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Nuclear ModernizationSenate Confirms White House Pick for Senior DoE Weapons Post
The U.S. Senate on Tuesday unanimously confirmed Charles Verdon as the deputy administrator for defense programs in the Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration. Verdon, most recently principal associate director at […]
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Nuclear Modernization
Dems Bill Would Ban Already-Funded Low-Yield Nuclear Warhead
Democrats in the House and Senate on Tuesday unveiled legislative language that would ban research, development, manufacturing, and fielding of the planned low-yield, submarine-launched ballistic-missile warhead for which Congress approved $65 […]
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BudgetSenate Passes DoD Budget, House Vote Needed Next Week
The Defense Department’s 2019 budget is a step closer to President Trump’s desk, after the Senate approved the final version of the Pentagon’s annual budget bill 93-7 Tuesday. The final […]
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Nuclear Modernization
Nuke Missiles Win Bigger Budget Boosts in Compromise DoD Spending Bill
The House and Senate this week sent a multiagency spending bill to President Trump’s desk that boosts the Department of Energy’s budget for nuclear warhead modernization, and reached a compromise […]
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Budget
Congress Reaches Accord on 2019 DOD Budget, But Keeps a Lid on the Details
House and Senate appropriators reached an agreement to fund the Department of Defense in 2019 through a multi-agency spending bill, while freezing spending for some other federal programs through Dec. […]
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Budget
Proposed Civilian Nuke Budget Cements Funding for Low-Yield Warhead and Infrastructure Repairs
Congress’ final 2019 budget bill for the National Nuclear Security Administration, unveiled in detail Tuesday, would increase funding for maintenance and cleanup to buildings across the nuclear weapons complex, decrease […]
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SpaceAir Force Secretary Says Space Force Proposal Coming in 2020 Budget Request
The Air Force is putting together a 2020 budget proposal for something that will, more or less, resemble the Space Force President Trump proposed creating as a sixth military service […]
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Nuclear Modernization
Top HASC Dem Says U.S. Wants to Buy Too Many New ICBMs
The U.S. does not need as many intercontinental ballistic missiles as the Air Force plans to build, and Congress should take another look at a low-yield warhead lawmakers just approved, […]
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CongressInhofe Gets SASC Gavel, Kyl to Fill McCain’s Senate Seat
The shape of the Capitol Hill defense establishment in the post-McCain era formally gelled Wednesday, as Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.) became chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, and Republican […]
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Nuclear Modernization
Nuke Weapons Council Chief Wants Plutonium Factory Buildup in S.C. by Mid-2019
The Department of Energy will not be able to deliver 80 new nuclear warhead cores a year in 2030 unless the civilian agency starts building new plutonium processing facilities in […]