
The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) is poised to move beyond what its administrator recently characterized as an outmoded system of requiring the contractors who manage major nuclear-weapon sites to earn extensions one year at a time. “[T]he one-year contract for award terms were incredibly destabilizing at our labs, plants and sites because they couldn’t keep leadership,” Jill Hruby, administrator of the NNSA, said late last week in a virtual forum. “So we acted.” Those actions in 2022 resulted in…