The Global Nuclear Detection Architecture: Issues for Congress
"In 2005, the Domestic Nuclear Detection Office (DNDO) was established within
the Department of Homeland Security to centralize coordination of the federal
response to an unconventional nuclear threat. The office was codified in 2006
through the passage of the SAFE Port Act (P.L. 109-347) and given specific statutory
responsibilities to protect the United States against radiological and nuclear attack, including the responsibility to develop a “global nuclear detection architecture.” Determining the range of existing federal efforts protecting against nuclear attack, coordinating the outcomes of these efforts, identifying overlaps and gaps between them, and integrating the results into a single architecture are likely to be evolving, ongoing tasks..."