buzzwords in government and industry. When simply defined, innovation refers to a new method, product or idea. And within that innovation arc, a change is considered revolutionary …

The Department of Homeland Security has chosen Battelle as one of the eight finalists for a two-phase, $1.55M contest that seeks nonintrusive systems to automatically detect opioids in mail coming into the U.S.

Last week, we outlined some of U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s (CBP) challenges to their upcoming IT modernization project; today we’d like to suggest some steps that will help ease CBP’s transition to a secure hybrid cloud services model. While CBP has a requirement for secure cloud adoption—and implementing this strategy will help the agency reduce costs while gaining unprecedented agility and flexibility—any shift to a new IT architecture is difficult.

This article was written by Clay Goldwein and John Nemoto of CGI Federal.  U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) earlier this month released its 2020 to 2025 Strategy document which focuses on three main goals, the third of which outlines how the agency will invest in technology and partnerships to confront emerging …

DynCorp International has won a potential 10-year, $1.43B contract from the U.S. Customs and Border Protection to provide maintenance and logistics support services for the agency’s fleet of fixed-wing and rotary-wing aircraft.