
A sort of communications breakdown between the Sandia National Laboratory and the Kansas City National Security Campus led to the Missouri manufacturing facility accepting 20 faulty flex cables that were not built to spec, the Department of Energy’s inspector general reported recently. “We substantiated that the [Kansas City National Security Campus] KCNSC had part 3A3917 rigid-flex cables manufactured in a manner that did not conform to the design’s specification,” the inspector general wrote in a report published March 22. “We…