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New DHS S&T Chief Plans To Expand Apex Programs

By Cal Biesecker

Tuesday, September 9th, 2014

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New DHS S&T Chief Plans To Expand Apex Programs

Dr. Reggie Brothers, CEO of NuWave Solutions. Photo: Department of Homeland Security

The new head of the Department of Homeland Security’s research and development branch said that he plans to expand the use of high-priority, high value programs that are aimed at meeting unique mission needs of the department’s components, although he also plans to expand the duration of these Apex programs currently defined as being rapidly paced. Reginald Brothers, under secretary of Homeland Security for Science and Technology (S&T), told a House panel in his prepared remarks on Tuesday that the…

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