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By Cal Biesecker

Tuesday, May 20th, 2014

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FBI CJIS Issues RFI for Smartphone Biometric Application Project The FBI’s Criminal Justice Information Services (CJIS) Division has issued a Request for Information from industry on commercially available software applications to enable biometric capture on smart phones compatible with the Android operating system. The biometric smartphone program was approved in January and is expected to take one-year and include four phases. The FBI says $500,000 will be available to each vendor that is selected. The RFI will help produce an…

Senators Push Navy Against Single Destroyer Request In FY ’27

The chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC) and the two senators from Maine last week pushed back on Navy officials for only requesting one Arleigh Burke-class destroyer (DDG-51) […]

Navy Looks To Eventually Assemble Battleship At HII Newport News; Faces More Dem Opposition

The Navy told lawmakers this week it found a dry dock at HII’s [HII] Newport News Shipbuilding shipyard it thinks can use for final assembly of the new Trump-class battleship […]

Navy Leaders Downplay Looking At Foreign Navy Shipbuilding Amid Lawmaker Objections

The Navy’s top leaders this week seemed to downplay and back down on the service potentially using foreign shipyards to build U.S. Navy ships or buying foreign designed warships overseas […]

Army

Senate Defense Appropriators See ‘Risk’ With Army’s Reconciliation Plan To Fund Munitions Increase

The Senate’s top defense appropriators cited concern this week with the Army’s request to fund the majority of its large increase to munitions procurement in fiscal year 2027 through the […]