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Aging technology endangers Pantex security, auditors warn
February 1, 2013
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A deteriorating nuclear-weapon security system at the Pantex Plant in Texas could malfunction if it does not receive maintenance, the U.S. Energy Department inspector general warned in a report made public on Friday. The technology had a projected "useful life" of two decades upon entering use in the 1990s and ...
Lawmakers reaffirm demand for biowatch data
January 31, 2013
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The Homeland Security Department has turned over "substantial" documentation in response to a congressional panel's request for records on a controversial biological agent sensor network, but the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has not been similarly forthcoming in providing related information, two Republican lawmakers said in a Thursday letter ...
U.S. to finalize avian flu funding policy in weeks
January 25, 2013 The United States plans "in the next several weeks" to issue its final policy on how it will consider future grant requests for research intended to produce more virulent or communicable versions of avian influenza, National Institutes of Health leaders said on Friday. More than three dozen scientists this week ...
U.S. lawmaker demands action to secure alleged Syrian uranium
January 15, 2013
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A top Republican lawmaker on Monday pressed for international action to secure a possible stockpile of uranium in civil war-torn Syria. Experts have suggested the Bashar Assad regime might have amassed up to 50 metric tons of the substance as fuel for a suspected plutonium production reactor leveled by a ...
Sequestration endangers new bomber, Air Force secretary warns
January 11, 2013 The head of the U.S. Air Force on Friday said his service hopes to keep plans for developing a future strategic bomber on track in the face of looming budget cuts, but he suggested the project's future could be in question if federal sequestration takes effect. The Air Force hopes ...
Security debate shadows nuclear chief's departure
January 10, 2013 A top U.S. nuclear official is set to retire next week in good standing with the Obama administration, even though a major security scandal prompted a number of watchdogs to call for his resignation months ago. When Thomas D’Agostino announced last month that he would step down as administrator of ...
Hagel pick could signal U.S. policy shift on Iran
January 9, 2013 President Obama might be signaling plans to shift his administration's approach to an entrenched dispute over Iran's nuclear program by nominating a noted critic of hard-line policies to lead the Defense Department, a former Iranian nuclear negotiator and other expert observers said on Tuesday. Obama has insisted he is ready ...
U.S. to push for new anthrax vaccine by 2017
December 10, 2012 The United States wants to have a new anthrax vaccine ready for large-scale acquisition no later than the 2017 budget year, the Health and Human Services Department said on Monday in its implementation plan for a national health preparedness initiative. Such a treatment could win government authorization for potential distribution ...
U.S. plans trial distribution of anthrax vaccine in early 2013
September 17, 2012 The United States could move forward early next year with a planned trial initiative to offer anthrax vaccine to select nonmilitary emergency personnel, a senior Homeland Security Department official told lawmakers last week. The plan, details of which were reported by Global Security Newswire in April, would give participating state ...
DHS defends acquisition plan for bioweapon detectors
September 14, 2012
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WASHINGTON -- The Obama administration on Thursday defended plans to press ahead in vetting and acquiring a new generation of sensors designed to provide early warning of a biological weapons attack, even as auditors and some lawmakers urged it to pause and reassess the effort. Before finalizing a blueprint three ...
