
With COVID-19 cases on the rise nationwide and Washington, D.C.-area school systems wondering whether they’ll reopen for in-person classes in the fall, the Department of Energy will no longer require most employees to return to their offices in the next phase of the agency’s reopening plan. DoE includes the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), which runs the civilian nuclear-weapons programs that maintain and refurbish warheads and bombs. Most of DoE’s 7,000 federal employees in the region, which includes about 1,000…