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National Academies Panel Recommends Fixed Term for NNSA Administration, Removal of Senate Confirmation for Other Nuke Officials

Thursday, October 22nd, 2020

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National Academies Panel Recommends Fixed Term for NNSA Administration, Removal of Senate Confirmation for Other Nuke Officials

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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…

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