LAB DIRECTORS TO TESTIFY ON LAB MANAGEMENT IN SENATE HEARING NEXT WEEK

The directors of the nation’s three nuclear weapons laboratories will appear before the Senate Armed Services Strategic Forces Subcommittee next week along with the authors of a National Academy of Sciences report that was critical of the relationship between the labs and the National Nuclear Security Administration. Los Alamos National Laboratory Director Charlie McMillan, Sandia National Laboratories Director Paul Hommert and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Director Parney Albright will be joined at the April 18 hearing by former Lawrence Berkeley director Charles Shank and Pranalytica Inc. CEO Kumar Patel, the chairs of the NAS panel. In a February report, the NAS panel called the relationship between the NNSA and the labs “broken” and “dysfunctional.” The hearing will take place at 2:30 p.m. in Room SR-222 of the Russell Senate Office Building.