U.S. nuclear weapons are aging quickly. With few spare parts, how long can they last? By Tara Copp, McClatchy Washington Bureau
Published: April 4, 2021, 12:30pm
Share: Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Army Gen. Mark Milley departs Missile Alert Facility Oscar near Minot Air Force base, N.D., on Thursday. Milley visited the base to get a close-up look at the baseCf`Us aging strategic bombers and missiles before he appears before Congress next month to push for funding to modernize the weapons. (Tara Copp/McClatchy Washington Bureau/TNS)
MINOT AIR FORCE BASE, N.D. – When hundreds of land-based nuclear armed ballistic missiles were first lowered into underground cement silos spread across the vast cornfields here in 1970, the weapons were only intended to last a decade before a newer system came in.
U.S. government report concludes USAID agency did not abide by terrorism vetting procedures in grants to Palestinians.
In a new report issued Monday, the US Government Accountability Office (GAO) concluded that the government’s multi-billion dollar international aid agency did not abide by anti-terrorism requirements in the provision of assistance to the West Bank and the Gaza Strip.
In its report, the GAO stated that the US Agency for International Development (USAID) had “ensured that the awards it funded directly went to individuals and organizations that were checked for links to terrorism” over a four year period covering 2015-19.
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GAO Backs Protest Over Intelligence Agency s $180M IT Deal
Law360 (April 1, 2021, 9:09 PM EDT) The U.S. Government Accountability Office has sustained an information technology firm s protest over a $180.2 million National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency IT contract, saying the agency unreasonably evaluated the proposals of both the protester and the winning bidder.
The NGA should have given higher marks to aspects of TekSynap Corp. s proposal for the deal, and also mistakenly let slide an deficiency involving a key staff member of winning bidder Chenega Agile Real-Time Solutions LLC, the GAO ruled in a March 19 decision that was released Wednesday.
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Protesters and would-be protesters often compare their proposed
price to that of the awardee to draw conclusions about the
underlying proposals. When there is a significant difference in the
amount of the prices offered, it often seems like a reasonable and
quantitative measure to demonstrate grounds for a bid protest. And
the farther apart the prices of the awardee s and the
protestor s proposals, the more concerned the protester becomes
that there was something rotten in Denmark, or that the agency made
an error during the evaluation process.