HOUSE ARMED SERVICES STRATEGIC FORCES PANEL TO HOLD HEARING ON NUCLEAR SECURITY

The National Nuclear Security Administration’s progress in recovering and responding to the July 28 security breach at the Y-12 National Security Complex will be the topic of a House Armed Services Strategic Forces Subcommittee hearing next week. The panel, which held a hearing on the incident in September, will hear testimony from acting NNSA Administrator Neile Miller and Deputy Energy Secretary Daniel Poneman as well as the authors of three reports on the incident: Maj. Gen. Donald Alston, the retired commander of the 20th Air Force and the Air Force’s former Assistant Chief of Staff for Strategic Deterrence and Nuclear Integration, Brig. Gen. Sandra Finan, the NNSA’s former Principal Assistant Deputy Administrator for Military Applications, and DOE Inspector General Gregory Friedman. Alston was part of a three-person review initiated by Energy Secretary Steven Chu, Finan headed up an internal assessment of the NNSA’s security organization, and Friedman has led the IG’s work on the security breach.