To avoid the fundamental risk of losing a core capability that could be essential for responding to evolving national security threats, our committee realized that the NNSA complex needs a means of exercising, on a regular and ongoing basis, the full suite of nuclear weapons design, development, and engineering capabilities through true design competitions.
Emphasizing the need for regular design competitions in nuclear weapons capabilities.
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This hearing will come to order. I would like to begin by thanking our distinguished panel of witnesses.
NNSA is undertaking a strategic review of the Office of Defense Nuclear Nonproliferation's mission, organization, scope of efforts, and integration with other parts of NNSA, among other things.
I thank the gentleman. I appreciate his kind words about me and do any other members have questions they would like to bring up now?
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