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Homeland Security

DNDO Alters CAARS Program, Will Explore Current Systems For Nuke Screening

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Thursday, July 3rd, 2008

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By Calvin Biesecker The Domestic Nuclear Detection Office (DNDO) is changing the focus of a key effort aimed at developing and producing X-Ray-based screening systems that can detect the presence of nuclear threat materials through shielding to instead continue development work but also explore other systems that industry has available that could possibly meet some of the detection requirements, according to agency officials. Under the Cargo Advanced Automated Radiography System (CAARS) project, DNDO awarded three system design and architecture contracts…

Congress

Key Defense Committee Members Face Tight Midterm Races, Including HASC GOP’ers In Virginia

As the mid-term elections near with polls showing an increasing likelihood of a switch in majority control in the House and potentially the Senate, three Virginia Republicans on the House […]

‘Theoretical Potential’ to Achieve 1,509 Combat-Coded Fighters by 2035, USAF Says

In the latest U.S. Air Force fighter force structure report submitted to Congress, the service speaks of a “theoretical potential” to achieve a goal of 1,509 combat-coded fighters in the […]

Budget

Hegseth Pushes For Reconciliation With At Least $350 Billion For Defense ‘Regardless’ Of Midterms Outcome

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Wednesday the Trump administration plans to continue its push for at least $350 billion in defense funds via the reconciliation process “regardless of what happens […]

Congress

Bipartisan Push in Senate to Hasten Export of 155 mm, GMLRS, HIMARS for Ukraine

A small, bipartisan group of senators is backing the Fast Tracking European Investment in Ukraine’s Defense Act, S. 5175, to hasten the export of allied buys of U.S. munitions for […]