Number: RL34574
Title: The Global Nuclear Detection Architecture: Issues for Congress
Authors: Dana A. Shea, Resources, Science, and Industry Division 
Abstract: Congress, in its oversight capacity, has shown interest in the development and implementation of the global nuclear detection architecture and in the decisionmaking process attendant to investments in it. Other issues that may be foci of congressional attention include the balance between investment in near-term and long-term solutions for architecture gaps, the degree and efficacy of federal agency coordination, the mechanism for setting agency investment priorities in the architecture, and the efforts DNDO has undertaken to retain institutional knowledge regarding this sustained architecture effort.
Pages: 22
Date: September 23, 2008