DHS Grants $191 Million to Defend Cities
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The Department of Homeland Security awarded $191 million in grants yesterday to defend ports, transit systems and bus lines from terrorists, increasing funding for major urban areas in the Northeast and mid-Atlantic states whose funds were slashed earlier this year in a controversial decision.
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U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates on Wednesday asked Congress to approve nearly $190 billion more in spending for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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By John Norton, The Pueblo Chieftain, Colo.  Dec. 8--With work finally moving forward on Pueblo's chemical demilitarization program, $46.2 million in contracts have been awarded this year through the end of November, much of it to local firms.
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The US is to spend $1m to help governments in Central America and Mexico combat violent gangs.
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By Bruce V. Bigelow, The San Diego Union-Tribune  Sep. 14--The Department of Homeland Security said yesterday it will  provide as much as $1.35 billion to three companies, including San Diego's  SAIC, to develop a new type of technology for detecting radioactive bombs.
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More than three years after the United States was stunned by terrorist attacks that killed nearly 3,000 people, its much-vaunted homeland security is still a work in progress.
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DECATUR, Ind. - The wrong Decatur got a check for nearly $178,000 from the Indiana Department of Homeland Security, and the right Decatur went a little bit in the red while waiting three months to see the money.
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DHS' Greg Garcia says his job is to promote security in technology--letting the market decide the best tools--and to get defenders talking to each other.
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A top Justice Department official said Wednesday the government would strive to work better with cities to stem crime on the streets.
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The House approved a government insurance program on Tuesday that commits Washington to paying for most of the damage in the event of a terrorist attack in the next seven years.
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D.C. leaders said yesterday they have reached a final agreement to spend $79 million on a plan to save financially troubled Greater Southeast Community Hospital after lawyers for the city worked out eleventh-hour assurances that its investment would be protected.
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The State Department announced a $1 million emergency fund Thursday to help cover such expenses as legal fees and medical bills for human rights activists.
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Critical US securities institutions have beefed up protection from terrorist attacks and other disasters, but cost concerns prevent them from taking further steps, officials said in a report on Wednesday.
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At a time when Iraqi insurgents are targeting local police officers and recruits for attack, the United States has raised by one-third -- to 135,000 -- the size of the Iraqi police force it says will be needed to help secure the country, according to information the administration has provided to Congress.
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The US House of Representatives on Saturday approved a final $422 billion bill for defense programs that backs next year&#39;s round of military base closings and kills
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The local arm of defense contractor Northrop Grumman Corp. won a $45-million contract with the US government to complete a prototype designed to protect commercial airplanes from ground-based shoulder-fired missiles.
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The Homeland Security Department spent more than $90 million to create a network for sharing sensitive anti-terrorism information with state and local governments that it has decided to replace, according to an internal department document.