May 29, 2014

LOOKING AHEAD

By ExchangeMonitor

It’s going to be another busy week for the Department of Energy and National Nuclear Security Administration on Capitol Hill, with a massive eight-person House Armed Services Strategic Forces Subcommittee hearing kicking things off at 3:30 p.m. Tuesday in Room 2118 of the Rayburn House Office Building. Naval Strategic Systems Programs Director Vice Adm. Terry Benedict, Air Force Assistant Chief of Staff for Strategic Deterrence and Nuclear Integration Maj. Gen. Garrett Harencak, acting NNSA Administrator Bruce Held, DOE Environmental Management chief David Huizenga, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Nuclear and Missile Defense Policy Elaine Bunn, Naval Reactors Director Adm. John Richardson, Assistant Secretary of Defense for Nuclear, Chemical and Biological Defense Programs Andrew Weber, and Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board Chairman Peter Winokur.

Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz and Deputy Energy Secretary Dan Poneman will appear before the Senate Energy and Water Appropriations Subcommittee at 2:30 p.m. Wednesday in Room 192 of the Dirksen Senate Office Building.

The directors of the NNSA’s three nuclear weapons laboratories—Los Alamos’ Charlie McMillan, Sandia’s Paul Hommert and Livermore’s Bill Goldstein—will appear before the Senate Armed Services Strategic Forces Subcommittee at 2:30 p.m. Wednesday in Room 232A of the Russell Senate Office Building along with the co-chairmen of the NNSA governance advisory panel, Norm Augustine and Richard Mies.

Acting NNSA chief Bruce Held will be back on the Hill at 2:30 p.m. Thursday to testify before the Senate Armed Services Strategic Forces Subcommittee along with NNSA weapons chief Don Cook, Naval Reactors Director Adm. John Richardson, and DOE EM chief David Huizenga. The hearing will take place in Room 232A of the Russell Senate Office Building.

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