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Homeland Security

NRC Expands Tracking of Radioactive Source Materials

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Wednesday, April 16th, 2008

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The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), substantially expanding a key anti-terrorism initiative, says it plans to nearly quadruple the number of companies, hospitals and other users of nuclear materials that will have to report into a national tracking system for radioactive source devices widely used in industry, academia and medicine. The agency, moving to address concerns that such devices could provide raw material for radioactive "dirty" bombs, says it is expanding the tracking system to cover so-called Category 3 and some…

Army

Army Relooking At Its ‘Whole Aviation Transformation’ Plan, Acting Chief Tells Lawmakers

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Army

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Congress

CENTCOM Looking To Lessons Learned From Use Of LUCAS Drones

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Army

Hegseth Says DoD Open To Reviewing Army’s Planned Cuts To Legacy Helicopter Procurement

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