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Homeland Security

CBP Seeking Sources to Re-Engineer Automated Commercial System

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Wednesday, May 11th, 2011

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Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has issued a Request for Information regarding potential sources for a less expensive and more efficient hardware and database platform to operate and maintain its Automated Commercial System, which is a collection of business process applications introduced in 1984 to allow the agency to track, control and process commercial goods and conveyances entering the U.S. for the purposes of enforcing import laws and regulations and for the purpose of collecting duties and taxes owed to…

Congress

Senior GOP HASC Members Wittman, Turner Ousted Amid Dems’ Blue Wave

Two senior Republicans on the House Armed Services Committee, including a potential frontrunner for the panel’s top GOP role, have officially lost their reelection bids. Reps. Rob Wittman (R-Va.) and […]

Congress

Dems’ Big Night Set To Reshape Top Defense Committee Spots, As Key GOP’ers Knocked Off

Democrats’ sweeping victories in Tuesday’s midterms, taking back control of the House and Senate, are set to reshape key spots atop defense committees, to include House Armed Services panels and […]

Congress

Key Defense Committee Members Face Tight Midterm Races, Including HASC GOP’ers In Virginia

As the mid-term elections near with polls showing an increasing likelihood of a switch in majority control in the House and potentially the Senate, three Virginia Republicans on the House […]

‘Theoretical Potential’ to Achieve 1,509 Combat-Coded Fighters by 2035, USAF Says

In the latest U.S. Air Force fighter force structure report submitted to Congress, the service speaks of a “theoretical potential” to achieve a goal of 1,509 combat-coded fighters in the […]