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Contents: (1) Introduction: Federal Efforts; Domestic Nuclear Detection Office; (2) What Is the Global Nuclear Detection Architecture?; Layered Defense; Methodology and Metrics for Evaluation; Priority Setting; Interagency Coordination; (3) Issues for Congress: Priorities and Funding Levels Within the Global Nuclear Detection Architecture; Balance Between Incremental and Transformational Changes to the Global Nuclear Detection Architecture; Long-Term Maintenance of the Global Nuclear Detection Architecture; Research and Development Coordination. Charts and tables.