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No Missed Milestones During COVID Pandemic, NNSA Boss Says Again

Tuesday, July 14th, 2020

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No Missed Milestones During COVID Pandemic, NNSA Boss Says Again

The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) has not missed a single milestone in the six months since the first case of COVID-19 was recorded on U.S. shores and four months since the World Health Organization declared the disease a pandemic, the agency's leader said Monday. “Faced with the unprecedented challenges created by the COVID-19 pandemic, [the NNSA] quickly adapted in order to fulfill our national security missions,” Administrator Lisa Gordon-Hagerty said during the virtual annual meeting of the Institute of…

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