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NNSA chief: Obama committed to nuclear security
Special to the Oak Ridger
Posted Feb 21, 2011 @ 07:57 PM
OAK RIDGE, Tenn. —
In his first public remarks since the release of the fiscal year 2012 budget request, National Nuclear Security Administration Administrator Thomas D'Agostino on Wednesday highlighted the Obama administration's commitment to nuclear security in a keynote address to the third annual Nuclear Deterrence Summit.
Calling it an "unprecedented investment in ensuring the nuclear security of our country and our allies," D'Agostino said the FY 2012 budget request provides the resources to invest in NNSA's future, implement the president's nuclear security agenda and improve the way NNSA does business and manages its resources.
The budget request includes $11.78 billion for NNSA, an increase of 5.1 percent from the $11.2 billion requested for FY 2011. It includes $7.6 billion for the Weapons Activities appropriation, $2.5 billion for NNSA's nuclear nonproliferation program, and $1.1 billion for NNSA's Naval Reactors Program.
The following are excerpts of D'Agostino's remarks as prepared for delivery, courtesy of an NNSA release:
• On the President's commitment to NNSA: "Despite the economic challenges facing our nation and the budget pressures being felt throughout the federal government, the president demonstrated his commitment to our mission by proposing an unprecedented investment in ensuring the nuclear security of our country and our allies."
• On investing in the future: "These resources will help us invest in a modern, 21st century national security enterprise that can sustain the stockpile and support our full range of nuclear security missions. With these investments, we will be able to continue to move toward an enterprise that is safer, smaller, more secure, more efficient, more sustainable and more adaptable."
• On implementing the President's nuclear security agenda: "Taken together, this request includes significant investments in all of our core mission areas, and will allow NNSA to play a central role in implementing the president's nuclear security agenda."
• On improving the way we do business: "It is important for us all to recognize that these investments come at a time of severe economic challenges for our country and a renewed commitment to reducing the deficit. To maintain the consensus we have seen for supporting our programs, we have a responsibility to work together as one NNSA to improve the way we do business and manage our resources."
• On building one NNSA: "All of this is part of our effort to create "One NNSA," a true partnership between all of our programs and all of our partners to fulfill our common mission. We must break down stovepipes; work collaboratively across our programs and organizations; make sure our headquarters, site office and M&O partners are coordinated; and leverage all of our resources to meet our common objective -- making the world a safer place.”
11 comments:
“leverage”... Whew! – For a minute I thought D'Agostino was going to ramble on without using that over used word.
Do we have to give everyone a raise “to continue to move toward an enterprise that is safer, smaller, more secure, more efficient, more sustainable and more adaptable."?
"Taken together, this request includes significant investments in all of our core mission areas, and will allow NNSA to play a central role in implementing the president's nuclear security agenda."
Staff are apparently not a 'core mission area.'
D'Agostino - a shining example of truth in advertising! Bet that Bechtel corporate job is just around the corner . . .
He can spout all that PR blather because the credibility of DOE among the national lab employees has been lost long ago -- no one really believes or cares anymore what they say.
"On building one NNSA: "All of this is part of our effort to create "One NNSA,"
Uh, sorry there D'Agostino, it is still an us vs NNSA situation. But I will hand it to NNSA, it takes a lot of incompetence to make DOE look good.
D Agostino is worse than worthless.
His lying, that DOE is committed to a functional weapons complex, while actually degrading it by removing funding, dleludes the public into an inappropriate sense of safety.
He is a traitor,who serves the purposes of US enemies.
He is a traitor,who serves the purposes of US enemies.
February 24, 2011 2:00 PM
Oh come on. He is demonstrably a lying jerk, and probably a lousy person overall, but "traitor"? That's hyperbole that exemplifies what's wrong with public discourse in the country. Try to calm down. If it is really that important to you to slander someone that seriously, you have major problems. Get a grip.
We've gone from "Admiral" Brooks down to "Captain" D'Agostino over at NNSA.
I figure the next selection for head the of NNSA will be announced someday as "Ensign" Barney Fife!
Tom D'Agostino would better serve the country if he resigned. His misleading, soporific tomes deludes the citizenry that the complex is fine, as it falls apart.
Berea, Lenin's first state henceman could only dream of conducting such a Potemkin deception.
A mole in the right place or a fool in the wrong place, the effect is the same.
Somebody needs a nap.
I figure the next selection for head the of NNSA will be announced someday as "Ensign" Barney Fife!
February 24, 2011 8:31 PM
No, that would be Ensign Parker from McHale's Navy. Either way we would be a lot better off. Barney Fife was a Deputy Sherif.
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