If funding for next-generation checkpoint baggage scanners is maintained at current requested levels, it will be another 14 or so years before the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) completes the purchase and installation of these systems, the agency’s top official said on Wednesday. “ ...
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The increasing costs of goods, in particular steel, is adding substantial costs to the Coast Guard’s shipbuilding and operations and threatens the procurement of one of two additional planned fast response cutters funded in fiscal year 2022, the service’s top official said on Thursday. ...
If the Coast Guard is successful in receiving funding for a commercial polar icebreaker and then acquiring the ship, the vessel will not only become part of the service’s inventory and add capacity but also help with generating requirements for a new class of medium polar icebreakers, Coast Guard ...
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) must continue to grow to keep pace with more complex threats, the head of the agency said on Thursday. CISA’s $2.5 billion budget request for fiscal year 2023 is “sufficient for our mission,” Jen Easterly said. “I frankly think the ...
According to the recently released Navy Fiscal Year 2023 Budget Highlights book, the service is seeking to end the Snakehead Large Displacement Unmanned Undersea Vehicle (LDUUV) program, decommission the 25 non-carrier-based EA-18G Growler aircraft, and not extend the life of the first Nimitz-class ...
The Navy is killing its nuclear-tipped sea-launched cruise missile program because it would cost too much money to build the weapon, which the service says cannot be built in time anyway. “The program was cost prohibitive and the acquisition schedule would have delivered capability late to need, ...