Vol. 6, No. 25 NNSA Deputy Nomination Sent to Senate
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Defense & Military
Senate Approves Pentagon Policy Chief Without GOP Support
The U.S. Senate voted Tuesday to approve the nomination of Colin Kahl’s nomination for the Pentagon’s top policy job on a party-line vote of 49-to-45. President Joe Biden’s pick to be undersecretary of defense for policy, Kahl failed to win a single Republican… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Morning Briefing! You must be […]
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Cleanup & Remediation
DOE Issues 5-Year Grant to Savannah River Organization
The Department of Energy Tuesday awarded a five-year financial assistance renewal grant to the Savannah River Site Community Reuse Organization. The $5-million funding spread over five budget periods will enable the Community Reuse Organization to continue with… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Morning Briefing! You must be logged in as a subscriber to […]
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Defense & Military
Biden Taps Kendall For Air Force Secretary, Shyu For Pentagon’s Top Research Official
President Joe Biden announced Tuesday he will nominate Frank Kendall, a former top acquisition official at the Pentagon, as the next secretary of the Air Force and Heidi Shyu, the Army’s former lead acquisition executive, to be the next undersecretary of defense… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Morning Briefing! You must be logged […]
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National Laboratories
Los Alamos NNSA Field Office Gets Two New Deputy Managers
The Department of Energy’s semi-autonomous National Nuclear Security Administration this week appointed two new deputy managers at the Los Alamos National Laboratory field office in New Mexico. Jason Saenz will be the new deputy manager for technical operations… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Morning Briefing! You must be logged in as a subscriber […]
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Reactor Licensing & Regulation
Texas Senate to Soon Vote on Rad Waste Bill
The Texas state Senate did not vote as scheduled Tuesday on a proposed bill that would ban the storage of high-level nuclear waste in the Lone Star State. The state Senate counterpart of H.B. 2692, introduced in March by state Rep. Brooks Landgraf (R), was supposed… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Morning Briefing! […]
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Transuranic Waste
CORRECTION
An article in the April 27 edition of Weapons Complex Morning Briefing [“Hanford TRU Waste Would Move to WIPP by 2050”] should have said crews will retrieve about 17,500 containers of waste stored underground in Hanford’s low-level burial grounds. SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingWeapons Complex Morning Briefing! You must be logged in as a […]