DHS Offers Innovation Contracts, But Not in Immigration Enforcement Policy
By David North on December 28, 2021
The Department of Homeland Security has issued a request for proposals from contractors that gives us a sense of what DHS is worried about.
And it shows that high-tech concerns, some so high-tech that they are hard to understand, outweigh policy considerations by a ratio of ten to one.
I am not knocking the RFP. It would be good, for example, to pick the last item on the list of 11 topics, to know more about “reportable animal diseases, particularly those with zoonotic propensity”; such diseases are those that can move from animals to humans like Ebola and perhaps Covid-19.
But a department in charge of immigration law enforcement should also be curious about ways that innovation, both technical and procedural, can be deployed to reduce, for example, the number of illegal aliens in the country.
Here’s the shopping list announced by the government last week; it wants proposals in the following fields:
https://cis.org/North/DHS-Offers-Innovation-Contracts-Not-Immigration-Enforcement-Policy
