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House Panel Unhappy With SBInet Progress

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Friday, September 18th, 2009

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By Calvin Biesecker The Department of Homeland Security's (DHS) effort to develop and deploy a virtual fence to aid in deterring and preventing illegal immigration has little to show so far and deployment goals may still be out of reach, Democrats and Republicans on a House panel that oversees border security said yesterday. Despite receiving assurances that the initial deployments of the technology portion of the Secure Border Initiative (SBI) were supposed to be operating in two areas of Arizona…

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 […]