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Nuclear Modernization

Recent and Impending DoE Leadership Churn Highlight Need to Fix NNSA Chief’s Term, Nat’l Academies Panel Says

Thursday, December 3rd, 2020

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Recent and Impending DoE Leadership Churn Highlight Need to Fix NNSA Chief’s Term, Nat’l Academies Panel Says

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The personnel churn in the Trump administration’s nuclear-weapons enterprise and Joe Biden’s election as President of the United States highlight the urgency of giving the administrator of the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) a fixed term, members of a National Academies panel said Wednesday. “At the moment we not only have secretary and deputy secretary of energy positions that will be vacant [but] we don’t have a [National Nuclear Security Administration] administrator,” T.J. Glauthier, a deputy secretary of energy during…

Congress

House Republicans’ Blueprint For Reconciliation 3.0 Includes $60 Billion For Defense

House Republicans on Wednesday unveiled a blueprint for a third reconciliation bill that includes $60 billion for defense, a figure slightly below the Trump administration’s request to cover Iran war […]

Congress

Senate Dems Block Consideration Of FY ‘27 NDAA Over Iran War Concerns

Senate Democrats on Tuesday blocked a vote to advance consideration of the chamber’s $1.14 trillion fiscal year 2027 National Defense Authorization (NDAA). The procedural vote was 46-50, failing to reach […]

Congress

Concerns Raised At SASC Hearing On Unobligated Reconciliation Funds And Lack Of Updates On Iran War Cost

Members of the Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC) raised concerns at a hearing on Tuesday about the majority of funds in the $153 billion first reconciliation bill being unobligated thus […]

Unmanned Systems

CBO Says Upfront Costs To Protect Military Installations From Drones Between $1 Million And $74 Million

The initial costs to acquire and deploy counter-small unmanned aircraft system (C-sUAS) defenses at individual Defense Department installations are estimated at between $1.2 million and $73.6 million depending on the […]