Within the next year the Transportation Security Administration will host a new competition for advanced checkpoint baggage scanners that could result in one or more awardees, agency Chief David Pekoske said on March 29, a day after TSA awarded a $96.8 million contract to Smiths Detection to provide the first 300 computed tomography (CT)-based systems to some U.S. airports. The award to Smiths Detection is just the first of a multiphase effort to bring more than 2,000 of the checkpoint…
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The chairman’s mark of the House Appropriations Committee’s (HAC) fiscal year 2027 defense appropriations bill funds the administration’s $1 billion request for the BBG(X) Trump-class battleship, but adds restrictions requiring […]
House Appropriators Concerned With ‘Risky’ Reconciliation Approach To Fund Munitions, F-35 Plans
The House Appropriations Committee has raised concern with the Trump administration’s “risky” approach to seeking significant fiscal year 2027 funding for key priorities such as critical munitions and F-35 procurement […]
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