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‘Many’ COVID-19 Transmissions at DoE Nuke Sites Were Outside of Work, Senior Official Says

Tuesday, July 28th, 2020

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‘Many’ COVID-19 Transmissions at DoE Nuke Sites Were Outside of Work, Senior Official Says

“Many” of the nearly 250 National Nuclear Security Administration employees confirmed to have caught COVID-19 are believed to have contracted the disease while teleworking, the head of the nuclear-weapons agency said Tuesday. Although Administrator Lisa Gordon-Hagerty did not say how many of the agency’s confirmed cases involved transmissions outside of a nuclear-weapons site, each that did would potentially have prevented many more people from missing work while they quarantined and monitored themselves for symptoms. The Department of Energy's Nuclear Security…

Navy Leaders Downplay Looking At Foreign Navy Shipbuilding Amid Lawmaker Objections

The Navy’s top leaders this week seemed to downplay and back down on the service potentially using foreign shipyards to build U.S. Navy ships or buying foreign designed warships overseas […]

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Senate Defense Appropriators See ‘Risk’ With Army’s Reconciliation Plan To Fund Munitions Increase

The Senate’s top defense appropriators cited concern this week with the Army’s request to fund the majority of its large increase to munitions procurement in fiscal year 2027 through the […]

Army

Army Relooking At Its ‘Whole Aviation Transformation’ Plan, Acting Chief Tells Lawmakers

The Army is relooking at its “whole aviation transformation initiative,” the service’s acting chief of staff told lawmakers on Tuesday, to include its approach for future procurement of “enduring” platforms. […]

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Lawmakers Request DoD Briefing On Army’s Planned Cuts To Aviation Procurement

A bipartisan group of House lawmakers has sent a letter asking the Pentagon for a briefing on the potential industrial base impacts as a result of the Army’s planned cuts […]