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Along With Border Barrier Funds, Trump Seeks Huge Increase For Security Detection Equipment

By Cal Biesecker

Wednesday, January 9th, 2019

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Along With Border Barrier Funds, Trump Seeks Huge Increase For Security Detection Equipment

U.S. Customs and Border protection uses imaging equipment such as Rapiscan's Z Portal for inspecting trucks for contraband. Photo: OSI Systems

A new proposal this week by the Trump administration outlines specific increases sought as part of a fiscal year 2019 appropriation for the Department of Homeland Security, including hundreds of millions of additional dollars for equipment that can be used to detect drugs, contraband, and weapons in vehicles and cargo entering the southern U.S. at land ports of entry. The focal point of the request is the well-publicized $5.7 billion President Trump wants for 234 miles of steel barrier along…

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Munitions Fired Represent Most of $25 Billion Spent By Pentagon on Iran War So Far

Munitions fired in the two-month old “Operation Epic Fury” against Iran represent most of the $25 billion cost the Pentagon has incurred thus far in the conflict, the acting Defense […]

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Slotkin: Pentagon Should Use Anthropic’s Mythos To Spot Cyber Security Gaps

The Pentagon should be using Anthropic‘s recently announced Mythos artificial intelligence model to spot gaps in cyber security, Sen. Elissa Slotkin (D-Mich.) said on Tuesda. “I think the thing that […]

Budd And Shaheen Bill Would Authorize 329 F-15EX Fighters

Two members of the Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC), Sen. Ted Budd (R-N.C.) and Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.), have introduced the Airpower Acceleration Act, which would authorize multi-year procurements of […]

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HASC’s Wittman Sees ‘Challenging’ Push For $350B In Reconciliation Funds, Wants Sustained Defense Increase

NATIONAL HARBOR, Md.– Congress’ work to pass $350 billion in reconciliation funds to support the Trump administration’s push for a $1.5 trillion fiscal year 2027 defense topline is “going to […]