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By Cal Biesecker

Tuesday, September 6th, 2022

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DHS Plans Testing of Handheld Radioactive Contamination Detectors and RPMs The Department of Homeland Security Science and Technology Directorate, National Urban Security Technology Laboratory has issued a Request for Information for Participation for testing handheld radioactive contamination detectors and radiation portal monitors (RPMs). Citing the Fukushima nuclear reactor accident in Japan in 2011, DHS says that following a commercial nuclear power plant accident it will be necessary to survey large numbers of people and vehicles. With such a scenario in…

Senators Push Navy Against Single Destroyer Request In FY ’27

The chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC) and the two senators from Maine last week pushed back on Navy officials for only requesting one Arleigh Burke-class destroyer (DDG-51) […]

Navy Looks To Eventually Assemble Battleship At HII Newport News; Faces More Dem Opposition

The Navy told lawmakers this week it found a dry dock at HII’s [HII] Newport News Shipbuilding shipyard it thinks can use for final assembly of the new Trump-class battleship […]

Navy Leaders Downplay Looking At Foreign Navy Shipbuilding Amid Lawmaker Objections

The Navy’s top leaders this week seemed to downplay and back down on the service potentially using foreign shipyards to build U.S. Navy ships or buying foreign designed warships overseas […]

Army

Senate Defense Appropriators See ‘Risk’ With Army’s Reconciliation Plan To Fund Munitions Increase

The Senate’s top defense appropriators cited concern this week with the Army’s request to fund the majority of its large increase to munitions procurement in fiscal year 2027 through the […]