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Last week NNSA’s Principal Assistant Deputy Administrator for Military Application Brig. Gen. Michael Lutton visited the University of Rochester’s Laboratory for Laser Energetics (LLE) for an overview of LLE’s unique capabilities and how they’re used in experiments to...
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In collaboration with the U.S. Air Force Global Strike Command, NNSA conducted successful surveillance flight tests using joint test assemblies (JTA) of the B61-7 and B61-11 last month. Analysis and flight recorder data from the tests indicate that both were successful.
JTAs are mock weapons...
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OAK RIDGE, Tenn. – 260 employees at the Pantex Plant and the Y-12 National Security Complex received National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) Defense Programs Awards of Excellence at an annual ceremony held recently at the respective sites. The recipients were recognized at the sites by...
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Don Zecha, center, representative of the Savannah River Site R&D Assembly Load and Test Team, accepts the Defense Programs Award of Excellence from NNSA-Savannah River Field Office Manager Doug Dearolph, left, and NNSA Acting Deputy Administrator for Defense Programs Brigadier General S.L....
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2015 Awards
2012 Awards
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The 2015 NNSA Defense Programs Science Council, comprising representatives from each of the three NNSA national security laboratories and one person representing the production sites, is now fully staffed.The Science Council was re-established in 2010 by Dr. Don Cook, Deputy Administrator of...
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To achieve our mission objectives, the Office of Research, Development, Test and Evaluation annually invests resources in university-based programs under the Stewardship Science Academic Programs (SSAP). The SSAP funds research and development across the nation in investigations of...
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The Office of Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation directs research, development, computer simulation, and inertial confinement fusion activities to maintain the safety, security and effectiveness of the nuclear weapons stockpile; provides a technical basis for the annual assessment;...
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Brig. Gen. Jim Dawkins, NNSA’s Principal Assistant Deputy Administrator for Military Application, presented Col. Emil Kabban with the NNSA Defense Programs Excellence award during a ceremony honoring Kabban’s retirement from the military. Kabban, Chief Systems Engineer and Executive Director in the...
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NNSA’s current quarterly summary of experiments conducted as part of its science-based stockpile stewardship program is now available here. The quarterly summary prepared by NNSA’s Office of Defense Programs provides descriptions of key NNSA facilities that conduct stockpile...
