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Nuke Agency’s Rad Scanning Crew Again to Rack Up Yardage in Sky Ahead of Super Bowl Sunday

Tuesday, January 26th, 2021

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Nuke Agency’s Rad Scanning Crew Again to Rack Up Yardage in Sky Ahead of Super Bowl Sunday

COVID-19 is not stopping Super Bowl 55, nor stopping the National Nuclear Security Administration’s (NNSA) annual sweep of background radiation levels at the site of the big game ahead of the coin toss. The semiautonomous Department of Energy nuclear weapons agency will again dispatch its Nuclear Emergency Support Team’s Bell [TXT] 412 helicopter, equipped with passive radiation sensing technology, to map out radiation levels around Tampa, Fla., and Raymond James Stadium. The helicopter, based out of Joint Base Andrews in…

HII Executive Outlines Its Shipbuilding Acceleration Strategy

An HII [HII] shipbuilding executive last week told lawmakers how the company plans to improve and accelerate shipbuilding throughout via workforce improvements, adding new shipbuilding infrastructure and reinforcing distributed shipbuilding […]

Congress

House Sends Dec. 11 CR With Ship Construction Funds To Trump’s Desk For Final Signature

The House on Tuesday passed a stopgap funding bill to keep the government open through Dec. 11, sending the temporary funding measure that also includes funds to support ongoing shipbuilding […]

Missile Defense

Guetlein On Golden Dome: ‘We Cannot Protect This Nation And Bankrupt It At The Same Time’

While there has been criticism among missile defense advocates of Golden Dome’s development pace after the signing of an executive order in January last year, Space Force Gen. Michael Guetlein, […]

Missile Defense

Interview with Rep. Jeff Crank (R-Colo.), co-chair of the Golden Dome Caucus

Rep. Jeff Crank (R-Colo.), a co-chair of the Golden Dome Caucus in Congress and a member of the House Armed Services Committee’s strategic forces panel, discusses the transformative defense investments […]