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House Panel’s NNSA Funding Bill Tees Up More Work for JASON

Monday, May 20th, 2019

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House Panel’s NNSA Funding Bill Tees Up More Work for JASON

Close up illustration of atomic particle for nuclear energy imagery

A 2020 spending proposal from the House Appropriations energy and water development subcommittee directs the National Nuclear Security Administration to tap the independent group of JASON scientists for at least one, and perhaps two, new studies. After the Pentagon ditched the JASON contract in April following more than 50 years of funding it, the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) picked up the pact with MITRE Corp. through January: long enough for the group to finish three nuclear security studies for…

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