America is a nation of immigrants. Fair, efficient, and effective administration and enforcement of our immigration laws enriches American society, unifies families, enhances our economic competitiveness, and supports national security.
Immigration management is a national challenge of considerable complexity. It includes promoting lawful immigration while discouraging illegal entry of foreign nationals into our country, with the corresponding integration of lawful immigrants into American society. To achieve this, DHS is focused on providing more efficient and timely services to the immigrant community and in reducing conditions that lead to illegal immigration and residence in our country.
The HS SEDI FFRDC is helping DHS take an enterprise view in addressing the complexities of the challenges it faces. We are working closely with the Department to evolve an immigration system that employs consistent policies and priorities, promotes a common understanding of and respect for stakeholder roles, and enables improved information sharing and analysis. Additionally, we are working across DHS to ensure that its biometrics services are integrated to most effectively address broader immigration needs.
HS SEDI's approach focuses on sponsor outcomes and combines deep subject matter expertise with unbiased engineering, acquisition, and program management expertise. Our unique status as operator of six FFRDCs allows us to leverage work and research from across the federal government.
Our sponsors include:
- U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS)
- U.S. Visitor and Immigrant Status Indicator Technology (US-VISIT)
- Department of State (DOS) Consular Affairs/Passport Services
- Customs and Border Protection (CBP)
How MITRE Is Helping
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A federally funded research and development center (FFRDC) assists the United States government with scientific research and analysis, development and acquisition, and/or systems engineering and integration. Governed according to federal acquisition, regulations, FFRDCs operate as long-term strategic partners with their sponsoring government agencies. They are created by the government to address problems of considerable complexity, analyze technical questions with a high degree of objectivity, and provide creative and cost-effective solutions to government problems.
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