03/05/2012
https://congress.gov...
"management problems continue, in part, because NNSA and DOE have not fully agreed on how NNSA should function within the department as a separately organized agency."
"the original intent of the legislation creating the NNSA has not been realized."
"As I noted in my opening statement, in 2009 a Stimson Center report said: 'the implementation of the NNSA Act failed to achieve the intended autonomy for NNSA within the Department of Energy.'"
"the relationship between the labs and NNSA has strayed from the original intent of the labs as federally funded research and development corporations"