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Homeland Security

Marines Plan Chem/Bio Incident Response Force Vendor Day

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Wednesday, March 31st, 2010

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The U.S. Marine Corps Chemical Biological Incident Response Force (CBIRF) plans to host a vendor day on May 18 in Indian Head, Md., to provide commercial sources the opportunity to introduce and display their services and equipment that could be beneficial to the command's operational capabilities, promoting new ideas and products within the CBRNE environment. The CBIRF mission statement is to forward deploy and or respond to a credible threat of a CBRNE incident in order to assist local, state…

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Congress

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Congress

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Advanced / Transformational Technology

Pentagon May Make ‘Tradeoffs’ For Low-Cost Autonomous Tech Without Reconciliation Funds, CTO Says

The Pentagon’s chief technology officer has said the department may need to make “tradeoffs” on certain capability priorities if Congress doesn’t pass a reconciliation with $350 billion in requested defense […]