
The National Nuclear Security Administration’s (NNSA) leader should get a fixed term, senior agency managers should be exempted from Senate approval and the stockpile’s steward should strive for a closer contractual relationship with its nuclear-weapons laboratories, a National Academies report concluded. The 14-member National Academy of Public Administration panel that produced the report had a “vigorous debate” about these recommendations, Jonathan Breul, the co-chair of the study, said in a telephone interview on Thursday. Those were three of the 16…