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*** The Department of Homeland Security is looking to help develop a MBA program in security technology. The Science and Technology Directorate at DHS is seeking existing universities to propose plans for a two-year MBA focusing on Security Technology Transition to educate current DHS employees on acquisition, research and development and operationalizing experimental technologies.

*** Rep. Eliot Engel (D-N.Y.), the chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee and Sen. Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), the ranking member on the Senate Foreign Affairs Committee are seeking to conduct transcribed interviews with a number of State Department officials as part of a congressional probe into political retaliation against State personnel.