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Homeland SecurityWhite House Fact Sheet Points To Slow Rollout Of Vehicle And Cargo Inspection Systems Along Border
The White House on Tuesday morning released a fact sheet outlining President Biden’s State of the Union address that evening to include his administration’s efforts to combat fentanyl trafficking, but […]
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Navy/USMCPentagon Limits V-22 Fleets Due To Clutch Issue
Bell [TXT]/Boeing [BA] V-22s Osprey tiltrotor aircraft across the Navy, Marine Corps and Air Force are getting time limits and some aircraft are being grounded due to an engine clutch […]
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Nuclear ModernizationHouse Committee Leaders Seek DoE Documents About Russian Hack That Targeted Livermore
Congressional leaders asked the Department of Energy to turn over by Feb. 16 its communications with three national labs reportedly targeted in January by Russian hackers. The Lawrence Livermore National […]
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PentagonDARPA Program Explores Possibility of Scaling Up Quantum Computers
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s (DARPA) Underexplored Systems for Utility-Scale Quantum Computing (US2QC) program is exploring the costs and benefits of accelerating the development and scaling up of quantum […]
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Business/FinancialLone Star Funds To Acquire Ship Repair, Marine Business
The private equity firms Carlyle [CG] and Stellex Capital Management last Friday said they have reached a deal to sell their ship repair and marine fabrication business to another private […]
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Air ForceU.S. Air Force Acquisition Chief Letter to North Dakota Senators Acknowledges Threat of Chinese Company Near Base
A letter from U.S. Air Force acquisition chief Andrew Hunter last month to North Dakota’s senators acknowledges the thteat that a Chinese company would pose to national security, if the […]
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Nuclear ModernizationHouse Armed Services Committee Shuffles Staff For 118th Congress
There will be some churn in the 118th Congress among staff on the House Armed Services Committee, which sets policy and spending limits for Department of Energy nuclear-weapons programs, according […]
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Unmanned SystemsNavy To Help Coast Guard Support Unmanned Vessels
The Navy in January agreed to support the Coast Guard’s Research and Development Center (RDC) in the storage and maintenance of optionally manned and unmanned service vessels (USVs), giving the […]
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Air ForceUSAF Official Proposes Leasing Intellectual Property to Allies to Ramp Up Production
A top U.S. Air Force official has broached allowing allies to use intellectual property for defense articles to ramp up their production overseas. “We are going to need to figure […]
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Nuclear ModernizationLos Alamos Will Have Equipment to Make 30 Nuke Cores by 2030, According to DoE Memo
The Los Alamos National Laboratory will install by 2030 the equipment needed to make at least 30 plutonium pits annually, according to a Jan. 19 memo from the deputy secretary […]
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