Key Issues Optical clocks Prototype funding SPAFORGEN
On April 18, 2012, the Senate Armed Services Committee held a hearing on the National Nuclear Security Administration's management of the country's nuclear weapons labs. Includes excerpts from the question-and-answer portion of the hearing as well as the prepared testimony of Charles McMillan, head of the Los Alamos National Laboratory; Paul Hommert, head of the Sandia National Laboratories; Penrose Albright, head of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory; and Charles Shank and Kumar Patel, co-chairs of the "Committee to Review the Quality of the Management and of the Science and Engineering Research at the Department of Energy's National Security Laboratories-Phase 1."