The Transportation Security Administration’s (TSA) plan to roll out a third party testing regime this year to help ensure that security equipment being offered by various vendors is mature enough to enter the agency’s formal test process may not solve any issues and instead may lead to higher costs and delays, says an industry official.TSA’s current test and evaluation processes already take “too long and unnecessarily wastes millions of dollars of government and industry,” T.J. Shulz, director of the Security…
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The House Appropriations Committee has approved its $1.07 trillion fiscal year 2027 defense spending bill, advancing a bill with a historic topline while uncertainty lingers over Congress’ next step to […]
House Appropriators Add Restrictions And Reporting Requirement To Battleship, Reject Cut
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 […]
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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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