Committee: Weapons Design Competitions Necessary to Maintain Expertise

Alissa Tabirian
NS&D Monitor
1/15/2016
The state of design competition at the National Nuclear Security Administration’s (NNSA) national security laboratories is not adequate to maintain design and production skills within the nuclear enterprise, according…

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