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FEMA under fire for slow progress on new alert system
A 2006 executive order gave Homeland Security the responsibility to develop nationwide digital disaster alerts.
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House Armed Services agrees to boost submarine funds
Panel adds $422 million to the Navy's Virginia-class submarine program.
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Tanker contract likely to fuel long House markup debate
Other amendments seek to overturn cuts to the Army's Future Combat Systems, missile defense programs and several major weapons systems.
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Marine Corps seeks return to its role as a naval force
After fighting alongside the Army in Iraq for five years, the Corps now needs new -- and expensive -- equipment.
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Senate Commerce hearing gives TSA positive reviews
But panel sharply questioned plan to impose a passenger fee increase to pay for additional baggage screening technology.
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Ex-State officials allege corruption cover up
Critics have suggested the agency has not pushed anticorruption efforts to avoid hurting relations with the Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki.
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Internet fuels emergence of violent Islamist groups in the United States
Federal agencies have no comprehensive strategy to combat terrorist message, Senate committee finds.
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State Department proposes to relax aircraft export rules
Move aims to address aerospace industry's chronic complaints that the cumbersome process of approving licenses to export their products handicaps companies' ability to compete.
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Coast Guard accepts preliminary delivery of national security cutter
New ship is the centerpiece of the service’s Deepwater modernization program.
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GAO: Homeland Security lacks adequate workforce for performance-based acquisitions
Half of the major service contracts studied experienced cost overruns, schedule delays or did not meet expectations.
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From Nextgov.com: Bill lays out stricter info security requirements for DHS
Conducting vulnerability tests against known cyberattacks and setting requirements for the CIO post would be part of a bill that fixes shortcomings in a federal security law.
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Defense to review 'unnecessary duplication' among services
Critics have complained that vast sums of money are wasted due to the military operating four air forces, two land armies and overlapping intelligence and space programs.
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From NextGov.com: Navy changes course on IT outsourcing
A contractor will build the next-generation network, but it will be the service’s job to manage and defend the system.
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Less than 8 percent of port workers have new security ID cards
DHS moves deadline to issue more than 1 million credentials to April 2009.
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Panel sinks Navy's $2.5B request for DDG-1000 destroyer
The move essentially puts an indefinite hold on one of the Navy's biggest modernization programs.
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FBI withdraws national security letters subpoena, freeing target to talk
Case involving a San Francisco-based digital archive is first known challenge to a security letter served on a library since a 2006 law limited the FBI's power to issue such information requests.
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From NextGov.com: GAO says $1 billion needed to expand employee verification system
Bill to make E-Verify mandatory would require more staff at SSA and DHS, but would cost far less than policing U.S. borders, proponents argue.
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Panels cut Future Combat Systems funding, back larger military pay raise
Raise boosted to 3.9 percent, half a percentage point higher than the president's request.
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Commander finds no evidence of Iranian training or weapons in Afghanistan
Reports from the field contradict Bush administration claims of Taliban support across the border.
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