
The same day the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) requested proposals for a potentially decades-long contract to run two of its three major nuclear weapons production sites, Senate appropriators asked why there is so little competition for such contracts at the Department of Energy. The semiautonomous DoE nuclear weapons agency released the final solicitation Tuesday, the same day the Senate Appropriations Committee released a 2021 appropriations package that would give the NNSA the roughly $20 billion it requested. A detailed…