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GAO Asks If Cost-Savings Methods at Pantex/Y-12 Could Work at Other Nuke Sites

Thursday, June 25th, 2020

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A day after the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) announced it would not pick up the remaining options on the existing management deal for its Y-12 and Pantex sites, the Government Accountability Office urged the agency to study whether the outgoing contractor’s cost-saving methods could work at other nuclear-weapon sites. Consolidated Nuclear Security (CNS) in 2014 scored the combined contract for the Y-12 National Security Complex in Tennessee and Pantex Plant in Texas. It will be off the job after…

Congress

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