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Accession Number:

AD1167564

Title:

Modernizing the Nuclear Security Enterprise: NNSA's Budget Estimates Do Not Fully Align with Plans

Author(s):

• Trimble, David C.
• Bawden, Allison B.
• Arvidson, Cheryl
• Benedict, Hilary
• Grimes, Bridget
• Soares, Jeanette

Author Organization(s):

• GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE WASHINGTON DC

Report Date:

2013-12-01

Abstract:

The National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2011 mandated GAO to report annually on whether NNSA's nuclear security budget materials provide for sufficient funding to modernize and refurbish the nuclear security enterprise. This report addresses (1) changes to NNSA's budget estimates for modernizing the nuclear security enterprise since fiscal year 2012 and (2) the extent to which these budget estimates align with NNSA's modernization plans

Document Type:

Conference:

Journal:

Pages:

59

File Size:

1.69MB

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Grants:

Descriptors:

• national security
• united states government
• congress
• ballistic missiles
• environment
• united states
• department of defense
• materials
• materials science
• business administration
• cost estimates
• engineering
• governments
• intercontinental ballistic missiles
• nuclear weapons
• budget estimates
• cold war

Identifiers:

• nnsa(National Nuclear Security Administration)
• refurbishment

SubjectCategory:

• Ordnance
• Behavioral and Social Sciences

Communities of Interest:

• Weapons Technologies

Distribution Statement:

Approved For Public Release

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