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

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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