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Chair of House Energy Committee Rips ‘Rogue’ DoE Nuclear Weapons Agency

Tuesday, July 14th, 2020

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Chair of House Energy Committee Rips ‘Rogue’ DoE Nuclear Weapons Agency

The Secretary of Energy should get more control over the agency’s nuclear weapons programs, not less, the head of the House committee that makes policy for the department’s non-nuclear-weapons programs said Tuesday in a hearing. “[W]e should be strengthening the Secretary of Energy’s role in managing the nuclear security mission, because [the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA)] seems to be going from quasi-independent to completely rogue with each passing year,” said Rep. Frank Pallone (D-N.J.), remotely attending a hearing of…

HII Executive Outlines Its Shipbuilding Acceleration Strategy

An HII [HII] shipbuilding executive last week told lawmakers how the company plans to improve and accelerate shipbuilding throughout via workforce improvements, adding new shipbuilding infrastructure and reinforcing distributed shipbuilding […]

Congress

House Sends Dec. 11 CR With Ship Construction Funds To Trump’s Desk For Final Signature

The House on Tuesday passed a stopgap funding bill to keep the government open through Dec. 11, sending the temporary funding measure that also includes funds to support ongoing shipbuilding […]

Missile Defense

Guetlein On Golden Dome: ‘We Cannot Protect This Nation And Bankrupt It At The Same Time’

While there has been criticism among missile defense advocates of Golden Dome’s development pace after the signing of an executive order in January last year, Space Force Gen. Michael Guetlein, […]

Missile Defense

Interview with Rep. Jeff Crank (R-Colo.), co-chair of the Golden Dome Caucus

Rep. Jeff Crank (R-Colo.), a co-chair of the Golden Dome Caucus in Congress and a member of the House Armed Services Committee’s strategic forces panel, discusses the transformative defense investments […]