Key lawmaker calls for halt to controversial system to detect biological attacks
by David Willman, Los Angeles Times
Dec 11, 2019
3 minutes
WASHINGTON - Citing "serious concerns" about unproven technology rushed into use by the Trump administration to detect biological attacks, the chairwoman of the House Science and Technology Committee is calling for the system to be shut down.
The chairwoman, Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson, said Wednesday that the administration's newly deployed program, called BioDetection 21, or BD21, "should not move forward until fundamental concerns about its technological viability and conceptual framework are resolved."
Johnson, D-Texas, voiced her concerns in a letter to acting Assistant Homeland Security Secretary Gary C. Rasicot,
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