Budget & Policy

GAO: DOE Understated $1.6B in Nuke Modernization Budget Estimates

By Photo of Abby Harvey

Alissa Tabirian
NS&D Monitor
7/31/2015
Ten-year nuclear modernization budget estimates submitted in 2014 by the Department of Energy (DOE) and Department of Defense (DOD), although “generally consistent” with the agencies’ initiatives, omitted…

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