
Government Matters (Full Show) – February 2, 2022
Ensuring safety and reliability of nuclear weapons; recommendations for the Pentagon and Congress on defense budget
Ensuring safety and reliability of nuclear weapons; recommendations for the Pentagon and Congress on defense budget
After the Manhattan Project that produced the first nuclear bombs during World War II, the National Laboratories were created under the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration. Sandia National Laboratories is one of those labs, its primary site located in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Laura McGill, deputy laboratories director for nuclear deterrence and chief […]
The fiscal 2022 National Defense Authorization Act has passed, but Congress has yet to pass the annual appropriations bill, meaning the Defense Department (DoD) is still operating under a continuing resolution. Maj. Gen. Arnold Punaro (USMC-ret.), chair of the National Defense Industrial Association and author of “The Ever-Shrinking Fighting Force,” says the failure to pass […]