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Army to test 'global strike' technology this week
November 14, 2011
FROM NEXTGOV
The U.S. Army on Wednesday will test missile technology that could eventually be incorporated into the development a conventional "prompt global strike" weapon, according to Defense Department officials . Army Space and Missile Defense Command and Army Forces Strategic Command will conduct a flight test of the Advanced Hypersonic Weapon, ...
Deficit committee should cut nuclear arms, lawmaker says
October 12, 2011 The congressional select committee assigned to identify avenues for reducing the nation's deficit by $1.2 trillion should consider cutting tens of billions of dollars intended to maintain and modernize the country's nuclear-weapons complex, a senior House lawmaker said on Tuesday. "America needs a new nuclear weapon as much as Lady ...
Senate holds up nominee for State Department nonproliferation bureau
August 11, 2011 An unidentified U.S. senator has placed a hold on the nomination of the veteran diplomat picked to lead a key State Department arms control bureau . Thomas Countryman, who until last week served as deputy assistant secretary for European and Eurasian affairs, was the White House's choice to head up ...
Homeland Security cancels troubled radiation detector effort
July 26, 2011 The Homeland Security Department has terminated the program to develop the next generation of radiation detection monitors, a senior agency official announced on Tuesday. "The [Advanced Spectroscopic Portal] will not proceed as originally envisioned. We will not seek certification or large-scale deployment of the ASP," Warren Stern, director of the ...
House approves $1 billion cut to nuclear agency funding
July 15, 2011 The U.S. House of Representatives on Friday approved spending legislation for the next budget cycle that would cut nearly $1 billion in proposed funding for the U.S. National Nuclear Security Administration's weapons and nonproliferation programs. The fiscal 2012 Energy and Water Appropriations bill would provide the nuclear agency, a semiautonomous ...
Appropriators back $1 billion decrease in nuclear agency budget
June 16, 2011 The House Appropriations Committee on Wednesday approved a spending plan that would reduce the U.S. National Nuclear Security Administration's proposed weapons and nonproliferation accounts by roughly $1 billion in the next budget. The appropriations blueprint for fiscal 2012 would provide the nuclear agency with $10.6 billion to maintain the country's ...
U.S. needs effective counter-WMD strategy, Defense official says
June 15, 2011 The United States still lacks an effective strategy to prevent or counter the potential loss or diversion of a weapon of mass destruction somewhere in the world, according to a senior Defense Department official. Several recent Pentagon exercises demonstrated "that our capabilities in this regard have some serious gaps," John ...
House panel cuts more than $1 billion from nuclear agency budget
June 3, 2011 An influential congressional panel on Thursday adopted a fiscal 2012 spending bill that would cut nearly $1 billion in proposed funding from U.S. National Nuclear Security Administration's weapons and nonproliferation programs. The budget blueprint released by the House Appropriations Energy and Water Development Subcommittee would provide the agency roughly $10.6 ...
Nuclear agency releases strategic plan for next decade
May 20, 2011 The U.S. National Nuclear Security Administration has published a new outline for implementing President Obama's nonproliferation agenda and for modernizing the country's nuclear enterprise. The 2011 strategic plan essentially sums up how the nuclear agency, a semiautonomous branch of the Energy Department, will work over the coming decade to implement ...
Obama administration readying to make case for test ban treaty
May 11, 2011 The Obama administration will soon launch its campaign to win U.S. Senate approval of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, a senior State Department official said on Tuesday. "I cannot predict ... when the president will make a choice to send the treaty to a vote but I will tell you ...
