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“However, NWC members also believe that this budget injects risk into the longer term schedule required to ensure modernization of the U.S. nuclear deterrent.”
“At this point, no decisions have been made, but as this crisis evolves, the committee will announce changes to the anticipated markup schedule,” she said.
The House may vote on the measure Wednesday, but the Senate’s schedule is still to be determined.
Experts said ballooning costs and schedule delays are an ongoing problem at the National Nuclear Security Administration, the Energy Department agency that manages atomic arms programs.
The House Appropriations report also notes that “the NNSA has not provided the current cost, scope, and schedule to meet plutonium mission needs as directed in the fiscal year 2019 Act” and it “directs
Committee staff say they are on schedule to have the defense authorization bill on the House floor the first week following the July 4 recess.