Here’s a look at the key events we’ll be keeping an eye on this week:
- NNSA Principal Deputy Administrator Neile Miller, former Lockheed Martin Chairman and CEO Norm Augustine, White House Office of Science and Technology Policy Deputy Director for Policy Thomas Kalil, and Charles Shank, the co-chair of a National Academy of Sciences report on lab management, are slated to speak at NNSA’s fifth annual Laboratory Directed Research and Development Symposium Tuesday at the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Washington, D.C.
- The Senate Armed Services Committee has already marked up the FY2013 Defense Authorization Act, but Emerging Threats and Capabilities Subcommittee will still hear from Obama Administration nonproliferation officials in a hearing that was postponed in late April. Madelyn Creedon, the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Global Strategic Affairs, will testify before the panel at 2:30 p.m. Tuesday along with NNSA nonproliferation chief Anne Harrington and Defense Threat Reduction Agency Director Ken Meyers III.
- The Nuclear Regulatory Commission will hold its annual Fuel Cycle Exchange, which will feature remarks by NRC Chairman Gregory Jaczko, on June 12 and June 13 at the agency’s headquarters in Rockville, Md..
- Senate Environment and Public Works full committee will hold a hearings June 13 at 10 a.m. on two nominations to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission positions—current Commissioner Kristine Svinicki is up for renomination, and Allison Macfarlane is nominated to take over for current Chairman Gregory Jaczko, who resigned the post late last month. The hearing will be held in room 406 of the Dirksen Senate Office Building.
