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Homeland Security

Like House, Senate Bill Fully Funds TSA Request for Checkpoint CT, Maintaining Slow Pace

By Cal Biesecker

Tuesday, October 26th, 2021

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Like House, Senate Bill Fully Funds TSA Request for Checkpoint CT, Maintaining Slow Pace

Analogic's ConneCT checkpoint CT baggage scanner. Photo: Analogic

Senate Democrats last week unveiled their proposed budget for the Department of Homeland Security in fiscal year 2022, including the requested $104.9 million for the Transportation Security Administration’s checkpoint computed tomography (CT) program, an amount well below what the agency actually desires to accelerate deployments of the advanced scanning systems. The House has already approved its version of the FY ’22 appropriations bill for DHS and also fully funded the $104.9 million request for checkpoint CT. The bill introduced by…

Congress

With $1.5 Trillion Request, Army, Air Force, Navy’s Unfunded Lists Focus Solely On MILCON Projects

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Unmanned Systems

Bipartisan House Bill Would Give National Guard To Counter-Drone Authorities

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Munitions Fired Represent Most of $25 Billion Spent By Pentagon on Iran War So Far

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Congress

Slotkin: Pentagon Should Use Anthropic’s Mythos To Spot Cyber Security Gaps

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