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More NNSA Contract Scrutiny Creeps Into 2023 NDAA; Forced Minuteman III Test Voted Down

Wednesday, June 22nd, 2022

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More NNSA Contract Scrutiny Creeps Into 2023 NDAA; Forced Minuteman III Test Voted Down

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The House Armed Services Committee on Wednesday voted for more scrutiny of Department of Energy nuclear-weapon-site contracting and against a proposal to condition funding for the Secretary of Defense’s office on an intercontinental ballistic missile test. The votes were part of the committee’s debate of the fiscal year 2023 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), the annual, must-pass bill that sets policy and spending limits for defense programs, including those at DoE’s semiautonomous National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA). Early on in…

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