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Nuclear Modernization

NNSA Budget Up In Omnibus; Prohibitions Against B83, Sea-Launched W80-4 Gone

Friday, March 11th, 2022

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NNSA Budget Up In Omnibus; Prohibitions Against B83, Sea-Launched W80-4 Gone

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After idling for half the 2022 fiscal year at last year’s budget level, the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) would get some $26.65 billion to see it through Sept. 30, under an omnibus spending package that at deadline Friday awaited only President Biden’s signature. That’s a 4.5% raise year-over-year that’s 3% more than requested for the semiautonomous Department of Energy nuclear-weapons agency that maintains and modernizes bombs and warheads. Biden said he would sign the bill. The omnibus, which cleared…

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