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CongressTSA Boosting Security At Overseas Aircraft Repair Stations
By Calvin Biesecker While it has taken six years for the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) to develop regulations to bolster security at domestic and foreign aircraft repair stations, the agency […]
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Helium-3 Shortage For Radiation Portal Monitors Is Severe, DHS Warns
By Calvin Biesecker The White House has convened an interagency policy committee to address the nation’s shortage of Helium-3 (He-3) gas used in a variety of applications, including neutron detector […]
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Congress
ASP Testing Problems Persist, House Science Panel Says
By Calvin Biesecker A second round of field testing over the summer of next-generation radiation portal monitors showed that problems with the systems persist and there are not currently plans […]
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Senate Poised To Grant Early Endorsement of Obama Missile Defense Plan
By Emelie Rutherford The Senate was poised yesterday to approve a Pentagon money shift that would amount to one of lawmakers’ first endorsements of President Barack Obama’s new European missile- […]
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Marine Corps May Need Missile Mods For LCS
By Emelie Rutherford While the Marine Corps continues to weigh use of the Littoral Combat Ship (LCS), it may need to pursue an upgraded precision-attack missile, an official steering the […]
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ArmyGates Creates Top-Level IED Task Force
By Emelie Rutherford Grappling with how to stem increasing U.S. bloodshed in Afghanistan caused by improvised explosive devices (IEDs), Defense Secretary Robert Gates announced yesterday the creating of a new […]
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Nominee Says TSA Working To Mitigate Privacy Concerns With WBI Technology
By Calvin Biesecker The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) is making a "concerted effort" to balance the privacy and civil liberty concerns of United States citizens with the security demands posed […]
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Business/FinancialNew Law May Spur Firms Beyond Northrop Grumman To Divest Units
By Emelie Rutherford More large defense firms may emulate Northrop Grumman [NOC] and sell off advisory-services units because of amplified concerns in Washington about organizational conflicts of interest, industry observers […]
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Air ForceMurtha: Latest Tanker Fight Bolsters Case For Split Buy
By Emelie Rutherford The House’s lead defense appropriator said yesterday industry and congressional squabbling over the Air Force’s latest solicitation for aerial-refueling tankers proves the best way to dodge further […]
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Air Force
Mullen: War Supplemental Needed, Programs Scrutinized In Next Budget
By Emelie Rutherford The military’s top officer predicted yesterday the Pentagon will seek supplemental war funding this fiscal year, reinforcing lawmakers’ stance that the Bush administration practice of covering wartime […]