DHS News

In an uncertain time, some fundamental certainties remain about protecting the homeland.

A specter is haunting the homeland security industry—the specter of uncertainty.

There is economic uncertainty. As business dries up across all sectors of the economy, in what is clearly a recession in large part driven by high energy prices, can such a thing as a “homeland security industry” survive?

There is political uncertainty. A new administration will be coming in next year and with it new ideas—no matter which party wins. What will it do with the five-year-old Department of Homeland Security (DHS)? ....