Gains in Global Nuclear Detection Architecture Act
- Last Action
- 2/1/2017
Actions
- 2017-02-01Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
- 2017-01-31Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
- 2017-01-31On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H794-795)
- 2017-01-31Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by voice vote.(text: CR H794-795)
- 2017-01-31DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 690.
- 2017-01-31Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H794-796)
- 2017-01-31Mr. Donovan moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill.
- 2017-01-24Referred to the House Committee on Homeland Security.
- 2017-01-24Introduced in House
- 2017-01-24Introduced in House
CRS Summary
As of 2017-01-31 (81)
(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary has been expanded because action occurred on the measure.)
Gains in Global Nuclear Detection Architecture Act
(Sec. 2) This bill amends the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to require the Domestic Nuclear Detection Office, in conducting research and development to generate and improve technologies to detect and prevent the illicit entry, transport, assembly, or potential use within the United States of a nuclear explosive device or fissile or radiological material, to:
- develop and maintain documentation that provides information on how the Office's research investments address gaps in the enhanced global nuclear detection architecture and with research challenges identified by the Director, and that defines in detail how the Office will address such research challenges;
- document the rational for prioritizing and selecting research topics; and
- develop a systematic approach for evaluating how the outcomes of the Office's individual research projects collectively contribute to addressing its research challenges.
Subjects
- Nuclear weapons
- Research administration and funding
- Research and development
- Technology assessment
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