Mike Sena, president of the National Fusion Center Association, Joseph Mabin, deputy chief of the Kansas City, Missouri police, and Travis Nelson, director of the Maryland Governor’s Office of Homeland Security, are sworn in before testifying at a Congressional House Committee hearing on homeland security on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., on Feb. 24, 2026. (Photo by Alex WROBLEWSKI / AFP via Getty Images)
Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem participates in a briefing at the Federal Law Enforcement Training Centers on Nov. 7, 2025, in North Charleston, S.C. (Photo by Alex Brandon-Pool/Getty Images)
A passenger jet takes off over the runway threshold lights at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport on Aug. 12, 2024, in Arlington, Va. (Photo by J. David Ake/Getty Images)