SENATE PANEL RESCHEDULES PROLIFERATION PREVENTION HEARING

The Senate Armed Services Committee has completed its work on the FY2013 Defense Authorization Act, but the panel’s Emerging Threats and Capabilities Subcommittee is still planning to hold a hearing on proliferation prevention programs at the NNSA and Department of Defense. Madelyn Creedon, the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Global Strategic Affairs, will testify before the panel at 2:30 p.m. June 12 in Room SR-222 of the Senate Russell Office Building along with NNSA nonproliferation chief Anne Harrington and Defense Threat Reduction Agency Director Ken Meyers III. The hearing had been scheduled for April 24. The Senate Armed Services Committee cleared its version of the FY2013 Defense Authorization Act May 24.