Jeff Bingaman
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Jeff Bingaman is a former U.S. Senator from New Mexico, serving from 1983 to 2013. A member of the Democratic Party, he was known for his work on energy policy, education, and healthcare. During his tenure, Bingaman played a significant role in shaping legislation related to renewable energy and was a strong advocate for the development of clean energy technologies. He served as the Chairman of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, where he focused on issues such as energy efficiency and the promotion of alternative energy sources.
Do you have certainty in the requirements for integrating this nuclear weapon to the F-35 at the present time?
I am concerned that in the administration's section 1251 report (on funding), much of the planned funding increase for weapons activities do not come to fruition until the second half of the 10-year period.
Are you aware of whether the labs have embraced the recommendations of this report?
Will that be endangered with the large nuclear weapons workload that you expect?
I take it then that you feel no constraint in looking at any of these options?
Where are the staff coming from and could they affect other areas of work for Department of Defense (DOD) customers?
Dr. Miller, your testimony refers to advances in computing to millions of trillions floating point operations per second or Exascale--are you working with the DOE's Office of Science computing program on this?
Dr. Miller, how do you envision NIF and Sandia's Z machine working together under the stockpile program?
Do you feel comfortable moving the technical details of these warheads to another laboratory?





