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Nuclear Modernization

Plutonium Pit Master Sked Coming This Year; First W80-4 Cruise Missile Warhead Likely Late, NNSA Admin Testifies

Thursday, May 19th, 2022

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Plutonium Pit Master Sked Coming This Year; First W80-4 Cruise Missile Warhead Likely Late, NNSA Admin Testifies

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This year, the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) will finish an integrated master schedule for building a new plutonium pit manufacturing complex and this summer it will quantify delays to the W80-4 nuclear cruise missile warhead, the head of the agency told Senators Thursday. “We are in the process of integrating those schedules so that we have a master schedule for the entire plutonium project including all the peripheral things like the security that goes with that and we are…

Congress

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Budget

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Congress

Bipartisan Push in Senate to Hasten Export of 155 mm, GMLRS, HIMARS for Ukraine

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