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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