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Nuclear Modernization

NNSA Nuke Modernization Blows Beyond Cost and Schedule Estimates, GAO Finds

Defense Daily Staff

Wednesday, August 23rd, 2023

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NNSA Nuke Modernization Blows Beyond Cost and Schedule Estimates, GAO Finds

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Major National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) projects to modernize nuclear-weapons production infrastructure shot $2 billion past estimated budgets and are collectively overdue by nearly a decade, according to a recent report by the Government Accountability Office. The overruns have several causes, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) said in the first of what will become biennial reports on NNSA infrastructure upgrade and expansion projects, such as the planned Uranium Processing Facility in Oak Ridge, Tenn. “As of March 2023, the NNSA…

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