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Budget

HASC Approves $40 Million for US-Israeli Anti-Tunnel System

Valerie Insinna

Wednesday, April 29th, 2015

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HASC Approves $40 Million for US-Israeli Anti-Tunnel System

The House Armed Services Committee on April 29 authorized $40 million for establishing a joint program between the United States and Israel to develop technologies that can detect and defeat tunnels.Terrorists and other malignant groups are increasingly using tunnels to conduct attacks or to smuggle weapons, drugs and people, argued the sponsors of the amendment, Rep. Doug Lamborn (R-Colo.) and Rep. Gwen Graham (D-Fla.), during the markup of the emerging threats and capabilities subcommittee’s National Defense Authorization Act proposal. In…

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Space

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