ICE Seeks Cyber Upgrade to Better Surveil and Investigate Its Employees

The agency plans to renew a sweeping cybersecurity contract that includes expanded employee monitoring as the government escalates leak investigations and casts internal dissent as a threat.

As the White House pushes to intensify internal leak investigations, Immigration and Customs Enforcement is quietly renewing a cybersecurity contract that governs how employee activity on agency systems is monitored, recorded, and preserved for investigation.

The operation, known as Cyber Defense and Intelligence Support Services, is presented as a routine security effort focused on network monitoring, incident response, and basic security hygiene. But new contract records reviewed by WIRED spell out how ICE is working to expand and enhance the collection of digital logs and device data for internal investigations and law enforcement use.

Records show ICE is moving ahead with a recompete—the process of reissuing and renewing a major federal contract—as Department of Homeland Security leadership expands leak investigations and ...