
Three months of frozen budgets is probably no big deal for the Department of Energy's portfolio of 21st-century weapons-production construction, but a year’s worth would be bad news, a senior official said recently. “We’re inoculated for a period of about a quarter,” Bob Raines, the DoE National Nuclear Security Administration’s (NNSA) associate administrator for acquisition and project management, said at a webcast hosted Oct. 29 by the Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies and the Advanced Nuclear Weapons Alliance, a pair…