Here’s a look at some of the events we’ll be following this week:
- Gen. Robert Kehler, the commander of U.S. Strategic Command, will testify before the Senate Armed Services Committee at 9:30 a.m. Tuesday along with U.S. Cyber Command chief Gen. Keith Alexander. The hearing will take place in Room G50 of the Senate Dirksen Office Building.
- The Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s annual Regulatory Information Conference runs from Tuesday through Thursday this week in Bethesda, Maryland. The conference features speeches from all five NRC commissioners, including Chairman Allison Macfarlane. It also includes sessions on advances in low-level waste guidance, as well as discussion of the future of high-level waste management.
- The House Energy and Commerce Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee will hold a hearing on lessons learned from the Y-12 National Security Complex security breach at 10 a.m. Wednesday. Deputy Energy Secretary Dan Poneman and Air Force Nuclear Weapons Center chief Brig. Gen. Sandra Finan, the former acting Chief of Defense Nuclear Security, will testify at the hearing along with Government Accountability Office Natural Resources and Environment Director David Trimble. Retired Air Force Maj. Gen. Donald Alston and Richard Meserve, who completed a security review for DOE, will also testify.
- Four nuclear weapons experts will discuss the Obama Administration’s push for strategic stability with Russia and China at 9:30 a.m. Thursday at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. James Acton, Matthew Rojansky, Christopher Ford and Elbridge Colby will address their edited volume, “Strategic Stability: Contending Interpretations.”