Vol. 21, No. 15

Budget & Policy

OMB Directs Federal Agencies to Reform Hiring to Match WH Budget Proposal

The Office of Management and Budget on Wednesday issued guidance directing federal agencies to make workforce reductions in accordance with the White House’s budget blueprint and develop a plan to reform departmental activities in an attempt to right-size their hiring practices. OMB Director Mick Mulvaney announced a day earlier that the government hiring freeze in place […]
  • Naval Nuclear Propulsion

    Selva to Congress: ‘Just Give Us a Budget’

    A top U.S. general on Thursday joined military leadership and lawmakers in condemning the continuing resolution that is currently funding the government and is soon to expire, asking Congress to deliver a budget for the Pentagon in the coming weeks – even if it is subject to spending constraints. “This is the ninth year that […]

  • Nuclear Weapons & Stockpile

    Crunch Time Looms for Y-12 Uranium Processing Facility

    The contractor for the Uranium Processing Facility at the Y-12 National Security Complex in Tennessee should in a matter of months deliver a new cost estimate and other information needed for the Department of Energy to sign off on construction of the complex. The Department of Energy expects by the end of fiscal 2017, Sept. 30, […]

  • Nuclear Weapons & Stockpile

    NNSA Physical Security Plan Due This Spring: GAO

    The National Nuclear Security Administration is scheduled this spring to release a long-awaited physical security infrastructure plan as it wrestles with outdated alarms, sensors, and other protective measures at its sites, the Government Accountability Office said in a report Tuesday. The semiautonomous Department of Energy agency charged with sustaining the U.S. deterrent oversees four facilities that hold […]

  • Non-Proliferation

    G7 Underscores INF, New START Treaties, Calls for Gradual Nuclear Disarmament

    Foreign ministers representing the Group of Seven (G7) countries this week expressed their support for existing arms control agreements and suggested a gradual approach toward achieving a nuclear-weapon-free world. At the end of their meeting in Lucca, Italy, the diplomats from the G7 – consisting of the United States, United Kingdom, Germany, France, Canada, Italy, […]

  • Cleanup & Remediation

    Citizens Panel Wants Update Following 2016 Drone Sightings Above SRS

    A committee of the Savannah River Site Citizens Advisory Board (CAB) indicated this week it supports the Energy Department’s anticipated request to restrict airspace above agency facilities – a discussion sparked last summer after drone sightings over key areas of the South Carolina facility. The Strategic and Legacy Management Committee – one of several sub-panels within CAB […]

  • Plutonium Pit Production

    Wrap Up: NRC To Discuss MOX Performance Assessment on April 18

    Officials from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission will be in New Ellenton, S.C., on April 18 to discuss the agency’s latest performance evaluation of the Mixed Oxide Fuel Fabrication Facility being built at the Department of Energy’s Savannah River Site. The regulator gave a positive review of 2016 operations at the plant intended to process 34 […]

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