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Homeland Security

GAO Likes Coast Guard’s Improved Deepwater Oversight But Uncertainty Remains

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Thursday, June 26th, 2008

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By Calvin Biesecker The Coast Guard has improved its accountability for the program management of the Deepwater modernization program by giving its own managers greater oversight and by shifting the management focus to an asset-based approach instead of the system-of-systems approach it originally approved for the industry team that previously was responsible for managing the program, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) says in a new report released yesterday. "Formerly, ICGS (Integrated Coast Guard Systems) had significant program management responsibilities, such…

Congress

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

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

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Budget

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

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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 […]