Vol. 24, No. 48

Contracts & Procurement

Ex-CFO Has Until End of Month to Prove Allegations of Financial Misconduct Against MSTS

The former finance chief of Mission Support and Test Services LLC, who alleges he was fired last year for exposing financial misconduct at the Nevada National Security Site by company president Mark Martinez, has less than two weeks to revise his lawsuit before… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingNuclear Security & Deterrence Monitor! You must […]
  • Budget & Policy

    Biden to Pick Former Mich. Gov. Granholm as DOE Secretary; Agency to Help Drive Climate Change Agenda

    President-elect Joe Biden will nominate former Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm (D) to be Secretary of Energy, media reported this week. Granholm, who is deeply familiar with U.S. auto-making, will be a key ambassador to industry when Biden enlists the DOE’s help… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingNuclear Security & Deterrence Monitor! You must be logged […]

  • Nuclear Weapons & Stockpile

    Record COVID-19 Case Load at NNSA This Week, But Weekly Recoveries Offset New Cases for First Time in More Than a Month

    New COVID-19 cases continued to rise week-to-week in some National Nuclear Security Administration host regions this week, but growth flattened in a few locales and the agency itself saw recoveries outpace new infections for the first time in more than a month. Even… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingNuclear Security & Deterrence Monitor! You must […]

  • Budget & Policy

    DOE Should Consider Crisis-Management Head, Pandemic Lessons-Learned Says

    The Department of Energy should designate someone as a sort of crisis-response czar in case of another national emergency such as COVID-19, according to an agency report on the pandemic published this week. DOE should revise existing crisis response plans to, among… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingNuclear Security & Deterrence Monitor! You must be […]

  • Nuclear Weapons & Stockpile

    NNSA Starts Environmental Review of Surplus Plutonium Disposal Plan

    The National Nuclear Security Administration is preparing a final environmental review for its new plutonium disposal program at the Savannah River Site, but not the thorough review a National Academies panel recommended earlier this year, the agency announced… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingNuclear Security & Deterrence Monitor! You must be logged in as a […]

  • National Laboratories

    No New LLNL Director Til 2021, Lab Says

    There will not be a new director at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory for another few months at least, a spokesperson for the younger of the two U.S. nuclear-weapon design labs said Tuesday. “We are not expecting a new director to be named until February… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingNuclear Security & Deterrence Monitor! […]

  • Plutonium Pit Production

    HASC Chair Rails Against NNSA, Calls Savannah River Pit Plans ‘Idiotic,’ and ‘Dangerous’

    House Armed Services chair Adam Smith (D-Wash.) again railed against the National Nuclear Security Administration’s plan to turn Savannah River into a plutonium pit factory, saying the “idiotic” and “dangerous,” plan might leave the U.S. without the means… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingNuclear Security & Deterrence Monitor! You must be logged in as a […]

  • Budget & Policy

    Year in Review: Control of the Nuclear Weapons Budget

    If, with a herculean effort, you put the COVID-19 pandemic to one side, the biggest story of 2020 at the National Nuclear Security Administration was how semi-autonomous it really is from the Department of Energy, and how much control the Department of Defense… SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingNuclear Security & Deterrence Monitor! You must […]

  • Budget & Policy

    Editor’s Note: Federal Budget Talks

    At deadline for Nuclear Security & Deterrence Monitor, Congress was still debating an extension of federal budgets beyond midnight on Friday, when a continuing resolution that extended 2020 budgets through today was set to expire. SUBSCRIBER ACCESS Thank you for visitingNuclear Security & Deterrence Monitor! You must be logged in as a subscriber to view […]

  • Nuclear Weapons & Stockpile

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